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each race in addition to the setup and race strategy at the After Kettering, Bunt worked for two-and-a-half years at
racetrack. Bunt was also a driver in sCCA, racing a datsun Fiat Chrysler Automobiles as a Transmission Calibration
510 and a Formula Continental. engineer. Then one day she decided to leave her great job
and drop everything to follow her passion in motorsports.
she knew she wanted to work in the motorsport industry,
but it didn’t happen right away. she recently completed her dissertation for oxford Brookes
university in the u.K., at which point she received her
Bunt decided to go to Kettering university to get the master’s degree in motorsport engineering.
education and work experience she would need to gain
experience. she came to the university with a FirsT “especially in the motorsport industry, if this is what you
robotics scholarship and was a mechanical engineering want to do, you have to keep at it. A lot of it is about having
major with an automotive specialty. the right application to the right company at the right time,”
Bunt said. “Keep going at it. Follow your dreams.”
“i came to Kettering because of the co-op program, hands
down. without that experience i wouldn’t be in the place Bunt’s dissertation was completed in september 2016.
that i am now. i wouldn’t have been able to go straight into Then in november she started her first six-month
these jobs, these roles right away. i wouldn’t have landed placement at either renault sport F1 team’s headquarters
such a great job after graduation,” Bunt said. in enstone, u.K., or at infiniti’s european Technical Center in
Cranfield.
her time at Kettering in the classroom taught her some
valuable lessons, as well. “i will be pushing really hard to secure a full-time position with
renault sport,” Bunt said. “i love the challenge of motorsport.
“Being put into team projects and designing something it’s exciting. You have to think very creatively to come up with
and making it work is something Kettering pushed into your a solution, something another team doesn’t have. You have
learning,” she said. “You take away communication skills to do that in a very short period of time. You have to work as a
and teamwork skills. working with others in an effective way team and with collaboration to make it work. You have to be
is something you can take forward wherever you go.” at the top of your game in so many areas.”

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