F1 Driver Jessica Hawkins's Must Haves Include an Amazon Beanie She Buys in Bulk

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Motorsport has long been a boys' club, but that's shifting -- fast. Just ask Jessica Hawkins, a British professional racing driver, stunt driver, and all-around force to be reckoned with. The 30-year-old found her way into racing through pure curiosity at age seven. "I saw a car track in the distance when I was playing golf one day with my dad and I begged him to let me have a go," the British Open karting champion exclusively tells Popsugar. "I don't think either of us ever saw that it would be a career path. I just loved doing it with my dad, and we were very successful in the early days. I look back and I just think it's so lucky that I saw that car track. I don't know what I'd be doing without it."

Today, Hawkins is a development driver and ambassador for the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team, and in 2023, she became the first woman in nearly five years to test a modern F1 car. "Any young driver dreams of being a Formula One driver . . . so even just having the trust and belief from the team to put me in the car was a huge milestone," she says. But it wasn't just a career-defining moment -- it was also a powerful message to future generations: "If I look at how many young females are starting karting now -- so many more than when I first started -- I think I could name on one hand, or almost certainly two hands, the amount of women I knew within motorsport," she says. "Now, I couldn't name them all. There are so many."