Former Indy NXT driver Lindsay Brewer got here out and shared her trustworthy opinion concerning the extraordinary prices of pursuing her racing ardour. Brewer revealed how expertise is not the one factor that issues in motorsports, and that funding is required to nurture that expertise.
Lindsay Brewer started racing on the age of 11 together with her father shopping for her the primary kart. Nevertheless, nobody from Brewer’s household had raced professionally and the American needed to prepare the funding herself. That is when Brewer realized the funds of Motorsports.
The American took a sabbatical from racing in her early 20s to pursue a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration from San Diego State College. When Lindsay Brewer returned to the world of motorsports, all those that she raced towards had already progressed.
Brewer then constructed her on-line presence in hopes of attracting sponsors for her racing ventures and checks, and it paid off. Nevertheless, explaining the expense of the checks in attempting to catch as much as the others, the 27-year-old stated, (through New York Submit),
“It’s all the time going to be an impediment for drivers to get sufficient seat time and observe. It’s a type of sports activities the place you may’t simply decide up a basketball and play exterior, it prices $25,000 a day to check the automotive.”
Lindsay Brewer raced within the Indy Professional 2000 Championship after buying her enterprise diploma and was promoted to the Indy NXT sequence for the 2024 season. The American raced with Juncos Hollinger Racing however parted methods with the group halfway by the season as a result of unfulfilled contractual obligations (monetary).
Brewer lately got here out and revealed her plans to race within the Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo North America AM Driver Championship for the 2025 season.
Lindsay Brewer on making the change to Sportscar from Open Wheel racing
Lindsay Brewer has raced in karts and open-wheel racing all her skilled racing profession. Brewer will accomplice with Jem Hepworth to race for RAFA Racing within the Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo North America. Talking about her transition from the Indy NXT sequence to the Sportscar championship, she stated,
“That is my first 12 months doing sports activities vehicles, I didn’t actually have tremendous loopy expectations. I simply wished to attempt — for me, my power has all the time been a problem in open wheel [vehicles] trigger there’s no energy steering, so I felt my outcomes didn’t replicate who I used to be as a driver. I’m like, ‘I do know I’m driver, however I can barely flip the wheel, and it’s actually affecting me.'”
Brewer began P33 on her debut however made her manner by the race to complete P6. She began P5 within the second race and completed on the rostrum.