McLaren's First Female Driver On Crashing At 120km/h - And Getting Back In

In 2016 Emma Gilmour became the first woman to win a round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, and in 2022 she became the first woman to drive for McLaren Racing, racing electric off-road buggies in Extreme E. She has rolled at speed twice and been knocked out twice: at Whangārei in 2007 and in Sardinia in 2023. She still races, and runs her family's car dealership in her hometown of Dunedin.

In this conversation we talk about walking away from horses as a teenager, what she tells herself on the start line now, the countdown she runs in the last sixty seconds before a race, leaving a relationship that was also her business, and why her fear of regret beats every other fear.

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