D2BD ambassadors inspire
Thursday 23 May, 2019
It was a great day down at Erebus Motorsport for the Dare To Be Different (D2BD) campaign.
Dare To Be Different (D2BD) has hosted another successful event, this time at Erebus Motorsport with more the 30 young females from multiple schools taking part in the workshop.
Under the guidance of multiple D2BD ambassadors, the young females completed a number of different challenges throughout the day, giving them the opportunity to experience multiple aspects of motor sport.
On hand at the Victorian team’s headquarters was media personality Emma Notarfrancesco, Erebus Motorsport mechanic Bonnie Beard, Triple Eight engineer Romy Meyer and CAMS Australian Rally Championship star Molly Taylor.
With Taylor managing the simulator challenge alongside special guest, Virgin Australia Supercars Championship driver Anton De Pasquale, the 2016 ARC champion enjoyed being able to inspire young females.
“It’s been fantastic to have a great initiative like this for these young girls, most of whom have not had much exposure to motor sport.” Taylor said.
“They are able to come in to all these different workshops and facilities and see everything up close to the cars and see all the elements.”
Teaching the participants about the high pressure of pit lane by running the popular pit stop challenge, Beard was hopeful programs like this could help inspire more females into the pits.
“There aren’t many females in pit lane area, there are three of us at most meetings,” Beard added.
“Hopefully this program can help more females see what we can do and what we are capable of and in the future we could have more woman and men working together.”
