When I was very little, my dad had his own go kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined and riding through the paddock on my bicycle.
Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.
I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.
You always have to believe in yourself, and I had that from karting.
My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
I'm not against competitive racing. I obviously grew up with horses.
Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.
Jeff Gordon came from sprint cars and obviously he knows how to win championships.
With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
I grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.
I know the Paul Ricard track from when I drove in Formula 3.
I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
I am a motorbike fanatic - always have been. It's actually what I wanted to do before I got into motor racing.
Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.
