Molly Taylor: Giving up home comforts & travelling solo around the world to become a rally driver
Molly Taylor has been racing competitively for some time.
I recorded a chat with her, not about her later successes, but about the hard grind of giving up other opportunities and leaving the comforts of home to pursue her dream.
Items she covered include:
- School project of designing a race track
- Giving up University to pursue her dream
- Traveling to England when she was 20 years old
- Moving to some accommodation (a converted farm building) on her 21st birthday
- Getting her first drive of a left-hand drive, front wheel drive rally car when she entered an event then winning the first two rounds.
- Losing her big sponsor
- Managing a team of helpers
- Happily accepting that famous rally co-driver, Coral Taylor, is now known as “Molly’s Mum”
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About Author
David Brown
David Brown started his working life as a Civil Engineer but you would not want him to design a bridge you wanted to safely walk over. His passion was in traffic engineering and transport planning which is all about how we use our transport systems not how we build them. He soon became involved in commenting on issues through all avenues of the media. He is now a motoring and transport journalist. He test drives a new car each week but his ultimate measure of how good a car is relies on his 12 year old and the Hayden Brown “Will you drive me to school in that car” factor.