During a Monday morning discussion we wandered across the topic of fast cars. Paige, unlike many of the other girls began to show a similar level of interest that the boys were, of course, enjoying. Paige then put her hand up and shared, "My Dad drives Indy cars for a hobby". This, as you can imagine stopped the class silent leaving some boys, as well as our teacher 'gobsmacked'. "Sorry Paige, can you please repeat that?", inquired Mr Luke.
We discovered that Paige's family have a devoted family history with motorbike and car racing!
Progressing from motorbikes (after too many injuries) Paige's Dad raced cars such as the BMW 2002 series, Lotus Super 7, GT1 (like Holden/Ford V8 series) and then the famous Indy cars.
Paige can be seen here in one of two 3.5 litre V8 indy cars that produces 730hp at 10,500 rpm! Top speed......... 330kph! That's OVER 3 TIMES New Zealand's current legal road speed limit!
If you would like to know more (we have more cool facts and pics from Paige's parents), come in for chat and a look. After we discovered this we found out that there are also many more gifted and talented parents in the room. If this is what the parents are doing, could you imagine where we will all be in just a few years time..........?
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