Get to Know Susie Wolff

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Get to Know Susie Wolff, Managing Director of F1 Academy. Susie shares her journey from receiving her first motorbike at age two, to karting at eight, and pursuing her dream of becoming a Formula One driver. This podcast is a production of Rebel Girls. It’s based on the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. This interview was produced and directed by Joy Smith with sound design and mixing by John Marshall Media. Our executive producers were Joy Smith and Anjelika Temple. Original theme music was composed and performed by Elettra Bargiacchi. Thank you to Susie Wolff and the whole Rebel Girls team who made this podcast possible. Stay rebel!

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0:00.0	The Pinkalicious and Peterific podcast is back with brand new Pinkatastic episodes.
0:07.4	Sing and dance along with Pinkalicious, Peter, and their friends as they go on musical adventures around Pinkville.
0:15.2	Starting February 13th, you can listen to the new season of the Pinkalicious and Peterific podcast on PBSKids.org or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.5	This is Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:36.1	Hey, Rebels. This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the interview.
0:40.3	I'm your host, Layla, and today we have an amazing guest, Susie Wolf.
0:45.3	Susie's on so many cool things in the racing world, and I can't wait for you all to get to know her.
0:55.1	Hi, Susie.
0:56.2	Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and where you grew up?
0:59.2	Hi, Leila.
1:00.4	Absolutely.
1:01.3	My name is Susie Walsh, and I grew up on the west coast of Scotland.
1:05.5	I got my first little motorbike at the age of two.
1:08.7	I started racing carts at the age of eight. And then at the age of two. I started racing carts at the age of eight and then at the age of
1:12.9	13 I had the dream of trying to become a Formula One driver. I progressed into single-seaters
1:20.4	into Formula 3, then I raced for many years for Mercedes-Benz and then finally I made it into the world of Formula One as a test driver
1:29.4	with the Williams Formula One team. Wow, that's so cool. In Scotland sounds amazing. So how did you
1:36.2	find out you had this awesome passion for racing? Was there someone who first got you interested?
1:41.7	Well, I was really lucky that I had an older brother. He's only 18 months older than me.
1:46.2	And I had to believe that anything he could do, I could do.
1:50.0	And I loved speed.
1:51.6	I loved adrenaline.
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