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Driving through the desert at 200km/h isn’t a sport for the faint hearted. Molly Taylor swapped equestrian for rally car driving as a teenager, and since then she has become the World Champion, Australian Champion, European Ladies Champion an d British Ladies’ Champion in the sport, she won the 2021 Extreme-E Championship and finished the iconic Dakar Rally, racing 8000km through the Saudi Arabian desert, earlier this year.
Molly sits down with host Sam Squiers to discuss:
- Learning from her Mum, Coral, who was a four-time Australian champion co-driver
- What rally car driving actually involves and the complex language shared between driver and co-driver
- The challenges of competing in Europe in the early days
- Getting the call to compete in the Extreme E Championship from former Formula One World Champion, Nico Rosberg, and how it felt to take out the win
- The reality of competing in the Dakar Rally for 14 days in the desert
- And the profound impact she’s having on young girls getting into the sport and her peer and close friend Harry Bates
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06/07/22
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