F1 Aston Martin AMR21 - Post Test Interview Jessica Hawkins - video Dailymotion

F1 Aston Martin AMR21 - Post Test Interview Jessica Hawkins

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00:00 I don't know what to say. Just to be given this opportunity is amazing and it was

00:04 everything that I thought it would be and more. I don't really know what I was

00:09 expecting to be honest but it completely blew me away and just to be given this

00:12 opportunity... I don't know what to say. I cried before I even got in. Do you know what?

00:22 It's just I've spent so many years not racing due to lack of budget. It's been

00:29 incredibly difficult to bring the budget in but I will say that those

00:36 short amount of laps, 20-25 laps, however many laps it was, has made every

00:41 single blood, sweat and tear worth that and so much more. I think everyone's

00:52 really happy. Everyone's blown away with a short amount of time that we've had.

00:55 My minimum speeds are the same everywhere which I'm really happy with.

01:00 I think there's probably... all of my time is probably in

01:06 two corners but I was expecting to be a little bit off in the high-speed corners

01:10 because it's such a massive step from where I've come from. My journey

01:13 has been anything but easy but I wouldn't change a thing and if you

01:17 want it bad enough things come and you just work hard and eventually even if it

01:22 takes time you'll get there. I phoned my mum straight away and she's very proud of me.

01:28 My dad, I think it's the best day of his life, best day of my life. This is something

01:33 that I'll hold very, very, very close to my heart forever. I'm sure he will too and

01:38 I'm just excited to tell everyone now. I've kept it quite a big secret.

01:41 Probably the worst kept secret actually to my close friends but I'm gonna enjoy

01:48 this feeling and push hard to go racing. I'm very happy with the job that I've

01:53 done and very thankful as well to everybody back at the factory and here

01:57 helping me. Everybody that's helped me on my journey along the way, going back 20

02:01 years ago when I started karting, everybody that believed in me and

02:03 everybody that gave me opportunities. Yeah, thank you everybody.

02:09 And this is not the end.