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The women who power Formula One: Engineers, mechanics and directors on their role in changing a man's world

This article is part of ESPN's coverage of Women's History Month.

Twelve years ago Chloe Targett-Adams joined Formula One as a corporate lawyer, and is now the sport's director of global race promotions. When she walked into the office for the first time, she more women being present than anywhere else she had worked, and it was the first time she had a female boss -- Sacha Woodward Hill, who joined F1 in 1996 as a general counsel.

"That was in a time when it [F1] was known to not have any women in it," Targett-Adams told ESPN.