^^^ that's fate for you^^^
Only story I can think of is, when I was a young teenager in the mid-80's I used to watch inshore powerboats racing around Nassau harbor in the Bahamas.
Was more into cars than boats but living on a tiny island in the Caribbean didn't give me much scope for watching auto sport races. Watching this one boat race a year was my only motor sport fix. Remember thinking, I'd love to work on something that fast, how
would that be!!!
8 yrs later, now living in the UK and driving down the motorway I spot an inshore powerboat being towed by a race truck. Got me thinking again, wouldn't it be great fun to work for a race boat team in my spare time, helping out on weekends.
Casually mentioned this to my dad who got in contact with one of his best friends as he lived in the same town as a F1 inshore power boat world champion. Introductions made, a few weeks later I'm in and travelling in a converted bus with the team down to Milan in Italy to help out at my first race.
Through a few coincidences I got my inshore powerboat to play with but it got better than that......
A couple of years later and 10 yrs since watching that Nassau race I was in charge technically for the whole grid of world championship F1 inshore powerboats and being flown out to places like St. Petersburg, Abu Dhabi in the Middle East, Corfu in Greece
Writing this has reminded me what the hell was I thinking of taking on so much responsibility for drivers lives in such a dangerous sport in only my mid-20's
