ONE of Isla Mackenzie’s earliest memories is “tinkering with grandpa” on some broken piece of machinery on the family’s dairy farm on the Isle of Lewis.
She started off driving a child’s size quad bike and soon graduated to the real thing, along with tractors. At a young age she was whizzing around the fields in a pick-up.
“All farm kids are resilient, hardy and hardworking,” says Isla, adding how lucky she was to have such an outdoorsy upbringing.
As she got older the tinkering notched up a level to swapping engines around, always with the aim of producing as much power as possible. Although she eventually went on to study Motorsport Design Engineering in Glasgow, Isla followed a more traditional pathway to start with...
