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We'll see who's faster. umm. .. all right, wish me luck. see, in my mind, this isn't a foregone conclusion. in some ways, i have an advantage. i know this circuit and i'm using the same controls that i have for my entire adult life. all right. hi. well, how'd i do? 1.50... is that good? respectable. laughter. so let's see if sam can beat my flying lap of 1.50. well, the very best of luck, sir. confident? don't really need it, but 0k. laughter. i mean, it's honest! so... you know that bit about it not

Being a foregone conclusion? yeah, i don't stand a chance. right back at the first meeting we knew it was going to take months, we knew it was going to take a lot of commitment from the engineers, resources from arrow and my time, and they thought it was funny after an hour i said, look guys, i'm very interested but not unless we can do 100mph. spencer laughs you know? you won. congratulations, 1.45. i mean, there was kind of no contest, really, was it. how do you feel being able to do this? you know, it's so... i guess the best word i can use is freedom. i'm in total control and there's very ...

All disabled team to do so. this is a look of part amazement and part terror. i'm a passenger in a modified chevrolet corvette c8 stingray, but it's who is driving, and how he's driving, that is blowing my mind. we have met sam schmidt before. he's a racing driver who was paralysed in an accident in 2000, and five years ago he took us for a ride through las vegas in a car that allowed him to drive using just his head and his mouth. so, the steering system, it's an ir camera system on whichever way you turn your head steers the car. he'll turn his head angle into a steering angle. the gas and b...

There's the money as well, because motorsport is not cheap. iso, for a full season's racing, i you're looking at about £15,000 as a starter, which will put a lot of people off. - but we'll help them with that, and there are ways in. - the door is open in ways that it has never been before. - we'd love people to get in touch. great, just need some skills and sponsorship. lucy, thank you very much. right, time now to link up to goodwood race track, where spencer is. lara, that looked great. it's amazing how the opportunity to race is opening up to more and more people. where are you exactly? ye...

Yeah, i don't stand a chance. right back at the first meeting we knew it was going to take months, we knew it was going to take a lot of commitment from the engineers, resources from arrow and my time, and they thought it was funny after an hour i said, look guys, i'm very interested but not unless we can do 100mph. spencer laughs you know? you won. congratulations, 1.45. i mean, there was kind of no contest, really, was it? how do you feel being able to do this? you know, it's so... i guess the best word i can use is freedom. you know, just... i'm in total control and there's very few things ...