"Sometimes the best thing about school was the leaving," she admits. "Where I grew up, school followed us home. We'd have work we had to do and turn in the next day. But sometimes there were fun things. Sports teams or clubs to join."

She works a wedge of fruit free from her orange and carefully removes a seed with her thumbnail before she takes a bite. Her childhood is not a period of her life she thinks much about anymore. It sucked, and it doesn't get any better when she worries about it.

"No racing circuits for kids, though."