Amelia Lewis was first introduced to the world of motor racing as a young girl. Her father was a huge Formula One fan, especially during the Michael Schumacher years, so the Grand Prix was always on over the weekends. Then one day her dad was out of the house on race day, but Amelia still seeked out F1 to watch on her own. That’s how she knew she was hooked.
Along with the speed, thrill and entertainment, there was another element to the sport that piqued her interest: how it all worked. Studying math and physics at school, Lewis recalls how she was fascinated by activities like pit stops or various devices on the car and why things are done in certain ways. “You had this whole sport, which was set up around engineering these incredible cars, and I just wanted to know how everything worked,” says Lewis, who now works as an engineer for McLaren Racing. “All of this stuff that I had been learning about in school, I suddenly understood how it was actually playing a part in this really exciting sport.”
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