00:00 Hi there, my name is Mike Newman. I'm at Three Sisters Race Circuit today in Wigan,
00:05 where we are providing driving experiences for people who live on a day-to-day basis
00:11 with significant disabilities. Unfortunately, the nature of the disabilities means that
00:16 they'll never be in a position to drive normally or take a driver's test.
00:20 They get the chance to experience the exhilaration and excitement of being on the racetrack.
00:26 It can be for the first time, or it could be someone who used to drive, but through
00:32 illness or accident is unable to drive anymore, and we give them the chance to relive that
00:37 exhilaration. I was always very keen on motorsport, from
00:41 a little boy, but to take part in that activity was going to be difficult since I couldn't
00:48 see, but I decided as I got older that I wanted to experience what that exhilaration was like.
00:54 So I started to get into, I understood how I could achieve that, and I managed to be
00:58 very lucky. I've driven some very powerful and fast cars over the years, and lucky enough
01:05 to get some high-speed Guinness World Records.
01:09 Go green when you're up to. Yes? Go, go, go!
01:14 Yay!
01:16 I'm John Galloway, co-founder of Speed of Sight. We're here at Three Sisters Racing
01:31 Circuit, which is our penultimate driving experience of the year, where we provide incredible
01:39 life-changing driving experiences for a community of people who never thought that driving would
01:46 be something that they could do. Which, of course, if you're blind, or you have a life-restricting
01:52 disability perhaps, somewhere up on the autistic scale, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy,
02:00 stroke, epilepsy, there's a long list of situations from a disability point of view, which would
02:09 normally mean you'd be unable to drive.
02:11 What people tell us, they feel it's freedom, they feel exhilarated, they feel excited,
02:18 they certainly feel happy, but more importantly, they're doing an event, taking part in an
02:26 experience that they never thought was possible, so they ultimately go away thinking, "If
02:32 I can do that, that everyone tells me I can't, then what else is it that I can do?"
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