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There is an endearing enthusiasm to her story. “Whenever I would go horse riding with my mum and sister, I would always go on the quickest horse,” she says. “It was a little horse called Coco and I would go around the arena as quickly as I could. I had a need for speed quite early on.”
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Chadwick, a Williams development driver and the dominant force in the W Series, recently questioned whether women would be able to physically cope with the demands of F1, which has not had a female driver in a grand prix since Lella Lombardi raced in Austria in 1976. Pulling has no such doubts.
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Pulling has talent in spades but is fortunate the W Series has been instrumental, as it has with many of its drivers, in giving her the opportunity to continue her career and chasing her dream of making it to F1. It is a dream she has been pursuing since she insisted on following her dad, Andy, a bike racer, to tracks across the country.
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Now in her first full season in the all-female W Series, Lincolnshire’s Pulling has already made a real impression. The series, which covers all the costs of its drivers, has revived the 19-year-old’s dream of making it to F1, as has being taken on by the Alpine F1 team as an affiliate to their young driver programme. She is second in the championship to Britain’s Jamie Chadwick, who has won the previous two W Series titles. This season’s fourth round will be held on Saturday at Paul Ricard before Sunday’s French Grand Prix.
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Roy was caught at midwicket advancing down the track to Nortje and Phil Salt clothed one in the same direction when Dwaine Pretorius came into the attack. The lanky South African all-rounder was a concussion replacement in the first game of the series but now looks inked on the teamsheet after a best-ever return of four for 36 from six overs.
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Alpine are taking a rigorous approach to their programme which includes a scientific examination of what may have prevented women going further in recent years. One issue that is already patently clear is the financial burden of progressing through the ranks, an issue Hamilton has raised.
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As the Rabbitohs celebrated three on the trot since their talisman’s return and coach Jason Demetriou gleefully eyed a Mitchell-led march to the finals, Brad Fittler must have winced. Mitchell in this mood might have been the winning edge for New South Wales in last week’s State of Origin decider. Instead Fittler’s star centre from 2021 ruled himself out to pay back the faith of his club side.
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It has ensured she has made a considerable mark in a short period of time. Last season lack of funding forced her out of British F4, a moment she thought would end her career which she describes as “heartbreaking”, but one all-too-familiar for drivers in junior categories. However as a W Series reserve driver she had a lifeline and took part in four races including taking an eye-catching second place at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
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England’s batters have been susceptible to the moving white ball this summer but their bowlers have made good use of the added swing and seam, especially Topley who was once again magnificent up front. He sent Janneman Malan and Rassie van der Dussen for a duck each in his second over to bag his 17th and 18th wickets in eight games.
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As members of the Rabbitohs family chatted to a nearby media huddle, singing his praises, Mitchell quietly radiated confidence and happiness. Yet the ink was still drying on the “scary”, “intimidating” and “rampaging” Latrell that had led his team’s victory over the Bulldogs days prior. Only three games into his return after three months on the sidelines with a hamstring injury, the full-back and acting captain had set up three tries for teammates and scored one himself.
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When Coco proved not quite quick enough, Pulling took to karting with a passion when she was eight, racing almost every weekend. She would go on to take two national championships in 2017 and 2018 before moving up to Ginettas and then F4.
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Yet as time has gone on she, as have many others, has also come to recognise how valuable Hamilton is in highlighting the sport’s failings. Not least his observation that racing is becoming all but inaccessible, except to that billionaires boys’ club. “Motorsport now is getting so much more expensive, especially at the lower end of the ladder,” she says. “I can’t agree with him more, it’s almost ridiculous.”
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fter South Sydney training, Latrell Mitchell stood calm and proud between his two families. With him were his father Matt and mum Patricia, down from Biripi country up Taree way. Clinging to his tree-trunk legs like koalas in pyjamas were his daughters Aleena and Inala. Close by was big brother teammate Shaquai. The Mitchells spoke together softly as Redfern locals walked by, nodding their respect as Latrell flashed them smiles or shot back a wink.
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“I welcome the challenge,” she says. “It’s not just me that has to do this, the guys have to train as well to drive those cars. It will definitely be hard in the next few years and I will have to push myself more than I ever have, and maybe more than a guy would have to, but I don’t think making it to F1 is impossible.
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Pulling recalls her admiration for the seven-time champion when she was growing up. “At the time I loved him the most because he is a living legend,” she says. “I thought Lewis was amazing, I followed him a lot.”
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It was 72 for five when Moeen Ali hooked Maharaj to deep-backward square and, when Shamsi had Buttler for the second game in a row – caught at short third man for 19 – the innings was faltering at 101 for six.
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That’s the power of Latrell Mitchell. Even when he doesn’t play, his impact is still profound. Fittler knows it. Queensland know it too. Even Mitchell’s NSW centre replacement knows it. As one of those Bulldogs flailing in Mitchell’s wake, Matt Burton got a ringside seat as his NSW spot vanished. “Told you that 3 jersey is mine,” Latrell grinned at reporters afterward.
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Another W Series stalwart and no small talent, Alice Powell, is her driver coach and she has been effusive in her praise for Pulling, whose ambition has not been dented by Chadwick’s dominance this season as her feisty attack on Emma Kimiläinen in the series’ last race at Silverstone demonstrated.
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That solo try detonated headlines and got league fans buzzing about That Man Latrell again. Seeing what no one else had, Mitchell had surged onto a short inside pass, beaten two men, tiptoed an S-bend around another two defenders, skipped out of a final tackle in a canter, then fended Josh Addo-Carr with a palm to the chest like a farmer flicking a bug off his shirt.
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Heinrich Klaasen offered resistance but his 40-ball 33 ended when he was stumped off Ali in the 15th over. At 66 for six that all but ended South Africa’s chance of victory. Ali picked up the last wicket of Nortje with 50 balls remaining but every bowler contributed in bowling South Africa out for 83. The decider is on Sunday at Headingley.
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Curran and Livingstone proceeded to throw their hands at anything they could reach while run-a-ball scores of 21 and 12 from Willey and Adil Rashid, respectively, hauled England’s tally beyond 200. At the time it looked about 30 runs short.
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It made Alpine take notice and they took her on in March this year. The team has made a commitment to gender diversity with their Rac(H)er programme, of which Pulling is a part. Their intent is to help guide a woman into F1 and bring more women into motorsport, with a target of having 30% of their workforce as female within five years.
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This week he is Craig Bellamy’s problem, as his Storm side face Mitchell’s men on Saturday. Bellamy already has problems, and none can be blamed on Eddie Jones, the England rugby union coach who is studying the Storm set-up this week (although Eddie is a Rabbitohs fan). Melbourne has lost three weeks running. In 2012 Bellamy’s boys lost five straight and still won the title, but missing 40+ tackles three weeks in a row hasn’t happened in 20 years.
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Pulling has embraced it wholeheartedly but Chadwick raised a valid point. F1’s feeder series F3 and F2, and F1 itself, are enormously physically demanding as demonstrated by the sheer volume of training F1 drivers undergo. Pulling, who has driven one of Alpine’s 2012 F1 cars, is under no misapprehension as to how hard a task it will be in terms of strength. She has moved to live near the team base at Enstone, where she is happily putting in the hours training.
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This season Chadwick has taken four straight wins in the opening four races but Pulling is pushing hard to catch her. With two podiums in the last two races she is 47 points back but her verve, aggression and refusal to be intimidated by more experienced drivers has been striking.
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Instinct. Power. Speed. Insouciance. Only Latrell Mitchell could have scored such a try. But he made an even greater statement when he crossed the line and stood to celebrate. There was no fist-pumping, kicking the ball to the rafters, cute kangaroo ears or tongue wagging. Instead Mitchell stood, found the camera and stared straight down the barrel, eyes blazing black like a shark’s, in silent imperious threat. It was a look that said, simply: I’m back.
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rom insisting on riding only the fastest horse as a child to galloping around the world’s grand prix circuits, Abbi Pulling has long had the need for speed. Formula One is the goal for this determined, talented youngster who, having grown up admiring Lewis Hamilton, is convinced she may yet break the glass ceiling of what the seven-time champion has decried as F1’s “billionaire boys’ club”. Change is coming, Pulling is in the vanguard.
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“My junior career might be longer as I develop that strength but if it takes a few extra years it is still doable. I am quite a small person but since I started my programme with Alpine I have seen a huge gain and the results show it.”
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“That’s Jamie’s opinion, but mine is that with the Alpine programme, we definitely believe a female can be fit enough to race at those levels,” she says. “I think it’s possible a female can be in F1 in the next five years. I would like it to be myself but regardless, it shows the direction motorsport is going in and how positive it is on the female side at the moment.”
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