I’m often asked to tell how I got started in racing and how I got to where I am today, so I’d like to write about how I got to where I am today.
This will be a long story, and this will be a series of articles, so I would be happy if you could bear with me.
In my life up until about 10 years ago, I was greatly fascinated by racing ......, or rather
I lived for the race 24/7, 365 days a year.
My lover was racing, and I loved racing more than anything.
I have dedicated my life to racing, and I have always challenged myself to exceed my limits.
When I was racing, "To take the checkered flag before anyone else." , "Next season, I want to race in a higher category." These two things were always on my mind.
Why am I so fascinated with racing?
Now I think that it was because the circuit was the only place where I could be, the one and only place where I could express my personality.
While in high school, I got into riding on a Motorcycle.
Fascinated by motorsports, I began my activities at the age of 17, but 17 was really a quite late age to start out in that world.
Unfortunately, I was born and raised in an ordinary family, whereas many people in the motorsports industry come from wealthy families. In addition, my parents were strongly opposed to my involvement in motorsports, and in fact disowned me, saying that "if I rode motorcycle, they would cut off the relationship between parent and child."
I honestly didn't think that a 17-year-old in such an environment full of opposition could ever become a professional racer, not even by 1%.
Even so, I couldn't give up on racing, and as a result, at the age of 22, a supporter appeared, and one after another, companies began to sponsor me, and I was able to start my career as a professional racer.
In a world where luck and ability are everything I still feel that I was incredibly lucky.
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