Bernadette Collins

GP will still be there in the background monitoring things, just making sure everything goes smoothly.

Let's move this conversation on to Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton, because former Aston Martin strategist Ian, Bernie Collins, not Ian, Ian's not a former Aston Martin strategist.

Bernie Collins has raised the point, as did Karun Chandhok of the XF1 driver, that You know, following Singapore and going into this weekend, there needs to be a, and I quote, difficult conversation between Lewis and Ferrari over just what's happening with the strategy, whether there is, you know, a breakdown in trust on either side.

The fact we saw, as we've discussed in this podcast over the last couple of weeks, in Malaysia, Ferrari getting the strategy horribly wrong.

And then in Singapore, Lewis getting the strategy horribly wrong by not listening to Ferrari.

at least seem to have built a better rapport with this person over the course of this season.

But we're still getting these weird decisions, these weird calls.

You can understand why Bernie Collins said what she said, because at the end of the day, when she talks particularly about strategy, you have to listen because she's been there, lived it, breathed it, perfectly understands exactly what goes on on a team pit wall and the chain of command, the chain of process that then leads to a particular race engineer instructing another driver as to what he should be doing or what's going on on track at any given time.

Yeah

... um, uh, Bernie Collins, who does the, uh, commentary for the Sky Sports audio, um, for F1, uh, she used to be, um, a, you know, a team strategist for McLaren and a few other teams, and she wrote a book called How to Win a Grand Prix, and it's fantastic.

Yeah.

And it also sort of illustrates a lot of the problems with being a woman in this industry.

This is a truly multinational event today because Karun's made his way to Madras.

Bernie's up in Scotland and back in London.

How's Madras, Karun? You go back there and see your dad.

Yeah, it's been great.

Like you will be in Portimao this weekend.

You can see that on Sky as well.

Bernie, how are you? Enjoy the race?

Yeah, I did enjoy the race.

Yeah, it's the first time I've seen Bert Mylander with cars in front of him.

It was really weird, and there was some stipulations, and Bernie Collins said it, like something like rule 5.2.3.1.6.4, maybe-

Yeah

... was a bit far on, but there was-

why have you done that?

Maybe they should just offer Bernie Collins millions because she is brilliant.

But, you know, they would have to offer millions to take it away from us because we love her and we don't want her to go.

Oh, she loves Sky.

But there was so much confusion around this.

You had Bernie Collins on the Sky commentary saying that the rules said that in this sort of predicament where you have people dropping off or having issues on a formation lap and the safety car leads them back into the pits, that the restart order is the order they follow the safety car in by.

And that's the letter of the law as the FIA have written it themselves.

This obviously being a completely unprecedented position where it was actually their fucking fault meant that they basically just did a full restart of everything.