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you are watching bbc news. now it's time for born to race. as a parent, you always want to give your child the best start in life. you want them to be better than you, have more than you. if you recognise that your child has a talent you have - to follow that path. everything this year is geared towards making the start into proper race cars.

it's incredibly expensive. people have made themselves bankrupt by literally trying to follow the sport. it's a huge commitment for - the entire family, make no mistake. yes, how are you doing? nice to meet you. i was very impressed with their story. we've been trying to give people opportunities that wouldn't normally have got in the race card. have got in the race car. now it's gone to another level. look at him already. i want to be a racing driver and i'm | not going to stop until i get there. i definitely moving quite fast, and i have to make

the step up quite quickly. racing is in his dna. he was born to race. right, boys, good to see you. looking forward to getting back out on circuit? good. i remember the first time i took him to the park when he had his first lesson —— yes, i remember the first time i found a stone which happen to have what i could have a three pattern on it, which seems a bit surreal

since it had probably been there for thousands of years but it had just become a number for me ever since. take it nice and easy, don't go too hard on the curves. i took him down to a carting place lat the 02 and it was for each sixl plus and he was only for a mac, and i lied about his age, - and i lied about his age and put him in a car which are published - shouldn't have done. you just loved it. outside, moon, not the inside. he went a whole year unbeaten on won single race.

just on pure natural ability. without any kind of coaching or guidance. ruben and i have ever known each other for quite a while. it makes much more sense for us to what you are now and i had known each other. we can push other faster. it's a real nice father—son

relationship they have been able to develop. they are very open with each other. how was your day? didn't have a lessons. lewis has a mind of his own. there was a point he did listen to everything i told him. he is his own man, yeah. lewis hasjust been totally mad about racing. i am a really competitive person. i would turn anything into a race if i wanted to, running down the street trying to get to school before my sister. i have always been into competition. i have more or less sacrificed a lot of my social life to pursue this career,

so obviously spending a lot of time, three hours a day, minimum, at the sim. obviously racing is my passion. i enjoy speed altogether. it is just having to make quick decisions and think fast and obviously the thrill of driving at speed. this one is quite an important one. i won this in 2014, my first ever international race win. we travelled to dubai, didn't know the track. i made a plan. draw out the track on a big ai piece of paper. i visualised the track and was able to come home with a win. so, this is where i started trying to look into cars. have been trying to do this

for a while but hopefully this year is looking like the most concrete opportunity for me to make the step up. by the end of this year i want to have the confidence to race in a racing car. it has only been karts. once i can get that experience racing in a race car then i feel like i will be set. i'm17, literallyjust passed my driving test a couple of months ago. it would be a bit embarrassing if i didn't pass, but i passed first time, so have that's nice. i love it. a whole new level of freedom, really. you don't really have to think much. it isjust driving and enjoying it. any stresses you may

have had beforehand, theyjust disappear, and it's the best feeling for stop i can't even really explain it. there has definitely been a lot of sacrifices. spending time with my friends on the weekends, just couldn't do it. to become a racing driver, that is all i want really. it is what i have been chasing for all my life, and whatever it takes to get there i'm going to do. the sacrifices have shaped me into the person i am today and it has given me work ethic i can apply to anything in life. lewis had extraordinary hand—eye coordination and good reflexes i

and he also happened to be like every young boy, - terribly interested in cars. when he was a kid, even walking down the street was a race . i first realised ruben had this talent will be the minute he could hold a car. all the toys he chose their cars. he was interested in the wheels, the motion, notjust driving them but the engineering side of it as well. wasn't scared of speed. about three years old when he first had an electric car. we just do things in an electric car he should not have been able to do. we were both gobsmacked. i think we both instantly knew we were onto something here. four years old, clocked at the track doing a0 miles and are, and other kids this image were spinning off the track left, right and centre, and he would just be drifting round the corners. i love speed and there's only.

so fast you can run or ride a bike so to have something that can teleport you, anyway, - it is almost like a superpower. that just fascinated me as a kid. i think for any racing driver your helmet is a big thing, really, i you can express your identity. so on the front i have yellow. that is tribute to aryton senna. lewis hamilton has a yellow helmet. i knew i wanted to be yellow. we have the grenadian flag - and the british flag on both sides. that is why my nationality. the grenadan flag, my dad's side, and my mum's side, british. - eight that is the most important part for me, the ying yang,

because it is balanced, true heritage —— yes, my heritage is very important to me. i am very proud of it. he was pulled aside by his mum and given a real pep talk, and she said, "you are you," and the way she set it in her west indian accent, and she said, "onething i will tell you, you have got to work", and to remember her saying this? "you have got to work twice as hard, and if there is any trouble with any of your friends your face won't fit as well", and i thought it was a bit over—the—top. she was right. you have to be twice as good, at least. that goes without saying. you have to offer something more than what everyone else will offer. we have come up against many situations where just saying it as it is, the mere fact of his collar has denied him of his colour has denied him access to certain things.

it's that simple. there are not many - people who look like me but that's not his colour. even some races, i was disqualified for being too quick. _ they accuse me of cheating. they checked the kart, checked everything, i everything was clean. we even had a slower. kart than most people. we never cheated. i feel personally it - was to do with my race. i can't think any other - reason why it may be that. i won fair and square. there is definitely a big lack of diversity in motor sport. i growing up from a mixed - background, i have experienced the challenges of that as well. you don't see many black faces at the racetrack. you don't see many black drivers. money plays a big part in that as well. who you know there is a massive part in that as well, so if the people in powerful positions are not like you it's going to be harder for you to impress them rather than take a chance on someone who they don't

know anything about, full stop. i feel it is just a lack of opportunity for people that look like me. i feel like it is just a lack of diversity in general because obviously there is nobody in the sport. there has only ever been a few asian drivers, whether night is merely a white man's sport. back then, seeing another driver of colour was very rare. seeing someone else of the same race, that was a bit of a wow factor. i thought it was only me on the grid still seeing someone else that look like me, to work with the person and understand where they came from. he's not yet old enough to drive down the street but a 13—year—old

schoolboy has already been signed up by the formula 1 team mclaren. lewis hamilton has won four british go karting championships he says he wants to be world formula i champion by the time he was 20. in 2007 when i started watching lewis hamilton, i made the decision i wanted to be just like him. i started at the same track lewis hamilton used to drive on. obviously we have the same name, are dads share the same name, both british, both born on the seventh. i felt it was a big coincidence, really. i would hope every racing driver's ultimate dream is to make it into fi until it is physically impossible that would be the goal.

a couple of years ago we try to get the attention of mercedes into what lewis and ruben were up to, and they responded. we are here this morning to take a tour. they invited us down, and we are looking forward to it. this is lewis' car from last year. let's take a closer look. this is w 12, the car in the state as it finished the last race of the season. we don't clean the cars. we keep them in their heritage condition. seeing his car was absolutely amazing. you could see the tyre marks, the marbles, the dust and everything. to get a sense of the scale as well, because that is something you don't really appreciate. not a lot of people get to look around here so it is definitely an expense i will cherish. we run 400 sensors on this car,

and we are running it back- to the factory and i will show - you very shortly exactly where all of that data comes back to. this is our race support room. good morning. nice to meet you. this is— lewis and ruben. as soon as i walked in i was shocked, the amount of screens and bootable had. of screens and data had. how anyone could even read all of that was beyond me. in this room will receive gps data that comes in via us _ ten times a second. get the positioning so we can see where everyone is on track, - we can look at their speed profiles on corners, the comparisons- between and them. and an opportunity i to see our race space. what you think? this is crazy. this is the 2020 - championship winner. not much space, as you can see.

what should we do? the best times... no, the cheesy chips are good. every sense lewis started karting properly there has not been a single family holiday that has not been booked with racing in mind. it is a huge commitment for the entire family, make no mistake. if i think how many times i stood in this kitchen at five o'clock in the morning on a saturday or sunday, preparing cool bags to last us for the weekend, driving out to kent or wherever we were racing that weekend, so i don't know how many... we realise even more had important teamwork is because it is really only possible if everyone plays their part, especially on weekends where maybe it doesn't go so well and there is no trophy

at the end and everything seems to be like "ugh other weekend wasted, standing in the rain and mud, nothing to show for it", and an hour plus drive back in the car with a tensest atmosphere you can possibly imagine, repeating through every agonising moment of what went wrong. it is a big commitment, notjust for the driver and the parents but especially if there is extended family. the younger sibling who has come along and might not be that thrilled, you know. i looked up to him a lot _ when i was younger because he got all these words and was getting. all this publicity for what he does. —— he was getting . all of these awards.

we sometimes split off a bit so it would be my dad and lewis, - they would go off to racing and then me and my mum| would do stuff together. but my dad also takes me to my - additions and lewis sometimes comes. is a real strain is when you are trying to balance between the two nike kids because one has a very expensive hobby who is trying to build a career out of that —— the two kids. as a parent you obviously want to make sure it is equally balanced. but it is a goal for the whole family. we want to obviously support as best we can. let's go. one, two, three, four... my parents don't live together anymore. .

it was a bit of a tough i experience to start with. i guess night isjust . normal to me, really, and it has developed me as a person, made me who i am and may- be a lot stronger. even though we are not together as a family any more, ruben's racing has always ensured we unite together and no matter what is going on in our adult life in terms of relationships we have always been there for ruben and always will. it brings us all together as a family, i would say. i see ruben normally at least six out of seven days of the week. even when me and his mother split up, ifanything it made me more determined and him as welljust to make the most of the times that we actually have together. that's it. well done. keep going! the knock—on effect of all of this on family life as it does - because a certain amount of stress. mostly financial stress. and you don't ever want to be having

ito say no, but as it gets into these i higher classes this spend becomes so large that there is a limit - is a limit to what you can do. you are forever thinking, - how can i possibly get my money? how can i get some extra earnings? how can i save more on other things? as a parent, you always want to give your child the best start in life . i felt when he was younger we really did do that, with his education, his family support, the social side of that, health and fitness. we covered everything as a family but now it has gone to another level, and financially, you know, i'm juggling tojobs. i'm juggling twojobs. it's hard when he is not necessarily going down the normal route of college or apprenticeship or uni because he has chosen

it is incredibly expensive. it is crazy money. it doesn't matter how good you are. you can be brilliant but if you haven't got the funds or the backing you willjust get lost in that sport. journey like this - obviously needs help. there is no way without the help of |others that he is going to make it. | obviously racing is a very expensive spurt and you could have all the talent in the world but if you don't have the budget you are never going to make it so there are a lot of kids with money that will be just as good as you so we have to stand out from them to even try to make the step up.

it is not a level playing field. if you look at the front of the grid, now know that as the ones with the most amount of money and backing, and age where he was driving it literally was the richest people at the front of the grid, the stop. at the front of the grid, full stop. we were able to buck that trend a lot of the time as well. he had an old kart, second hand, everything else, hand, everything else, and everyone was laughing at it, but he was still at the front of the grid and submitting them. we thought, ok, if you can do this with an old kart, what can you do with a new one? hello, guys. nice to finally meet you. this is various cars in various states of build. i was very impressed with the story and their back story as well from their karting days, so we got the opportunity to put a deal together that got them racing this year. there is also a back story of what i had been doing over the last few years where we have

been trying to give people opportunities that wouldn't normally have got in a race car. i think it is well known that british motorsport and motorsport generally is not the most diverse of places under logical reasons for that, partly because of going racing, but we have supported diversity in the last couple of years as well as running a professional racing outfit. throughout what we do, yes, we are trying to run a professional race team and sell racing cars, but at the same time you can give something back and it is to support people that will then present you with racing drivers in the future. naturally as we are trying to take the step up from karting to cars it feels like a no—brainer. it will be a big moment for us. it is a stunning car. it is a one—off opportunity so that is an offer we just can't turn down.

it is a huge step if you are coming from karting and you are then - looking atjumping into cars, . it is a big, big and it of money. how to find the money? better myself, earn more my myself. just basically praying for something to happen. he is loving it already. yeah on the step from karting. that's where it started, four years old. four? now it has gone to another level. it is do or die, really. the success of my career - could depend on how well we do we do in this race. basically we need to find 20 grand.

and we have six months to find that money. hello. pressure has been building through the weekend but also with it a much moister airflow bringing a lot of cloud across the uk today. that cloud has been thick enough for patchy light rain and drizzle, and we will keep some of that going through this evening and overnight, initially across parts of southern scotland into northern england as the night wears on, the midlands, maybe east anglia by the end of the night. could see some clearer skies across kent for a time but for most a generally cloudy night, but not as cold as last night. temperatures generally between 5—10 celsius, perhaps two or three if we see clearer skies developing for long enough across parts of kent. this is how we start the new week,

with high pressure firmly in charge and we will keep that area of high pressure close by for much of the week. unlike the weekjust gone, the week ahead is looking much drierfor many, some spells of sunshine and a little warmer at first before we start to develop an easterly wind which will gradually turn things cooler as the week wears on. a lot of cloud to start the day through monday, some outbreaks of rain initially across southern and central england, that will soon clear and we will see spells of sunshine develop for many. keep an eye on this bank of mist and low cloud on the north sea, perhaps pushing into the coast of east anglia and south east england. monday is likely to be the warmest day of the week, temperatures potentially up to 16, maybe even 17 celsius, and once again that mist and low cloud could push its way a little bit further westwards as we head through monday evening but some clearer skies further west. here is an area of high pressure as we head into tuesday, it changes its orientation slightly, so this is where we start to pick up that easterly wind. should be a good deal of sunshine for many on tuesday,

perhaps more cloud drifting into parts of east anglia and south east england through the afternoon but for many, dry, fine and plenty of sunshine. the winds do start to strengthen, particularly for eastern coasts, temperatures here may struggle to get above 12 or 13 celsius. elsewhere, in the sunshine, it should be pleasant enough with temperatures getting up to 14 or 15 celsius, but those easterly winds do start to strengthen further as we head through wednesday and thursday. keep an eye on what is happening to the east and south—east of us, could potentially see some areas of rain pushing in later on thursday and into friday, but for most the week ahead is looking much drier, some spells of sunshine, warmer to start, but then turning cooler through the week.

live from london, this is bbc news. presidents from three african nations are planning to travel to sudan, to try to broker a ceasefire, in the fighting between rival branches of the armed forces. around 70 people have been reportedly killed in the clashes. four people have been killed and others injured in a shooting at a teenage birthday party in alabama. appeals for calm after a former indian politician, convicted of kidnapping, is shot dead on live tv along with his brother. the leader of the nurses' union in england, says they're prepared to hold strikes until christmas, unless more money is offered.