- Being only 11 years old and not having a drivers license
has not stopped our next guest
from outdriving grown men on the racetrack.
From Candor, New York, please welcome
race car driver Mackenzie Marsh.
I'm glad you're excited to be here.
I'm excited to meet you.
It's very cool you're a race car driver.
- Uh-huh.
- You started-- like, you started
when you were really young, right?
- Yeah. - How old?
- Four and a half years old. - Four and a half years old.
What kind of thing were you in
at four and a half years old? - Go-karts.
- A go-kart? - Like, microds.
- And--and so, obviously,
someone in your family races which g--
- My Uncle Randy and, um, my dad.
- Yeah, so, and they were fine
with you being in the go-kart at 4 years old?
- Yes. - You had a helmet
and stuff like that. - My mom was a little nervous,
but my dad loved it. - Yeah, yeah, I can imagine.
I would be nervous seeing you do that.
So, what do you race now?
- Um, I actually race sling-- - Is that what you race now?
- Yeah. - And what's that called?
- That's called, uh, microd-- uh, microd.
- What? - Microd.
- Mm-kay. - But now--
but--but what I race now is a slingshot.
- Oh. - And, um, they're like
a little mini sportsman,
and they go 100 miles per hour on, um, asphalt.
But I go 80 miles per hour on dirt.
- Oh, just 80, okay. - Yeah.
- I'm--I'm, like, I want go to asphalt.
I want to go 100. - So you go 80 miles an hour?
- Yeah. - And what do you love about it?
- That's my Uncle Randy, by the way.
Well, that is. - Okay.
That's what you're driving? - Yeah.
- Okay, and how can you concentrate?
Don't you get nervous?
- I block everything out--none-- and just look straight.
- Uh-huh. What if you have to turn?
[laughter]
- You just still look straight,
you just move the steering wheel.
- I see, okay, I see. All right.
That must be really, really fun to go that fast.
- Yeah. - Now, do you think
when you get your drivers license,
you'll have a tendency to drive fast
or you'll go the speed limit?
[laughter]
Do you have a car that, like-- do you--
you love cars, obviously. What kind of car
do you want to get when you get a car?
- An aqua Mustang-- a convertible plus.
- Oh, wow, we'll see if you end up getting that.
- I hope so. - All right.
And so your dream is to drive in NASCAR, right?
- Yes. - All right.
And who is your role model? - Danica Patrick.
- Yeah, she's pretty cool. She's been on the show before.
- She has? - Yeah, she has.
She's--I've met her before. She's really nice.
- I actually did a progress report on her--
I actually did a breast cancer car.
You know her pink car that she has?
- Mm-hmm. - I did a little
breast cancer car. - Oh, that's sweet.
- With a huge, little silver horse,
'cause horses are my favorite. - Aw.
You like horses too? - Yeah.
- Yeah, so you like horses and cars.
So, you want to be as good as her someday, right?
- Better. - Yeah, oh.
You want to be better than her?
All right. [cheers and applause]
Well, let's see what Danica has to say about that.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
[screams]
[Pink's "Today's the Day"]
- So then, you think you can beat me?
- Yeah. - Yup.
- You probably can. - It's on.
- It's on, well.
I'm always up for a challenge. - All right.
- I know Ellen's competitive. - I am too.
- Yup, we're all-- - That's what you need.
- I love it. - And, you know,
y'all might have flinched when she said
she wants to be better than me,
but I said to her as soon as I came out,
that that would be what I would tell her.
You should want to be better than me,
and if you keep that goal, you will be.
- Yeah, that's-- - You just have to have a goal.
- Yeah, that's good advice. All right.
- Wait, so am I dreaming right now or something?
- No, you're-- - I feel like I'm dreaming.
- Aw, you're so sweet.
No, this is exciting, right? - Yes.
- Good. All right.
So what we're gonna do is we have
a little mini racetrack set up outside.
And we're all going out, and Justin is gonna join us
so it's these three girls against Justin.
We'll see who wins this, uh--
I have a feeling you're gonna win, I don't know.
Uh, we'll be back.
And we're gonna see who the fastest driver is.
When Andy says go, we have five laps.
All right. Ready?
- On your mark, get set, go.
[upbeat music]
[go-karts whirring]
- Whoa!
- Ever win. - I win.
- All right. - Whoo.
[cheers and applause]
- All right, well, I won.
- I'm pretty sure I won.