Overall, I don’t think I can pick my biggest achievement but i do have a few that i’m very proud of, like, i got a ‘most improved’ trophy at ellough park, for the junior rookie league. At red lodge i got the ‘youngstarz’ track record (37.3, although the actual track record is a 36.6. I strive to beat this). I had a (few) successful trials for club 100. My entire personality has changed since I started karting too, i used to be very shy and not so talkative and now i’ve met so many great people and just doing karting has thrown me in the deep end and i’ve just thrived, i’m so impressed with myself and how much i’ve changed. My favourite part of all of this is that this is still within my first year of karting.

Some of my goals (for now) are: podium in a race in the ellough park junior rookie league, get an a or b final in one of my club 100 rounds later in the year, podium in a red lodge youngstarz endurance race and hopefully get a few wins, though these are only temporary as the more experienced i get the more goals i get, and hope to achieve more and more.

As of right now I only do rental go karts, though these are all different ccs and racing levels. I do the Ellough Park junior rookie races, I do the youngstarz racing at Red Lodge and I do Club 100 which is national so it’s not at a set track.

It’s an unimaginable feeling, it’s perfect, the adrenaline pumping around your body, the feeling of the kart being on the edge and the excitement it’s so fulfilling.

I think the most important skill a karting driver needs to have to be successful is feeling when the kart is perfectly on edge, like where it’s close to spinning but just before it does, and, especially in the wet, know where and how to find the grip and use it properly.

I don’t really have any proper ‘race rituals’ but I love listening to music before I race as it sort of takes my mind of it, but also helps me prepare, and physically if i’m in a little bit of pain or I know I will feel achy after a race I take some paracetamol just to make sure I’m not in too much pain after.

Most days I do some exercise and stretching, on Thursdays I also go to my school gym, but I also think having seat time is a good way of training too so sometimes I ask to get booked into a random arrive and drive session or go to practice/training before a race.

A very challenging thing, I think especially when you first start karting, is trying to brake later and later but once you get past that I think the hardest thing is to try and not think about a specific race result or moment when you messed up, for me race results stick on my mind often so when I get a bad kart I try my hardest but it doesn’t always work out as well as i want it to, even though i know it's not my fault it’s always stuck in my head for hours after a race.

Probably my first endurance race, I had finished my first stint and as it was the first time in a significantly heavier kart my arms were aching a bit, so I was quite nervous for my second stint and as I go to do it, I have an incident, my foot got run over, and I couldn’t start my second stint. Many people asked if I would return as that was probably quite scary, I said ‘of course!’, karting is and will always be my passion. Though in that moment I thought if i should still continue, if i was good enough, but, thinking about a race so badly isn’t good so i changed my attitude so i always picked a good moment from a bad race even if it seemed that there was nothing good to come from it.