Sandy Stuvik has only just become a teenager, but that minor fact does not stop him from having about nine years of racing-experience on his resume.
“My secret is to practice more than everyone else, so I spend most of my spare time on the racetrack or in the gym. This has meant that I have always been the youngest driver of my category” he says.
Since the age of four, when most classmates from the kindergarten had not even learned to master the bicycle, the part-Norwegian boy has been addicted to the smell of gasoline and burning tires – and practically been living on the local racing track on the home ground of Rayong.
“Sebastian, a preschool classmate of mine when I was 4, was going to the race-track to drive go-karts, and he asked me to tag along. I had so much fun at the track and just wanted to go back, and soon I was out there every Sunday” Sandy explains.
The adoration of the small four-wheeled vehicles quickly turned into a huge passion and soon he started to win first races, and by the age of seven he was ranked number ten at the national championship of Thailand. Ever since then there has not been a year without top ten results in the major championships, and that is a big deal in the motor-loving Southeast Asian region.
The tiny kart is now replaced with a much larger car – a BMW Junior Formula racing car to be precise – with a much larger engine. The amount of speed of the Formula cars does not scare Sandy.
“My biggest ambition is to become a professional driver when I finish school and hopefully be good enough to participate – and off course win – the Formula 1 races” Sandy tells.
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