She's there!
You don't just show up, or just get hired to drive. You have to prove yourself to have the right to run with the big dogs. She paid dues to get to this point, and now she is paying her dues to cement a respectable legacy.
Yes you do. If your the second or third driver on the team your goal is DON'T BREAK THE CAR!
There are plenty of drivers that are just out turning laps hoping everybody in front of them breaks or crashes. Then there is big group that just doesn't want to dink the car.
In the late 70's I used to work the corners at Circuit St Jovite for the John Russell Driving School. It was easy to see who came to race and who came to play race car driver. There were young drivers like Jaques and Gil Vileneuve, Scott Goodyear and Dick Dodge who held Pikes Peak unlimited record for years. After a day of F4 racing we would go to go cart track and race carts till the police showed up. They would race anything!
It was very impressive to see them drive.