Kathmandu, May 11 -- There are not many students who combine university lectures, content creation, and competitive racing all simultaneously in a foreign country. Brisha Shrestha is one of them. Currently studying business marketing in Thailand, the young Nepali racer has quietly been making noise in a sport that few back home even know exists. And she's doing it entirely on her own terms.

Growing up, Shrestha had a world shaped by two different businesses. Her father was in automobiles and her mother owned a clothing business. "My father forced me to learn how to drive and know about cars from a young age," she says. At that time, it was simply something she did because he asked. She could not have imagined that it would come to charac...