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19 Year Old Mzansi Girl Working For @AFCorse Ferrari At #Kyalami9H 🇿🇦🏎️💃

AF Corse Ferrari is in town to compete at the Kyalami 9 Hour this weekend and they have a young South African Mechatronic Engineering student working for them, Nicola Watt.

#k9hour #WomenInSports

AF Corse is a racing team synonymous with the Ferrari GT racing program led by Amato Ferrari (not related to Ferrari family) with numerous international championship titles to its name.

Nicola was born and raised in Kyalami, just across the road from the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit and grew up in a sports obsessed family. She is a big motorsport fan and has an insatiable love for the analytics and engineering in the success of the cars

Watching Romain Grosjean escape unharmed from a burning car and realising that the engineering behind the car saved his life as well as the competitive nature of the sport convinced her that motorsport engineering is the career she wanted to pursue.

📸 DPPI

Nicola is currently studying Mechatronic Engineering at UCT which is a synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronics and computer systems.

Mechatronic Engineers are critical in industries such as robotics, nanotechnology and aircraft engineering

During her studies, Nicola has also worked for NGK PabloClark Racing and spent a year and a half with the mechanics and staff at their Kyalami-based workshop. In that time she has came to appreciate the factory, mechanic and background work done in preparing Ferraris for racing

When AF Corse approached PCR for people to assist with their Kyalami 9 Hour campaign, her name was put forward by the team and she is raring to go this race weekend.

When asked about how she felt to be working for Ferrari's GT Racing Program she said, "As of right now, I’m still settling into my role. As it is my first international racing experience, I’m honestly quite happy to do anything and learning from the team.

Nicola is a future star in the making and we wish her the best of luck with the race weekend at the Kyalami 9 Hour and her career in motorsport going forward.