Christine GZ: Surviving the Baja 1000 in Narco Territory (PODCAST) | Team Ignition Show | Christine Giampaoli Zonca

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Selema Masekela straps in for a wild ride with Italian-Spanish off-road racer Christine GZ, a self-made driver who built her first rally car from scrap metal at 17 and hustled her way from small island life to the Dakar Rally.

Christine reveals how jumping in front of a stranger’s rally car set her life on a completely different course, the grind of building a race car with no money and no team, what it’s like to race 1,000 miles through Baja’s narco territory, and the career-threatening Extreme E crash that forced her to rebuild from the inside out.

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00:00 – Intro
01:23 – Meet Christine GZ
03:12 – Rally vs Off-Road Racing
04:40 – Falling in Love With a 1989 Corolla
12:31 – Building a Race Car From Scratch
15:25 – First Sponsors
17:50 – Faking It as a Tow Truck Driver
21:13 – Going to University
29:56 – Creating the First All-Female Rally Team
34:52 – 40 Cold Emails a Day
38:57 – Surviving the Baja 1000
43:10 – Extreme E Crash & Losing Her Team
52:11 – Mayhem at Dakar
59:09 – Outro