#190 - Jeremy Fairbairn on a career in Motorsports with GearSource

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Well, hello again, and thanks
for joining me today on a very

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special episode of geezers of
gear.

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And so today we're actually
recording, I think many of you

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know, that my other job is
supporting a young man's racing

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career.
It happens to be my son, Jeremy

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fairbairn.
And so today, we're recording a

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special episode to talk to
Jeremy about his plans this

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year.
I know that many of you in the

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Live Events Community, follow
Jeremy, and you're always asking

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me questions about what he's up
to what he's doing at cetera.

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And so I did want to spend a
little bit of time today and

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talked with him, he's living
over in the u.k. right now for

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racing and and I wanted to get,
you know, some information from

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him and and just From the
horse's mouth as they say.

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So just a few facts about
Jeremy.

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He started racing on his seventh
birthday, 7th birthday.

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And so he is turning 19 in about
a month.

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And so that is what 12 years
that he's been racing.

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He started in karting and he
wanted every level of carding

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and I think he's going to tell
us a little bit about what

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carding is about because I don't
think people thoroughly

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understand how competitive and
challenging challenging and

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professional that world is or
that sport is in 2020.

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He began began testing in cars
in open-wheel Cars in 2022.

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He ran his first full season in
cars and this year he's got

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really well.
Hello there, mr.

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Jeremy.
So let's go ahead and bring on

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Jared.
All right.

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How are you doing?
I'm doing okay.

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Thanks.
Thanks for taking the time out

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of your incredibly busy,
schedule over there, on a Sunday

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and recording this with me.
I appreciate it.

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I know you've been Race is over
here in the u.s. today online,

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right?
Yeah.

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What do you follow?
Thanks for having me.

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I've been following cart Chaser,
uspks in Orlando.

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There was a pretty big race just
watching a few of my friends and

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F4 us championship and fr.
Yeah, I was just watching my

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previous teammate and a few
people.

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I know that we're racing in that
today, right?

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Yeah.
Your your ex team kiwi

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Crosslink.
I think they finished what

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second or third?
Third and four raised.

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I think third.
Yeah.

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They've got a good bed drivers
in there.

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They had some pretty solid
results this weekend.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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They were in the top 10
relatively.

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Yeah.
No it's cool stuff.

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They started at Nola and but
that car trach Kart race in

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Orlando.
I didn't see it, but you said it

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was pretty exciting.
Yeah, no, it's huge actually.

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Uspks has grown over the years.
Pretty rapidly.

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It's crazy.
How many parts show up for these

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races now?
Right?

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Yeah I remember you used to race
in uspks when it was kind of

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tiny and they did it in weird
little towns in the middle of

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nowhere in the Midwest and
stuff.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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It's grown big.
So you know people listening are

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going to be in in our industry.
By the way, Jeremy also works

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for gear source as a part-time
thing to help keep him fed while

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he's away racing.
So first, where are you right

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now?
Yes, I am in the UK currently

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about an hour north of London
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For my, this year's season of
gb4, I will be competing in the

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NG before, like I mentioned,
yeah, yeah, we'll get into that

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a little bit later, but you're
over in England, sitting in your

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apartment.
Yes, cool.

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And and it's I see on the clock
on the wall.

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It's 8:20.
So you guys didn't change your

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time yet.
Like we did not.

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We change our time March 26th.
It's weird.

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I don't know why.
Exactly is, but well, none of us

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really knows why we even change
our time, so it's pretty funny.

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So first, why don't you, why
don't you tell us how you got

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started?
I know because I happen to be

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there but tell everyone who's
listening.

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How you got started in racing
where the interest came from.

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You know, most kids, Kids play
soccer, or baseball or guitar.

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So what was it that where'd you
get started?

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And why and tell us about that.
Well, growing up as a kid, I was

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always interested in cars.
I had a wrap around my room, a

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Hot Wheels wrap.
All of my birthday parties were

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pretty much car themed, all of
that.

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So I've always been into cars
and racing, but so, when I was

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seven years old, I would always
go.

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With my dad to the track, he had
a few toys that he would take on

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to Palm Beach International
Raceway and I just go with I

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liked watching and when I
realized they had a go-kart

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track I was all into it.
So tried to put me in a cart

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when I was six years old and
that didn't work because I was

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just too young apparently.
So then I came back when I was

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seven right after my birthday
and after my first test in a

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go-kart I absolutely fell in
love with it and ever since then

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I had started competing.
Why practice?

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For probably two years and I
started competing in In the

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pretty big races and I was like,
hey I got something here.

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I'm pretty good at this.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Right from the beginning, you

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you really didn't want to do
anything else.

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It was like every spare moment,
I remember Tuesdays, Thursdays,

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and Saturday all day.
So Tuesday, after school,

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Thursday, after school.
Saturday all day you were at the

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car track just running laps and
running laps and running laps.

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And I mean, I remember there
were times probably a year into

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it where you were getting kinda
bored because you wanted to

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compete.
Are you wanted to hang out with

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your friends at the track and
have fun on the track?

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Not just work and try to take
you know tense and and take time

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off your lap times.
Well yeah, that also just could

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have been the seven-year-old in
me.

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Just wanted to play around.
I didn't take it as seriously as

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I should have because I was
always there.

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It just felt so normal, right?
Yeah, it's funny that, you know,

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you don't don't really realize
how cool that is, after you've

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been doing it for a little while
three days a week.

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So, So what are the, what are
some of the things like people?

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When you tell them, I know it's
frustrating when you're a racing

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karts and you tell people that
you're, you know, I remember the

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the jealousy at school.
When you used to tell people,

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you were going away for the
weekend to race in a cart race.

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Why is that like, what what's
the confusion there for people?

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Well, for some it was jealousy
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humorous to them because when
you think go-karts, Someone that

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doesn't really know much about
racing, you think.

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Oh, like he's going to fund
Depot and competing for fun or

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stuff like that.
But no, it's it was really a

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serious Sport.
And we took it, we all take it,

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seriously.
And so, yeah, when I said I'm

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leaving to go to a go-kart race,
a lot of people didn't really

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understand what that was.
Yeah, I'd be traveling all

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around the country and even the
world to go to these different

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go kart races.
And that's yeah, that was a huge

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part of my life.
Yeah.

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And you know, again like you
said, I don't I think people

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really understand when they're
thinking go-karts, they think,

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you know, the, the concession
cards, the rental cards that you

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would get at, like you said,
Fun, Depot or something.

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But these carts are a little
more professional, right?

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Absolutely.
Very different.

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And so what are some of the
things that are really

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misunderstood like, you know,
probably for one, these things

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are pretty fast, you know, and
70 mph in a go-kart feels like

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200 miles per hour in a car.
I think yes.

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I mean for one?
Yeah, like you mentioned the

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speeds that you're going in
these go-karts.

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When I was seven years old I was
probably going, 65, 70 mph, and

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a go-kart competing and also the
level of competition, a lot of

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people don't understand that.
It's a very seriously taken

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sport for the people that are
involved.

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And yet the competition level is
like, no other even comparing it

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to cars.
There's so much closer and

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go-karting the racing and the
yeah, the way That you race them

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and you have to race them,
there's a bumper obviously, on

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the go cart.
So you use that and you can push

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two cards are faster than one.
So you have to strategize how

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you learn to work together.
Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.
And, you know, one of the other

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things like you're talking about
how professional it is and

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stuff.
I remember one time an IndyCar

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driver, I think it was James
Hinchcliffe was interviewed and

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they asked him if he was at a
Super Nats in Las Vegas.

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I think it's the One where you
finished, maybe second the one

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that was on the different track.
That was right next to the ldi

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trade show, actually and a
parking lot.

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Yeah, yeah.
And he said, he said, he can't

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believe how professional it is.
Like, he couldn't believe, he

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said, some of the Transporters
are bigger than the Indy car

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transporter.
Some of the team tents are are

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just massive and he was blown
away by how professional carding

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had become And you know, I think
you've experienced the same even

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going up to car racing.
Some of the some of the car

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racing teams that you've been a
part of or seen aren't even as

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professional as some of the kart
racing teams that you had raised

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on.
Yeah.

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So, you know, one of the cool
things again that people don't

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know about carding is that
probably all of the biggest

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stars in Motorsports, got their
start in carts.

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Can you name a few of them?
So that people understand mean.

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Yeah.
Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian

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Vettel.
Like these people that you watch

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on modern day F1 and stuff.
Like they all started off and go

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karts.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Michael Schumacher Ayrton Senna,

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all of the greatest drivers
ever, they all started out in

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go-karts.
It really is sort of a

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Grassroots really the base of
Motorsports.

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Yeah.
The Grass Roots like you said

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and yeah that's where you want
to be before you go jumping into

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a car or stuff like that for
sure.

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Yeah.
So, you know, you have a, you

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had an unusual childhood, of
course, growing up at race race

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tracks.
Instead of, you know, like I

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said, soccer fields, and going
to after school events and

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things like that.
So what were some of the things?

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You know, you missed out on a
lot of things which we'll talk

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about a little bit.
But what were some of the things

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you actually learned that other
people wouldn't have learned,

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but you learned them because you
grew up at a racetrack.

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That's a tough question.
I'm sure you know, bad things.

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You probably learned some pretty
tasty curse words when you were

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like six or seven years old -
yeah, my vocabulary has

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definitely opened of it.
Yeah.

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Track.
But I would think some things

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like work ethic, you know, like
practice makes perfect sounds so

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cliche but it's true.
The amount that you have to

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practice and you know, I
remember one lesson you And one

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time.
So again, getting used to being

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at the race tracks.
It's interesting.

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The people you're around like
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remember one time we were at a
go-kart race in Ocala and you

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had been racing on track with
another individual and you came

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off track and that individuals
father came up and said, hey

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Marcel, did you happen to get to
did?

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Jerry Jeremy have his GoPro on
his cart that last race and I

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said, yeah!
Why?

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And he said, would you mind if
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Me and my son, and you and
Jeremy.

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And I said, sure.
So we sat and watched the video

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and that gentleman just happened
to be one Pablo Montoya and his

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son, Sebastian who you raised
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Montoya is former Formula One
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IndyCar, driver NASCAR.
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Drove every day and you know,
just an incredible driver, great

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guy.
And I remember as he was walking

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away after we went through this
video with I am and he was

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giving you some pointers and
stuff.

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I said, Jeremy, do you know what
just happened?

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He goes.
Yeah, Sebastian's, dad just kind

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of gave me a few pointers, and
I'm like, he's a Formula.

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One champion is guy, you know,
so I just don't think you ever

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really, you weren't Starstruck
by these guys at all.

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I don't think know.
For sure, it was just pretty

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normal to me because I had raced
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I didn't really think of it.
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older and I said back, I'm like,
wow, these huge names that I

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raced.
It's actually pretty crazy,

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right?
But I mean you know so again

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growing up at the track is very
interesting thing because you

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know just watching, you know,
washing your hands with brake

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cleaner, for example, you know,
it's not something that you

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think to do when you're a normal
person in a normal sport or

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whatever.
But if that's all you got

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sitting around, that's what you
use, right?

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So what was, what would you say
was before we move on to two

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cars?
What was your biggest

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accomplishment racing in carts?
Well, probably the year of 2017

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and 2018, both of those years.
I think we're probably my best

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years in a go-kart.
I won a few races.

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There was a team that I was on
J.

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Howard, driver, development of
former IndyCar driver.

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He had made a carding team and I
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won multiple races with them.
I really that really boosted my

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confidence.
Confidence and for me into the

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driver, I am today and then in
2018, I won a few races in

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scusa.
The one of the biggest carding

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championships there is and then
the supernationals, I was a pony

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cart driver.
I was had chassis deals from

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Tony Kart and going into that
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I was pretty confident, I knew I
could do it but of course it's a

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tough field.
Like I was racing against names

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like Sebastian Montoya a
bearcat.

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Huge names that are in
Motorsport and I ended up

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winning that race in Las Vegas
against people from all over the

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world that that my biggest
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Supernatural is one of the
largest International races in

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the world that happens once a
year every year in Las Vegas.

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And I remember when you were
early in your card in career,

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just kind of looking up with
stars in your eyes at these.

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You know people that were even
getting NG top 10 in the

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Supernatural, let alone winning
The Supernaturals.

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And so for you to finish second
in 2017, I think and then come

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back.
And and when it in 2018 was

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quite an accomplishment.
Absolutely.

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Yeah.
That was one of the highest

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moments in my life, for sure.
I think winning your way into

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Team.
USA was pretty cool that first

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time at in New Orleans.
That was pretty cool

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representing.
And in Italy representing Team

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USA after I won the tickets to
go to Italy back in 2017.

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Yeah, that was a great
experience for sure.

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Yeah.
No carts carts was carts.

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Was pretty cool.
So transitioning from carts to

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cars that happened.
I guess in 2019 to 2020 more.

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So in 2020 because I thought you
had an injury in 2019 that kept

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you from starting in cars.
So in 2020, you started

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transitioning.
Into cars.

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What are what are some of the
challenges going from, you know,

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a small go-kart that's, you
know, 4 feet long to a car.

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That's probably I don't know, 15
feet long or something.

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Obviously, you're going from 300
pounds to 1400 pounds, you're

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going from 70 or 80 miles per
hour to 150 miles per hour.

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What are some of the challenges
that you ran into Yeah.

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Obviously, the speed difference,
massive speed, difference.

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And the braking and throttle,
you have to be much harder on

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the brakes, slow the car, much
more for the upcoming corner,

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and there's no seat belts and
go-karts.

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So you have that kind of free
feeling where you like feel

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yeah, more free obviously.
And then so the car you're

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strapped into the car, you feel
at one with the car.

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So that was a new feeling to me
at first and that's something I

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had never experienced it.
That was just, that was a take.

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That took me a bit to get used
to To, Let's even gears.

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I got also also this have gears
and go carts because you never

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drove Shifter Kart.
I've just got to say yes.

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Also, the gears there's paddle
shifters on the steering wheel

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and a formula car.
Will depending on what you

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drive.
But yes I had paddle shifters at

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first and a formula for car and
yeah that was something to get

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used to lots of sim practice
going into it before simulator

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practice.
As you know drivers lots of

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drivers practice on simulators
out.

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At home or at a facility.
But yeah that there's a lot that

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goes into it before you just hop
into a car for the first time.

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But yeah, you know some of the
tire management stuff and tire

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pressures and things like that,
you're dealing with in carts as

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well.
Like, I don't think again,

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people realize that but you know
you're constantly going from,

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you know, let's see if we can go
on super low pressure, seven and

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a half pounds or something and
and then in Rain, you might be

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on. 16 pounds of pressure or
whatever, but you know in cars,

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I would guess that that just
managing the tires because of,

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you know, they don't give you
unlimited tires, you can't just

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keep putting on new sets every
time you go on the track so you

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have to manage them.
So I guess there was probably a

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learning curve there as well.
Absolutely.

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And the weight of the car, it's
a much heavier vehicle.

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Obviously to the steering is a
bit more physical, right?

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Rather than a go-kart work. 200
300 pounds and you can just

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throw it around.
Yeah yeah.

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And I mean that's one of the
things because of your height.

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So for those who don't know
Jeremy's six-foot-four which is

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not a normal driver, height,
drivers tend to be almost like

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jockeys in horse racing.
They tend to be fairly short

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unwell under 6 feet.
And so Jeremy and carts was was

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heavily disadvantaged because of
the wind resistance, you know,

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he was like a sail out there on
On the go cart and he managed to

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figure out how to use that to
his Advantage by throwing his

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weight around in the card and
shifting weight to parts of the

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cart that we're going to give
him more grip.

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Obviously not a benefit in cars,
you can't do those things.

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So in cars, were you a little
bit disadvantaged because of

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your size Um, I don't know about
disadvantage but I was

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definitely slightly
uncomfortable in the car

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slightly.
Yeah.

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My knees were banging on the top
of the cockpit a bit and I'm

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sitting on little to no seat
because I mean I have to fit so

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I'm just be too high in the car.
If I had too much of a seat and

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yeah I wouldn't be able to fit
properly.

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So these seats are there like
fitted seats, right?

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Yes, they're custom fit seats.
They About an hour to two hours

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to make.
They pour, I don't really know

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what it is that they pour but
it's a mixture of a few things

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that they pour into a big
plastic bag that you have to sit

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in.
And it molds, it molds how your

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body is and shapes to your body.
Yeah, exactly.

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And so last year, I remember
they called your seat upon

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potato chip, right?
Because it is so thin and it was

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it was like non-existent
basically, right?

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Yeah, I mean you're definitely
down.

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I'm playing it.
But I can tell you, there's a

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lot of drivers that would never
in a million years Drive in the

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discomfort that you drive in.
You know, the fact that your

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knees are banging and sometimes
you can't shift, like, when

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you're using an actual H
pattern.

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Shifter, you can't shift,
because are you find it hard to

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shift because your knees banging
against the shifter and stuff?

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So, that's how long my arms are.
My wingspan is actually longer

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than my height.
So that makes it difficult

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sometimes because my, my elbows
are banging into my legs while

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I'm trying to steer or shift, so
yeah. - it difficult to had to

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get used to that.
Jeremy has had some physical

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challenges, I guess that some
other drivers haven't had.

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And then last year in junior,
one of the problems that you ran

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into was also your weight.
You know, Jeremy was growing

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into his frame last year and
went from, I don't know what it

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was like, what 140 up to 180 or
something when 85 and and so by

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the end of last season, he was
45 pounds overweight for For the

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class that he was driving in,
which gave him a pretty heavy

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disadvantage in actual laugh,
lap times because weight slows

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the car down, obviously.
So anyways, no excuses.

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You know, this year, we were
Jeremy's in much better shape.

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He's worked really hard in sort
of an offseason diet and

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exercise regimen and has gotten
himself in much better shape and

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you probably feel a lot better
in the car.

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I'm guessing I do.
Yes, yeah, sure.

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So, you know, one of the things
again, that people don't really

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tend to understand.
I think so many people believe

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that you just jump in the car
and go and all it is is driving.

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You just, you know, your job is
to 30 minutes at a time, you

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know, a few times a weekend, two
weekends, a month or whatever

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and that's all you have to do
and they don't really understand

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the sacrifices that you make
along the way.

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So tell me about some of those
There's absolutely plenty of

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aspects that go into it.
You can't just jump into a car,

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like, you mentioned.
So I recently joined a driver

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program driver development
program and here in the UK, they

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do, lots of sim training, lots
of out of the car, training,

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mental, physical, stuff like
that, and that's really just to

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work on getting used to the
track series tracks, your so

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much different than the US with
the hills and And the runoff

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areas stuff like that weather.
And also the weather.

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Yes, I actually drove in the
snow for the first time here,

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formula car.
And that's something I never

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thought I would be doing, but
it's similar to rain but

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obviously a lot more cold and
well, the other thing is your

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tires.
Rarely get up to temperature or

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take a long time to get up to
temperature because the tracks

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are so cold, it's about half the
session to get tires to tempt,

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even more than that.
Actually And that's really that

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took a long time to get used to
because normally racing in the

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u.s. like in hot temperatures
like Florida and stuff like

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that.
They're hot places like Florida.

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Yeah.
The tires get to Temp within a

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lap or two so that's that's
something I had to get used to

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man.
Yeah that's a big change.

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But what about some of the other
stuff?

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Like you know I know that you've
made sacrifices from sort of

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normal childhood teen Lifestyle
sort of thing, like, girlfriends

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friends.
Even just school, you know, how

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did you do schooling different
than then?

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Quote normal kids.
Yeah, I missed a lot of school

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missed.
A lot of days of school.

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And a lot of school events, my
school actually didn't like that

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very much.
They wanted me to either stop

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racing or go into homeschooling.
Then stopping racing was not an

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option for me.
So after freshman year of high

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school, Actually switch to home
school, which was probably a

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great one of the best decisions
I made for school.

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School-wise, anyways, and I got
through, that's for sure.

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I really helped me focus more on
racing and but, yeah, like you

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mentioned sacrifices.
I was making, I missed lots of

450
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:35,100
events of for school.
Never really attended, like prom

451
00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:38,600
or anything like that, friend's
birthday parties, all games

452
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,300
basketball games.
Birthday parties.

453
00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:42,700
Even I missed a lot of my
friends birthday parties,

454
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000
because I was gone, right?
Icing most of the time.

455
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,600
Yeah.
And, you know, again traveling

456
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,700
didn't mean that we were in
glamorous places like New York

457
00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:55,200
City or Chicago, or something.
We were usually in the middle

458
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,200
and nowheresville.
Some, we're staying in a Hampton

459
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,800
Inn sharing, where most your
dad.

460
00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,600
Yeah, which is where most tracks
are located, just a middle of

461
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,200
nowhere.
Yeah, yeah racetracks are not

462
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,600
usually in glamorous.
Wonderful places.

463
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:15,000
You know and I mean the other
thing again That I think has

464
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,900
helped you grow into a better
young man than, you know, some

465
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,900
of the young kids that I see out
there when you grow up at a

466
00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,500
track, you can't just say, oh my
tummy hurts.

467
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:30,000
Or I don't, I don't feel like
doing this or, you know, I had a

468
00:26:30,008 --> 00:26:33,200
lousy session because I was
thinking about my girlfriend or,

469
00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,300
you know, excuses.
Don't go over very well, nah.

470
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,000
These these, these people, that
you grow up under whether their

471
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,600
coaches or team owners, or
managers tend to be pretty hard

472
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,300
on you.
Yeah, they make sure you're

473
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,100
doing your job for sure and
doing it.

474
00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:53,700
That's yeah, so let's talk a
little bit about where you're at

475
00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:57,100
now and what you're up to you
mentioned at the start of this

476
00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:00,100
recording that you're, you're in
the UK.

477
00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:05,700
And so let's talk about where
you are in the UK and why you're

478
00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:09,300
there and, you know, about the
season that you're going to be

479
00:27:09,308 --> 00:27:13,300
doing this year.
Let's talk a bit about that.

480
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,700
So I had ran a race called the
Formula Ford Festival back in

481
00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:21,400
2022, will last year and I ran
it with a team called Kevin

482
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,500
Mills racing, a great team.
They run a spectrum Formula

483
00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:31,000
Ford, probably the most fun, and
best race I've done in my life.

484
00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,600
I learned so much from it and
plus the car is much different

485
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,400
from anything.
I've driven, it's more similar

486
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,700
to a go-kart than a formula for
car because there's obviously no

487
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,700
arrow on a Formula Ford car.
Compared to enough for that has

488
00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:46,100
a rear wing and of Right wing.
The Formula Ford is also an H

489
00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:48,000
pattern car.
So I, that was something I had

490
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,300
to get used to writing this to
paddle shifting.

491
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:55,800
Exactly prior to just hopping
into the race.

492
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,700
When you talk about no Arrow, no
front and rear Wings.

493
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:00,900
What what does that mean to the
actual driving?

494
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:03,600
For people who don't know what
we're talking about right now?

495
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,400
Yeah, so the car is a lot more
free.

496
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,400
It's not like stuck to the
ground.

497
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,900
That's really the purpose of the
wing.

498
00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:12,000
It keeps it stabilized and stuck
so you can carry more speed

499
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,300
through corners.
Give some without That exactly

500
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:17,900
without that.
The car is a lot more free and

501
00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:20,800
tends to slide around more.
So that was something that I had

502
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,700
to cope with, for sure.
Also the tires they're skinny

503
00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:27,500
little, like, Road car tires
with treads on them as opposed

504
00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,400
to slicks.
Yeah, so it really teaches you

505
00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,000
how to how to actually drive
like a Formula.

506
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,900
Ford car is a lot easier to
drive than that, because it's

507
00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,500
not like sliding all over the
place the whole time and it's

508
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:42,300
not yet it's more stable for
sure.

509
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,800
Yeah.
But a Formula Ford car.

510
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,600
Yeah.
It's there's no Arrow so it's

511
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,000
pretty free.
Yeah.

512
00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,300
Yeah.
You so this this race that he's

513
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,700
talking about this formula
Festival, it's I think it was

514
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,700
like their 50th or 51st running
or whatever but it's a race

515
00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:04,300
where Formula One Champions even
come back and run this race or

516
00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:09,900
guys who ran Formula One or you
know professional long time

517
00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:14,300
professional drivers.
So you're racing against Seventy

518
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:17,700
year olds and you're racing
against, you know, 18 year olds

519
00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,300
as well.
Just a really cool race.

520
00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:25,200
Formula 1 draft or everything
against.

521
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,800
Yeah.
Magnussen Formula One driver.

522
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,500
Kevin magnussen is Father.
Yeah.

523
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,600
It was amazing opportunity,
Roberto Moreno.

524
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,700
Yeah.
They all come back to this car

525
00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:35,800
because it's such a great car to
drive it.

526
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,200
Really develops a driver.
When it's so competitive to it's

527
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,700
over 100 drivers that start out
and only the top 30 make the

528
00:29:42,708 --> 00:29:44,500
final race.
Yes.

529
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:48,500
And so you run it twice and made
made the final both times which

530
00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:52,200
is pretty pretty amazing that's
hosted at Brands hatch circuit

531
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,300
every year.
If I didn't mention that but

532
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,700
yeah it's a great place.
Great event.

533
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,200
Yeah it is.
Yeah it is unfortunately this

534
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,100
year you might not be able to
run it from what I've heard.

535
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,100
Yeah I've heard that the my last
race or one of my races goes on

536
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:08,900
the exact same weekend as the
festival.

537
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:11,800
I hope that's not the case but
there's a conflict.

538
00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:17,300
So you're like, like I was
saying, Kevin Mills, that's the

539
00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:18,900
theme.
I ran with, in Formula Ford,

540
00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,900
that is what brought me to where
I am today.

541
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,000
So I they wanted me for this
season and G before.

542
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,600
So, I came back this year and
now I've just been testing their

543
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,000
G before car, which is basically
like an F for car.

544
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,500
But it's turbo and slightly
faster than enough for car.

545
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,900
And yeah, that's just larger.
Thank God.

546
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,500
The cockpit is a bit bigger.
Yes.

547
00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:45,500
So, I fit slightly better.
My knees are still banging on

548
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:47,900
the top of the cockpit, but it
feels much better than I

549
00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:50,600
previously have are.
So it's good, right?

550
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,200
So you've been in the car
already, right?

551
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,700
Yeah.
I've done to test so far.

552
00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:58,300
I've done a test at Silverstone
circuit, which was absolutely

553
00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:00,000
unreal.
That's an F1 track.

554
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,300
That is a very well-known track.
And yeah, I drove the full

555
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:06,900
circuit so that was an unreal
experience.

556
00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:08,300
I was pinching myself the whole
time.

557
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:10,600
I felt like I was in a video
game, feel it.

558
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,500
I guess you can't and seen the
track.

559
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:18,300
Enough times on television.
Yes, and I did a one-day test at

560
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:21,300
oulton Park that was an insane
track, nothing, like I've ever

561
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:23,700
driven before, it's an absolute
roller coaster.

562
00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:26,500
That's the one where you plus.
I think that I did that in the

563
00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:27,300
snow as well.
Yes.

564
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:30,400
Yeah.
So, where are you living?

565
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,300
Yes, so I'm about four miles
from Silverstone circuit.

566
00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:37,500
That's where I'm located now and
it's also where the driver

567
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,100
program I had joined or the
driver performance program that

568
00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:42,500
I had joined.
That's where it's located.

569
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,600
As well.
So what time their eyes own

570
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,800
driver performance, right?
Yes that's from what I

571
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,800
understand.
That place gets like anything

572
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,900
from kids just starting out in
racing all the way up to like

573
00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,700
some of the big F1 teams and
stuff will send their drivers

574
00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,400
over there.
Yeah.

575
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,300
There's I've never seen anything
like this.

576
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:06,200
I didn't know programs like
this, even existed, but it's the

577
00:32:06,208 --> 00:32:08,800
best thing I could have done for
myself, her driver development,

578
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,200
that's for sure.
Yeah, so it's coaching, it's

579
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,800
you're on simulators.
There's physical training, it's

580
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,000
all kinds of stuff.
They work on, mental training,

581
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,900
physical training, all of that,
and there's very professional

582
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:23,300
simulators like literal car
cockpits and then they make

583
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,400
their own machine.
That feels exactly like the car

584
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,800
does and it's the closest you
can get to actually being in the

585
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,600
car.
You mentioned Well how important

586
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,600
is that?
That's very important throughout

587
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,300
my racing career.
I've definitely thought just the

588
00:32:39,308 --> 00:32:42,800
mental aspect of it for sure,
where you doubt yourself in the

589
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,800
car, like am I really good
enough to win?

590
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,800
And my really good enough to
beat some of these guys, but

591
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:50,800
that's absolutely, if, you know,
you can win or if you think you

592
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,300
can win, you can absolutely do
it.

593
00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:57,200
What about fear?
It's fear ever creeping in.

594
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,000
Yes and no maybe when I had
first got into a car it's if

595
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
it's something that you're not
exactly used to.

596
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,000
Like when it's like when I was
perfectly new to me I'm just

597
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,800
like yeah.
If I take this corner too fast,

598
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:13,800
I'll end up in a wall but that's
not stuff you can think of.

599
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,400
Yeah yeah.
If you gotta drive and trust

600
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,900
your ability, right?
If you're if you're fearful or

601
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:23,100
afraid or whatever you're going
to make mistakes, I would guess.

602
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,100
Yeah.
Yeah.

603
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:32,000
So the series that you're racing
in this year Call GB for and

604
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,500
what level is that like, is that
it you said it's comparable to

605
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:38,900
F4.
Maybe a little little Advanced

606
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,300
4:30.
Yes.

607
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:47,400
So G4 is like a junior series of
racing but the yeah, there's

608
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,200
very high competition levels for
sure.

609
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,400
Yeah, that's why we are here
today to because of the

610
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,500
competition and because of how
great the tracks are.

611
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,800
It's nothing like you can get in
the US or anywhere else.

612
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:58,600
Yeah.
Yeah.

613
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,500
I mean you're going to be on
some pretty iconic tracks from

614
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:04,500
Brands hatch to again
Silverstone I think you raised

615
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,600
Silverstone twice Donington Park
oulton Park.

616
00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:13,800
Yes, knatterton.
Yeah, snetterton is your Nemesis

617
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,400
it was because it was my first
time driving the Formula Ford

618
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,400
car was there and it's
definitely a very difficult

619
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,000
track also to be on for the
first time, right?

620
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,400
But yeah, I've I've put in a lot
of sim work and I'll be better

621
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,900
than ever.
So many will not work.

622
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:34,199
Yeah, so how are you getting
around, Silverstone?

623
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,500
Silverstone is unreal.
How are you getting around the

624
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,300
area?
I purchased an electric bike and

625
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,699
that's how I get around every
day because the roads are

626
00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:48,600
actually quite frightening here.
The road seemed like they were

627
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,000
built in the 1600s and haven't
changed since then.

628
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,500
Some of them are even single
Lane roads were.

629
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,800
Cars are coming and going the
opposite direction in one lane.

630
00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:03,900
Yeah, so I find it rather funny
that a kid who's grown up racing

631
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:07,300
since his seventh birthday.
Birthday is afraid to drive on

632
00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,100
the roads in England.
It's just all so new.

633
00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:13,100
I mean, I think I could now just
after being here for a good bit

634
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:15,600
of time.
But yeah, I first just like,

635
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,600
wow, this is definitely weird
because you're on the opposite

636
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,600
side of the road, opposite side
of the car.

637
00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:24,600
Yeah, and there's some
interesting laws on e-bikes in

638
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,300
the UK.
I heard you found out, you can't

639
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,900
go over 15 miles per hour on an
electric bike which when you're

640
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,200
biking to the track every day
gets kind of annoying.

641
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,400
Go faster.
Go faster.

642
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,600
So you can go over 15 but you
got to Pedal.

643
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,800
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it's funny.

644
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,200
They've got some interesting
laws where you can't have a

645
00:35:44,207 --> 00:35:47,100
throttle on any bike.
You have to have just pedal

646
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:52,300
assist pretty funny.
So you're biking down every day

647
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:57,500
to get to izone and and And to
go to the track.

648
00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:00,500
And if you're following any of
the other testing that's over

649
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:04,200
there or whatever, and even to
go grocery shopping, I have to

650
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,300
strap all my groceries onto the
back of my bike.

651
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,800
That's yeah, it's not that easy.
Are you are you enjoying being

652
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,100
like really in the thick of it?
Like it's sort of one of the

653
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:19,800
racing Mecca's of the world.
Like don't don't a bunch of

654
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,000
teams have their factories,
their bunch of F1 teams and

655
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,900
stuff.
Yes, I see.

656
00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:28,500
Every day I go to To the track.
I see the Mercedes Factory.

657
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,100
I see the Aston Martin Factory.
It's all so unreal.

658
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,500
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
It really is like the home of

659
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,400
Formula 1 in a sense, right
there.

660
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,800
And without the town town next
door as well.

661
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,800
Milton Keynes.
Yeah, absolutely.

662
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,400
So What are your expectations
for the season?

663
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,200
What do you?
What are you trying to

664
00:36:50,207 --> 00:36:54,300
accomplish this year in GB?
For, well, I very high hopes

665
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:58,600
going into the season.
I've me and my team have put in

666
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,600
so much work.
Going into this and my team are

667
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,900
raining Team Champions this
year.

668
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:06,100
Oh, that's cool.
Well, last year they won the

669
00:37:06,107 --> 00:37:10,000
team championship and we're just
hoping to secure that once again

670
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,200
and a driver's Championship
that's the mangle and your

671
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,500
teammates.
His name is Jack.

672
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,900
He's from where he's from
Australia.

673
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:23,600
Yes, we've got a wide variety of
people from the team.

674
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,500
Yeah from work.
Yeah, the series is very

675
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,000
International.
There's a few Americans few

676
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,400
Brits but then people from all
over the place absolutely it's

677
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it's an interesting group.
So you know, I think we would be

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terrible people.
If we didn't mention how hard it

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is to get into racing and how
hard it is to to do racing and

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how grateful you.
And I are both for the sponsors

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who have jumped in this year.
Sponsors are incredibly

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important and in racing in
Motorsports.

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So we're very grateful for the
sponsors and and you're

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obviously looking to perform for
them this year.

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All right cool.
Well we're going to check in

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with you a few other times
during the season and I

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appreciate you taking the time
today to do this With Us.

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Jeremy.
Absolutely, thank you for having

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me.
Awesome.

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Thanks, buddy.