Hi everyone, my name is Maria Zia Santillana. I'm a careers reporter here at Forbes and

today I'm joined by Lindsay Brewer, a racing driver and content creator. Lindsay, how are you doing?

I'm great. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. I know we're going to talk a lot about a lot of things today, but I want to start

with getting a little bit into your own racing career. Talk to me how you first started racing, how you got into

the sport. Yeah, it was a bit of a unique situation. I have zero family or anyone I know in racing.

I just went to a birthday party at a go-kart track when I was a little kid about 11 years old

and absolutely fell in love with it.

Ended up beating all the adults and all the boys there and just fell in love.

Couldn't get me out of the go-kart.

So I ended up going back the next day.

Couldn't get me out.

And so my dad bought me a go-kart.

And I raised my first regional championship the next year when I was 12,

won that championship.

I was like, okay, maybe I am good at this.

So I ended up competing nationally throughout high school in shifter carts.

Then raced, dabbled a little bit into cars,, got my racing license for cars, did a series

called Legend Cars in 2015, won the national championship in that.

And then, unfortunately, racing is a very expensive sport.

So I had to take five years off for university.

My family couldn't financially support me any further past that level.

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