Racecoin Podcast

Host: Jai Shukla    Guest: Andy Pilgrim   Q1 — When you first started you worked in IT to allow yourself to race. At what point did you realize that racing full time could become a reality? Andy Pilgrim had an old Kawasaki 500 street bike, and while had income coming in from his day job, he simply decided he would start racing, Andy being someone who loved anything with an engine in it. He wanted to just start racing, but his current income dictated that he would be on two wheels, not four. Without a car, his mate would drop him off and pick him up from the track, the latter, he says, if he wasn’t in the hospital at the end of the day.   Q2 — When you mention being in the hospital, are you saying injuries were common back then? Of course, he was being facetious in that statement, but Andy admits the sport was still actually quite dangerous when he started. The tracks were built for cars, so you had a much greater chance of getting hurt if you were on a bike.   Q3 — And you didn’t want to accrue a bit more mon