Gone Wrong

Sofia's Backstory

I always felt like I was in my brothers shadow for everything. My brother Carlos did Karting from a young age so my dad was always out with Carlos taking him to practice or watching his karting races and my mum worked full time to help pay off bills and pay for food because most of my dads money went into Carlos' karting.

I didn't have many friends at school growing up so it was quite hard for me at school. My brother knew I was having a hard time so he would let me hang out with him in at lunch time but his friends were never too fond of me hanging out with them.

Even though I wasn't my brothers best friend he was definitely mine. He was there for me all the time.

At home me and my brother did everything together. There was times we would get in so much trouble together because we would do something stupid like nearly burn the house down.

As he got older he got a little bit more moody and start shouting at me for simple things like walking into his room without knocking, that didn't really bother me though because he would never hold a grudge with me.

When I was sixteen Carlos had done so well in formula2 that he was offered a seat in Toro Rosso for the 2015 F1 season. My whole family was over the moon and so was i but I didn't want to see my brother leave.

The thought of him being away for most of the year broke me and I couldn't even travel with him because I was still in school. It was horrible watching him basically pack his whole life into a suitcase and leave. It was like a part of me was leaving.

When Carlos did eventually leave my life at home changed. It was weird, suddenly I was the centre of attention and my parents would ask me if I wanted to do all these things that they had never asked me to do before.

Although, my dad was on my back about my final exams and about how I need to do well so I can become a doctor or a lawyer but to be honest none of these jobs really caught my eye. I don't know what I wanted to do but I didn't want to be stuck doing something I hated for my whole life.

2 years later after my exams my parents were not very happy. I got decent grades but not the grades they wanted from me. They were very disappointed when I told them I was going to travel with Carlos for a bit instead of going to university but I didn't really care anymore. I was an adult now and I wasn't going to let them control my life.

I was so happy to be travelling with Carlos because I felt like I hadn't seen him properly in ages. When I first saw him he would not stop talking about all of his F1 memories that I had heard a million times from when he had visited or on the phone. I didn't stop him though because I loved seeing him happy.

Carlos was now in Renault along side Nico Hulkenburg.

I had decided to not follow Carlos around everywhere because first I didn't want to annoy him and second I was a little bit scared of the press. I decided to stay low-key and just watch him from afar so nobody bothered me.

It was very fun travelling around the world with carlos and watching him do what he loved but I started to want another meaning to travel around the world like this for.

If only there was another person..