1NTERN was a toddler when he first watched Monster Jam, and he never looked back. His love of racing only grew from there, but being a Jamaican fan before Formula 1’s popularity exploded meant he had almost no one to talk to about the many series he followed. So he went looking for people who did, and found them on social media.
Talking wheel, from JamaicaMy first exposure to racing was through Mario Kart 64. My cousin put a Nintendo 64 emulator on the family computer, enabling me to play Mario Kart 64 without actually having an N64. From there I started watching Monster Jam on the SPEED channel, and those two, coupled with stuff like the Cars movie and playing Need for Speed on my PS2, shaped my love of cars and motorsports. NASCAR was the first motorsport I started watching religiously, back in 2012 when I was 10. From there, I discovered IndyCar, then Formula One, then sportscar racing, and here we are now!
That passion built him a following, and he has since helped nurture a safe space for fans of every kind of racing. Online, he goes by 1NTERN. On his YouTube channel, 1nternTalksWheel, he makes scripted and unscripted video essays, or story times as he calls them, digging into the niche corners of motorsport in a way that new and seasoned fans can both follow. Along the way, he opens people’s eyes to racing beyond Formula 1.
By virtue of being Jamaican before the great F1 popularity boom, I had little to no one in my day-to-day life that I could talk to about racing. I had joined Twitter in March 2020 to talk about Jamaican stuff, but once I found the F1twt and motorsport Twitter spaces, my priorities quickly shifted because those were the conversations I was missing out on in my life. I started “talking wheel”, and once I realised I was gaining a following, I told myself I would start a YouTube channel once I hit 1,000 followers. Insane how far everything has come since.
The infield at Daytona International Speedway
Jamaica on his backAs the holder of a communication studies degree with an emphasis in radio production, and close to four years of journalism in the local current affairs space, I do have an innate urge to tell stories. I try to bring that urge to my YouTube content. I try to think of topics that the everyday fan either doesn’t know or knows little about. Then I begin researching, followed by crafting the script. I record the script at home with my mic, edit it with Adobe Audition, then load up a mobile video editor to bring the audio to life with visuals. After all of that is done, I hit upload and cross my fingers that I’ve made a banger.
Charlotte Motor SpeedwayIn his 1NTERVIEWS series, he also sits down with some of the sport’s key figures.
His first-ever 1NTERVIEWS guest was his friend, driver Connor Zilisch. After 1NTERN gave Connor a gift at the 2025 Rolex 24, Connor’s father covered 1NTERN’s flight and ticket to the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte in May.
It was a wonderful moment for two reasons. First, as a Jamaican racing fan, I always felt I was both too far from global motorsport and from too random a country motorsport-wise to have any sort of impact. When I fast forward to now, having 12k followers, being mutuals with racing drivers from different series and being able to fly to a race and be recognised by people who have engaged with my content without having to introduce myself, it really shows me that there’s really no barrier your passion can’t break down.
Secondly, that interview with Rajah was pretty important to me as a BLACK racing fan. Truth be told, by virtue of living in a predominantly Black country my whole life, I wasn’t able to identify and relate with issues of racism when I first entered the space, and I think it was to my detriment, because I found myself at times discrediting certain experiences people would share due to my naivety. I feel like by now I’ve come to understand much better what is at stake for minorities in certain spaces, specifically Black people, and am better able to apply that to how I react to things that happen in the racing world. Rajah is one of a handful of Black drivers in NASCAR and is of Caribbean heritage, with his roots in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Talking to him felt like I was talking to the racing driver equivalent of myself, and it was a special interview because of that. It was even cooler meeting him in person when I went to watch the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
With Rajah Caruth
On pit road with Connor Zilisch’s No. 77 for Spire Motorsports. “My friend Connor is the driver in the background, and his dad made the trip possible.”1NTERNMonster Jam was the easiest motorsport for me to get into as a toddler. It was the simplest concept ever; big loud monster trucks on two types of events. They had racing and freestyle. Racing saw a tournament style format where two trucks would race on a very short and simple course. The races were less than a minute long each. Freestyle was a big course with jumps and objects to destroy, with each truck getting 2 and a half minutes to do jumps, tricks and impress the crowd and the judges that would score them in the end. It was a very easy thing for young me to understand and latch on to.
There are genuinely too many, but I’ll try. Love me some Doriane Pin. She’s probably the most recognisable face to the European audience. There’s a young racer named Caitlyn McDaniel who races in GB4 who I am mutuals with. Katherine Legge goes without saying, talented across multiple disciplines. Dystany Spurlock became the first Black woman to race in a NASCAR National Series race, very fun to see. And there’s a lady in GT World Challenge America named Therese Lahlouh who used to do PR and journalism and is now a whole GT3 driver and podium scorer in the series. I discovered her earlier this year and she’s one of the most fun personalities I’ve seen in racing for a while now.
You won’t regret it. I’ve introduced a good number of folks to other series and I’m yet to get a negative review from any of them. Racing is a beautiful thing and each series has its own unique form of that beauty. It can definitely be a task to learn how each one works from both a cultural and sporting perspective, but there are so many drivers and teams out there that F1 fans would definitely gravitate towards, as long as they just open the door!
I’ve always been on the fence about whether or not I’d work in racing. On one hand, working in a field I enjoy and have passion for would be a very necessary fuel. On the other hand, I feel like working in racing would cause it to lose that spectacle and whimsy I had back when it was a hobby to watch and not necessarily a responsibility by virtue of work. I’ve been lucky enough to meet people in the industry who are familiar with and impressed by my YouTube content and the opinions I share, so I do believe I am somewhat capable of working in the space. But I also love what I do now independently.
It’s very hard to balance YouTube with working at a local news station where you not only write the news but also serve as the anchor of the prime-time broadcast, but I do what I can to make it work. I want to grow my channel, grow my reach across platforms, continue to go to races and continue to meet and interview great figures in the sport. I also want to continue trying to create an online racing culture that isn’t as nasty and mean-spirited as the one I have to traverse on a daily basis, and instead one where people can respectfully disagree while joking around, without making out-of-line comments that can hurt people.
From a Nintendo 64 emulator on the family computer to pit road in Charlotte, 1NTERN has turned a lonely love of racing into a community that spans every series. And he is still building it, one story time at a time.
