How to Win a Grand Prix, Bernie Collins
How to Win a Grand Prix, Bernie Collins
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How to Win a Grand Prix
From Pit Lane to Podium - the Inside Track

Author: Bernie Collins

Narrator: Bernie Collins

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 05/23/2024


Synopsis

'Bernie is not only a great strategist, but also a great team player and competitor' Sebastian Vettel

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***

Race-winning team strategist shows how F1 really works.

Welcome to Bernie Collins' world. Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire to win. On race day it's the Team Strategist who calls the shots, working under immense pressure to make split second and crucial decisions. Through her eyes and experience as a Performance Engineer and Head of Race Strategy, Bernie takes you behind the scenes of a Formula 1 team - both in the factory and at the races - to uncover what it takes to put two Formula 1 cars on the grid and go racing.

How to Win a Grand Prix gives incredible insight of the entire process from design and construction, through pre-season testing, and how a team prepares for each Grand Prix. For race weekend itself, Bernie recreates it hour-by-hour to plunge the reader behind the pit wall and see what it's actually like to get from grid to podium.

About Bernie Collins

Bernie Collins has been at the sharp end of Formula 1 for over a decade. Hailing from the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh, Collins studied Mechanical Engineering at Queens University, Belfast.In 2014, Bernie was Performance Engineer at McLaren Racing for Jenson Button, the 2009 World Champion. From 2015 to 2022 Bernie lead the strategy group within Force India/Racing Point/Aston Martin F1 leaving as Head of Race Strategy during the 2022 season. In 2023 Bernie Collins joined Sky Sports as a commentator and race analyst for their live F1 coverage.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on December 26, 2024

Well written, and very easy to understand some more difficult race strategy concepts. As a Race Strategist at another team, whilst all of the comments are all like explaining my job which I’m familiar with (it is not really an autobiography, it is very much more an explanation of what it’s like to b......more

Goodreads review by Emma on May 31, 2024

Absolutely loved this! Reading any books related to F1 will always be highly rated for me, but this was especially good in my opinion. Bernie’s so likeable and has been such a valuable addition to the Sky Sports F1 team; I’ve been super excited to read this! Reading Bernie’s perspective over the cour......more

Goodreads review by Tess on March 29, 2025

For my F1 girlies! What an inspiration to have the perspective of strategy explained by a female leader in her field. Caused me to have a small crisis over perhaps a wasted opportunity, maybe I should have studied engineering!......more

Goodreads review by Reece on April 13, 2025

As a long time fan of F1, I enjoyed this book. Its pretty much split into two parts. The first focuses on the overall set-up of an F1 team including key roles, what they do and the development of the cars with talk on the simulator and R&D. The second part takes you through a race weekend, from prep......more

Goodreads review by Amaia ✡ on August 03, 2024

I absolutely loved this book. It takes the reader from the beggings of Bernie's career in northern Ireland until the glamorous life on the F1 pitlane crew and travelling the world under the spotlights of the most sophisticated engineering sport. She has a huge talent of making this technical book ver......more


Quotes

Bernie is not only a great strategist, but also a great team player and competitor Sebastian Vettel