In many ways, Rachel Robertson is your typical British teenager.
She spends her spare time catching up with friends for lunch, and going to college in the south of England, near her home.
But in one glaring way, she is far from typical. Because when she suits up for her job - sitting behind the wheel of a sleek, 174-horsepower race car, with the smell of petrol in the air and the squeal of rubber tyres underneath her - Robertson is one of the fastest drivers on the planet.
The 18-year-old is among an elite group of women breaking into motorsport, which has been dominated since its inception by two institutional powers - men and money.
Robertson is taking part in F1 Academy, a female-only racing championship founded by the Formula 1 Group. She wants to be the first woman driver in 50 years to qualify for Formula 1 itself - the world's most popular annual sporting series.
