Liam Lawson

And that just stuck with me, honestly, through everything.

Because I would get told, in the same situation, even guys that I looked up to,

which I won't mention, but would say I'd meet them.

My moment of meeting one of my heroes, I said, I want to be a Formula One driver.

And he told me that it's, oh, dude, you can't do that these days.

And they were a Formula One driver?

They weren't a Formula One driver.

But they were a pro?

They were a pro driver, yeah.

Pro driver.

And I was 13 years old going into my first racing season of...

of cars, you know, out of go-karts.

I just won a $20,000 scholarship to race this Formula V car and New Zealand Formula First car.

And yeah, but I remember just not even caring a little bit.

You know, he told me that and I was just like, oh, okay.

Didn't faze me at all.

Like it didn't change anything.

It wasn't like he told me that and I was like, oh, that sucks.

I just didn't care.

And so for some reason, and I feel lucky that that stuck with me, that stuck with me all the way that like, just not ever really doubting that it would happen somehow.