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From aerospace to the F1 pit lane

Internships become a route into engineering work for a U of T graduate who kept looking for the next technical room.

A U of T graduate carries an engineering education into Formula 1.
AlumniA U of T graduate carries an engineering education into Formula 1.Photo: University of Toronto Alumni / official source image

A U of T graduate’s path from aerospace into Formula 1 is built from the unglamorous parts of early work: internships, applications, new software and the willingness to ask how a team actually makes decisions.

The story is less about a glamorous destination than the accumulation of evidence. Each placement added a skill, a contact or a clearer sense of where engineering could meet speed.

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  1. Original reporting · alumni.utoronto.ca
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