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 7-8 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 a little opposite of that now.
But yeah, 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 I drove an off road 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 is 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.
Can't believe he's 16.
So I'm like Mia 16.
I'm like, I felt like I like ran the world at 16.
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 you were going back to your home to help finish the race tracks and 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 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 made my little brother come to house one day and help me chainsaw a couple trees down.
So we've been trying to make more room, get more space, but 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 or chainsawing?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Me and my that's when my little brother were out there for a day and 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 that has ever said to?
You, I mean, he calls, he calls me just about every race.
He's very like motivational ish.
He's not a very like go out there and do your best.
Like he's he's aggressive with his motivational.
Really.
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 kind of monotone or just like it makes me sluggish.
So it's kind of 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 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 One Cup championships, like that's just that's like a fun thing for me to do in my career.
And like 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.