(CNN) -- When the new Formula 1 season gets underway in March, for the first time there will be a woman running a team's entire operations from track to boardroom. The team is Sauber and the woman in charge is Monisha Kaltenborn, an Indian-born lawyer who has risen to the top in this male-dominated sport. Kaltenborn, 41, has been CEO of Sauber -- sixth in last year's team championship -- since 2010, but in October she also took over from Peter Sauber as team principal, putting her in charge of performance on the track as well as the business operation.
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Monisha Kaltenborn became Formula 1's first female team principal in October
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She is in charge of both business and on-the-track performance of Sauber, sixth in last year's team championship
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Trained as a lawyer, Kaltenborn came to Formula 1 by chance, after joining legal team of one of Sauber's shareholders
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