In this edition, we feature EDM producer Boys Noize and singer Moga Mogami from Dempagumi.inc, plus exclusive coverage of the FIA World Endurance Championship racing at Fuji Speedway.
FUSION: Did you ever take a step back and wonder if this career route was right for you, or have you taken some steps back and thought you may doubt yourself as a professional driver?
Michelle: I had to ask myself a million times if I really wanted to keep going because so many times I wasn't given opportuni- ties because I didn't come with the money that was needed. But I knew deep down that I had to tell him, because whenever I was given the chance to test in a certain car with a certain team, I was always proving myself, showing potential.
I mean, there were a lot of times. when I wanted to give up, and that's why this project's slogan is women driven by dreams, and we're always telling the young girls and young drivers to never give up. It's very cliche to tell someone don't give up, keep fight- ing, but in the end, every one of the iron dames has been through a career where we had to stop racing for a season because they didn't have money, we didn't have sponsors.
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We had to battle our way through, and we had to hear people say, "You don't have what it takes, you'll never get there," so all of those people who said you'd never get there are the reason I'm here today.
FUSION: As a woman, how do you feel about this business being dominated by men in Motorsports, where do you see yourself fitting
BY in, and what are your goals for the future?
Michelle Yeah, it's a male-dom- inated sport, especially when I started in it 20 years ago, a little more than 20 years ago, there was really no space for girls all women in this sport you had to prove yourself and i think the same can be said today, we still still have to prove ourselves every time we go in the car because at the end of the day the only way of gaining respect and I think that doesn't matter if it's motorsport or whatever it is if it's in business first to gain respect
The lap times we set will demon- strate that whenever we're in a race with another driver, whether they're trying to overtake us or we're trying to overtake them, we put our elbows out to show that we're not going to make it easy for them, and of course, when- ever they see the pink car, they know it's one of the three girls driving.
I think with the years that we've done as this project, first and foremost trying to inspire a lot of girls but people in general be- cause that's been the whole goal of the project is to inspire people and we've done that by mak- ing results in the end by winning championships by winning races by making pole positions and in the end I think walking through the paddock here asking what people think about this project if they think of us as oh it's the girls or if they think of us as ENJOY!