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Screen to Speed No.47: Caitlin Wood, Australia's first woman to win at the Nurburgring! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Hello.
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  Welcome everyone to new talks.
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  Uh, today we got Kaitlyn Woods.
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  Uh, she's a professional racing driver.
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  Welcome Kaitlyn.
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  Hi.
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  Thank you for having me.
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  Yeah.
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  Thank you so much for joining our in Talks today.
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  Uh, let's start with, uh, how you get into racing, how all this,
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  uh, passion started for you.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Um, I started racing when I was young, when I was seven.
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  Um, but I think I kind of caught the bug a few years before that.
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  There's quite an age gap between myself and my brother.
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  So he's 12 years older than me.
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  Um, so by the time I was born, he was already go-karting and I was lucky enough
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  to grow up around it in that environment.
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  So by the time I was seven, I wanted to.
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  My first go-kart and yeah, on my seventh birthday, my dad and my
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  brother took me out to our local cart track back home in Australia,
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  Newcastle Cart Club, and I guess that's where, that's where it all started.
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  I didn't make it past the first corner and I was straight off into the gravel trap.
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  So, um.
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  My, uh, my poor dad had lots of running round to do after me,
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  but, you know, uh, I loved it.
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  And I guess ever since then, um, at seven, I've never not
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  been involved in Motorsport.
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  Obviously started in go-karts and then progressed through the
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  junior ranks of, of Motorsport.
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  Yeah.
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  This is great.
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  Uh, I also started in the same way in cars, so I remember that, uh, first time
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  I went to the, uh, tree or something.
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  It was really fun.
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  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  So we all start somewhere, right?
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  Yeah, that's true.
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  Uh, can you tell me more, uh, where you move after go-karts and how
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  your career started to develop?
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  Yeah, so I guess.
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  You know, carting was always a family hobby, um, you know, for
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  me and my dad and my brother.
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  And it was something we did on weekends, as I'm sure you can relate to.
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  And I guess the older I got, you know, when I started to come into my
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  teenage years, 12, 13, 14 was when I realized, you know, I really am
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  enjoying this and I wanna do more.
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  So, you know, I spoke to dad and was like, I wanna try and be better and, and.
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  I'm passionate about Motors sport and I wanna see where that takes me.
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  So he did his best and we did our best to try and compete in
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  national carding championships and compete against the best.
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  My dad's kind of motive was if you wanna be the best, you
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  gotta compete against the best.
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  So, um, yeah, we tried to do that as much as we could.
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  And when I turned, uh, 1516, I guess kind of similar kind of.
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  Uh, story is my brother had made the step up into Formula Ford into race cars,
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  obviously quite a few years before me.
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  And the formula Ford car was back home in our shed, kind of in a million pieces.
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  Um, so it had kind of been in, in, in the shed for, for quite a few years.
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  And I remember, you know, 15-year-old Caitlin in the, in
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  the shed after school with dad.
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  And I was just like, so when's it my turn her when, you know, when
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  can I, when can I drive the formula?
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  Ford and Dad was really shocked.
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  I don't think he, he knew what to say.
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  Um, so he kind of gave me an ultimatum and he was like, well, if you can put the race
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  car back together, then you can drive it.
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  Um.
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  Yeah.
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  15-year-old Caitlyn thought, yeah, that can't be that hard.
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  I can do that.
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  And uh, you know, turns out it is pretty difficult.
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  But, um, yeah, so I then spent those summer holidays in Oz, which was over
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  Christmas and New Year's with dad kind of rebuilding the formula forward.
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  In the following year, we, we took it racing and I had my first test day,
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  and that's ultimately how I made that progression into, into race cars.
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  So again, I was fortunate to have that opportunity to be there and obviously my
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  dad pushed me to make sure I was ready and it was something that I wanted to do.
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  And thankfully, on our first test day, all four wheels stayed on.
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  So I did an okay job.
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  Um, but yeah, we, um, we enjoyed it and it's a really special way for me to
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  have got started, especially doing that with dad and, and having that, and that
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  was our own, I guess, little race team.
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  We did it together.
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  So my dad would kind of be my mechanic and my brother would be my engineer, and we'd.
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  Travel up and down Australia competing in different formula Ford championships,
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  and obviously being 15, I'd never driven on the road before, so I was getting used
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  to driving a manual and understanding the characteristics of driving a car
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  and not a, not a go-kart anymore.
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  And so I was a really.
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  Fundamental tool to, for me to develop as a driver and, and
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  compete in formula forward.
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  And after that, we then started to look into race teams, et cetera.
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  Um, but yeah, it was a, a very, very fun way to get started.
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  That's great.
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  Uh, so formal Ford is a great car.
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  I race it and I racing, uh.
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  A lot of times.
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  Yeah.
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  And, uh, it's really fun indeed.
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  And, uh, of course, uh, when you jump from go-karting to, uh, foremost,
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  it's completely a different thing, uh, with a view with, uh, how you
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  race and how you balance the car for the corners and everything.
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  Uh, can you tell me more, uh, about what is your favorite,
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  uh, Australian tar uh, trek?
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  Which you race.
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  Oh, that's easy.
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  That's easy.
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  What do you think it is?
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  No.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like it's every Aussie, uh, favorite track.
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  Um, yeah.
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  Either Bathurst Man, Panorama or Philip Island.
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  They're definitely my two.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  My two favorites back home.
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  Yeah.
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  Philip Island is great.
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  One also I think a little bit underrated in I racing, so I'm all the time.
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  A little bit set.
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  Yeah.
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  When people not racing it, I think it's, uh, really fun and uh, you
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  know, going with a flow track.
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  I really like it also.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  And, uh, uh, then after some time you like, uh, jumped different
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  formulas after formal Ford or there was, uh, like, uh, GT cars.
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  Uh, so how you move Yeah.
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  Forward with career.
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  Yeah.
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  I think just like ev everybody in Motorsport, it's very
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  difficult financially to.
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  To take those next steps.
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  Um, you know, we, we all know what that's like.
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  And so yeah, I did a few years, uh, a formula forward.
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  We stepped into a race team and I did one and a half seasons with the race team, uh,
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  synergy Motorsport, because unfortunately we did, we kind of ran out of budget.
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  We ran out sponsors to continue that program.
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  Uh, afterwards I got a scholarship drive to do a few rounds
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  in Australian Formula four.
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  So, again, obviously sounds similar but separate.
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  We obviously have slick tires and wings and a little bit of downforce
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  and um, yeah, that was two or three races at the end of 2015.
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  And then the following year in 2016, that was kind of my, yeah, fresh 18.
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  It was a little bit, I think of, I don't know what kind of year we
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  call it, but it was my, um, you know, I took a, I took a chance.
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  I took a leap, that's for sure.
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  And, uh, a German team had been in touch with me called Rider
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  Engineering, for anybody that I've heard of them and asked if I would
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  like to be a part of their junior program called the Writer Young Stars.
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  And that was a part of the European GT four Championship.
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  So it was a big step for, you know, a young Australian living, uh, going to
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  move to the other side of the world.
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  And, um, so I remember kind of my dad sitting me down at the dinner
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  table being like, you know, this is, this is as far as we can take you.
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  Uh, Caitlin, you know, it was a, it was like a sponsored drive,
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  but obviously my parents had to.
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  You know, give up a lot for me to be able to move to Germany
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  on my own and things like that.
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  So, um, yeah, he said not many Australians get to go and race in Europe, let
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  alone Monza and spa and all these amazing circuits, let alone, you know.
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  There's, uh, not many female, um, Australian drivers before
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  me that have done that either.
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  So he is like, go and enjoy yourself and do the best you can, and you know,
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  if you win, you then got a fully funded drive the following season in GT three.
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  With writer in the Bloon GT series, now known as GT World Challenge.
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  So for me, I could see the progression and I could see how I could progress my career
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  in GTS and, and continue that progress.
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  So I really wanted to take that step and yeah, and then dad was like, but you know,
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  if you don't win, that's absolutely fine.
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  You can come back home to Australia and go to university and.
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  Continue another route, so to speak.
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  Um, so yeah, that was enough motivation and I think for me to, uh, for me to win.
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  And so, yeah, I won that, that Young Stars program in European GT
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  four, and I won that scholarship.
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  So then that snowballed me into GT three in Blanc Point, in a Lamborghini,
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  in the Lamborghini Gado, REX.
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  So the previous generation before the hurricane.
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  And yeah, that was crazy, uh, to compete, you know, in my opinion, against some
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  of the best drivers in the world.
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  And it was an endurance championship.
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  So I had a few teammates that year and we finished on the podium in our first
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  race at Mazano, which was really cool in our class, in the Silver Cup class.
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  Um, yeah.
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  And then, and then from there, it was a little bit of an unfortunate
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  year with a few incidences and we didn't, um, finish many races.
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  Just 'cause that's kind of racing.
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  Um, and yeah, uh, at kind of fresh 18, I'd moved to Germany by myself and committed
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  to, to trying to, to make it work.
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  So it was very daunting.
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  Daunting, sorry.
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  And obviously, well not obviously, but I didn't know German.
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  Um, so I struggled with the language barrier.
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  Quite a lot, but I, you know, I tried my best and I grew up a lot in that
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  phase of my life and I'm very grateful for that opportunity to have worked
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  with that race team and progressed myself and continue that journey.
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  So yeah, I did two years over there and then after that I then
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  moved to the UK 'cause I thought that would be a good stepping
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  stone to continue that GT journey.
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  And yeah, I've kind of been in the UK for a few years now.
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  I did a, the following year, I did a few rounds with.
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  A driver in the Lamborghini Super TR series.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Two or three rounds.
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  And then the W series came about in 2019.
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  So I became obviously the Australian representative in the W series, which
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  I was a part of from 2019 to 2021.
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  So yeah, obviously covid happened in those times, which made life
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  very difficult for everybody.
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  Um, yeah.
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  And then, uh, in 2021, I became a part of the Humor W Series team.
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  Which was very cool to represent a brand like Puma and be a part of their team.
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  Um, and I just competed in selected rounds, so I did Spa Hungary and Coda.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And yeah, we had a really good, really good round at SPA and obviously very, was
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  very grateful for that opportunity to.
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  He and the W Series be a part of the championship and get
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  back into single seater racing.
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  I don't think without, without that, I would've been able to progress
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  into Formula three, you know, into the formula regional cars.
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  So yeah, it was very, very, very cool to be a part of.
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  Yeah, I remember we've been into one team on W series, uh, selection event.
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  Uh, yeah.
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  Yeah, that was really fun to see all these, uh, girls and, uh, just they
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  bring every, everybody together.
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  It was a great event.
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  Really.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, it was, uh, the first of its kind obviously, and they, you know, as you
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  know, got women from all around the world.
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  And that was really for me, exciting and empowering to see so many
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  girls and women drivers from all around the world be able to meet.
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  And, um, like, 'cause I think, you know, up until that point you.
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  Sometimes you think you're the only one, don't you?
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  If you, you know, 'cause you are a minority.
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  So to be put in a room with, you know, 70 other female drivers was pretty cool.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's really sad.
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  That's, uh, W series, unfortunately you stopped there.
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  Um, I. Races and their championships.
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  Yeah, really set.
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  Um, but, uh, I really, I think that, uh, they involved a lot of, uh, girls
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  into this and, uh, probably a lot of, uh, girls also into racing community,
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  uh, because, uh, we had a great, uh, like introduction, uh, to the world that
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  uh, hey girls can, can drive fast and that yeah, that can be the whole series.
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  With, uh, with girls only.
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  It was really cool.
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  Um, so I know that you won the race at Berg Ring.
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  Uh, can you tell me more about this event and how was it to
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  win on the Berg ring for you?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, so the following year in 2022, I decided to take a step
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  back into endurance racing.
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  My ultimate goal has always been to compete at Lamont.
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  I love endurance racing.
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  Um, and I've competed in a few 24 hour races.
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  So we thought it'd be a good step to go out to the nor life and
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  get my permit and kind of work my way up the, the ranks out there.
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  And so I did a few VNS when it was VLN, which is now known as NLS, did a
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  few NLS rounds in a BMW three series.
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  And yeah, we were competitive as a team.
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  'cause as an endurance racing, you have other drivers in the car with you.
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  So I had two other drivers with me.
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  And yeah, in 2023 I did, I became the first Australian woman to kind of win
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  a race, win a class at the, at the Nords life, which was very, very cool.
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  And.
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  In the moment, we didn't actually know that.
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  I was, I guess the first one.
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  It wasn't until we sat down afterwards and I'm like, oh, I really, I
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  wonder who did this before me.
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  And we couldn't find any Aussie woman that had done so.
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  Yeah, it was very cool to, I guess, put that in the, in the books
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  somewhere, um, for people to.
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  To see and to kind of show Aussie girls back home that you can compete in Europe
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  and you can compete on the world stage and that there is, um, it is accessible.
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  So yeah, it was, um, racing out at the nor life is crazy.
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  There's, I, as you know, it's such a long circuit.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  There's so many cars on track.
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  The traffic is insane.
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  You're dealing with faster cars, slower cars.
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  So I was competing in the production car class in a BMW three series.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So we're kind of, I guess, in the middle of the pack.
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  We're not the fastest car on track, but we're not the slowest either.
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  So you're, you're looking for traffic in front of you and behind you.
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  So yeah, it definitely makes you very aware and teaches you so
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  much as a driver about how to.
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  I guess be fast in traffic as well, not just fast as an overall lap time and
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  you know, know when to go for a move, when to hold back and just be, drive
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  a little bit smarter realistically.
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  And.
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  The nor life isn't afraid to, to throw out some wild weather as well.
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  So, um, I remember in one of my stints, in one of the races there, I was out
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  on slicks and it started to rain.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So it was literally all about ringing, bringing the car home.
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  But you still have, I don't know, six, seven kilometers
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  left of the, so yeah, it's a.
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  It's a, uh, it's a crazy, it's a crazy circuit out there, but it was very
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  cool to be able to get some results out there and, um, yeah, and compete.
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  Yeah, that, that's awesome.
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  Uh, nurse life will definitely difficult track and endurances, I race a lot of
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  endurances in, uh, racing and, uh, all the time you have to manage the, the traffic.
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  If you like LMP two and you got Gs and GD freeze, so you have to watch out for them.
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  And yeah, as you said, sometimes you just, um.
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  It's taken easy and uh, then you just, uh, pushing, uh, in, in some
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  corners, uh, to, um, like to be more predictable for people on track.
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  Uh, it's a different world.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And I think endurance is, uh, such a great, uh, because you working
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  with a team, you, you also managing traffic and you're saving fuel and
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  you're doing a lot of, uh, stuff.
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  So I really like Endurances as well.
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  Um, yeah, so how, how do you see, uh, your road to lemon?
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  Because that's your dream.
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  Uh.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  Um, you know, there, well for me personally, there hasn't been an
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  Australian woman compete at Lamont since 1935, and there's only been
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  one, and her name was Joan Richmond.
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  So it's been 90 years.
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  Um, so I'm, yeah, I'm definitely passionate and
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  ready to kind of break that.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Break that drought and get on the grid somehow.
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  And yeah, the road to Lamont.
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  Ultimately the next step is to try and get on the Michelin Lemmont Cup grid
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  or ELMS grid and get some experience.
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  And the road to Le Mon, um, race with Michelin Lemmont Cup is obviously,
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  uh, very important because you race at Lamont, albeit in, you know, a small,
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  uh, in a shorter distance race, two one hour races, but it gets you on that
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  platform and you're able to progress.
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  So.
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  Yeah, I guess the next step in my career is to try and raise the, the
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  sponsorship and the budget and the funding to be able to, to do that and
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  take a, take a step into the prototype.
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  I would love to mm-hmm.
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  Raise l and p three.
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  I would love to do that.
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  Um, but I also have experience in gts, so I'm very open-minded and I'm very
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  happy to drive anything and everything.
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  So yeah, I'll continue kind of pushing for that route full of mon, but.
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  I would never say no to an opportunity at the same time.
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  We wish you good luck, uh, for that.
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  Uh, hopefully we're going to see you thank you and LT free
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  and, uh, 24 hours of lemon.
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  Uh, yeah, that's a absolutely amazing event and a great track to drive on.
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  Definitely.
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  Um, how do you see, um, the representative of women into the racing right now?
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  Like, do you see that something changing and uh, actually like
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  community more friendly to everybody?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  I think, I don't think it's just motor sport.
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  I think it's sport as a whole, and I think it's society as a whole.
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  We're definitely making steps in the right direction to make Indus,
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  you know, male dominant industries or industries more accessible to
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  everybody that previously weren't.
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  And you know, specifically motor sport is.
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  Becoming more aware of where it needs to help, um, help drivers and try and
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  progress them, and especially women as well, and, and open those doors.
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  And like we said before, I think the W series was really important to
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  be that representation for the, you know, a next generation of drivers and
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  engineers and mechanics and journalists.
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  And for people just to see women involved in motorsport in all different
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  avenues, which is really important.
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  And I think.
• 20:28
  The one thing that everybody struggles with, whether you're
• 20:31
  male or female in motors sport, is always the budget in raising that.
• 20:34
  Mm-hmm.
• 20:35
  To be able to go racing.
• 20:35
  So having, um, scholarship programs and initiatives like the Iron Dames and
• 20:43
  obviously now F1 Academy is great to see, to be able to put these talented
• 20:47
  women up, um, and for the world to see ultimately to see them perform
• 20:52
  and perform well, which is important.
• 20:54
  Um, I'd say.
• 20:56
  Society is, is more accepting.
• 20:58
  Don't get me wrong, I think there's always been a little bit of a stigma
• 21:02
  about female drivers and it's just ultimately, you know, at the end of the
• 21:08
  day, we know our own capabilities where as individuals, as drivers, and you just
• 21:13
  go out on the track and you just perform.
• 21:15
  And it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or anything like that.
• 21:18
  And that's, that's I guess, the most important thing.
• 21:21
  But, um.
• 21:22
  In terms of opportunity, I think representation is very powerful and it's
• 21:27
  a very powerful tool and we're, we're kind of seeing that with Netflix and
• 21:31
  drive to survive, not only with women, but with opening a new audience into
• 21:35
  Formula One and all of these avenues.
• 21:38
  But what I'm really passionate about as well is obviously we want
• 21:43
  to influence and inspire the next generation, but then what, what do we
• 21:47
  do with these women and these girls to.
• 21:49
  Once they are inspired, where are the opportunities?
• 21:52
  Where are the stepping stones?
• 21:53
  And you know, not just as a driver, but as an engineer and as a mechanic, and
• 21:58
  are we enabling, are we still having.
• 22:01
  It be accessible, it's all well and good sparking all this inspiration.
• 22:05
  Mm-hmm.
• 22:05
  And getting people interested.
• 22:07
  But I think the next step is to really try and increase the opportunities
• 22:12
  and the scholarship programs and, um, university opportunities and
• 22:17
  work, work placement and all of these different avenues to actually get women
• 22:21
  on the ground and, and in the field.
• 22:23
  And not just women, but you know, everybody from all different areas.
• 22:27
  So yeah, I think that's also really important.
• 22:30
  I think I agree with you that, uh, we have to have like workplaces and, uh, like
• 22:36
  for women or like, uh, whatever would, would like to be involved into racing.
• 22:41
  It's really important.
• 22:43
  Um, what advice can you give to young women, uh, who, uh, trying
• 22:49
  to go for the same path as you?
• 22:54
  Yeah.
• 22:55
  Um, motor sport is tough.
• 22:58
  It is tough.
• 22:59
  Um, it's like any sport in the world or any, anything that you wanna
• 23:04
  achieve, it's not gonna come easy.
• 23:05
  And that's okay.
• 23:06
  And that's part of the journey.
• 23:08
  Um, and that's what makes you a better driver, a better person, a better athlete.
• 23:12
  So enjoy the journey.
• 23:14
  Um, believe in yourself and.
• 23:18
  Try not to take no for an answer.
• 23:20
  If someone tells you, no, you can't do that.
• 23:22
  You know, turn around and tell them and ask them why you can't.
• 23:25
  Um, you know, always try and keep, keep striving to be the best
• 23:29
  version of yourself that you can be.
• 23:31
  Um, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that you enjoy it.
• 23:36
  I think throughout my career there's definitely been ups and downs, just like
• 23:39
  anybody's career or any sports person.
• 23:43
  Sports person, sorry.
• 23:45
  And I think.
• 23:48
  You can kind of fall in and out of love with the sport when it
• 23:52
  does, when it does hurt you.
• 23:53
  Um, so, you know, bring yourself back to the point of what you enjoy
• 23:57
  most about the sport and what, what, what gives you the most joy and, you
• 24:03
  know, um, that ultimately will be where you'll perform best as well.
• 24:08
  Yeah, you're absolutely right with this, uh, I think and, um.
• 24:14
  Can you tell me where people can follow you and, uh, just, uh, you
• 24:19
  know, to see you and, uh yeah.
• 24:22
  Follow your career?
• 24:24
  Yeah, that would be great.
• 24:25
  Um.
• 24:26
  Obviously, uh, my name is Caitlyn Wood and I on all of my
• 24:29
  socials, I'm Caitlyn Wood Racing.
• 24:32
  So yeah, Instagram, Facebook, uh, LinkedIn, all those good things.
• 24:37
  Um, always feel free to reach out.
• 24:38
  I think I'm probably most social on my Instagram, but I need to get better at.
• 24:44
  Being better on social media and I do have a sim at home and I do jump on I racing.
• 24:49
  Mm-hmm.
• 24:50
  So I need to, um, I need to join, join in on some races with you guys.
• 24:53
  Definitely.
• 24:55
  Yeah.
• 24:55
  True.
• 24:56
  I think you have to join some of the screen to speed
• 24:59
  events if you'll have time.
• 25:00
  For sure.
• 25:02
  We'll be happy to see you on the track.
• 25:03
  Absolutely.
• 25:03
  Yeah.
• 25:04
  Uh, alright, uh, so the last one, uh, will be fun, quick questions.
• 25:09
  Uh, uh, what's your favorite track snack?
• 25:13
  Snack?
• 25:13
  Snack?
• 25:14
  Oh, that's such a good question.
• 25:18
  Um, um, probably I'm probably boring.
• 25:22
  You know, I'm probably just gonna say like a protein bar, something easy.
• 25:27
  Mm-hmm.
• 25:27
  But like a chocolate protein bar, when I want something sweet, but I know I
• 25:31
  can't have anything too naughty, so it just kind of eases the cravings.
• 25:36
  All right.
• 25:36
  Uh, next one will be the hard one.
• 25:38
  Uh, GT or single sitter for the rest of your life.
• 25:43
  Ah, that's hard.
• 25:45
  That's so hard.
• 25:47
  Um, well, oh, that's so hard.
• 25:52
  Well, endurance racing has to be gt, but overall lap time or overall
• 25:57
  qualifying lap has to be single seater.
• 25:59
  So, am I going racing or am I just doing poly lapse, is the question?
• 26:04
  Uh, I think your answer was, was good enough.
• 26:07
  I think I'm.
• 26:11
  Okay.
• 26:11
  And uh, the last one, uh, race you'd redo in a heartbeat.
• 26:17
  Oh, good one.
• 26:20
  Um,
• 26:24
  probably,
• 26:27
  probably Spa with W series in 2021.
• 26:31
  Mm-hmm.
• 26:32
  Um, and it was wet and.
• 26:37
  It was that parental race weekend where the F1 didn't end up racing, but
• 26:41
  uh, yeah, we did on the Saturday and.
• 26:45
  Yeah, I would probably relive that because I finished fifth
• 26:48
  and I was so close to the podium.
• 26:50
  Mm-hmm.
• 26:50
  So I, I was given another crack.
• 26:53
  I remember battling Marta, who was my teammate at the time,
• 26:57
  and we were PMA teammates.
• 26:58
  And, um, I made a, a really good move around the outside of her, around Poon.
• 27:02
  'cause obviously I, I had the wet line.
• 27:04
  Um, and yeah, we had a really good battle.
• 27:07
  So I'd probably say, I'd probably say that race because I'd like to get it back.
• 27:13
  Yeah.
• 27:13
  Far more free.
• 27:14
  Uh, I bet it's, it's great on the spa and, uh, especially in the rain.
• 27:20
  Yeah.
• 27:20
  Yeah, it was cool.
• 27:21
  Okay, so guys, thank you so much, uh, for watching.
• 27:24
  Caitlyn, thank you so much for taking your time, uh, to be with us today.
• 27:28
  And, uh, don't forget to follow her on her socials so you can find her in Instagram.
• 27:33
  Uh, and we probably going to see her in one of the screen to speed events.
• 27:37
  Thank you so much guys.
• 27:40
  Absolutely.
• 27:40
  Thank you so much for having me.
• 27:41
  It was lovely to chat with you.
• 27:43
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