Ask @JaguarRacing’s new Global Ambassador what inspires her, and the answer shoots back with impressive speed, not to mention idiosyncracy. “Originality,” begins Noodle, “sakura in springtime; soba noodles; speed; explosive chemical reactions; people that work selflessly to help others; art; manga; music; magic; travel.”

Ask @JaguarRacing’s frontrunner female engineer to describe the beginnings of her route from England’s northeast to the global Formula E circuit, and she goes right back to basics.

“Everything was so different, from friends to school to climate,” begins Charanya as she remembers her journey to the UK. “It was just a whole new experience and I was trying to understand a whole new culture.”

But by the time she was studying at The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College in Hartelepool, County Durham, music had helped welcome the teenager to her adopted homeland.

“Playing music, and playing it on lots of different instruments, just made me so happy!” Charanya recalls with a laugh. “I can play the western flute and the bamboo Indian flute; I learn one thing and then I want to learn something else. But I never considered a career in music – it’s always been a hobby. It’s different from work. It’s relaxation, escapism.”

In terms of mental stimulation, though, she realised early on that her passions lay elsewhere.

“The beauty of maths?” she ponders. “Well, it is a puzzle to be solved and the answers are either right or wrong. Growing up, that certainty was quite nice. With my other interests in music and art, it’s very, very subjective. You never know if you’re correct. I liked that certainty and precision in maths. No grey areas!”

Physics, too, spoke to the A-level student in meaningful, practical ways. “It’s about being able to relate what you’ve learned to actual life; to relate it to me as I walk down the road. Physics is not abstract – you can actually see it. Think about Newton’s Laws of Motion – every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Think about gravity… These things help you understand how we literally walk on the earth.”

A-levels in maths, further maths, physics, chemistry and biology focused Charanya’s ambitions and pushed her towards her choice of university degree: an “M-Eng”, a Master of Engineering, with a focus on Aeronautical Engineering. No wonder @JaguarRacing were keen to hire her.

But as for Noodle… In adolescence she, effectively, ran away to join the circus. What qualifications does she have, academically or otherwise, to be a Global Ambassador for @JaguarRacing?

“My qualifications aren’t exactly conventional, as I didn’t go to a regular school,” the musician acknowledges. Lowering her voice, she adds: “My education was more covert ops and combat training, but that’s all I can say about that. However, I am governed by the laws of physics like everyone. The speed my fingers move over my guitar; the rate of deceleration of a bullet as it passes through a zombie’s brain; how high [Gorillaz vocalist] 2D jumps when he sees a little mouse. If you can see beauty in the numbers and processes around us, I believe you are qualified.”