18 Facts About Bernadette Collins

Bernadette "Bernie" Collins is a Formula One strategy analyst for Sky Sports and F1TV and former F1 strategy engineer for the Aston Martin F1 team.

Three years later, Collins became a performance engineer and became its leader in that role full-time in 2014, working with 2009 World Champion Jenson Button.

Bernadette Collins joined Force India in 2015 and helped the team finish 4th in the following year's Constructors' Championship.

Bernadette Collins is from the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and attended Tattygar Primary School outside Enniskillen.

Bernadette Collins described herself as a partial "tom-boy" because she built and dismantled farmyard machinery with her father.

Bernadette Collins was one of three female students in a class of 30.

Bernadette Collins was initially skeptical about securing the traineeship but took advantage of an opportunity to visit the McLaren Technology Centre.

Bernadette Collins's position entailed her rotating departments every three months to gain knowledge on each role and inter-team requirements.

Bernadette Collins volunteered as an engineer at GP3 Series race weekends in order to broaden her experience.

Bernadette Collins received an offer to work part-time for the McLaren GT sports car racing team and undertook support for its factory operation to manage its greenhouse gas emissions, an area in which she desired to work.

Bernadette Collins worked as a race engineer for the United Autosports GT team in 2013.

When McLaren's primary performance engineer was absent on paternity leave in late 2013, Bernadette Collins was temporary assigned to the position for the Indian and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix and was later handed the job full-time for the 2014 season.

Bernadette Collins worked with 2009 World Champion Jenson Button and the two had a good working relationship.

In May 2015, Bernadette Collins left McLaren to join Force India as a performance and senior strategy engineer to driver Nico Hulkenberg as part of her objective of becoming an operations engineer.

Bernadette Collins worked at the same team, which underwent a name change to Aston Martin, as head of race strategy from 2020 until she left the team in 2022.

Bernadette Collins cited the exhaustion of an increasing race calendar as the main reason for her leaving Aston Martin.

Bernadette Collins received an honorary degree "for her contribution to sport" from Queen's University Belfast in 2023.

Bernadette Collins is the co-author with the journalist Maurice Hamilton of the 2024 book How to Win a Grand Prix: From Pit Lane to Podium.