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Screen to Speed No.48: Abigail Cole, Junior Drag Racing Superstar! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Hi everyone.
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Welcome to need talks.
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Uh, happy to see everybody here on evening.
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Um.
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Who's living in the United States again?
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Morning today.
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Um, please welcome Abigail Cole.
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She's a 13 years old, uh, junior drag racer.
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Um, Abigail, welcome to our Inid Talks.
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Thank you.
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So let's start, uh, how you get into this, uh, racing and, uh, also.
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Tell us a little bit about your family.
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I know that you got a dog.
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Uh, I think we're going to talk about this as well because I
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got dog and I really like them.
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Um, so tell us more about your family, first of all.
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Yeah, so we are a family of three.
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It's me, my mom, um, plus my dog.
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His name's Bronco, and he is a five-year-old Rottweiler.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's great.
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Um, do you like to play with, uh, with Bronco and also Bronco,
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maybe visit some of your races?
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Yeah, he comes everywhere with us.
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Um, and of course I love playing with him.
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That's really nice.
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So I got, uh, Shel.
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She is, uh, two years old.
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Uh, we doing some agility that's like, uh, you know, like rally uh, together.
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So we doing some, uh, jumps, uh, tunnels and other stuff
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together, so we're running.
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Um, and yeah, really like, uh, my dog, we always, uh, walk.
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We, I always, uh, like took her with me.
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That's really cool.
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Um.
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So how you actually get into the drag racing?
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Yeah.
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So I got, um.
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Hooked on it.
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When I was three, my parents took me to Sea Fair in Seattle on Thursday,
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and I watched Hydroplanes and I climbed, is that in an Army helicopter?
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And then the very next day we went to NHR North Regionals.
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Mm-hmm.
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At Pacific Race.
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So I was just my home track and I met Tony Schumacher, the Sarge, and I sat in
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his army car and that was kind of what.
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Got me hooked on drag racing.
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Um, I saw the display of juniors and sat in one of those, and of course I kept
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going back and did not wanna get out.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, and so for the next two years, that's pretty much what I talked about.
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So that's when we bought my half scale juniors that I rent today.
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Um, so that's the car that I've had my whole career.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um.
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Hows actually there was for you, you know, to choose the drag racing, uh, not
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ovals or like, uh, dirt ovals, uh, which are really popular in the United States
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and, uh, maybe some road racing as well.
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So what's, uh, the biggest thing which you really like about drag racing?
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Um, I don't know.
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The comradery is a awesome and drag racing, but I was also
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never really introduced to.
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The other aspects of racing, um, besides boat racing, which my dad races a boat.
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He started that when I was about two.
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Mm-hmm.
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But you can't race a boat until you are, it's either 15 or 16.
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Um, so that wasn't exactly an opportunity for me.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's awesome.
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Also, can you tell me what feelings you, you got when you first time race it?
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You know, um, I was still really young and I got super nervous.
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Um, but I've kind of come over that and it's a more, I get
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nervous for the competition wise, but not necessarily driving.
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Um, as soon as we started that car when I was little, um, I
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kind of was just ready to go.
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Um, but now I'm mixture between nervous and exciting.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um.
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Feelings there.
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So, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you, uh, get used to the speed and, uh, just, uh, having fun with it.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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That's nice.
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Um, so can you tell me, how does it feel for you?
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So, being 13 years old, uh, girl and racing around, uh, the country, um,
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travel and, uh, doing all the stuff and, um, also balance with, with everything.
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Yeah, so it's, it can be hard at times.
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'cause I mean, last trip we were on the road for two months and, um, it's
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a lot to deal with, but it's doing what I love and, um, I get to race.
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So I'm happy with that.
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Um, and we, we traveled quite a bit.
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Um, we've gone as far as Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and we're
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here in Washington, so yeah.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Uh, so you actually enjoy the traveling part and racing, uh, yes.
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Together.
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That's really nice.
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I also, yeah.
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Uh, when I did, uh, so I started from karting, uh, when I was nine.
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Um, so we've been, uh.
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On card circuit together with my dad and, uh, you know, all the time,
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uh, driving the car to this track.
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It, it was so exciting.
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Uh, you just, uh, woke up in the morning and like, oh,
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great, I'm going to, uh, race.
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I'm going to practice.
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That's really nice, uh, feeling and definitely.
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And, uh, then I travel quite a lot.
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Uh, when I did some open dealers, um.
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So I went to Malaysia.
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There was like, you know, 10, 10 hours flight.
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It, it was a horrible, uh, real long flight.
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Uh, the longest my life, I think.
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Um, but I like to race, uh, sipan.
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It's a great circuit.
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Definitely.
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Um, so can you tell me how do you prepare to race, uh, like mentally and physically?
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What exercises you doing, uh, what's your routine looks like?
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Well first I do reaction time stuff.
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So we have a little simulator tree thing.
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Um.
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That brings down the tree.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I get to work on my reaction times there.
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And then we have a bunch of different exercises for other
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ways of reaction time as well.
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Um, and then mental side of it, I have dove deeper into that recently.
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Um, whereas books, audiobooks and that kind of stuff, and I'm
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actually in a mental strength and mental toughness class right now.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I'm getting a lot of exercises from that and working
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on that a little bit more.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's great.
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Also, I just, uh, read your bill and, uh, you've learned to do so many cool
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things like welding and powder coating.
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Uh, so tell me what's your favorite and what do you like the most of it?
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Um, that's really hard 'cause I like 'em all.
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Mm-hmm.
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Something with sandblasting, um, powder coating and working on the LA and all
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those kind of things all come together.
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'cause I started making piston candles.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I would take, um.
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Old pistons, broken pistons, that kinda stuff from my dad's engine builder, um,
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who was one of my sponsors and cleaned them up, sandblast 'em, powder coat
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'em, and then we made little inserts so that the wax didn't fall out everywhere.
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And then, um, on the lathe and then we would make candles in them and sell them.
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So that was always really fun.
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And I'm still doing that.
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I just have kind of fallen off on that a little bit, being more involved in racing.
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That's really cool There.
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You got, uh, you know, some, uh, different activities outside of the racing.
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Not all the time.
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You can see the racing driver who's doing like, uh, the welding and all the stuff.
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That's really awesome.
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Um, you also mentioned, uh, then you're doing some training at a KEA.
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So can you tell me more about this?
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And you also doing some climbing and baking.
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Like you, you, you got a lot of hobbies.
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That's great.
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I do, yes.
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So AKA, it's the American Karate Esma Association.
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Mm-hmm.
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So we base more towards like self-defense, karate than anything.
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And then ESMA is stick work.
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Um.
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So that's always really fun.
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And then climbing.
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I love rock climbing.
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So fun.
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Um, unfortunately I don't have a lot of time for all of this,
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considering how much we're on the road.
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Um, and then of course the baking, the cooking when we're at home.
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I try to do as much as I can of that during the holiday.
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Um, always all the baking, so yeah.
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Definitely have fun outside of racing.
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That's nice.
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Uh, so you develop yourself in, uh, different side, uh, sites.
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Uh, it's really cool, uh, because you're 14 years old.
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I think the, the world is really interesting for you.
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So you're really curious about, uh, different stuff.
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Uh, it's really nice.
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Uh, I like when people, you know, jumping into.
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Different stuff.
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Uh, like I jump into agility with my dog and get a dog
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like, uh, one half a year ago.
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And that, that's my first dog in the family.
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And I'm like, okay, let's, let's do the new hobby.
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Let's jump into it.
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And I started like to learn from scratch and, uh, it's really refreshing feeling.
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Definitely.
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Um, okay.
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Uh, let's return back a little bit and talk about your car.
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I know that your car got a name.
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Can you tell more about this?
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Uh, what's the story behind this?
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Yeah, so my car's name is Lou.
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Um, it's after my grandparents old Scotty dog.
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Um, I was really attached to her and she passed away.
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I believe it was last year or the year before that.
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Um.
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It kind of broke my heart.
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So I decided my car didn't have a name at the time.
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Mm-hmm.
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And her name was Whitaker Lou Whitaker.
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Um, and so I decided to name it Lou after her.
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Mm-hmm.
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Interesting story.
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And, uh, I think it means a lot for you.
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Definitely.
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Uh, yeah.
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I remember that, uh, when I race in open wheelers, uh, I had a formal
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masters, uh, which is a formal Bart uh, uh, car and, uh, named Jackson.
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So it was, you know, quite aggressive and, uh, sounds good at the same time.
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So, yeah, also had a car with name.
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It's, uh, kind of cute.
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Um, so what can you tell about, uh.
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Community in the drag racing in United States, like what it's
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like to be 14 years old and girl in, in this, um, racing industry.
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Yeah.
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Um,
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really the racing community is really,
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the racing community is really.
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Dang, what's the word?
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Um, like, you know, friendly or may maybe not really.
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Yeah.
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You could say friendly.
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Yeah.
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Um, but it really isn't hard being a girl or mm-hmm.
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Young in the sport either.
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Um, because.
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It's pretty much 50 50 from the girl boy standpoint as well there.
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And then I have, in racing, I have more stuff onto that.
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Um, we own a parts business for juniors.
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Um, so I'm doing inventory, getting orders out.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, selling the parts at the track and that kind of stuff as well, so.
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That brings another aspect of racing into it as well.
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Um, so it's not necessarily just the driving or the tuning.
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Mm-hmm.
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Interesting.
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Uh, I was aware that in drag racing, actually more girls
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than in any other categories.
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Uh, definitely.
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Uh, what's in your opinion, uh, brings girls into that, like speed
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or community or everything together?
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Yeah, I don't really, I don't know.
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Um, I would say same thing for everyone.
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Um, the community, of course, if you like, the general adrenaline
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rush, um, the competition.
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I personally love competition, so that's, some of that is great about racing for me.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, but there's so many different things that you can find in racing.
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Um, I am homeschooled, so, um.
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Racing is something that we bring into my schooling.
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So the math in it, from measuring oil to doing my data and all of that, um,
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is a learning opportunity as well.
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Mm-hmm.
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Uh, tell me more about your team.
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How you're working with your engineers, with kind of settings you maybe
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apply to the car, uh, and like how the work on the track looks for you.
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Yeah.
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So, um, like I said earlier, it's just the three of us.
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So my mom, my dad, and me.
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Mm-hmm.
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So obviously I'm the driver, um, and I do like the tires, the oil,
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the fuel, all of that kind of stuff.
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And then my mom, she does all the video and picture taking stuff, and
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then I do data and then anything else.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's more on the card does and kind of fills in the holes of what I don't do.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, so speaking about team, uh, how's the teamwork, uh, uh,
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brings, uh, good positions for you?
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Like, did you, uh, do you remember any highlights, uh, races in your career?
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So last year, um, I won the championship in my class at my
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home track here in um, Washington.
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And then I have two Wally, so pretty prestigious award there.
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Um, and then I, this year newly am part of the JCM Main Family Protein.
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Mm-hmm.
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So that's super cool.
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Um, and then.
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Yeah.
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And so that the main JCM team mm-hmm.
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Is pretty much, it's just opportunity for mentoring and, um, pretty much
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any questions I have that comes to the mental side, the social
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media side, um, the actual racing.
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Um, I can go to them with any questions that I have.
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That's awesome.
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Congrats to you with the first position.
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Uh, that's great feeling.
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Thank you.
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I think, um, how you handle the pressure, uh, during competition and,
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um, what's your team looks like on a day, uh, when, when you got the race.
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Um, well, I really try to stay outta my head as much as I can, but obviously
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why I am in the mental, um, classes and have all the books and stuff is
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because I'm not the best at doing that.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I do get in my head, but I've found breathing really helps.
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Um.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I. Tried multiple different breathing exercises and stuff like that.
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Um, something that I've been trying newly is visuals visualization.
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Um, so just visualizing myself running the past and then
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going out there and doing it.
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Usually before we started the car, I try to think about nothing, just so
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I don't have to worry about anything.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm just.
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Not thinking.
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Mm-hmm.
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So you focus on the, on track, on the car and, uh, like all stuff which, which
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happened with you in, in the moment.
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Right?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Um.
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So that's great, uh, that you doing some breathing exercises.
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I think they help a lot.
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Uh, definitely.
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Um, and I think you have to continue to do this.
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Of course, we all get nervous when we, on the start of the race, that's
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absolutely normal, uh, because, you know, entering the line pumps in your
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blood and, uh, you're getting excited and all this thing, uh, things happening.
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Um, it's absolutely okay.
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Um.
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Can you tell me about the purple dragster?
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Uh, the, is it, is it Lou or.
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Different.
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No.
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So that is actually, she's aged out now.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, but it's one of my friend's cars, but that is the first car that I sat in.
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So when I went to that NHR race, um, when I was three, that is the car that I in.
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And for a while that's the car that I wanted.
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I wanted to have the purple dragster that has the ferry on it.
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Um, but.
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It.
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Yeah.
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Um, it's really cute.
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So the person that just aged out of that, she just aged out and her name was Z. Um,
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but I literally was in love with that car.
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I had the bit, unfortunately I didn't exactly get that car, but I love mine.
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So, um, yeah.
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That's a really cute story also, uh, I hope you go on to
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get in the future top fuel, uh, dragster purple with ferry on it.
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It's going to be awesome.
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Um, okay, uh, let's do quick, uh, fun questions.
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Uh, if Luke could talk, what would she, uh, what would, uh, he say?
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What do you think?
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I'm sorry.
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Can you say that again?
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Uh, if Lou could talk, uh, what would he say?
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I've never been asked that before.
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That's, um, I don't know.
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I know, maybe I'm fast, I'm furious.
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Something like this,
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I don't know.
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I think that she was just like congrat, well, not congratulate, but like.
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Wish me luck and like be positive things.
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Mm-hmm.
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Like stuff like that.
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Nice.
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Uh, what's your favorite snack?
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Uh, when you're on the trek?
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Ooh, that's so hard.
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Um.
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Um, well a lot of times when we're at home, my grandparents
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come out and my grandma always brings like fruit and veggie tray.
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Mm-hmm.
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So that's always super nice to have.
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So I'd probably say fruit and veggie tray.
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Alright.
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Uh, and, uh, tell me about the book you take to the race weekend.
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'cause I know that you're reading, uh, a lot.
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Yeah, I, I read quite a bit.
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Um, I like, like fantasy sci-fi type books.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, if I'm not reading the mental stuff mm-hmm.
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Um, I have, I like the Harry Potters Hunger Games, um, more magic side
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of stuff too, so I. A lot of books.
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I have like two bookshelves full.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, plus I borrow so much from the library that I wish I could fit in my
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room, but I just don't have enough space.
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Um, but yeah.
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So the fantasy, sci-fi, fractured fairytale type things, um, yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, and I ha I don't have a favorite book.
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I, I've read too many, so that's.
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Something that I could never choose.
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So you actually just enjoy, uh, every book, which you read?
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Pretty much.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Um, so for the future, what do you think, what's your dream, uh, sponsor to
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like, bring you to the top few, uh, Dr.
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Drag, uh, career?
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Um, I would love to go pro.
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Whether that's top fuel.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, funny car.
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Mm-hmm.
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Or I would love to do pro stock.
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Okay.
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Um, I think pro stock would be super fun, but really whatever
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I have the chance to do.
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Alright.
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Um, what advice, uh, can you give to like girls and boys who's starting,
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who's also 14 years old, uh, because you got quite big experience already
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in this life with all traveling, different hobbies and all this stuff.
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Yeah.
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Um, I'd probably say just take it slow.
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I mean, don't go too crazy.
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Don't think that you're gonna be perfect.
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Um, 'cause I mean, mistakes happen and, um, definitely breathe through
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everything and keep a good mindset.
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Mindset is very, very important, so stay positive.
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That's true.
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That mindset is so important, uh, because how you think that that's how
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you actually see things and um, yeah.
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If you see them from bedside, from negative side, you like
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things going to be bad for you.
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But if you see a little spark in, in bad stuff, it's a really, uh, nice
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skill, uh, to have in this life.
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Absolutely agree with you, uh, in this and.
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Tell me about, uh, plans for this year, uh, which you got for this season,
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uh, and for the future, maybe for the next, uh, three years or five.
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So this season, I know I've got a big race coming up in Texas, the
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JDRL, Western Conference Finals.
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Um, and that in, I believe, an eight day race.
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Um, so a lot of races packed into those eight days.
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Um, but that's usually about the biggest event that I have every
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year, so I'm super excited for that.
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That's in, I wanna say like.
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A month or so.
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Um, so coming up fast already, and then, I mean year, two year plans.
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Um, I don't really have anything planned yet.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, just 'cause I don't know where I wanna go at this point.
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I, of course, like I said, I'd love to go pro.
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Um, I think I'll, I'll keep working on the junior step.
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Um, keep.
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Keep working on my mindset, keep working on all of that stuff, and,
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um, hopefully win some more races, win some more championships, um,
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some more wies, all the fun stuff.
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Uh, yeah, coming up we've got Western Conference finals and then of course
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the division seven, um, bracket finals, which I think is probably the second
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biggest race that I have every year.
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So, yeah.
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That's nice.
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Uh, also, can you tell me, uh, if, uh, you know, outside of the
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being the racing driver, uh, what's your dream, uh, job which you
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would like to have in the future?
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Like maybe, uh, working as an engineer or like doing some
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welding or some other stuff.
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I've really never thought of that before.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, just 'cause I've always, um, thought about racing and hoping to go pro there,
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but I don't really know at this point.
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Um, I mean, I love all the shop work stuff, so.
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Mm-hmm.
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Maybe something in that direction.
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Mm-hmm.
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Or, um, I don't know.
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If we could bring some sort of something with books into it 'cause mm-hmm.
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I am a bookworm and would love to do something that entails books.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, but shop work definitely.
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And then if I can do something on the side that's books, that'd be so awesome.
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Um, but mainly drag racing.
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Nice.
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So maybe you can, uh, write a book about, uh, your career in drag racing.
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Uh, we'll see in the future.
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I'm so excited, uh, because with all your experience, I think, uh, you got
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a really bright future and, uh, with all the positive mindset and uh, uh,
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mental, uh, stuff, which you are reading.
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It's really cool.
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So, um.
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Can you tell me, so you girl in the racing?
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Yes.
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And uh, me too.
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And what do you think how we can, um, develop the racing to get more
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girls into this, like in United States and in the rest of the world?
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World as well?
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You know, I really think that you just gotta spread the word.
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You have to kind of put it out there as something fun.
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Um, something that's competitive, not just serious, because I feel like a lot
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of people see racing as super serious, which it can be at times, but, um.
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I think it's important to have fun, um, because if you're not
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having fun, there's no reason to do it because it is just a sport.
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I mean, until you get up at higher ranks mm-hmm.
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You don't have to like, be totally serious.
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I mean, um, but definitely put the word out there, whether it's
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through word of mouth, so social media or anything like that.
27:07
Mm-hmm.
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Um.
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But I really do hope that we can grow the sport more for everyone because,
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um, I think it'd be awesome to have more kids in it and, um, grow the sport.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's great.
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Uh, as you said.
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You know, always have fun.
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This is, uh, what I say to, to people on my streams and when, you know, people
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doing some racing and they get to series, uh, sometimes, uh, and yeah, so just,
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uh, the main thing is to have fun and, uh, yeah, for sure some things happen,
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uh, on the racing track or like in some racing as well, uh, which can upset you.
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But, uh, I think you're right with this.
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Um.
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And
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I wanted to say something, but then I, I just forget because, uh, it, it's
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so exciting that first time I, I got person, uh, who's, uh, 13 years old
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and it's really cool that you, uh, you know, doing a lot of stuff also.
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All right.
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Um.
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What, what's actually, uh, the best lesson, which, which you learned
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during this years in, uh, racing and, uh, in other activities?
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Um, I've probably, Hmm.
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I've learned so many whether I've realized it or not.
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Um, and I've learned from my mistakes.
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So many, I made so many mistakes.
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Um, but.
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Lesson that I have learned.
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Um,
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you know, probably that, like I said earlier, you can't be super serious.
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You have to relax.
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Mm-hmm.
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And you have to breathe through it and you can't get too mad, you can't get too
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emotional about whether you win or lose.
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Um, obviously losing.
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Just not feel the best sometimes.
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Mm-hmm.
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But, um, you gotta learn to get through that and learn from what happened.
29:28
Let's say maybe you were still on the light, maybe you were not paying
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attention, or I mean, some tracks you, there's tons of planes flying
29:37
over and this is something I've done.
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Mm-hmm.
29:38
Maybe you were watching the planes and had a horrible time, but
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you just gotta learn to focus.
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You gotta.
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Breathe through it, like I said.
29:46
Um mm-hmm.
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And so I think that's probably the biggest lesson I've learned, but I'm sure there's
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so many that I didn't realize I learned.
29:55
Mm-hmm.
29:56
It just kind of grew through it without.
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Realizing that it was even the thing.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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I noticed that you kind of go in with the flow in this life and, uh, it's
30:07
really nice, uh, because sometimes, you know, uh, like that happened to me.
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Unfortunately, my team who supported me in the open wheelers, they
30:17
completely shut down the program.
30:19
Uh, but then some racing happened, then streaming happened and all the stuff.
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So you just go in with a. Flow and, uh, actually enjoying
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your life and having fun.
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It's, uh, the main thing I wanted to ask you about.
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You mentioned, uh, that it's really important to, uh,
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go with, uh, social medias.
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Do you enjoy to, um, like, uh, doing something for your
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Instagram and also please tell people where they can find you.
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Um, maybe you got some kind of blog or something else.
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So we're on Facebook and Instagram as Abigail Cole racing, along with our
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family race team, which is 6 2 9 racing, and then on YouTube is 6 2 9 racing.
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Um, that's all we are there.
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Um, wait.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's nice.
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Do you actually enjoy to do posting?
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Do you, uh, like.
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Photos and other stuff of social medias, uh, like do you want to
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do maybe some reels, uh, YouTube channel in the future about the drag
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racing or about your life overall?
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It really depends on my mood, on whether or not I wanna do photos.
31:35
Mm-hmm.
31:35
Or wanna do a video as a race, a recap, whether I just wanna write something.
31:40
Um, like I said earlier, mom does all of the videography and the photography.
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Um, and then she does most social media.
31:48
I write a lot of stuff, but, um.
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I'm not on there a lot.
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Um, so she's doing most of the posting.
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I'll go on and respond to comments and stuff, but she handles most of that.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, and I just come in a little bit, um, but.
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As of taking photos and stuff, like I said, it really
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depends on my mood sometimes.
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Mm-hmm.
32:13
I'm like super happy about it and like, okay, let's do this.
32:17
And sometimes I'm just like sitting there with a frown on my face
32:21
and I have to be told to smile.
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To smile.
32:24
Mm-hmm.
32:24
Um, so, um.
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That's always fun times.
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I got you.
32:31
Yeah.
32:32
So sometimes you got a mood that you're like, oh yeah, I
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don't want to make any photos.
32:36
Like, leave me alone.
32:38
I feel that we all got, uh, that moment.
32:41
Uh, definitely.
32:42
Um, so last thoughts.
32:46
Um.
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Maybe, uh, you can tell sentence, uh, which going to inspire girls
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in, uh, to jump into drag racing and, uh, we're going to see a lot
32:58
of, uh, girls in it in the future.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I really hope for that.
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Mm-hmm.
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So what the would, would be the like inspiring, uh, message from you to girls.
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Hmm.
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Um,
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I would say, um,
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I mean a lot of different sports have the competition, but I think that if
33:35
you are really loving the competitive side is, is definitely probably the
33:42
number one sport I would say for.
33:44
Competitive stuff because mm-hmm.
33:47
Um, of how competitive it can get.
33:49
Um, but definitely if you enjoy speed, this is the sport for you.
33:56
Um, is so fun to go so fast.
34:01
I mean, at six years old I was going like 30 miles an hour and then I slowly
34:06
moved up 50, um, 70, 80, um, and going.
34:13
Like 82 miles an hour at 13 is absolutely insane.
34:18
Mm-hmm.
34:18
Um, especially with the size of the car.
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So it's really fun for that side of things as well.
34:25
So, um, I mean, and like I said earlier, if you're getting into
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this stay focused, like don't.
34:35
Freak out too much, like don't overthink it.
34:38
Mm-hmm.
34:38
Which that's something I really struggle with.
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I overthink everything.
34:42
Um, so don't overthink and just, just stay having fun with it.
34:48
Mm-hmm.
34:48
If you're not having fun, I don't see why you should be doing this.
34:53
Yeah.
34:53
I think we all thinking sometimes it's, uh, it's fine.
34:57
Yeah.
34:59
All right.
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That, that was really nice, uh, to meet you.
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That was, uh.
35:03
Cool to talk with you.
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Uh, wish you good luck for your racing career and uh, for other hobbies which
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you got, and, uh, be with this, uh, spark in your life for the future.
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Thank you so much guys.
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Thank you for watching.
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Uh, there was Abigail Cole with us, uh, young drag racer
35:24
and absolutely amazing person.
35:26
Thank you Abigail, to being with us.
35:30
Thank you for having me.
35:31
Yeah.
35:31
Bye guys.
35:32
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