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Sports Illustrated US|July 2023
A FORMER F1 AERODYNAMICIST IS USING HER ENGINEERING SKILLS IN HER QUEST TO CREATE THE PERFECT PÂTISSERIE
JAMIE LISANTI
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THE WHIRRING and whining sounds of a Formula One car always soothed Kate Reid. She says that likely started in the womb, as "the sounds and fumes infiltrated my pregnant mother's belly" when she would sit trackside at her husband's Formula Vee races. So after studying aerospace engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, Reid wrote dozens of letters to F1 teams in search of a job. There was one favorable reply: Williams Racing was looking for a junior aerodynamicist. "So in January 2006, I packed up my life and headed over to the U.K. to work in what I thought was my dream job," Reid says.

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