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| I am a freelance motoring expert, currently contributing to many of Australia's leading motoring publications and across various forms of media including print, online, radio, and television. Cars are my life, my livelihood and my passion. Even my other sport involves horsepower (just one though, and a live one at that). I've been into cars since I was a kid. I had a golf buggy-powered Mighty Boy, called 'The Brat' at grandpa's farm at age five, and used to throw my weight around to have more turns than my younger brother. At another farm, nearly a decade later, my friends and I discovered a dumped joyride Gemini with the screwdriver still in the ignition: turn, start, realise there were no stoppers apart from the handbrake, and welcome to sideways rear-drive hilarity! Hooked ever since. I am a freelance motoring journalist, and am also the PR and Media Operations Manager at Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek. I have worked and fought hard for the past 12 years to earn the respect of my peers in both this arena and on the track. I run in two tarmac rally championships: the Australian Targa Championship, and the Australian Tarmac Rally Championship. Along with navigator Claire, we won a national title, the 2010 Australian Tarmac Championship (both Early Modern and Category 8), in our first full year of rally competition. We then backed it up with a second title in 2012, with Claire and my navigator husband Daniel sharing codriving duties, and a third, the Australian Tarmac Rally Championship outright title, with Daniel in 2013. In 2012, I also became the first woman to win a rally outright at a national level (2012). While rallying is on hold while my homegrown pit crew grows, you can bet I'll be back in the driver's seat as soon as I can. |
Samantha Stevens
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