Interview with Angelica Cheng, Author of The Fast Track
Welcome to YAOTL, Angelica! Please tell us a bit about The Fast Track . Hello! Thrilled to be here! The Fast Track is a YA romcom about a 17-year-old driver who is trying to become the first female F1 champion, but finds her plans going off-track when she catches feelings for her biggest competition. Justine Kwong is chasing a first-female-F1-champion dream in a sport that's never had one. What made you gravitate toward racing as the world to explore ambition, prejudice, and proving yourself? Part of it was lucky happenstance, I must admit! I got super into Formula 1 during COVID in 2020 (it was one of the first sports to come back from lockdown and after too much Tiger King I was ready to sink my teeth into a new obsession). As I watched, I got curious as to why there were no female F1 drivers on the grid, and I fell down a rabbit hole of the history of female drivers in F1 (they do exist, but are few and far in-between), and that made me start wondering what it would look like f...
