WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. – Harper Gage is not letting her hearing loss slow her down, especially when it comes to go-kart racing.

The 6-year-old girl has taken on the sport and even placed in the top 10 of a World Karting Association race in Daytona last month. She raced in her custom kart, "Number 17."

“I wanted it pink and rainbow,” Harper said. “Seventeen is my favorite number.”

Harper was diagnosed as a baby with bilateral conductive hearing loss. It means she’s missing inner-ear bones that send sound to her brain.

Her mother Lauren says that at 6 months old, Harper was fitted with the Cochlear Baha device, which vibrates sounds between her ears and helps her hear like anyone else.

“From her diagnosis as a baby, we just wanted her to do what any other kid can do,” Lauren said.

And that’s how the racing started.

Harper’s dad Thomas is a huge racing fan of all kinds. He took Harper to watch go-kart racing when she was younger and she was instantly hooked. So he started teaching her and she learned fast.

“It’s awesome to see her out there," he said. "Pretty cool to see her learning things on the track."

However, Harper can’t wear her hearing aid with her racing helmet on. But despite that loss in hearing, she says it doesn’t bother her on the track.

“I can hear the engine and the go-kart,” she said.

Harper will be able to get a procedure when she’s older to implant what she wears in the headband now. But for now, she’s looking forward to winning some races.

“When I first got on my go-kart, I was scared,” she said. “But then I liked it.”

Harper will be racing in another World Karting Association race in Charlotte this March.