Melbourne teen and Elevated junior driver Aiva Anagnostiadis has her eyes set on the F1 framework – each vehicle in turn.
Mark Webber. Daniel Ricciardo. Oscar Piastri. This thriving rundown of local F1 hotshots has constrained a groups on the Recipe One framework to wander past conventional European grounds to track down their next driver.
For 16-year-old Melburnian Aiva Anagnostiadis, making progress toward a seat in the famously select F1 circuit has implied passing up an ordinary young encounter.
“It’s what I believe should do so [I] focus on it. I presumably passed up showing up at a couple of gatherings [or] going out with companions on weeknights,” Anagnostiadis tells Drive.
“By the day’s end I love it [motorsport] and in the event that that implies not going to a birthday or something then [so be it].”
After a productive karting profession which included addressing Australia in the FIA Motorsport Games and bringing home the women’s karting title at 14 years of age – Aiva was seen by High F1 Group and was welcome to join the crew through the Rac(H)er Program close by five other junior female drivers from various nations.
High has a background marked by culling exceptional Australian dashing drivers to join its formative program, with any semblance of individual Australian drivers Oscar Piastri and Jack Doohan already sharpening their specialty with Snow capped prior to climbing to F2 and F1.
At the point when asked what attracts her to the game, obviously Anagnostiadis’ reaction has the life of a not set in stone to arrive at the more elite classes of the game.
“When I began getting up the front and winning and getting on the platform, you get dependent on that [feeling] and you need that inclination again and again,” she tells Drive.
“You never stop until you really arrive.”
Aiva’s had motorsport in her DNA since birth – with her mom Barbara a previous karting racer, and her dad Adam, a repairman who had a karting business – it was inevitable before Aiva, close by her more youthful sibling James, wandered into the game.
While Aiva’s quiet, formed, and ready disposition reflects that of a carefully prepared motorsport veteran, the Australian high schooler isn’t excluded from the enlightening experience of joining an expert hustling group that gives a pathway to her definitive objective.
“At first I [thought] it’s not exactly genuine until we went into the plant and I was like ‘good gracious OK’ this is really occurring,” she tells Drive.
Other than the commonality of dashing on home soil across Australia, Aiva says there is a major expectation to learn and adapt while joining Snow capped – featured by the immense distinction in assets and comprehension of the stuff to get by in a laid out European hustling program.
“They [Alpine] are a F1 group so clearly having that is huge contrasted with back at home. They know much more since they have [the] vehicles, the information and everything’s there for me to utilize.
“They’re all truly coordinated. The frame’s great, the motor’s great. So having a group [of that calibre] behind you helps a lot. It gives you the certainty to take care of business,” she tells Drive.
“Back home I had my one group with similar individuals. Here, my group chief’s different consistently. Figuring out how to stand by listening to various individuals in any event, while they’re perusing information out of control, understanding the manner in which they’re making sense of it [is challenging],” she adds.
When the oddity of changing from beginner karting to an expert dashing group wore off, Anagnostiadis says the choice to move to Europe – where the cutthroat level is higher – added “great tension that pushes you and improves you”.
Furthermore, Aiva says that Australia was the demonstrating ground to test her karting abilities yet the “open doors at home are much slimmer than they are here [Europe], there’s significantly more individuals with groups and associations”.
While Aiva is entering her last season in karting under Dan Holland Dashing, Elevated is setting up the youthful driver for her initial introduction to a legitimate open-wheel race vehicle.
“I think a F1 vehicle will be night and day different truly. They’ve previously got me in the preparation program and getting me significantly more grounded,” she tells Drive.
However a sought after F1 seat is a definitive dream for Aiva, her eyes and psyche are centered around what she have some control over in the middle of the road future: “This year is clearly karting, then, at that point, ideally before the year’s over bounce into [an] F4 vehicle and that’s what begin pursuing.”
