Sportspiel

Isla Mackenzie is on a mission – to inspire the next generation as she chases her dream of being a racing driver. Her early life is world’s away from what it looks like now. She grew up on a dairy farm on the Isle of Lewis, in the Scottish Outer Hebrides and she was driving anything she could as soon as she was old enough to reach the pedals – be it quad bikes or tractors, and she drove a car for the first time at the age of 12. Isla comes alive with speed – a description given by her mum – and a passion for motorsport was always there. Fast forward to now and she finds herself fulfilling that passion, in her role as a Dyno Technician for the Mercedes F1 Team, the team that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton currently races for. But, while the engineering side of her life is seriously impressive, her true calling is to race herself – and the talent is there. She has been fast-tracked from karts to single seaters, she signed with IMC Motorsport and, in 2023, there were opportunities in the Monoposto