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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>August</strong> 9 <strong>2023</strong><br />
8<br />
NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Ambition, sacrifice drive teen<br />
While most 16-year-olds<br />
were in the classroom,<br />
Jacob Douglas was<br />
halfway across the<br />
world living by himself.<br />
Now two years later<br />
reporter Daniel Alvey<br />
catches up with the<br />
fast-driving teenager<br />
JACOB DOUGLAS has had a<br />
taste for racing since he started<br />
competing at 8 – now he’s on the<br />
road to the top of his sport.<br />
“We started out just (karting)<br />
for fun, then we moved to a<br />
really good team and then just<br />
flourished,” he said.<br />
Douglas, 18, now lives in<br />
Indianapolis, United States, but<br />
is back in Lincoln at his parent’s<br />
house for a break between races.<br />
He has his sights set on racing<br />
IndyCar, an achievable goal<br />
considering how far he has<br />
come since his success in New<br />
Zealand with the WKS Kartstore<br />
team and coach Matt Hamilton.<br />
Douglas found himself travelling<br />
the globe to race karts with the<br />
team.<br />
“I raced in Italy, Germany,<br />
Thailand and Australia,” he said.<br />
After switching from karts<br />
to cars, which included racing<br />
in Formula Ford, Douglas was<br />
ready to make the next step in<br />
his career.<br />
TRAINING: When he’s not on the track, Jacob Douglas<br />
uses a simulator to prepare for the races.<br />
PHOTO: DANIEL ALVEY<br />
After more success in New<br />
Zealand, Douglas and his family<br />
knew if he was going to progress<br />
his career he would have to move<br />
to either Europe or the United<br />
States full-time to ensure he was<br />
racing with the best.<br />
Being in his mid-teens<br />
and still very young to be<br />
travelling overseas by himself,<br />
it was decided the US route<br />
was his best way to go. When<br />
Douglas first moved to the US in<br />
2020 he was on a 90-day tourist<br />
visa, meaning he had to leave<br />
the country every few months,<br />
ON TRACK: Jacob Douglas in his Pabst Racing USF2000 car.<br />
which became more tricky due<br />
to Covid travel restrictions. So<br />
he mostly went to the United<br />
Kingdom then back to the US.<br />
He then took on a number<br />
of US championships, which<br />
included winning five out of six<br />
races in the YACademy Winter<br />
Series. He is now approaching<br />
the final round of his second<br />
season in the USF2000<br />
championship. This year he has<br />
managed to get on the podium<br />
twice – but is still chasing that<br />
elusive win.<br />
“It will be about piecing it all<br />
together. The pace is definitely<br />
there,” Douglas said.<br />
In June, he made the decision<br />
to leave Exclusive Autosport,<br />
the team he had been with since<br />
arriving in the US, for a seat<br />
on the championship-winning<br />
Pabst Racing team.<br />
“The team switch really helped<br />
us get that next little bit.”<br />
Since the switch, he has been<br />
on the podium once and has<br />
managed two top-three spots in<br />
qualifying.<br />
“Overall as a year, we wanted<br />
more but it’s part of the learning<br />
process.”<br />
Fellow New Zealander Hunter<br />
McElrae, a former Pabst driver<br />
who is heading for IndyCar,<br />
helps coach Douglas.<br />
Other than motorsport, he<br />
keeps himself busy at the gym<br />
and spends time in the race<br />
simulator. He also has to fit some<br />
online school work in between.<br />
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