Putting our daughter in a kart for the very first time marked a significant milestone for us as a family and a rather emotional one for me.
WE finally took our daughter karting.
She first expressed an interest to give it a go when she was six, but due to minimum age and height requirements, we had to put it off for a few years.
It reminded me of when I was a teenager anxiously waiting to turn 17 so that I could sit for my Basic Theory test, the first step towards obtaining my driver’s licence.
The urge to bring her karting has nothing to do with wanting to groom her into some racing prodigy.
It was simply a natural extension of my own passion in cars and motorsport, which I wanted very much for her to experience.
It was all she talked about in the days leading up to it. She has always been very enthusiastic when it comes to trying out new things, but I detected just that extra ounce of zeal when it came to karting.
From her point of view, it was the closest thing to driving a real car until she turns 18 – when she will be allowed to obtain a driver’s licence.
She was so excited she could hardly go to sleep the night before.
This story is from the May 2019 edition of Torque Singapore.
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