The €200,000 dream – why Ireland’s most exciting female driver can’t get on the grid

When Kayleigh (Kayls) Cole came downstairs on Christmas morning 2016, she was wearing her dad’s rigger boots. She shuffled out to the shed in the dark, and there it was, wrapped in paper, unmistakable. A go-kart. Nine years later, she is one grid spot away from making Irish motorsport history.