By Simone Corradengo
Photo: Sportinphoto
After seeing the paddock through the eyes of drivers, team managers and old glories, this feature from our social networks moves onto the opposite side of the barricade, that is, to the insiders, those who live the paddock even without a helmet or overalls. Born in Sweden in 1996, Rebecca Ward has for years been the “big sister” of many of the drivers in the paddock, not only to those in the family or team tent, but also to many other young drivers who find in Rebecca one of the many family and familiar figures. We have always sustained that the paddock as whole is nothing but a large extended family, a village where everyone knows and experiences the same emotions race after race. The advantage of being able to experience the paddock from an early age is to be able to grasp all the changes that take place over the years, the new and the old protagonists, those who reach the top, and those who have stayed faithful to karts. Through victories, defeats and results, Rebecca Ward has become one of the most influential go-karting figures around, managing to transmit part of that passion to the new generation, testifying too that motorsports can be a feminine environment of equal opportunities, given the high number of girls who push themselves to undertake the career of racing driver, now also encouraged by recently born categories. In the now usual manner, via Vroom’s social networks we have left readers the chance to interview this month’s personality in order to capture various aspects of paddock life.