I was interested in cars since I was a kid. Don't ask me why, it is just in my blood somehow. I have no family and I had no friends when I was younger that had the same interest. My first word was Volvo (I'm born in sweden), so the interest for the motor vehicle has always been there.

I grew up in the middle of the country side with not much motor related to do (other than speed down the local hill in my soap box racer) so my access to motoring related things were through TV. We had two TV channels when I grew up and both were state owned (a third commercial one came later). There were almost no motor related things at all on TV but they did broadcast rallying, STCC and F1 (and Rallykalle... does anyone else from sweden remember this?).

F1's weren't really cars... they were strange things with wheels on them and it wasn't really that spectacular or interesting. STCC was ok but it didn't really have the spark. Rallying, however, immediately drew my attention. I think I was around 8 when I started watching the WRC on TV and from when I was around 10 I have been glued permanently, every event. If I had to be somewhere else I would force my mom or dad to tape it for me. I don't think there is a WRC event I haven't watched since 1999-ish. While I have tried to watch other motor sports, Rallying is still the only one I have stuck to. The first WRC event I attended was the Monte in 2014 (so it took me quite a while to actually attend a WRC rally although I did attend some smaller local events).