Aug. 18, 2025
Girl Power and Horsepower: Mckenzee Hogan's Dragster Journey
Send us a text Ever wonder what it's like to hurtle down a drag strip at 780 mph before you can even drive legally on the street? Meet Mckenzee Hogan, a 15-year-old drag racing phenom who's been behind the wheel for over half her life. Mckenzee's journey began at age seven when she sat in a dragster at Charlotte's 4Wide event. Within months, she was making test passes in her neighborhood driveway, much to her racing father's delight. Fast forward eight years, and this homeschooled tenth-grad...
Ever wonder what it's like to hurtle down a drag strip at 780 mph before you can even drive legally on the street? Meet Mckenzee Hogan, a 15-year-old drag racing phenom who's been behind the wheel for over half her life.
Mckenzee's journey began at age seven when she sat in a dragster at Charlotte's 4Wide event. Within months, she was making test passes in her neighborhood driveway, much to her racing father's delight. Fast forward eight years, and this homeschooled tenth-grader is now piloting her fourth race car – a purple and green 2023 Mike Boss junior dragster bearing her birthday, 514, as her racing number.
The accomplishments she's already racked up would make veteran racers envious. At just 13, Mckenzee clinched a championship at her home track, Gallot Motorsports Park. She's claimed victories at major venues like Summit Motorsports Park in Ohio and competes regularly in the prestigious PDRA circuit, where she races against a field that's refreshingly balanced between boys and girls.
What makes Mckenzee's story special isn't just her speed on the track but the community she's found there. "It's one giant family," she explains, describing how competitors support each other through wins and losses alike. Before each pass, she shares a special moment with her parents – each saying their own prayer, a ritual that keeps her calm behind the wheel even when reaching speeds that would terrify most adults.
Despite throttles getting stuck and even blowing up a motor on track, Mckenzee remains undaunted. Her advice to younger girls interested in the sport? "Practice helps you get better, and you lose more than you win. But don't give up and keep trying." With plans to move into faster classes when she turns 16 and eventually transition to "big car" racing, Mckenzee Hogan is just getting started. Buckle up and follow her journey – this is one young racer whose story is accelerating fast.
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00:00 - Meet Mackenzie Hogan: 15-Year-Old Racer
03:19 - Finding Her Racing Start
05:07 - Championship Dreams and New Cars
10:14 - Track Friends and Race Day Rituals
17:32 - Racing Goals and Future Aspirations
26:39 - Fast Cars and Family Support
29:40 - Closing Thoughts and Race Weekend
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Hello everyone, this is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network podcast, and my guest today is Mackenzie Hogan.
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Mackenzie, I want to welcome you to the show and would you first tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Hi, my name is Mackenzie Hogan, I'm 15 years old, I drive a 2023 Mike Boss and I've been racing for eight years.
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I have two younger brothers Jackson is five years old and Jaden is 10.
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And I have two dogs.
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I live in North Carolina and I'm homeschooled in 10th grade.
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10th grade, okay, awesome.
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So you've been racing for eight years, so half your life.
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Yes, ma'am, it's been great eight years.
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So, mackenzie, tell me, if you've been racing for that long, who got you started?
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How'd you get interested in motorsports?
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We went to the Charlotte 4Wide and a friend of a friend was there and let me sit in her dragster.
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And that's when I knew I was interested in racing.
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And so you were probably seven years old or so, did you say to your parents I want to do that.
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And what did they say?
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They were really happy and excited for me to start.
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Okay, so were they drag race fans?
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Is that why you had gone to watch?
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Yeah, my dad used to race before.
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I was born.
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Okay, that's usually the story Somebody in the family raced, but not always.
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It doesn't always happen that way, and he was a drag racer, so that's probably what he wanted you to follow in his footsteps.
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Okay, all right.
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So, um, how soon did you get a dragster after you went there?
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um, I want to say like a month or two later yeah, so pretty much right away.
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And who helped you then learn how to drive that car?
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My dad was a big part in it and my mom.
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They got a car.
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We lived in a neighborhood so we were in like the end of the neighborhood.
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So we got the car, got a motor for it, got safety stuff for it.
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They sat me in the car and I made test hits in the driveway.
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Okay, all right, and then how long before you went?
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to your first race?
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Um, I think like a couple months later.
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Okay.
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Um they, let me test it for a while.
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And where did you go to test it?
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Do you remember, Uh Galop?
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Motorsports Park.
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Okay, all carolina all right, um what?
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And do you remember how you felt that first day when you were gonna go like actually test the car?
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I was really excited um, my dad told me not to like take it easy and I did not.
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I was excited for the first time and I made a full pass.
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Yeah, it's easier to ask forgiveness.
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What is it Easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission?
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So you just went ahead and did your thing, and what did he say when you got done?
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He was really excited for me.
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Okay, he was very excited for me to continue racing.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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So that started when you were seven or eight.
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So now that you're 15, tell me the steps.
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What have you done since you know you've gotten a different car?
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Obviously it's a 2023.
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So tell me, like, how many different cars have you had and how did you go about getting this new one?
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I've been, I've had four different cars.
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This is my fourth car.
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Okay, um, my last car.
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I won a championship in it, um, but I was getting too big for it, so they got me a new one um, okay.
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So where was the championship at?
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Galat Motorsports Park in 2022.
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All right, so that must be your home track.
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Yes, ma'am, it is Okay.
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So you won the championship in 2022.
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That's pretty exciting.
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You had to have only been 12 years old, 13 years old.
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Yeah, I was 13.
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And 12 years old, 13 years old?
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Yeah, I was 13.
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13.
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And I know junior dragsters are kind of by.
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Are they more by age bracket or are they more by what kind of car you drive?
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So we race locally and we travel with the PDA circuit.
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So with the PDA circuit they have two different junior dragster classes.
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They have top and they have pro.
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So for top it's six to 12 and you qualify off of reaction time.
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And so for the pro class it's 13 to 17 and you it's seven, 90 heads up.
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So you have to qualify based on 790 and so you were in the 13 to 17 class, and that's the year you won the championship.
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I think I was.
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I think I just turned 13, so I was still in the top class okay um, and then the next year I changed to the 13 to 17.
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Okay, all right, so you.
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So, um, that's pretty exciting to have a championship already, isn't it?
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Yes, ma'am, it is.
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You know, a lot of people go a long time and never even get a win, much less a championship.
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Yeah, pretty cool.
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So are there a lot of girls that you race against?
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Are there a lot of girls that you race against.
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Yeah, I think it's pretty much equal where I race.
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There's a very good variety of both, and that's the thing I noticed about especially junior dragsters.
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There's a lot more girls involved than a lot of other motorsports starting out.
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Now I mean go-karts and that there's a lot of girls, but Junior Dragsters seems to be more 50-50 than maybe any other series that I follow.
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Lots of girls, yeah, I think it's definitely equal.
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Yeah, I think so too.
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So what do you love most about being involved in motorsports?
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I definitely like hanging out with my family every weekend because my younger brother also races, so I definitely like hanging out with them um most of the time and friends friends that you've made at the track.
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Yes, ma'am, so we're.
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Are any of the people at the track?
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I mean, I know you're homeschooled, but you probably went to school at some point, right, or have you always?
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Yeah, so do do any of the kids that you knew, maybe from school, race, or these are all new friends you've made.
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So these are all new friends I've made.
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I think most of them I first met when I started racing.
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We all started at the same time, so it's definitely been a very cool journey.
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So you've been on a path with a lot of the same people.
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Yes, ma'amam, okay, that always makes it.
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I think that makes it better because you're you're your own little community kind of you, the kids that have started together.
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So is the winning the championship your proudest moment or do you have any?
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more.
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That's one of the bigger ones, and then in 2022, I also won in Summit Motorsports Park in Ohio.
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I won in Top Junior Dragster.
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Okay, and then in 2023, I won Top Junior Dragster at Go Out Motorsports Park.
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Okay, so you've had a lot of success already mckenzie haven't you?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And does your dad still work on the car and help you with the car?
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yes, he does.
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He does most of the work on it okay, has he.
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Do you go out in the shop and help, or is it mostly he is the one that works on it.
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I help on some of the stuff I can.
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If I can't do it, he'll help me do it, okay, but we both work on it All right, because it's good to kind of know what makes the car go.
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If you need to tell him something, that's wrong with the car, right, it helps you to know.
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Yeah for sure that's wrong with the car, right, it helps you to know, yeah for sure.
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So, um, tell me about a race that you either won or lost, that you'll never forget.
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Do you have one that just sticks out?
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it was definitely the first one I won in summit motor Sports Park in Ohio.
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That was definitely one of the bigger ones because it was my first PDRU win.
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It was definitely a lot of excitement in that one.
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I'm sure.
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And how old were you then?
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I think I was 12 or 13.
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I think, I just turned 13.
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Okay, yeah, that's pretty exciting.
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What's the one thing that's been the hardest thing for you to learn about?
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Drag racing, or winning Getting down there ahead of everybody else.
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Definitely driving the finish line.
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That one's a difficult one.
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It definitely still has still working on that one, but that was definitely a very big working thing it was a challenge and you're still working on it.
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Yeah, yes, sir, so there's a lot of girls in the sport.
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Do you kind of hang out together, do you?
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You, you know, are some of the guys your friends?
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Because I think, a lot of times when I ask people or ask young women what's their favorite part, they say their family, which you said, and then they also say hanging out with my friends.
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Because a lot of times you know girls that are have friends in their home, like in their neighborhood or whatever, or their school.
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Their friends don't understand why they want to go to the racetrack every weekend, but your friends are all pretty much Already at the racetrack, right?
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Yeah, they are.
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So that makes it easier To be like, excited To go to the track Because you know your friends are going to be there.
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Yeah, it's definitely Very exciting when they're there Because we track, because you know your friends are going to be there.
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Yeah, it's definitely um very excited when they're there, because we all support each other and watch each other race and um support each other on our wins and we discuss what happened with our own if we lost or won um, and we help each other that's good.
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That's good to know because it's it's encouraging to you to know that you can battle on the down the track and then you can still be friends when you get back to the pit area.
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So when you have a bad day at the track which everybody does how do you handle it?
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And have you ever felt like I'm done?
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I just don't want to do this anymore um, it's um.
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When I have a bad day at the track, it's um.
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We basically I just hang out with friends and we like discuss what happened, and or I go in the trailer, pull that off of my car, put it in the computer, look at the graph and see what happened.
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Um, it just depends on, like, yeah, me and my dad discussed what happened but you never do.
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You never just say I'm done, I'm, I can't do this anymore.
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No, it just makes me want to get in the car again.
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Okay, that's good.
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That's what I wanted to hear you say.
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Do you have any superstitions or free race like rituals that you follow?
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Do you always wear the same shirt or the same socks, or you always do your hair a certain way?
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So before each pass, one of the big ones is me I say a prayer, me and my mom say a prayer, and me and my dad say a prayer.
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We each have our own little prayers that we say before I go down the track.
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That's a good thing.
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That's a good thing.
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It makes you feel calm, doesn't it To know?
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that that's happening.
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Yeah, for sure, and the more calm you are, the better you race, because if you get yourself all wound up, then that doesn't always go very well, for sure.
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Thanks, ma'am.
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How do you balance racing?
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So you're homeschooled but you still have schoolwork and things to do?
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I'm sure you still have to, you know, keep your room clean and help with chores around the house, and then there's all the racing.
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You know how do you balance all that and maintain good grades and good racing?
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So for school I do it before I go to the track.
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So normally we leave for a track on a Friday or if we're going to Michigan we're on the way to Michigan.
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So I normally do my school work before that Friday or whenever we leave.
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Or if I can't do it before we leave, I do it on the way to the track.
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Okay, all right, so you're on the way to Michigan right now.
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Yes, ma'am, are you in the motorhome?
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Yes, ma'am, I thought so.
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So where are you going in Michigan?
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We are going to US 131.
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I knew you were going to say that.
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Well, I am so disappointed because I'm only 15 minutes from there is where I live, but I'm leaving to go to Arizona tomorrow to see my kids and grandkids, Otherwise I would be there to watch you race.
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Now that's very disappointing for me because I've sat here all summer and haven't had anybody to watch, and then you're going to be here and I'm not going to be here.
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But that's how it goes.
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But that's a great park.
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Have you ever been there before?
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Um, I've been there not last year, but the year before we went there and we went.
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It's it's a really nice.
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I think it's a nice facility for sure.
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Yeah, yeah, I do like that park.
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So are there any younger girls that kind of look up to you, that you maybe are a mentor or you coach or you help at all?
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Um, there's a couple that will come up to me every once in a while and like ask about my car or driving, and um, I'll try to help them.
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Um, and I'll watch some of them, but um, yeah, there's a couple so what advice would you give to a mom or a little girl that came up to you and and they said you know, we just love drag racing.
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We'd like to.
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My daughter would like to get started.
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You know, is it a good sport for girls.
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What would you say to them?
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um, practice helps you get better and you lose more than you win.
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But no, don't give up and keep trying yeah, yeah for sure, because that's that's motorsports you'll never have.
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You'll never have a perfect season, probably ever.
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I don't know anybody that's ever had a perfect season in racing.
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Now it's not like soccer or softball or something where they could win every game, it's.
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It just doesn't work that way.
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But it doesn't matter, because you just keep going back and you want to get that next win or that next.
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You know, go that next step for sure.
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So your dad does the setup on the car.
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Do you help with that at all, or are you involved with that part of it?
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Um?
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yes, some, some of it I am, me and him have had to change a motor on my car before.
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Okay.
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And I'll help him with like the tires and the gas and everything.
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But normally if it needs like maintenance on the clutch or something, I'll help.
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Okay, it just depends on what it needs to be done with it.
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All right.
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So when you get to the starting line, are you calm and focused on what you're going to do, or are you kind of nervous and hyped up and maybe a little aggressive?
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I'm normally calm, especially if nothing like if there's an oil down or something, I'm more like um, like more uh, nervous about it.
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But normally, if if it's just like a regular one nothing happened, I'm normally calm and ready to go okay, what is something you've learned from watching other people?
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because I'm sure you watch.
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You know the other racers that you're racing against.
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Is there anything you've learned by watching somebody else?
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Good sportsmanship is important.
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People will help you beat them and if you need help, someone will always help you work on it.
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Yeah, that's true.
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It's a family, isn't it?
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Yes, ma'am, it's one giant family.
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Yeah, have you ever had like like kind of an oh no moment in your car, like you're at the starting line and and you start to go and something happens and it's like oh no, I can't believe that happened, or or not?
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