EXCLUSIVE: The young woman who rose from a Harare suburb to the Formula One limelight

Stephanie Travers, Petronas trackside fluid engineer working with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team. Picture: STEVE ETHERINGTON FOR MERCEDES-BENZ GRAND PRIX

As with the outrage that followed the killing of George Floyd a few months before that brought the US’s long, suppressed history of racial injustice into sharp focus and highlighted the glaring reality that people of colour are still treated differently to everybody else, Travers’s incredible achievement posed a very uncomfortable question: why had it taken so long?In 2010, the Malaysian petrochemical giant Petroliam Nasional Berhad became the title sponsor and technical partner of the...

“I provide analysis of all the fluids we send trackside. In the case of analysing the fuel, we take a fingerprint from a fuel sample, and much like when you unlock your phone, the fingerprint has to match the standards of the ‘golden sample’ preapproved by the FIA [motorsport’s sanctioning body]. So much of the work I do at the beginning of a race week is to ensure the fuel complies with regulations,” says Travers.

Reliability has been a major factor in the almost unparalleled dominance the team has enjoyed in recent years, having won almost three out of every four races, and all six constructors’ championships held since the start of the 1.6Stephanie Travers and Petronas colleague En De Liow discuss samples with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One driver and six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

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