Nicole Havrda fell in love with racecar driving when she travelled to Austria to watch a Formula 1 race with her dad in 2018, when she was 12
Nicole Havrda was 12 when she travelled from her home in Comox to Austria to watch a Formula 1 race with her dad in 2018.
She says it was the sound of the cars driving “super fast” and the atmosphere of the races that gripped her. “I always say, when you put a helmet on, it doesn’t matter what gender you are. You’re just a racer. No one sees you,” said Havrda, who will spend International Women’s Day at a car dealership in Comox speaking about women in racing.
She was coming around a corner behind another racer who was driving significantly slower than she was, forcing her to swerve to avoid him. She slammed into a concrete wall at 220 km/h.Her team fixed up the car overnight and she raced the next day, placing third.A peak moment in her racing career was participating in an interview on TSN alongside Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time Formula 1 champion.
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