What do you remember about the first time that you really got into a race car when you were little and felt
this is for me?
Yeah,I wasn't really involved in racing until I was about 78 years old.I was almost a very girly girl a little bit just because that's I was like the first girl like I was the oldest siblings like I was in Girl Scouts,volleyball,
like everything was like princess crowns pink and.Like little opposite of that now but
uh that was kind of the way I was like just brought up with that stuff and then as soon as I started
hopping into like race trucks and things like that I remember that first time I drove an offroad truck like I was like man like this I love this.
On the flip side of it,my dad was doing the same stuff at obviously a higher level,but being able to do the same thing that your family's doing is really cool.How important
is family to you?
Yeah,it's cool being especially in the oldest sibling seeing like my little brothers grow up racing now like my little brother Hayden,he's 16 I can't believe he's 16 so I'm like me at 16.I'm like I felt like I like ran the world at 16 and it makes sense why he's so strong willed,but
he's he's an awesome kid and he's super,super talented and watching his races and him absolutely dominate on the motocross side of things is absolutely wild.I'm so happy for him.
The last time we talked,um,you were
going back to your home to help finish the race tracks.
Tell me how that has played out.We have seen some of you and you're very hands on also,
very,very hands on with that stuff,but,
uh,going back to my house,we've built a lot of race tracks there.We have a full Can Am course and.
It's crazy.It's absolutely wild and I even,uh,made my little brother come to the house one day and help me uh chainsaw a couple trees down and so
we've been trying to make more room,get more space,build more tracks because that's what I feel like we all enjoy and wait to be clear when you say help me.Chainsaw some trees down,you mean literally you were chainsawing yeah yeah yeah me and my husband and my little brother were out there for a day and uh well my uncle who is a track builder,he was building all the tracks at our house,so we were definitely making use of everything and trying to get it all done as quick as possible.
For people that don't know out there,your dad Brian Deegan is an extreme trailblazer right in motocross and just
all things that are exciting to watch.
What is the pressure level that comes along with that for you?
Yeah,I'd say a lot of the pressure was more so when I was racing off road trucks because we were there doing the same thing every single weekend but now kind of like I've taken the reins to like.
My racing career and he now he's focusing on raising the other two little ones in their racing career.What would you say is the most important thing that your dad has ever
said to you?
I mean,he calls,he calls me just about every race.He's very like motivationalish.
He's not a very
like go out there and do your best like he's he's aggressive with his motivational feeling,
yeah,
but that's my dad's personality.He's an aggressive.Personality I feel like that's also how I kind of am like I work better with people who are not monotone like I need aggressive loud behavior like that's kind of what I need and I need someone to kind of,it kind of gets me fired up and that's when I do good.I feel like when I'm
a kind of monotone or just like it makes me sluggish and I don't like a tough love,yeah,but it's not like it's not very tough like but it's like just aggressive.
You said that you still haven't reached the level where you want to get is what is the the end goal that you see right now?
Yeah,I'd say the end goal for me is to make it to the Cup Series,but being able to come and do fun things like being a part of the SRX series,racing against guys who have won Cup championships,like that's just,
that's like a fun thing for me to do in my career and like if we go and win a race like that'd be really,really cool and definitely like a big check off the bucket list but my end goal is to make it to the Cup Series and be competitive there.