Susie Wolff (Managing Director of F1 Academy)

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PW50s, Track Days and the First Taste of Karting

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Dax, himself an avid rider, establishes the technical timeline: Yamaha three-wheeler, then PW50, then PW80. He and Susie compare notes on clutches and gearboxes with the enthusiasm of two people who could talk about this for hours. The key detail is her father's 40th birthday gift to himself — a bike and a return to racing — which meant the family spent weekends at Knockhill. The kart track there offered 15 minutes for £5. Susie and her brother David hounded their parents for fiver after fiver until their mother finally said: 'This is all about you. I think it's time the kids did something.' The go-karts — a secondhand Swiss Huttli for each of them, rusty and peeling — arrived around their eighth birthdays.