MOST RACING DRIVERS HAVE BEEN PRACTICING AND HONING THEIR SKILLS SINCE A VERY YOUNG AGE: I’M NOT THAT DRIVER. BACK IN 2021 I WANTED NOTHING BUT TO GET OUT ON TRACK AND START WINNING IN KARTING, BUT THAT WASN’T AVAILABLE TO ME STRAIGHT AWAY. I WORKED VERY HARD AND EVENTUALLY GOT MYSELF INTO RENTAL KARTING IN MID-LATE 2022. FROM THERE I CONTINUED TO PRACTICE REGULARLY UNTIL I COMPETED IN MY FIRST RACE IN 2023. AND GUESS WHAT… I CAME 12TH OUT OF A GRID OF 16. NOT AT ALL THE RESULT I WANTED, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP ME.

IN 2024 I CAME BACK STRONGER AND MORE DETERMINED, I WOKRED HARDER AND TOOK PART IN MY FIRST OUTDOOR RENTAL KARTING CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS PROVED TO BE MORE CHALLENGING THAN INDOORS HOWEVER I STUCK AT IT AND WENT FROM PLACING 39TH/40 IN MY FIRST RACE TO 12TH/40 IN ONLY MY FOURTH. I WAS STARTING TO IMPROVE AND DEVELOP MY SKILLS, BUT I WANTED MORE.

MID 2024 I MANAGED TO SAVE UP ENOUGH MONEY AND WITH THE HELP OF SOME SPONSORS I BOUGHT MY FIRST ROTAX KART AND GOT OUT ON TRACK. HONESTLY, I WAS QUITE SLOW, BUT I HAD NEVER FELT ANYTHING LIKE THE JOY I EXPERIENCED WHILE DRIVING THE KART AND I KNEW RIGHT THEN THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO DO!