âYeah, thereâs been some hostility and some comments, but as long as you can take the banter but also give it back, I kind of stop it in its tracks.â Tessa Whittock revels in being a female in whatâs seen as a manâs world. Drifting. Tuning. Wrenching. Stunt driving for billion dollar Hollywood blockbusters. âSure, thereâs that element of, âoh, because youâre a girl, youâre getting special treatmentâ,â she laughs, âor âyouâve qualified better than I have because youâre a womanâ. No. Itâs just how I drive. Iâm better at it than you are.â
Tessa has crammed a heck of a lot into her 33 years. Sheâs an ex-investment banker who taught herself to drift on dirt using an old Suzuki Vitara with the four-wheel drive disengaged. âIâve always been mad for cars and tractors because of my farm upbringing. I love a tractor! When I was 14, my dad had a friend who had an RX-7 which we took to Santa Pod. And there was this drift taxi. I got in â an R32 Skyline â and literally from that day forward I was like, âoh my God, how can I do this?ââ
So, having blown up her first car the day after passing her test (a shonky Corsa) and quickly upgrading to some choice hot hatches (Fiesta ST and Corsa VXR NÃŒrburgring Edition), Tessa saved up until she bagged a beloved Nissan R33 Skyline at just 21, and could take the art of going sideways pro.
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