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Daughter of V8 racing legend makes debut - CtrlF.XYZ

Daughter of V8 racing legend makes debut

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Australian motorsport is littered with household dynasties, from the Brabhams successful Formula 1 to the Johnsons successful Supercars.

Now, Tabitha Ambrose is acceptable to proceed the bequest of her two-time Supercars championship-winning begetter Marcos.

At the opening SpeedSeries circular of the season, the 17-year-old people 12 pupil made her racing debut successful Tasmania's Hyundai Excel series.

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It was a palmy play connected the whole, Tabitha making marked improvements implicit the people of the 4 races astatine Symmons Plains successful her all-black, two-door hatchback.

Her Hyundai Excel adjacent carried No.9 connected the door, the fig Marcos made celebrated successful the United States.

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Finishing 14th successful contention 1 was followed by 10th successful contention 2 connected Saturday. Sunday saw her assertion eighth successful contention 3 earlier capping it disconnected with sixth successful contention four.

Speaking with Wide World of Sports, Tabitha said she was chuffed with the results but much than blessed conscionable to "bring the car location successful 1 piece".

Although it's been astir a decennary since Marcos past raced successful Supercars, helium inactive draws a crowd.

The Launceston-born operator won 2 Supercars titles successful 2003 and 2004 earlier moving to the United States wherever helium began a vocation successful NASCAR.

He took 2 wins astatine the top, some astatine Watkins Glen International, earlier concisely returning to Supercars wherever helium made 7 much starts and past retired astatine the extremity of 2015.

"I ever hide to different radical he's Marcos Ambrose," Tabitha explained.

"To me, he's conscionable dad, and truthful I benignant of hide a small bit. Sometimes I find myself taking photos of him and people, due to the fact that they privation a photograph with him, which is truly comic to me.

"It's benignant of conscionable go mean and it's beauteous chill due to the fact that he's my mentor present truthful I get to larn from him, truthful that's beauteous cool."

Tabitha said astatine nary constituent did her dada propulsion her towards racing, if anything, helium tried steering her distant from it.

Having grown up astir the high-octane satellite of NASCAR, she people wanted to effort racing herself.

"I was decidedly conscionable surrounded by motorsport racing, particularly successful the States. That was a large one. I was connected the grid with him each the time," said Tabitha.

"I deliberation it was thing I started. I said to dada 1 time I privation to get successful a kart due to the fact that I had a mates of friends karting astatine the clip and I was keen to get successful the kart.

"I don't deliberation dada was that keen, I deliberation helium was trying to enactment distant from it, and past we bought this cute small pinkish kart. It conscionable started from there.

"He decidedly keeps maine grounded. He decidedly keeps maine focused connected everything."

Long-term, Tabitha sees a aboriginal successful V8 racing.

Marcos is the contention manager astatine Garry Rogers Motorsport. With a nonstop enactment to the National Trans Am Series, she's keen to thrust 1 of the NASCAR-style racers.

However, she's successful nary rush, and knows afloat good that she has a batch to larn to get to that point.

"I tin decidedly spot myself successful Trans Am oregon successful a bigger car similar that, but we'll spot what happens," she said.

"I'd emotion to turn my platform, I'd emotion to turn my racing and marque much advancement and decidedly conscionable support improving passim the years. I deliberation that's my large goal.

"I'm not going excessively fast. I cognize that immoderate radical effort and similar to unreserved into things, but I deliberation it takes clip and it decidedly comes with age."

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