Leena Gade is the first woman race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Lemans.

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The 36-year-old will go into the season with a new race engineer after his long-time partner Ciaron Pilbeam left Red Bull for Lotus.

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As well as physical training to prepare, Zanardi spent hours working as his own race engineer, fine-tuning his cycle until it perfectly complemented his body.

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And in this race, the technologist, the engineer, the accountant all have an edge in creating the next iteration of capital "J" journalism (especially if they can take advantage of a startup mentality, free of the "this is the way we've always done it" managerial malaise).

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