March 17, 2025 • 60 mins
This episode of Screen to Speed delves into the experiences of Catherina and Jessica, two enthusiasts in sim racing and motorsports. Catherina discusses her late start in motorsports, her passion ignited by the GT Academy, and how the pandemic pivoted her focus to sim racing with iRacing. Jessica shares her background in karting from a young age and her challenges transitioning to sim racing. The duo recounts their journey from meeting through an online dating site to coaching each other in their respective fields. They also discuss their favorite cars and tracks in iRacing, the importance of community support, and their plans for future competitions. Both emphasize the growing acceptance and support for women in motorsports and sim racing, as facilitated by platforms like INIT eSports Screen to Speed. The episode concludes with a light-hearted discussion on their hobbies and themes of determination and resilience in pursuing their passion in racing. So buckle up – Screen to Speed starts now!
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00:00 Meet Catharina and Jessica 01:25 Catharina's Journey into Motorsports 03:16 Jessica's Transition from Karting to Sim Racing 04:01 The Challenges of Sim Racing 06:32 Meeting Through Motorsports 12:47 Achievements in Karting and Sim Racing 20:45 Racing Equipment and Setups 24:50 Favorite iRacing Series and Combos 28:41 Future Racing Plans 30:37 Sim Racing Training and Local Community 31:11 Screen to Speed Event Experience 32:54 Challenges and Strategies in Racing 35:49 Women in Sim Racing and Community Support 39:32 Comparing Karting and Sim Racing Communities 45:53 Hobbies Outside of Racing 49:58 Plans for 2025 and Endurance Karting 53:38 Driving Styles and Team Songs 58:30 Conclusion and Final Thoughts====================
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Welcome to Screen to Speedpowered by INIT Esports.
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From the thrill of digital circuits to theroar of real life racetracks, we explore
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We'll hear from athletes, creators,and pioneers sharing their stories,
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Hi everyone.
Welcome to any talks.
Happy to see everybody in chat.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh, welcome to our, uh, today's,uh, show and, uh, please
welcome Katherine and Jessica.
Hello.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for joining.
Uh, it looks pretty.
Thank you so much.
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All right.
And, uh, let's start from, uh, Katerina.
Can you tell how you start,uh, your way into motorsports?
I know you both in motorsports.
Uh, let's start with you and then Jessicacan answer on this question as well.
Okay.
Um, my journey, um, yeah, started,um, pretty late, I guess, uh, which is
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not common, um, because I was alwaysinterested in motorsports, watching
Formula One and, um, here in Germany, GTM.
Um, but I was never able to, uh, gokarting or things like that as a child.
So, um, yeah, I have focused onplaying, uh, Gran Turismo and
so on, so PlayStation's games.
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And, um, I remember when the GT Academystarted, I was, um, so hyped and I
thought, Oh my God, this is so cool.
You get the opportunityto race a real car.
And, um, that's when I started to,uh, buy a steering wheel and, uh,
Built a little small setup and I wasreally focused in driving GT academy.
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So, um, yeah, that, that was themoment where it all made click and I
thought, Oh my God, this is so cool.
And I really can do it.
Um, and later I met Jessica,um, she's, uh, she was carting
at that time and I never sit ina cart or something like that.
And, uh, yeah, she introducedme into this world.
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And we did a bit ofreal life racing there.
So, um, that was my twenties, I guess.
And, uh, yeah, about simracing, um, really serious.
It got when COVID came because we couldn'tdo the real life racing any longer.
So, um, we decided togive it a try and, uh.
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Build our setup forward andjumped right into iRacing,
which was a quite a big step.
Yeah, and um, yeah, my part started alsowith Gran Turismo many years ago, just as
gaming and but I focused at first on realtime, also real life karting and yeah.
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I had, I was lucky I had theopportunity to do it and yeah, so
I focused at first on this one.
Yeah, it was more like, uh, I introducedher into the sim racing and she used me
into the real life racing, which was kindof funny because we both coached each
other and yeah, that's really cool for me.
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Yes.
Yeah.
For me, it was.
At the beginning, really complicatedto start sim racing because the
feeling was really different.
I had just the steering wheel andyeah, so to adapt it from real
life to sim, that's not so easy.
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Yeah, and for me it was, it wasalso crazy because, um, I mean, sim
racing can be exhausting too, butwhen you sit in a real, real car, you
feel the g force for the first timeand it, your neck goes like this.
Quite an experience.
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Yeah, that's awesome that you,uh, like started from sim racing.
She started in karting and you both,uh, kind of like, uh, get involved
into sim racing and karting as well.
That's really cool.
Uh, I started from kartingwhen I was nine years old.
So yeah, I understand what you're talkingabout and, uh, actually karting because
we've got a really small kart circus.
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Uh, circuits, it's really, uh, youknow, pretty intense races, uh, compared
to what you got in the, um, normalroad racing, um, like formalists.
It's a lot of things just, uh, happen, youknow, uh, slower, uh, in, in formalists or
in the, in cars, uh, compared to karting.
So, yeah, it's, it's crazy.
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Um, who, uh, who areyour biggest motorsports?
Uh, Idol.
So for me that was Valentino Rossi.
So I started karting because of my dad,so he getting, uh, me into the karting.
And, uh, I was a bigfan of Valentino Rossi.
I was watching MotoGPs and when Istarted, I picked the 46 number.
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So who was it for you, uh, Katarina?
Um, for me, it was, uh, Michael Hecken,actually, even though I'm German, which
mostly means that most people like MichaelSchumacher, so, um, uh, as a child, I
really looked up to Michael Hecken, andlater on Sebastian Vettel, you know.
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Yeah.
For me, it started with MichaelSchumacher and, yeah, later
also with Sebastian Vettel,
Yeah, it fits good.
That's nice.
I also was a big fanof Michael Schumacher.
I remember I was playing this, uh,the card Michael Schumacher game,
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uh, when it was in my childhood.
It was really fun.
Um, so can you tell me how you met eachother in Karthing, how this happened?
And, uh, you also mentioned inyour bio that you, uh, fall in
love with each other as well asyou fall in love in Karthing also.
Um, actually it was, uh,uh, with the dating side,
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it was, it was, it's quite a crazy.
I, um, I just, uh, yeah, got on thestating side and I thought, okay.
I just do it.
Maybe something comes up or even not.
I, I didn't believe in it thatit would really work, uh, would
work out, but actually it did.
I, uh, just made, uh, three years,uh, three years, um, membership.
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So, well, because I thought,okay, yeah, it will take time.
And yeah, not quite, I don'tknow, four weeks after I just met
them, made a membership, which isconnected and it fit immediately.
So I, I paid for it three yearsand I never used it anymore.
So it was, yeah.
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And you even did not manage.
You mentioned that, um, that youlike motorsports at first, so we
just found out it a little bit later.
And, yeah, so the first time Icame to you and I saw you have in
your living room a little sim rig.
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And, yeah, I thought, wow, great.
Yeah, even though I was a bigmotorsport fan, I didn't thought
that anybody would love it like I do.
So, because in all my, uh, all my friends,they never really cared about motorsports.
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So I thought, okay, I can,But yeah, then you found me.
Well, I think, you know, I'm just, uh,thinking that you're from Germany and,
uh, I think a lot of people in Germanyare into motorsport because, uh, here's
a lot of, uh, racing tracks, especiallythe big Nordschleife where people, uh,
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uh, doing track days and all this stuff.
So yeah, it's interesting to see that,uh, you didn't have anyone in your, uh,
surroundings who was into motorsport.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah.
All right.
So you met each other, uh, at Karsingand How was the first experience
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for you, Katerina, to, uh, liketransition from sim racing to karting?
Like, was it really hard to adapt to it?
Uh, I know that you mentioned before,uh, there was a bit weird with G forces.
Uh, but in terms of how you understandthe line on the track and, uh, all
the stuff, did sim racing help you,uh, to start your way in karting?
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I think, um, the feeling of the carand, or the car in that case, and,
uh, the lines, I think I could, uh,adapt that really quickly and, uh, it
helped, it helped me definitely out.
But, um, also I had a very good coach,which is always fun to do it and, uh.
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Yeah, I gave me tips.
Um, so I think it helps a lot.
Definitely.
So and still it does as well becausewe also train in the simulator for
our real life championships now.
So it does help.
Definitely.
Mhm.
That's awesome.
So I think the same stuff happened to me.
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So it was in the open wheelers, itwas in karsing before, then open
wheelers, then I jump into simracing was quite easy to adapt.
Uh, it was crazy with all,uh, competition, which you
meeting in, uh, in sim racing.
It's absolutely crazy.
Uh, I know that you, youdoing karsing in, uh, Germany.
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Yeah.
I guess, uh, but I was doing it inKazakhstan and I four times won the
championship here and, uh, I wasjust pulling away from everybody.
And when I jump into some racing, I'mlike, wow, I finally can race with people.
And I finally got, uh,you know, someone who's.
Faster than me.
And it's really cool actually.
Um, so the same question for you,Jessica, uh, how was your transition
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from karting, uh, to sim racing?
Uh, was it really hard to loseall the G forces and feelings, uh,
which you got in the real life?
Yeah, at first it was not so easy to,um, yeah, to miss the G forces and the
feedback from the tires in real life.
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And, yeah, the motion of the card,the way it moves in a certain way,
because I, um, drove, um, yeah, aslalom championship, so not on track,
so you have just one time to look atthe track, to walk around, and then
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this one run must fit in a certain way.
And you have to just.
And yeah, it has to be perfect.
And in simracing you can tryagain and again and yeah.
It's a little bit differentin a way, but yeah.
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I got even to a good coach,
more experience and yeah, so we stilllearn from each other every time.
And yeah, this is awesome actuallyto have person who support you.
I also got husband, uh, he's into someracing and, uh, he also teach me a lot
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in sim racing and, uh, also bring me intoour racing because, uh, before that I was.
James, most of the coursesand project cars too.
Uh, so yeah, we also help eachother on the racing track and it's,
it's really, really cool there.
You got, uh, the same partnership.
It's a really.
Awesome.
Um, can you tell me aboutyour biggest achievements in
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karting and in some racing?
Let's start with Katarina.
Um,
I think one of the biggest things Iachieved is, um, being third in the
championship, um, in my third year.
So, um, when you think of all thepeople I raced against, um, they are
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all doing it since they were little.
So, um, I don't know, five, six yearsold and I started in my twenties,
so I think that's, uh, kind of cool.
And, um, also since, I don't, I think2017 or so on, we, um, also do it with,
uh, drive cars and, um, I've managedto be, uh, three times a club champion.
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So that's, uh, Also cool.
Yeah.
And yeah, I have, uh, I don't knowhow much, why second place, uh, hasn't
championships from the ADAC slalomchampionship and third and fourth places.
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I can't count over the years.
Um, yeah, but I never got the title.
So the competition is really,really hard and all the other.
Um, yeah, I fight, or I fought with thelast years, they all started even at the
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age of eight years about, and so, if yougo there on track, so the first seven,
eight, ten people, everybody can win.
And that's the thing.
It's every day just, uh, yeah, a tenth oreven less after two runs and, yeah, every
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little mistakes, yeah, the run is gone.
The day.
Yeah, but that's also the thing, thething which makes it great because
it's not like you go there and youcan win it easily, you really have to
fight for it and a lot of effort in it.
And that makes fun because, um, it's, it'shard, but it's also cool because you get
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better and better and better and better.
You work on the card, have theopportunity to tune your card to, yeah.
to make it fit better toyour own driving style.
And yeah, the regulationsallow it in this class.
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And yeah, so everybody has its owncart, uh, optimized for their own
racing style, I would like to say.
And yeah, the competition is really hard.
Well, I think it's always great when yougot a high Competition level, uh, because
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as you said, uh, Katerina, you alwaysgot, like, you getting better and better.
You always got a place to improvementsand it's, uh, really cool.
Uh, you mentioned that youdid some car, car racing.
Uh, what cars did youdrive and did you race?
And, uh, what tracks if, or you did alsosome kind of, uh, car slalom as Jessica?
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We own a Toyota Yaris, um, butnot the super cool new one.
It's actually the car from 2005,so it's a little bit low budget.
Um, and it's, uh, we, youknow, championship we drive.
It's pretty similar to cartingslalom, but with cars, um, There are
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different, uh, tracks and levels.
We have, um, we have a small local tracks,which is basically also on carting tracks.
And, but we also drove a Germanchampionship, um, some, some years
ago and they're on, um, old airplanefields, which is basically have a
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track that's about two kilometers.
And um, yeah, that's, that's kind of cool.
Um, it's not, it's not that we drovewith two or three cars at the same time.
Uh, You always drive your own run, andthe fastest one wins, so it's more like,
uh, yeah, I don't, not like a drag, but adrag race, but, um, the best time counts,
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because this is, um, the most affordableway to do some, um, racing in a, in a car
here for, um, I would say normal people,because when you come to, you mentioned
that you drove formula cars and so on.
Um, I think there'salways the budget problem.
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Things like that.
I mean, we, we also did, um, some,um, formula for car training on.
But, um, yeah, it was a one time thingwhere we just thought, okay, that's cool.
We really want to experience that.
So, but, uh, doing a championshipin that is really expensive.
So.
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Yeah, that's true.
So formal was really expensiveand I had a good sponsor.
I had, I was part of the AstanaMotorsports team, uh, they support
me as they closed the program.
I stopped to do any in real life racingbecause I didn't have this opportunity.
I'm not from the rich family.
Uh, just get opportunity to.
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jump and continue my career, but, uh,you know, some racing, uh, found me
and, um, actually really happy aboutthis, uh, because I'm still doing the
same and also got my own community.
I'm also streaming.
It's really cool.
Um, you also said that you startediRacing, yeah, in, uh, 2020.
So during the pandemic, like many of usstarted from this, uh, Can you tell me
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more about, uh, how you choose iRacing?
Like, uh, you did some Gran Turismo.
Did you have any simulatorsbetween Gran Turismo and iRacing?
Or you just directly jump into iRacing?
Uh, let's start from Jessica.
Um, yeah, no, we actually starteddirectly, uh, with iRacing and yeah,
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during Corona, um, we, we informedabout the simulation and, um,
yeah, the feedback was really good.
And that's, it's, yeah, wouldbe hard to say, um, competitive,
competitive in a way.
And yeah.
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So we decided to start directlywith iRacing, and we liked it, and
yeah, but our, yeah, equipment wasat that point not so good, but yeah.
Yeah, we only had a Thrustmaster,so with no basic feedback, no load
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cell, nothing just really basic.
And, um, yeah, when you start iRacing,it's really hard when you hit the brakes
for the first time, you think, Oh my God,what's happening, why did I turn the car?
Yeah.
It was not that easy, but we, we quicklyadapt because yeah, we had time, I mean,
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um, I was new, working full time remote.
You were able to go out becauseyour, um, company was, uh, you,
you have a job where you need to goout, but I was the whole time here.
So I had a lot of timeto, uh, to get into it.
Yeah.
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I also get into iRacing during pandemic,and, uh, I remember that I had a G27, so
you started from really basic equipment,uh, I started also, so now I got triple,
DD wheel, uh, load cell pedals, I thinkload cell pedals for me, that was the
biggest improvement which, uh, I gotin my equipment, um, so speaking about
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equipment, what do you have right now?
Because I see, uh, the AT20rig behind you, I think.
I'm a pro, I'm a pro.
Uh, yeah, that's actually a new one.
We just built, um, the, the otherones in the other room, which, uh, we
started from, um, that was, or is stilla basic setup with, um, uh, formula
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one seat and, uh, a trust master.
300 RS and the TLC load cell break.
So we got that basic setup.
We, we, we started during pandemicand this other one was, uh, yeah,
it happened, but it happens.
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Yeah.
Um, yeah, that, that we have afull, uh, camera set up actually.
Um, the camera C5.
And now with the load cell break, um,for those cameras and yeah, um, that
was, that was quite a story because wewere less, less, two years ago we were
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on the ADAC sim racing expo and rightbefore we, we said, okay, um, we go,
we go there and we stick to one setup.
You will not build a second one andthen there was some challenges and
we actually won the Camus C5 there.
So then we came back and said, okay,then we need to build a second one.
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So it just happened and yeah,so yeah, it started and yeah,
so everything just a little bit.
New monitor.
Yeah.
Now triple screen.
At first, a single streetscreen now triple screen and
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that's great.
Uh, do you have any plans for your other,which, uh, got T 300 right now on it,
not, not quite yet, but, uh, I. Yeah,maybe, um, maybe some new pedals.
I don't know.
Um, we still use it forPlayStation, uh, for Gran Turismo.
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I drive a little bit more on Gran Turismo.
It's also fun to do weeklychallenges at Gran Turismo.
And yeah, so it's a nice switchbetween iRacing and Gran Turismo.
And choose what you want to do.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
It's more like a fun thing.
So, um, maybe some, some new panelsif, um, there are some, um, good stuff
is coming up from Trustmaster, which,um, fits PlayStation and, um, PC.
I know it's all, it's always a compromiseyou need to go, but, um, it's okay.
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We, we got the other set up for iRacing.
So.
That's great
Well, I think first master should have newpedals which they include to t598 bundle
and This pedal set should have loads.
So Keith, I'm waiting for itbecause I got this t598 Bundle,
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and I really like this pedals.
So they great really cool thatyou can You know, move them
around as a, so to position,which will be comfortable for you.
It's really nice.
So yeah, hopefully Yorick willget new pedals in the future.
Um, so let's talk about, uh, iRacing.
Yeah.
So you jump into it and what's,what's your favorite series right now?
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Let's start from Katarinaand then Jessica.
Um, I'm actually more into cheek.
GT cars.
Um, at the moment, uh, this season Idrove the, um, Toyota, uh, GR, uh, 68.
Um, because really a fan of Toyota.
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So I really liked this guy.
I love Toyota.
I love the brand.
So, um, I also drove a little bitof Ferrari and then I actually
got into, uh, NASCAR series.
Um, so I'm currently at my oval face,
yeah, also with a Toyota,so it's kind of fun.
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Yeah.
I like a little bit more theformula cars like you and yeah,
I drove the formula four wheels.
I started in November with iRacing.
At first we just had one accounttogether because Yeah, it was really
not necessary to have two accounts.
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And, yeah, I drove for fun alittle bit, um, rallycross.
It was the W for how we people andyeah, so the difference between
the formula and rally course.
But it's both fun and I like it and yeah.
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Yeah, rallycross and iRacing is awesome.
I also really like todo it from time to time.
I didn't touch it a long time becauseI was really into Porsche Cup and, uh,
recently I just returned back to Formula3, uh, because I didn't race it long time.
And I did rallycross.
I did, uh, this, uh, bigtracks with a rear wheel drive.
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They're really fun to drive.
Love them.
Um.
So, yeah, and my favorite series willbe Porsche Cup because here is no
traction, no ABS system on the car.
I really like it So, yeah, what what'syour favorite combo will be, uh, Katarina?
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My favorite combo, um Um,that's, that's a tough one.
Um, I, I think it, Ireally loved the Toyota 68.
I know it's, it's, it's a basiccar and it's, uh, it's a beginner
car, but I really love it, uh,how it behaves and how it looks.
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And, um, I really love Suzuka.
It's a cool track.
I mean, sure, for the Toyota, it's alittle bit, uh, slow, but yeah, that's,
that would probably be my combo.
Yeah, my combo, I think it's LagunaSeca and the Formula 4 at the moment,
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but the Formula 3, I like really too.
So yeah, at the moment, Formula4, Laguna Seca, I would say.
Laguna Seca is a great track.
I think it's a little bitunderrated by the community.
Um, and I think people are just afraidof this track a little bit in iRacing.
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Maybe.
Yeah, Suzuka is a great track also.
I like Suzuka.
You know, when people ask me,like, what's your favorite combo,
I can't decide, but usually that'sPorsche Cup and Road Atlanta.
Um, because Most of thetime I'm at World Atlanta.
This is one of my favorite track.
I really like how it goes with the flowand with the uphills and downhills.
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It's really cool to drive.
It's awesome.
Um, do you plan to do any championshipsin a racing in the future in this year?
So let's talk about themif you're planning some.
Um, we definitely want to, um, raisethe screen to speed challenges, uh, uh,
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coming up and, um, and otherwise, I don'tknow, I'm, we have some team members who
want to drive some long distance races,like, um, Good seabrings, uh, and so on.
So maybe we, we jump in at maybethe 24 hours of Newark ring, but,
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uh, it's, it's nothing settled yet.
We mostly it's, uh, okay, we'll race that.
Yeah.
And, um, we also have a localsim racing center here, um, where
we, I think twice a week there.
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And there's a little quiet community,uh, there where we can battle each other.
And they're also doing championships.
Um, we are mostly thereand drive this ones too.
So.
Exactly, but they are not oniRacing, they are done on Assetto
Corsa from the simulation, so yeah,it's always a little bit different.
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But yeah, it's always fun becauseit's, this is also cool because,
um, you have the, the sim racers whocome there to drive and real life
racers who are, uh, really competingin the 24 hours of Nürburgring.
And that's, that's sometimes crazywhen you watch them, how quickly
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they can adapt to just sim racingthing and how fast they are.
That's really cool.
So of course we trained with thissimulator several hours and this guy
sits there and yeah, one lap, two laps,three, five, and then he has the time.
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We work for hours or longer.
Yeah, but yeah.
We can still learn and get better.
That's really nice that we got a localsim racing center where you got a great
community and can race also there.
Uh, you mentioned screen tospeed event and, uh, events.
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And, uh, I know that youfinished P3 and P4, right?
Recently.
Uh, how is this, uh, for you?
And, uh, like, do you have any, like,team strategy, something like this?
Uh, actually, uh, you just jumped in.
Yes.
It wasn't planned, right?
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Because we said we need to, uh,look that both simulators run.
But it runs when you were in, so let's go.
You didn't have any training.
Just one hour before it started, wedecided, oh, let's, Let's have a look
and I jumped into the other Gran Turismosimulator, yeah, with nearly no feedback
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and I drove and I just said, hey, try yourbest, you get a better setup and I just,
I don't want to collide with you with ourfirst race last year together because at
the, um, first, um, screen to speed race.
At Okayama, it was theToyota we drove together.
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So, um, yeah, I crashed a little bitinto her and she spun around and, yeah.
That was not fun.
Well, it was funny because we, we decided,okay, we are not crashing each other.
We try to, uh, to work togetherand then she just, uh, yeah, cut
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the corner and kicked me out.
I can't see you.
Yeah.
But on Saturday it worked better.
We didn't kick each other out.
Yes.
Actually, there was no really strategy.
We just thought okay, we try to survivethat one because always in all it's
always about surviving especially thestarts and so on and We we also messed
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up our strategy a little bit becauseI I was confused Everybody was running
on the safety car into the pits andwe stayed out and I thought, Oh my
God, that was, that was not good.
Yeah, but we, we managedto, to stay in the pack.
And, uh, then I had to go tothe pits and I, uh, did, uh, not
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enough, um, fuel fuel into my car.
So I, I managed my gap, uh, to her,but, uh, then I realized, oh my gosh,
this is not going to last till the end.
I need to save her.
And, and, and then I just, uh, need tolift and coast more and more and she
comes closer and closer and closer.
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I was so happy when I see thewhite flag and I thought, okay, it
will, it will, it will work out.
Yes.
Yeah.
And after my pit stop, I hadabout 70, 60, uh, 70 seconds.
Yeah, I was behind, and then I, yeah,I saw that you are slower than me,
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but I didn't know the reason why.
I thought maybe a little accident,anything with your car happens that you
can't get, uh, go to pace, and, yeah.
So, every lap a little bit, a halfa second sometimes, and I knew that.
To the end, maybe.
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I was sweating.
I'm coming.
Yes.
But, yeah.
In the last lap, I thinkI had someone with me.
And, yeah, we finished.
You just could manageit and stay before me
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and I, I really was over the line and then
less than a lap, not a half lap.
So yeah, it was really close one.
Yeah.
But I really wanted to avoid thissecond step because I knew when I do
the second step, I will be way behind.
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So yeah,
Really nice that you managed tosave fuel and, uh, and finish on P3.
Congrats.
Yeah, Sophie just, uh, said in chatthat I wonder why you lost so much time.
Yeah, it was fuel saving.
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How do you like the screen tospeed community and how do you feel
overall about, uh, like girls intosim racing and, uh, do you feel
that, uh, sim racing community isfriendly and nice, uh, to women?
What do you think about this?
Uh, let's start with Jessica.
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I think it's really fun to drivethere and yeah, I'm really excited.
Right now for the next races even,because that's the first time with
FF1600, so a little bit formula like,and I think that will be really cool.
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And from the community, weGet good feedback and yeah,
it's always great to be there.
Yeah, I think There are alwaysso good simracing girls and women
on Events that's so much fun.
And it's most of the time.
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It's really really fair and I thinkit's really cool also, we just knew or
about screen to speed Uh, from the ADACSim Racing Expo last year, um, so that,
that was the moment where we met, uh,the whole community and saw the race.
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It did it on, um, on the fair.
That was also cool to have a space onlyfor women in this whole, uh, man area.
So because even.
On the Sim Racing Expo, it waswhen you come to the simulators
there and ask, can I try it out?
It always was, oh yeah, try it out.
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You can.
And then after, when you do thefirst lap, they're just getting their
smartphones out and filming you.
Because they can't drive.
So.
Yeah, and, um, the community fromScreen2Speed is really, really cool.
It's really nice.
Everybody's nice.
Everybody's cool.
So it's, it's, it's a lot of funto get to know each other and, um,
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race against, against each other.
Um, in iRacing, I think it's a bit split.
Sometimes you have Um, some weirdoswho, who don't like to be beat by a
woman, so they might dive bomb youor things like that on the last lap,
but, um, yeah, I think that's happens.
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And at the sim racing expo, we alsogot a little coaching from Nina Han, so
that was very nice from her and yeah.
So we met Yvonne and all the othersthere and got really good feedback.
Yeah, we are looking really forwardfor this year and be there too.
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Yeah, we got a lot of great people in theSports and, uh, they did a really good
job supporting women into some racing intomotorsport as well and give opportunity to
girls who coming to some racing, uh, alsoto feel comfortable because sometimes,
uh, Like, I get used to that, uh, here'sa lot of men, uh, in motorsports and
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racing, and I just get used to that.
Uh, some girls can be a little bitafraid of jumping into, uh, male
dominated areas, uh, where here's alot of men, and that's great to have
a, a place where you can feel safe andcan, can feel, uh, every time welcome.
It's really awesome.
But, uh, from my experience, I also wantto ask you about, uh, how can you compare
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the, uh, karting community to simracing,uh, one, because, uh, when I was in
karting, it was really toxic, and, uh,when I was in open wheelers, I also was
like, you know, only one person, so, like,guys, they communicating with each other,
and they just, like, ignore me, uh, 100%,especially if If you're winning, if you're
(39:59):
on top three, top five, they're like,oh, we're not going to talk with you now.
So, yeah, it's really, um, you know.
I just get used to that, but I can feelthat it can be a really painful thing
for some people, especially for newpeople who coming into some racing.
So yeah, what do you think aboutcars and community in Germany
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and how they treat you here?
Let's start with Katerina.
Um, I think you have a little bit moreexperience about that, but I can say from
my side, um, I got lucky because we, um,are in the motorsports club and they're
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In this club, it's really, really niceto, um, and you do, you get connected
really fast and you help each other out.
So, um, even with the otherclubs, it was, it was good for me.
Um, when it comes to, um, long distanceracing, we also did in the past.
Um, it depends.
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You, you always have somepeople who are, yeah.
Like, I don't want to get toknow you, or we are enemies,
and I don't want to buy you.
But, um, I think we, we are luckythat we always had some people around
us who support us, and, um, yeah.
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Didn't look at our gender, if we arewomen or not, or, so, um, I think,
for me, it was really positive.
Yeah, for me too.
So even in the championship, I didit for about a really long time.
And it was outstanding, yes.
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Um, yeah.
And so everybody grew up ina way with, with all this.
And they saw me year foryear fighting for the, yeah.
Top podium positions and yeah,so you get over the long distance
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a little respect of them.
And yeah, they see, you know, howgood you are, how good you deliver
every time and then it grows.
Most of the time and everybody knows,yeah, it's even besides the track, you,
you stay overnight, you camp there, you,um, you eat barbecue together and so on.
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So I think that that also helpsto, to get to know each other.
Yeah, that's then one bigcommunity and yeah, everybody are
friends, most of them and yeah.
It's really cool time, just like abig summer camp you see every weekend
and yeah, you spend with this guysmore than with some other guys, your
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relatives or something like this.
Really cool that you gotthat positive experience.
That's really nice.
Um, do you see that, uh, now, uh,you can mention more girls into
karting and into some racing as well?
So how do you think the industrychanging for this years?
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Difficult.
Um, I think it, it gets better evenwith, um, uh, things like, uh, screen
to speed to help grow and you have more,um, yeah, female personalities in a sport
where you can look up to here in Germany.
It's a Sophia flush.
(43:46):
For example, um, I know that a lot ofgirls look up to her, um, yeah, but it's,
it's still tough I think to get somesponsors and, um, yeah, when you, when
these, my feeling is when sponsors, uh,could choose between a boy or a girl or
a woman or a man, firstly would choosethe man because he is better to promote.
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Um.
But, um, yeah, we need to keep workon it, that it gets better, and,
um, yeah, maybe someday we have awoman Formula One, competing, that
would, that would be great, yeah.
Yeah, that would be awesome to, tohave a women, woman in the Formula
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One, or even a lot of them, who knows.
Yeah, that would be great, but, yeah,keep pushing everybody, and never give up.
That's the message wecould give to everybody.
And yeah, so just make the first step,try it out and yeah, if it's fun, do it.
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Believe in your dreamsand yeah, keep going.
Yeah, that's true.
We should just, uh, focus on our dreamsand, uh, doesn't matter if we girl or
boy, like if you want to do some racing,you can jump to some racing and do it.
Uh, so I always, uh, answer to questions.
Like, how do you feel to beonly one girl on the grade?
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I'm like, I'm just a racing driver,you know, in the car and that's it.
So it doesn't matter if I'm girlor boy when I'm in the racing car.
Uh, so I believe that, uh, with sometime, uh, people just going to race, uh,
with girls and there'll be absolutelynormal thing, like nothing, uh,
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really, uh, the thing which stand out.
All right.
Um, so speaking about other hobbies,uh, I know, Katharina, that you're
into Chinese Kung Fu, right?
So can you tell me more about it andhow you started, how you get into this?
(46:10):
Um, I'm, I first started, Ithink when I was 14 or 15.
So a long time ago, um, it, it,I just came over school into it.
There was, there was a trialtraining and I thought, okay,
maybe I try it out for fun.
And I. Stick to it.
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Um, I did a little break over some yearsbecause of, um, school and work, but, um,
yeah, I'm now really, really into it andtrying to, um, get up to grades there.
And I think it's, it's, uh, crazy howsimilar things are from, um, Kung Fu or
(46:53):
martial arts to motorsports because Uh,about concentration, about breathing,
about, um, your body physics and, uh,feeling your body and feeling the car.
So you, you can adapt a lot of thingsfrom, from both worlds, uh, to each other.
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And yeah, for me, it's, it's,uh, more a way to relax, even
though it's exhausting to do it.
So, but, but I always feelrelaxed when I come from training.
So that's really cool.
That's nice.
Uh, what about you, Jessica?
Do you have any other hobbiesoutside of racing and sim racing?
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Well, not so much.
It's always a lot of stuff to doaround the SimRig, our real part,
the Toyota, the Yaris, and so Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of things to do.
Yeah.
You, you like to, uh, to workon the things and, uh, try
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to understand how it works.
Yeah.
And even improve it.
Yeah.
She's always, um, yeah, improvingthe paddles and says, yeah, I would
change that and this and that.
And I think, okay, yeah, do it.
Understand possible landing,but it will be great.
I asked her if I did something,so, yeah, is it better or not,
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and she says, I don't know.
But after a few times,then, yeah, it's good.
It's getting faster andfaster, and so, yeah.
So outside of being the driver,you're also trying to be the
sim racing engineer, yeah?
(48:44):
Yes.
Yeah.
And, and even mechanicon the cart and so on.
So she can do that.
I mean, I can change tires at least.
So no, I built a whole cart,um, completely from ground up.
So yeah, I knew every screw at the cart.
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Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Try it out.
Yeah.
Really cool.
It's also a kind of Thank you.
Yeah, because, you know, I think that, uh,not so many drivers who's into karting,
into racing, they also, uh, kind of tryingto dive deep into mechanic part of this
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and, uh, do something with their own handsand, uh, it's It's really awesome, uh,
because I also really like to spend timewith my, my dad, uh, my dad built, build
my carts and I also help him to build it.
Uh, it was really fun for me.
So I know I was always like,I want to screw something, do
(49:53):
something because it's really fun.
All right.
Um, do you have any plans for motorsport?
Do you have any plans forkarting, uh, this year in 2025?
Um, we will compete in, in the,um, in our local car championship
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with our Toyota, definitely.
Um, the season starts, I think, in May?
In May?
Um, unfortunately, there are not so manyevents like, uh, the last years, because,
um, for all the clubs, it gets harderto get the tracks and so on, and, yeah.
Also a financial problem for them.
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So, um, I think it's four or five races.
Um, when it comes to karting, I thinkwe will do some long distance races.
With our team, butnothing specific planned.
We will see, uh, comes up with
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our own card.
I think it's more like a fun, fun drive.
We can use our club track for free.
So on Sundays we can go on a trackand just drive without, um, yeah,
competing in a championship or so on.
'cause we need to focus on some things.
When you do want to do everything in, ina high level, it's a little bit too much.
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So, yeah.
Um, I would say we do thecarting stuff for fun.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, the screen to speedevents we already mentioned,
um, I think that's quite a lot.
Mm-hmm . And some videos for our channel.
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Mm-hmm . Yeah, I think that's goodplans, which you got for 2025 and also
probably I'm going to see you see youon one of the screen to speed events.
Uh, we got a question for you in the chat.
How long is a regular stintin an endurance karting race?
It depends on the, uh,uh, distance for sure.
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Um, normally it's about one hour youdrive the car, but, um, it depends a
little bit because, um, the, the drivertimes you have for the, for the stints
is limited, so, um, I don't know whenyou have a six hour race like that and
you compete with three drivers, um,everybody needs to, um, at least drive,
(52:28):
I think, one hour or something like that.
But mostly it makes sense to justsplit it into two hour splits.
But, uh, there's also a lot ofstrategy when you come in to do the
driver change and the karting change,usually you need to change the karts.
And so, um, it depends.
But I would say one to two hours.
(52:57):
I can give a right answer becauseit depends on the distance, you
have three hours, six hours,eight hours, 12 hours, so
it also depends on the strategywhich you're running, right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
I did some, some races, uh,encouraging endurance races.
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We had like four hour raceor something like this.
And, uh, we had, uh, three peoplein a team and, uh, someone Longer
stints and, uh, some other drivers,uh, drove, uh, shorter stints.
So, yeah, it depends on, uh,a lot of things, as you said.
All right.
And before we wrap up, I got,uh, a few questions for you.
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Uh, can you describe yourdriving style in three words?
Let's start with Katerinaand then, uh, Jessica.
You can try it as well.
Okay, um, three words.
Um,
I think Oh, that's really tough.
(54:05):
Um, I think smooth.
Um,
sometimes a bit crazy.
And, um, I don't know.
(54:27):
Hmm.
You have your own line.
Oh, yeah.
My line is special.
So special.
Definitely special.
Yes.
All right.
Drives in indoor karting orsomething like this behind her.
Um, the one crashes into the barriers.
So you can't drive her line.
It's not possible.
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Yeah, it's fast.
I can't drive it.
Yeah.
And my three words, um, yeah.
What would you say ? Um,
(55:15):
maybe aggress aggressiveor something like this.
Um, focused on perfectionlab . That's, that's not my, that's
not word . That's a sentence.
Yeah.
Um, well, can sayfocused, uh, like perfect
(55:36):
or perfection.
Perfection, yeah, and I would saygood looking, because it always
looks good when you drive, so.
All right, that counts, I think.
All right, and, um, the last onewill be, uh, what a team song
would be for your racing career?
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Catherine and Jessica, uh, that can be,like, your favorite song or something like
this, so, uh, when you see your racingcareer, what song playing in your head?
Oh, that's, um, for me, I really haveall the time, uh, music in my ears.
So it's, it's, it's kind of hard todecide, but I would definitely go with
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something from the Imagine Dragonsbecause I'm a huge Imagine Dragons fan.
Um, Um, I think I go with Radioactive,that's, that's a powerful song,
and I saw it live and that, thatjust really gets me pumped up, so.
(56:41):
Um, yeah, good song.
Um, yeah, I don't know,there are so many good songs.
But, yeah, maybe
you go with your favorite band?
Hmm,
(57:05):
good question.
There are so many good songs to makeyou focus and yeah, I think every
time, every year has a good, you know,good new actors, good new songs and
you combinate them with the season.
(57:30):
So every season has onesong or something like this.
So, but what does the best ? Soyou can pick, uh, you can pick
then, uh, your song of 2025
2025. Um, I dunno.
(57:52):
Um, could we take, I
dunno.
I don't want to listen to musicat the moment so much, so,
yeah, you're not reallyinto, into, uh, music.
You always need to listen to my music, so,yeah, all the time, music on and, yeah.
(58:18):
All right, so maybe we can countImagine Dragons Radioactive
as your song for your family.
Let me take that one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you so much for talking.
It was really fun, uh, toget in to know you closer.
Uh, wish you good luckfor 2025 with your plans.
(58:38):
Uh, probably going to see you ontrack with screen to speed events
and guys, thank you so much forwatching and see you next time.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
It was a pleasure.
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Hi everyone.
Welcome to any talks.
Happy to see everybody in chat.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh, welcome to our, uh, today's,uh, show and, uh, please
welcome Katherine and Jessica.
Hello.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for joining.
Uh, it looks pretty.
Thank you so much.
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All right.
And, uh, let's start from, uh, Katerina.
Can you tell how you start,uh, your way into motorsports?
I know you both in motorsports.
Uh, let's start with you and then Jessicacan answer on this question as well.
Okay.
Um, my journey, um, yeah, started,um, pretty late, I guess, uh, which is
(01:32):
not common, um, because I was alwaysinterested in motorsports, watching
Formula One and, um, here in Germany, GTM.
Um, but I was never able to, uh, gokarting or things like that as a child.
So, um, yeah, I have focused onplaying, uh, Gran Turismo and
so on, so PlayStation's games.
(01:53):
And, um, I remember when the GT Academystarted, I was, um, so hyped and I
thought, Oh my God, this is so cool.
You get the opportunityto race a real car.
And, um, that's when I started to,uh, buy a steering wheel and, uh,
Built a little small setup and I wasreally focused in driving GT academy.
(02:20):
So, um, yeah, that, that was themoment where it all made click and I
thought, Oh my God, this is so cool.
And I really can do it.
Um, and later I met Jessica,um, she's, uh, she was carting
at that time and I never sit ina cart or something like that.
And, uh, yeah, she introducedme into this world.
(02:43):
And we did a bit ofreal life racing there.
So, um, that was my twenties, I guess.
And, uh, yeah, about simracing, um, really serious.
It got when COVID came because we couldn'tdo the real life racing any longer.
So, um, we decided togive it a try and, uh.
(03:07):
Build our setup forward andjumped right into iRacing,
which was a quite a big step.
Yeah, and um, yeah, my part started alsowith Gran Turismo many years ago, just as
gaming and but I focused at first on realtime, also real life karting and yeah.
(03:34):
I had, I was lucky I had theopportunity to do it and yeah, so
I focused at first on this one.
Yeah, it was more like, uh, I introducedher into the sim racing and she used me
into the real life racing, which was kindof funny because we both coached each
other and yeah, that's really cool for me.
(04:00):
Yes.
Yeah.
For me, it was.
At the beginning, really complicatedto start sim racing because the
feeling was really different.
I had just the steering wheel andyeah, so to adapt it from real
life to sim, that's not so easy.
(04:20):
Yeah, and for me it was, it wasalso crazy because, um, I mean, sim
racing can be exhausting too, butwhen you sit in a real, real car, you
feel the g force for the first timeand it, your neck goes like this.
Quite an experience.
(04:40):
Yeah, that's awesome that you,uh, like started from sim racing.
She started in karting and you both,uh, kind of like, uh, get involved
into sim racing and karting as well.
That's really cool.
Uh, I started from kartingwhen I was nine years old.
So yeah, I understand what you're talkingabout and, uh, actually karting because
we've got a really small kart circus.
(05:01):
Uh, circuits, it's really, uh, youknow, pretty intense races, uh, compared
to what you got in the, um, normalroad racing, um, like formalists.
It's a lot of things just, uh, happen, youknow, uh, slower, uh, in, in formalists or
in the, in cars, uh, compared to karting.
So, yeah, it's, it's crazy.
(05:22):
Um, who, uh, who areyour biggest motorsports?
Uh, Idol.
So for me that was Valentino Rossi.
So I started karting because of my dad,so he getting, uh, me into the karting.
And, uh, I was a bigfan of Valentino Rossi.
I was watching MotoGPs and when Istarted, I picked the 46 number.
(05:46):
So who was it for you, uh, Katarina?
Um, for me, it was, uh, Michael Hecken,actually, even though I'm German, which
mostly means that most people like MichaelSchumacher, so, um, uh, as a child, I
really looked up to Michael Hecken, andlater on Sebastian Vettel, you know.
(06:08):
Yeah.
For me, it started with MichaelSchumacher and, yeah, later
also with Sebastian Vettel,
Yeah, it fits good.
That's nice.
I also was a big fanof Michael Schumacher.
I remember I was playing this, uh,the card Michael Schumacher game,
(06:29):
uh, when it was in my childhood.
It was really fun.
Um, so can you tell me how you met eachother in Karthing, how this happened?
And, uh, you also mentioned inyour bio that you, uh, fall in
love with each other as well asyou fall in love in Karthing also.
Um, actually it was, uh,uh, with the dating side,
(06:56):
it was, it was, it's quite a crazy.
I, um, I just, uh, yeah, got on thestating side and I thought, okay.
I just do it.
Maybe something comes up or even not.
I, I didn't believe in it thatit would really work, uh, would
work out, but actually it did.
I, uh, just made, uh, three years,uh, three years, um, membership.
(07:23):
So, well, because I thought,okay, yeah, it will take time.
And yeah, not quite, I don'tknow, four weeks after I just met
them, made a membership, which isconnected and it fit immediately.
So I, I paid for it three yearsand I never used it anymore.
So it was, yeah.
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And you even did not manage.
You mentioned that, um, that youlike motorsports at first, so we
just found out it a little bit later.
And, yeah, so the first time Icame to you and I saw you have in
your living room a little sim rig.
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And, yeah, I thought, wow, great.
Yeah, even though I was a bigmotorsport fan, I didn't thought
that anybody would love it like I do.
So, because in all my, uh, all my friends,they never really cared about motorsports.
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So I thought, okay, I can,But yeah, then you found me.
Well, I think, you know, I'm just, uh,thinking that you're from Germany and,
uh, I think a lot of people in Germanyare into motorsport because, uh, here's
a lot of, uh, racing tracks, especiallythe big Nordschleife where people, uh,
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uh, doing track days and all this stuff.
So yeah, it's interesting to see that,uh, you didn't have anyone in your, uh,
surroundings who was into motorsport.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah.
All right.
So you met each other, uh, at Karsingand How was the first experience
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for you, Katerina, to, uh, liketransition from sim racing to karting?
Like, was it really hard to adapt to it?
Uh, I know that you mentioned before,uh, there was a bit weird with G forces.
Uh, but in terms of how you understandthe line on the track and, uh, all
the stuff, did sim racing help you,uh, to start your way in karting?
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I think, um, the feeling of the carand, or the car in that case, and,
uh, the lines, I think I could, uh,adapt that really quickly and, uh, it
helped, it helped me definitely out.
But, um, also I had a very good coach,which is always fun to do it and, uh.
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Yeah, I gave me tips.
Um, so I think it helps a lot.
Definitely.
So and still it does as well becausewe also train in the simulator for
our real life championships now.
So it does help.
Definitely.
Mhm.
That's awesome.
So I think the same stuff happened to me.
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So it was in the open wheelers, itwas in karsing before, then open
wheelers, then I jump into simracing was quite easy to adapt.
Uh, it was crazy with all,uh, competition, which you
meeting in, uh, in sim racing.
It's absolutely crazy.
Uh, I know that you, youdoing karsing in, uh, Germany.
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Yeah.
I guess, uh, but I was doing it inKazakhstan and I four times won the
championship here and, uh, I wasjust pulling away from everybody.
And when I jump into some racing, I'mlike, wow, I finally can race with people.
And I finally got, uh,you know, someone who's.
Faster than me.
And it's really cool actually.
Um, so the same question for you,Jessica, uh, how was your transition
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from karting, uh, to sim racing?
Uh, was it really hard to loseall the G forces and feelings, uh,
which you got in the real life?
Yeah, at first it was not so easy to,um, yeah, to miss the G forces and the
feedback from the tires in real life.
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And, yeah, the motion of the card,the way it moves in a certain way,
because I, um, drove, um, yeah, aslalom championship, so not on track,
so you have just one time to look atthe track, to walk around, and then
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this one run must fit in a certain way.
And you have to just.
And yeah, it has to be perfect.
And in simracing you can tryagain and again and yeah.
It's a little bit differentin a way, but yeah.
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I got even to a good coach,
more experience and yeah, so we stilllearn from each other every time.
And yeah, this is awesome actuallyto have person who support you.
I also got husband, uh, he's into someracing and, uh, he also teach me a lot
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in sim racing and, uh, also bring me intoour racing because, uh, before that I was.
James, most of the coursesand project cars too.
Uh, so yeah, we also help eachother on the racing track and it's,
it's really, really cool there.
You got, uh, the same partnership.
It's a really.
Awesome.
Um, can you tell me aboutyour biggest achievements in
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karting and in some racing?
Let's start with Katarina.
Um,
I think one of the biggest things Iachieved is, um, being third in the
championship, um, in my third year.
So, um, when you think of all thepeople I raced against, um, they are
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all doing it since they were little.
So, um, I don't know, five, six yearsold and I started in my twenties,
so I think that's, uh, kind of cool.
And, um, also since, I don't, I think2017 or so on, we, um, also do it with,
uh, drive cars and, um, I've managedto be, uh, three times a club champion.
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So that's, uh, Also cool.
Yeah.
And yeah, I have, uh, I don't knowhow much, why second place, uh, hasn't
championships from the ADAC slalomchampionship and third and fourth places.
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I can't count over the years.
Um, yeah, but I never got the title.
So the competition is really,really hard and all the other.
Um, yeah, I fight, or I fought with thelast years, they all started even at the
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age of eight years about, and so, if yougo there on track, so the first seven,
eight, ten people, everybody can win.
And that's the thing.
It's every day just, uh, yeah, a tenth oreven less after two runs and, yeah, every
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little mistakes, yeah, the run is gone.
The day.
Yeah, but that's also the thing, thething which makes it great because
it's not like you go there and youcan win it easily, you really have to
fight for it and a lot of effort in it.
And that makes fun because, um, it's, it'shard, but it's also cool because you get
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better and better and better and better.
You work on the card, have theopportunity to tune your card to, yeah.
to make it fit better toyour own driving style.
And yeah, the regulationsallow it in this class.
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And yeah, so everybody has its owncart, uh, optimized for their own
racing style, I would like to say.
And yeah, the competition is really hard.
Well, I think it's always great when yougot a high Competition level, uh, because
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as you said, uh, Katerina, you alwaysgot, like, you getting better and better.
You always got a place to improvementsand it's, uh, really cool.
Uh, you mentioned that youdid some car, car racing.
Uh, what cars did youdrive and did you race?
And, uh, what tracks if, or you did alsosome kind of, uh, car slalom as Jessica?
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We own a Toyota Yaris, um, butnot the super cool new one.
It's actually the car from 2005,so it's a little bit low budget.
Um, and it's, uh, we, youknow, championship we drive.
It's pretty similar to cartingslalom, but with cars, um, There are
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different, uh, tracks and levels.
We have, um, we have a small local tracks,which is basically also on carting tracks.
And, but we also drove a Germanchampionship, um, some, some years
ago and they're on, um, old airplanefields, which is basically have a
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track that's about two kilometers.
And um, yeah, that's, that's kind of cool.
Um, it's not, it's not that we drovewith two or three cars at the same time.
Uh, You always drive your own run, andthe fastest one wins, so it's more like,
uh, yeah, I don't, not like a drag, but adrag race, but, um, the best time counts,
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because this is, um, the most affordableway to do some, um, racing in a, in a car
here for, um, I would say normal people,because when you come to, you mentioned
that you drove formula cars and so on.
Um, I think there'salways the budget problem.
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Things like that.
I mean, we, we also did, um, some,um, formula for car training on.
But, um, yeah, it was a one time thingwhere we just thought, okay, that's cool.
We really want to experience that.
So, but, uh, doing a championshipin that is really expensive.
So.
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Yeah, that's true.
So formal was really expensiveand I had a good sponsor.
I had, I was part of the AstanaMotorsports team, uh, they support
me as they closed the program.
I stopped to do any in real life racingbecause I didn't have this opportunity.
I'm not from the rich family.
Uh, just get opportunity to.
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jump and continue my career, but, uh,you know, some racing, uh, found me
and, um, actually really happy aboutthis, uh, because I'm still doing the
same and also got my own community.
I'm also streaming.
It's really cool.
Um, you also said that you startediRacing, yeah, in, uh, 2020.
So during the pandemic, like many of usstarted from this, uh, Can you tell me
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more about, uh, how you choose iRacing?
Like, uh, you did some Gran Turismo.
Did you have any simulatorsbetween Gran Turismo and iRacing?
Or you just directly jump into iRacing?
Uh, let's start from Jessica.
Um, yeah, no, we actually starteddirectly, uh, with iRacing and yeah,
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during Corona, um, we, we informedabout the simulation and, um,
yeah, the feedback was really good.
And that's, it's, yeah, wouldbe hard to say, um, competitive,
competitive in a way.
And yeah.
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So we decided to start directlywith iRacing, and we liked it, and
yeah, but our, yeah, equipment wasat that point not so good, but yeah.
Yeah, we only had a Thrustmaster,so with no basic feedback, no load
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cell, nothing just really basic.
And, um, yeah, when you start iRacing,it's really hard when you hit the brakes
for the first time, you think, Oh my God,what's happening, why did I turn the car?
Yeah.
It was not that easy, but we, we quicklyadapt because yeah, we had time, I mean,
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um, I was new, working full time remote.
You were able to go out becauseyour, um, company was, uh, you,
you have a job where you need to goout, but I was the whole time here.
So I had a lot of timeto, uh, to get into it.
Yeah.
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I also get into iRacing during pandemic,and, uh, I remember that I had a G27, so
you started from really basic equipment,uh, I started also, so now I got triple,
DD wheel, uh, load cell pedals, I thinkload cell pedals for me, that was the
biggest improvement which, uh, I gotin my equipment, um, so speaking about
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equipment, what do you have right now?
Because I see, uh, the AT20rig behind you, I think.
I'm a pro, I'm a pro.
Uh, yeah, that's actually a new one.
We just built, um, the, the otherones in the other room, which, uh, we
started from, um, that was, or is stilla basic setup with, um, uh, formula
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one seat and, uh, a trust master.
300 RS and the TLC load cell break.
So we got that basic setup.
We, we, we started during pandemicand this other one was, uh, yeah,
it happened, but it happens.
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Yeah.
Um, yeah, that, that we have afull, uh, camera set up actually.
Um, the camera C5.
And now with the load cell break, um,for those cameras and yeah, um, that
was, that was quite a story because wewere less, less, two years ago we were
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on the ADAC sim racing expo and rightbefore we, we said, okay, um, we go,
we go there and we stick to one setup.
You will not build a second one andthen there was some challenges and
we actually won the Camus C5 there.
So then we came back and said, okay,then we need to build a second one.
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So it just happened and yeah,so yeah, it started and yeah,
so everything just a little bit.
New monitor.
Yeah.
Now triple screen.
At first, a single streetscreen now triple screen and
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that's great.
Uh, do you have any plans for your other,which, uh, got T 300 right now on it,
not, not quite yet, but, uh, I. Yeah,maybe, um, maybe some new pedals.
I don't know.
Um, we still use it forPlayStation, uh, for Gran Turismo.
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I drive a little bit more on Gran Turismo.
It's also fun to do weeklychallenges at Gran Turismo.
And yeah, so it's a nice switchbetween iRacing and Gran Turismo.
And choose what you want to do.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
It's more like a fun thing.
So, um, maybe some, some new panelsif, um, there are some, um, good stuff
is coming up from Trustmaster, which,um, fits PlayStation and, um, PC.
I know it's all, it's always a compromiseyou need to go, but, um, it's okay.
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We, we got the other set up for iRacing.
So.
That's great
Well, I think first master should have newpedals which they include to t598 bundle
and This pedal set should have loads.
So Keith, I'm waiting for itbecause I got this t598 Bundle,
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and I really like this pedals.
So they great really cool thatyou can You know, move them
around as a, so to position,which will be comfortable for you.
It's really nice.
So yeah, hopefully Yorick willget new pedals in the future.
Um, so let's talk about, uh, iRacing.
Yeah.
So you jump into it and what's,what's your favorite series right now?
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Let's start from Katarinaand then Jessica.
Um, I'm actually more into cheek.
GT cars.
Um, at the moment, uh, this season Idrove the, um, Toyota, uh, GR, uh, 68.
Um, because really a fan of Toyota.
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So I really liked this guy.
I love Toyota.
I love the brand.
So, um, I also drove a little bitof Ferrari and then I actually
got into, uh, NASCAR series.
Um, so I'm currently at my oval face,
yeah, also with a Toyota,so it's kind of fun.
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Yeah.
I like a little bit more theformula cars like you and yeah,
I drove the formula four wheels.
I started in November with iRacing.
At first we just had one accounttogether because Yeah, it was really
not necessary to have two accounts.
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And, yeah, I drove for fun alittle bit, um, rallycross.
It was the W for how we people andyeah, so the difference between
the formula and rally course.
But it's both fun and I like it and yeah.
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Yeah, rallycross and iRacing is awesome.
I also really like todo it from time to time.
I didn't touch it a long time becauseI was really into Porsche Cup and, uh,
recently I just returned back to Formula3, uh, because I didn't race it long time.
And I did rallycross.
I did, uh, this, uh, bigtracks with a rear wheel drive.
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They're really fun to drive.
Love them.
Um.
So, yeah, and my favorite series willbe Porsche Cup because here is no
traction, no ABS system on the car.
I really like it So, yeah, what what'syour favorite combo will be, uh, Katarina?
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My favorite combo, um Um,that's, that's a tough one.
Um, I, I think it, Ireally loved the Toyota 68.
I know it's, it's, it's a basiccar and it's, uh, it's a beginner
car, but I really love it, uh,how it behaves and how it looks.
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And, um, I really love Suzuka.
It's a cool track.
I mean, sure, for the Toyota, it's alittle bit, uh, slow, but yeah, that's,
that would probably be my combo.
Yeah, my combo, I think it's LagunaSeca and the Formula 4 at the moment,
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but the Formula 3, I like really too.
So yeah, at the moment, Formula4, Laguna Seca, I would say.
Laguna Seca is a great track.
I think it's a little bitunderrated by the community.
Um, and I think people are just afraidof this track a little bit in iRacing.
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Maybe.
Yeah, Suzuka is a great track also.
I like Suzuka.
You know, when people ask me,like, what's your favorite combo,
I can't decide, but usually that'sPorsche Cup and Road Atlanta.
Um, because Most of thetime I'm at World Atlanta.
This is one of my favorite track.
I really like how it goes with the flowand with the uphills and downhills.
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It's really cool to drive.
It's awesome.
Um, do you plan to do any championshipsin a racing in the future in this year?
So let's talk about themif you're planning some.
Um, we definitely want to, um, raisethe screen to speed challenges, uh, uh,
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coming up and, um, and otherwise, I don'tknow, I'm, we have some team members who
want to drive some long distance races,like, um, Good seabrings, uh, and so on.
So maybe we, we jump in at maybethe 24 hours of Newark ring, but,
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uh, it's, it's nothing settled yet.
We mostly it's, uh, okay, we'll race that.
Yeah.
And, um, we also have a localsim racing center here, um, where
we, I think twice a week there.
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And there's a little quiet community,uh, there where we can battle each other.
And they're also doing championships.
Um, we are mostly thereand drive this ones too.
So.
Exactly, but they are not oniRacing, they are done on Assetto
Corsa from the simulation, so yeah,it's always a little bit different.
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But yeah, it's always fun becauseit's, this is also cool because,
um, you have the, the sim racers whocome there to drive and real life
racers who are, uh, really competingin the 24 hours of Nürburgring.
And that's, that's sometimes crazywhen you watch them, how quickly
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they can adapt to just sim racingthing and how fast they are.
That's really cool.
So of course we trained with thissimulator several hours and this guy
sits there and yeah, one lap, two laps,three, five, and then he has the time.
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We work for hours or longer.
Yeah, but yeah.
We can still learn and get better.
That's really nice that we got a localsim racing center where you got a great
community and can race also there.
Uh, you mentioned screen tospeed event and, uh, events.
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And, uh, I know that youfinished P3 and P4, right?
Recently.
Uh, how is this, uh, for you?
And, uh, like, do you have any, like,team strategy, something like this?
Uh, actually, uh, you just jumped in.
Yes.
It wasn't planned, right?
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Because we said we need to, uh,look that both simulators run.
But it runs when you were in, so let's go.
You didn't have any training.
Just one hour before it started, wedecided, oh, let's, Let's have a look
and I jumped into the other Gran Turismosimulator, yeah, with nearly no feedback
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and I drove and I just said, hey, try yourbest, you get a better setup and I just,
I don't want to collide with you with ourfirst race last year together because at
the, um, first, um, screen to speed race.
At Okayama, it was theToyota we drove together.
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So, um, yeah, I crashed a little bitinto her and she spun around and, yeah.
That was not fun.
Well, it was funny because we, we decided,okay, we are not crashing each other.
We try to, uh, to work togetherand then she just, uh, yeah, cut
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the corner and kicked me out.
I can't see you.
Yeah.
But on Saturday it worked better.
We didn't kick each other out.
Yes.
Actually, there was no really strategy.
We just thought okay, we try to survivethat one because always in all it's
always about surviving especially thestarts and so on and We we also messed
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up our strategy a little bit becauseI I was confused Everybody was running
on the safety car into the pits andwe stayed out and I thought, Oh my
God, that was, that was not good.
Yeah, but we, we managedto, to stay in the pack.
And, uh, then I had to go tothe pits and I, uh, did, uh, not
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enough, um, fuel fuel into my car.
So I, I managed my gap, uh, to her,but, uh, then I realized, oh my gosh,
this is not going to last till the end.
I need to save her.
And, and, and then I just, uh, need tolift and coast more and more and she
comes closer and closer and closer.
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I was so happy when I see thewhite flag and I thought, okay, it
will, it will, it will work out.
Yes.
Yeah.
And after my pit stop, I hadabout 70, 60, uh, 70 seconds.
Yeah, I was behind, and then I, yeah,I saw that you are slower than me,
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but I didn't know the reason why.
I thought maybe a little accident,anything with your car happens that you
can't get, uh, go to pace, and, yeah.
So, every lap a little bit, a halfa second sometimes, and I knew that.
To the end, maybe.
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I was sweating.
I'm coming.
Yes.
But, yeah.
In the last lap, I thinkI had someone with me.
And, yeah, we finished.
You just could manageit and stay before me
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and I, I really was over the line and then
less than a lap, not a half lap.
So yeah, it was really close one.
Yeah.
But I really wanted to avoid thissecond step because I knew when I do
the second step, I will be way behind.
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So yeah,
Really nice that you managed tosave fuel and, uh, and finish on P3.
Congrats.
Yeah, Sophie just, uh, said in chatthat I wonder why you lost so much time.
Yeah, it was fuel saving.
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How do you like the screen tospeed community and how do you feel
overall about, uh, like girls intosim racing and, uh, do you feel
that, uh, sim racing community isfriendly and nice, uh, to women?
What do you think about this?
Uh, let's start with Jessica.
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I think it's really fun to drivethere and yeah, I'm really excited.
Right now for the next races even,because that's the first time with
FF1600, so a little bit formula like,and I think that will be really cool.
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And from the community, weGet good feedback and yeah,
it's always great to be there.
Yeah, I think There are alwaysso good simracing girls and women
on Events that's so much fun.
And it's most of the time.
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It's really really fair and I thinkit's really cool also, we just knew or
about screen to speed Uh, from the ADACSim Racing Expo last year, um, so that,
that was the moment where we met, uh,the whole community and saw the race.
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It did it on, um, on the fair.
That was also cool to have a space onlyfor women in this whole, uh, man area.
So because even.
On the Sim Racing Expo, it waswhen you come to the simulators
there and ask, can I try it out?
It always was, oh yeah, try it out.
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You can.
And then after, when you do thefirst lap, they're just getting their
smartphones out and filming you.
Because they can't drive.
So.
Yeah, and, um, the community fromScreen2Speed is really, really cool.
It's really nice.
Everybody's nice.
Everybody's cool.
So it's, it's, it's a lot of funto get to know each other and, um,
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race against, against each other.
Um, in iRacing, I think it's a bit split.
Sometimes you have Um, some weirdoswho, who don't like to be beat by a
woman, so they might dive bomb youor things like that on the last lap,
but, um, yeah, I think that's happens.
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And at the sim racing expo, we alsogot a little coaching from Nina Han, so
that was very nice from her and yeah.
So we met Yvonne and all the othersthere and got really good feedback.
Yeah, we are looking really forwardfor this year and be there too.
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Yeah, we got a lot of great people in theSports and, uh, they did a really good
job supporting women into some racing intomotorsport as well and give opportunity to
girls who coming to some racing, uh, alsoto feel comfortable because sometimes,
uh, Like, I get used to that, uh, here'sa lot of men, uh, in motorsports and
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racing, and I just get used to that.
Uh, some girls can be a little bitafraid of jumping into, uh, male
dominated areas, uh, where here's alot of men, and that's great to have
a, a place where you can feel safe andcan, can feel, uh, every time welcome.
It's really awesome.
But, uh, from my experience, I also wantto ask you about, uh, how can you compare
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the, uh, karting community to simracing,uh, one, because, uh, when I was in
karting, it was really toxic, and, uh,when I was in open wheelers, I also was
like, you know, only one person, so, like,guys, they communicating with each other,
and they just, like, ignore me, uh, 100%,especially if If you're winning, if you're
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on top three, top five, they're like,oh, we're not going to talk with you now.
So, yeah, it's really, um, you know.
I just get used to that, but I can feelthat it can be a really painful thing
for some people, especially for newpeople who coming into some racing.
So yeah, what do you think aboutcars and community in Germany
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and how they treat you here?
Let's start with Katerina.
Um, I think you have a little bit moreexperience about that, but I can say from
my side, um, I got lucky because we, um,are in the motorsports club and they're
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In this club, it's really, really niceto, um, and you do, you get connected
really fast and you help each other out.
So, um, even with the otherclubs, it was, it was good for me.
Um, when it comes to, um, long distanceracing, we also did in the past.
Um, it depends.
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You, you always have somepeople who are, yeah.
Like, I don't want to get toknow you, or we are enemies,
and I don't want to buy you.
But, um, I think we, we are luckythat we always had some people around
us who support us, and, um, yeah.
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Didn't look at our gender, if we arewomen or not, or, so, um, I think,
for me, it was really positive.
Yeah, for me too.
So even in the championship, I didit for about a really long time.
And it was outstanding, yes.
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Um, yeah.
And so everybody grew up ina way with, with all this.
And they saw me year foryear fighting for the, yeah.
Top podium positions and yeah,so you get over the long distance
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a little respect of them.
And yeah, they see, you know, howgood you are, how good you deliver
every time and then it grows.
Most of the time and everybody knows,yeah, it's even besides the track, you,
you stay overnight, you camp there, you,um, you eat barbecue together and so on.
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So I think that that also helpsto, to get to know each other.
Yeah, that's then one bigcommunity and yeah, everybody are
friends, most of them and yeah.
It's really cool time, just like abig summer camp you see every weekend
and yeah, you spend with this guysmore than with some other guys, your
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relatives or something like this.
Really cool that you gotthat positive experience.
That's really nice.
Um, do you see that, uh, now, uh,you can mention more girls into
karting and into some racing as well?
So how do you think the industrychanging for this years?
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Difficult.
Um, I think it, it gets better evenwith, um, uh, things like, uh, screen
to speed to help grow and you have more,um, yeah, female personalities in a sport
where you can look up to here in Germany.
It's a Sophia flush.
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For example, um, I know that a lot ofgirls look up to her, um, yeah, but it's,
it's still tough I think to get somesponsors and, um, yeah, when you, when
these, my feeling is when sponsors, uh,could choose between a boy or a girl or
a woman or a man, firstly would choosethe man because he is better to promote.
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Um.
But, um, yeah, we need to keep workon it, that it gets better, and,
um, yeah, maybe someday we have awoman Formula One, competing, that
would, that would be great, yeah.
Yeah, that would be awesome to, tohave a women, woman in the Formula
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One, or even a lot of them, who knows.
Yeah, that would be great, but, yeah,keep pushing everybody, and never give up.
That's the message wecould give to everybody.
And yeah, so just make the first step,try it out and yeah, if it's fun, do it.
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Believe in your dreamsand yeah, keep going.
Yeah, that's true.
We should just, uh, focus on our dreamsand, uh, doesn't matter if we girl or
boy, like if you want to do some racing,you can jump to some racing and do it.
Uh, so I always, uh, answer to questions.
Like, how do you feel to beonly one girl on the grade?
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I'm like, I'm just a racing driver,you know, in the car and that's it.
So it doesn't matter if I'm girlor boy when I'm in the racing car.
Uh, so I believe that, uh, with sometime, uh, people just going to race, uh,
with girls and there'll be absolutelynormal thing, like nothing, uh,
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really, uh, the thing which stand out.
All right.
Um, so speaking about other hobbies,uh, I know, Katharina, that you're
into Chinese Kung Fu, right?
So can you tell me more about it andhow you started, how you get into this?
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Um, I'm, I first started, Ithink when I was 14 or 15.
So a long time ago, um, it, it,I just came over school into it.
There was, there was a trialtraining and I thought, okay,
maybe I try it out for fun.
And I. Stick to it.
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Um, I did a little break over some yearsbecause of, um, school and work, but, um,
yeah, I'm now really, really into it andtrying to, um, get up to grades there.
And I think it's, it's, uh, crazy howsimilar things are from, um, Kung Fu or
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martial arts to motorsports because Uh,about concentration, about breathing,
about, um, your body physics and, uh,feeling your body and feeling the car.
So you, you can adapt a lot of thingsfrom, from both worlds, uh, to each other.
(47:13):
And yeah, for me, it's, it's,uh, more a way to relax, even
though it's exhausting to do it.
So, but, but I always feelrelaxed when I come from training.
So that's really cool.
That's nice.
Uh, what about you, Jessica?
Do you have any other hobbiesoutside of racing and sim racing?
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Well, not so much.
It's always a lot of stuff to doaround the SimRig, our real part,
the Toyota, the Yaris, and so Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of things to do.
Yeah.
You, you like to, uh, to workon the things and, uh, try
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to understand how it works.
Yeah.
And even improve it.
Yeah.
She's always, um, yeah, improvingthe paddles and says, yeah, I would
change that and this and that.
And I think, okay, yeah, do it.
Understand possible landing,but it will be great.
I asked her if I did something,so, yeah, is it better or not,
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and she says, I don't know.
But after a few times,then, yeah, it's good.
It's getting faster andfaster, and so, yeah.
So outside of being the driver,you're also trying to be the
sim racing engineer, yeah?
(48:44):
Yes.
Yeah.
And, and even mechanicon the cart and so on.
So she can do that.
I mean, I can change tires at least.
So no, I built a whole cart,um, completely from ground up.
So yeah, I knew every screw at the cart.
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Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Try it out.
Yeah.
Really cool.
It's also a kind of Thank you.
Yeah, because, you know, I think that, uh,not so many drivers who's into karting,
into racing, they also, uh, kind of tryingto dive deep into mechanic part of this
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and, uh, do something with their own handsand, uh, it's It's really awesome, uh,
because I also really like to spend timewith my, my dad, uh, my dad built, build
my carts and I also help him to build it.
Uh, it was really fun for me.
So I know I was always like,I want to screw something, do
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something because it's really fun.
All right.
Um, do you have any plans for motorsport?
Do you have any plans forkarting, uh, this year in 2025?
Um, we will compete in, in the,um, in our local car championship
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with our Toyota, definitely.
Um, the season starts, I think, in May?
In May?
Um, unfortunately, there are not so manyevents like, uh, the last years, because,
um, for all the clubs, it gets harderto get the tracks and so on, and, yeah.
Also a financial problem for them.
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So, um, I think it's four or five races.
Um, when it comes to karting, I thinkwe will do some long distance races.
With our team, butnothing specific planned.
We will see, uh, comes up with
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our own card.
I think it's more like a fun, fun drive.
We can use our club track for free.
So on Sundays we can go on a trackand just drive without, um, yeah,
competing in a championship or so on.
'cause we need to focus on some things.
When you do want to do everything in, ina high level, it's a little bit too much.
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So, yeah.
Um, I would say we do thecarting stuff for fun.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, the screen to speedevents we already mentioned,
um, I think that's quite a lot.
Mm-hmm . And some videos for our channel.
(51:39):
Mm-hmm . Yeah, I think that's goodplans, which you got for 2025 and also
probably I'm going to see you see youon one of the screen to speed events.
Uh, we got a question for you in the chat.
How long is a regular stintin an endurance karting race?
It depends on the, uh,uh, distance for sure.
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Um, normally it's about one hour youdrive the car, but, um, it depends a
little bit because, um, the, the drivertimes you have for the, for the stints
is limited, so, um, I don't know whenyou have a six hour race like that and
you compete with three drivers, um,everybody needs to, um, at least drive,
(52:28):
I think, one hour or something like that.
But mostly it makes sense to justsplit it into two hour splits.
But, uh, there's also a lot ofstrategy when you come in to do the
driver change and the karting change,usually you need to change the karts.
And so, um, it depends.
But I would say one to two hours.
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I can give a right answer becauseit depends on the distance, you
have three hours, six hours,eight hours, 12 hours, so
it also depends on the strategywhich you're running, right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
I did some, some races, uh,encouraging endurance races.
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We had like four hour raceor something like this.
And, uh, we had, uh, three peoplein a team and, uh, someone Longer
stints and, uh, some other drivers,uh, drove, uh, shorter stints.
So, yeah, it depends on, uh,a lot of things, as you said.
All right.
And before we wrap up, I got,uh, a few questions for you.
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Uh, can you describe yourdriving style in three words?
Let's start with Katerinaand then, uh, Jessica.
You can try it as well.
Okay, um, three words.
Um,
I think Oh, that's really tough.
(54:05):
Um, I think smooth.
Um,
sometimes a bit crazy.
And, um, I don't know.
(54:27):
Hmm.
You have your own line.
Oh, yeah.
My line is special.
So special.
Definitely special.
Yes.
All right.
Drives in indoor karting orsomething like this behind her.
Um, the one crashes into the barriers.
So you can't drive her line.
It's not possible.
(54:49):
Yeah, it's fast.
I can't drive it.
Yeah.
And my three words, um, yeah.
What would you say ? Um,
(55:15):
maybe aggress aggressiveor something like this.
Um, focused on perfectionlab . That's, that's not my, that's
not word . That's a sentence.
Yeah.
Um, well, can sayfocused, uh, like perfect
(55:36):
or perfection.
Perfection, yeah, and I would saygood looking, because it always
looks good when you drive, so.
All right, that counts, I think.
All right, and, um, the last onewill be, uh, what a team song
would be for your racing career?
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Catherine and Jessica, uh, that can be,like, your favorite song or something like
this, so, uh, when you see your racingcareer, what song playing in your head?
Oh, that's, um, for me, I really haveall the time, uh, music in my ears.
So it's, it's, it's kind of hard todecide, but I would definitely go with
(56:21):
something from the Imagine Dragonsbecause I'm a huge Imagine Dragons fan.
Um, Um, I think I go with Radioactive,that's, that's a powerful song,
and I saw it live and that, thatjust really gets me pumped up, so.
(56:41):
Um, yeah, good song.
Um, yeah, I don't know,there are so many good songs.
But, yeah, maybe
you go with your favorite band?
Hmm,
(57:05):
good question.
There are so many good songs to makeyou focus and yeah, I think every
time, every year has a good, you know,good new actors, good new songs and
you combinate them with the season.
(57:30):
So every season has onesong or something like this.
So, but what does the best ? Soyou can pick, uh, you can pick
then, uh, your song of 2025
2025. Um, I dunno.
(57:52):
Um, could we take, I
dunno.
I don't want to listen to musicat the moment so much, so,
yeah, you're not reallyinto, into, uh, music.
You always need to listen to my music, so,yeah, all the time, music on and, yeah.
(58:18):
All right, so maybe we can countImagine Dragons Radioactive
as your song for your family.
Let me take that one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you so much for talking.
It was really fun, uh, toget in to know you closer.
Uh, wish you good luckfor 2025 with your plans.
(58:38):
Uh, probably going to see you ontrack with screen to speed events
and guys, thank you so much forwatching and see you next time.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
It was a pleasure.
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