Liam Lawson

You know, like my kart, my first go kart had like a rainbow steering wheel.

This thing was like, it was not a good kart.

You know, it was...

It was very, very old and the engines were just ones that came with it.

They weren't, you know, karting now is like, you have to have like the best of the best.

And this thing literally came with what it came with.

And I ran this for a year and yeah, I just ran around the back.

literally fighting to just race anybody, which honestly, again, even like I look back now, so grateful for that year because when I got good gear, the race craft that I had versus kids around me was so different, honestly, versus like a kid that I grew up with that started with the best and just didn't have the same when it came to it, when it came to last lap one-on-one dice.

That's stuff that, yeah, I got from that, yeah.

Not that he knew that he was doing that for me.

Do you not think?

No.

It did, but he didn't, he didn't, honestly, he didn't.

Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm sure because, yeah, because he would tell me, I know, you know, I know Liam, I know it's bad, but you know.

you know, we can't afford it and stuff like this.

And then one day he obviously just got sick of my complaining and basically bought these two engines, these like two, well, you know, won a couple of titles, got these two engines.

And I remember when we put them on, we put them on for a qualifying of this big race.

And when I say like I had come from running last, like literally last, put these engines on for qualifying.

And I remember looking at my dad and him looking at me kind of like,