(7 Jun 2022) IRAN BABY DRIVER
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Tehran - 30 May 2022
1. Car drifting
2. Car turning around another car
3. Raha Ghorbani zipping up and entering car
4. Raha putting piece of wood on clutch pedal to move it higher
5. Raha testing gear stick and mirrors
6. Raha fastening seat belt
7. Raha's hand while starting car
8. Raha changing gear and turning steering wheel
9. Raha's face in side mirror
10. Car going backwards and drifting
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Raha Ghorbani, 7, driver:
"When I was a baby I'd sit on my daddy's lap (when he was driving) and I loved driving. One day, I asked him 'dad, can you teach me how to drive?'. My father trusted me and I trusted him and that day I learned how to drive."
12. Mohsen Ghorbani, Raha's father, getting into car
13. Ghorbani taking picture of his daughter and giving instructions
14. Car driving
15. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohsen Ghorbani, 41, Raha's father:
"My lovely Raha currently drives in Tehran racing events as a guest, but there are no girls at the same age in Iran who drive. So she can't find competition."
16. Car drifting
17. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohsen Ghorbani, 41, Raha's father:
"I want to, until the moment I can and as long as I'm alive, support this child to make progress with her talent and even become Iran's champion. I even want her to go where (Michael) Schumacher has gone. I'll not spare any effort. Many people tell me don't do that (because it's dangerous), but the only important thing for me is the future of my daughter."
18. Raha turning steering wheel and driving and singing along to car stereo
19. Car drifting
LEADIN:
When 7-year-old Iranian child Raha Ghorbani get into her father's car, she goes straight for the driver's seat and performs drifts.
The child participates as a guest in Tehran's racing events, and dreams of becoming a racing champion herself one day.
STORYLINE:
At first, the old-fashioned Peugeot drifting in empty lots in Tehran may not look mind-blowing, but behind the wheel sits someone who can barely reach the clutch pedal: a 7-year-old girl.
Since early childhood, Raha Ghorbani would sit in her father's lap when he drove, and she loved it.
"One day I asked him 'dad, can you teach me how to drive?'"
Mohsen Ghorbani, her father, decided to take the risk and teach Raha how to not only drive, but also drift and power-slide.
"My father trusted me, and I trusted him and that day I learned how to drive," the child says.
This was not easy, and there were incidents.
A few days ago, she drove the car into a power post but fortunately exited the car unscathed.
Now Raha is more confident in her driving and dreams of becoming a professional racing champion.
Ghorbani says many people have asked him not to let his daughter drive since she is too young for that.
But Ghorbani says all he wants is to see his daughter "make progress with her talent and even become Iran's champion."
"I even want her to go where (Michael) Schumacher has gone," he adds, referring to the former German motor sport racing champion.
AP video by Mohsen Ganji
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