Barnard, who’s from Norwich, says the driving bug was passed down from his father, who was a karting driver in his younger years.
He rose through the ranks of British and European karting, before his talent helped him secure backing to get through Formula 3 and 2.
Barnard finally secured a seat in Formula E with McLaren, and transferred to DS Penske for the current season.
“It sounds very simple but trust me, it’s anything but that,” he says.
“It’s super expensive, super difficult. And where my family and I’ve come from, we’ve always been on the difficult end of that journey.”
The driver recalls being raised in a “very normal, working family”, and at one stage they had to re-mortgage their house so Barnard could continue his racing career.
“We really did put everything on the line for me to be able to make it,” he says.
“I would be lying if we’re still not stinging from when we did that.”
