"This is all I've ever done. All I've ever worked for," Shelby said. "I have to keep fighting because there's not much else I could ever do."
She had been a pretty good mechanic and toward the end of that year in New York she'd made peace with that possibly being her career. There was no shame in a good blue-collar job. But other than that she just wasn't equipped for much else. Every class, every amount of free time, every decision had been made with IndyCar in mind.
"But it's important to have people around you," she continued. "I've noticed that now. Not that I don't have friends and family; I've got a great family and a lot of friends. But I've always been so career focused. Having Peter, and having my boyfriend Derrick, showed me something else outside of racing. Something that I ended up leaning on a lot this year. That having something to come home to means more than you think."
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She had been a pretty good mechanic and toward the end of that year in New York she'd made peace with that possibly being her career. There was no shame in a good blue-collar job. But other than that she just wasn't equipped for much else. Every class, every amount of free time, every decision had been made with IndyCar in mind.
"But it's important to have people around you," she continued. "I've noticed that now. Not that I don't have friends and family; I've got a great family and a lot of friends. But I've always been so career focused. Having Peter, and having my boyfriend Derrick, showed me something else outside of racing. Something that I ended up leaning on a lot this year. That having something to come home to means more than you think."