Property News · June 24, 2014

How do I become … a racing car driver


It’s a long and expensive road to becoming a professional – and dangerous too. It will be years before you make any moneyFor a man whose Mercedes took off into the air and did a quintuple somersault during Le Mans, Peter Dumbreck comes across as remarkably grounded. But then, he says, you have to be, if you want to succeed as a racing car driver. “You need to be able to live for the moment,” he says. “Do the best that you can do. If you make it, you make it. And if you don’t, you don’t. The most important thing is to be pleased with your performance.”Surprisingly, Dumbreck never dreamed of becoming a racing car driver when he was growing up. “My parents had a mushroom farm in Scotland, so I always thought I might become a mushroom farmer one day. My only ambition was to have fun.” He started driving when he was nine years old. “I had my own car to drive around the fields with. In fact, I had a series of cars, because I kept wrecking them and smashing them up.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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