Rally car driver Molly Taylor: on becoming a World Champion Rally driver and conquering the iconic Dakar Rally

On Her Game with Sam Squiers

Driving through the desert at 200km/h isn't a sport for the faint hearted. Molly Taylor swapped equestrian for rally car driving as a teenager, and since then she has become the World Champion, Australian Champion, European Ladies Champion an d British Ladies' Champion in the sport, she won the 2021 Extreme-E Championship and finished the iconic Dakar Rally, racing 8000km through the Saudi Arabian desert, earlier this year.

Molly sits down with host Sam Squiers to discuss:

• Learning from her Mum, Coral, who was a four-time Australian champion co-driver
• What rally car driving actually involves and the complex language shared between driver and co-driver
• The challenges of competing in Europe in the early days
• Getting the call to compete in the Extreme E Championship from former Formula One World Champion, Nico Rosberg, and how it felt to take out the win
• The reality of competing in the Dakar Rally for 14 days in the desert
• And the profound impact she's having on young girls getting into the sport and her peer and close friend Harry Bates

If you liked this episode, you should check out our episode with eventer Jade Findlay.

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