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Andover girl motor racer Dawn Boyd was back on track at Castle Combe recently but this time it was for a Golf Gti Championship round.

Her car “Max” was all spruced up after the incidents at Brands Hatch and with a smart new bumper and headlights it was back to business.

The recent race action at Combe had really helped for experience and Dawn was quickly on the pace in qualifying and was placed third in class on the grid for her only race of the day. With a time of 1.24.778 she was only 0.93 of a second behind the leader and only 0.32 behind second place.

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The Motor Racing season has finally begun and Andover racer Dawn Boyd was on track at Brands Hatch on Sunday.

The official event program had Dawn’s photograph and a mention as an 8valve racer to watch out for, would this prove to be a good omen?

The Golf Gti Racing Championship has joined the MSVR package and will join some great high profile races this season, including the Britcar 24 hour races at Silverstone.

Sunday was a packed day with 19 races, and with the threat of rain the organisers tried to pull all races forward where ever possible to make the most of the dry weather; all eyes were on the clouds.

Dawn’s Golf’s were on track at 10.30 for qualifying.  This was the first time the car had been raced since a full engine replacement over the winter, and JMS Motorsport had done a great job.  Dawn qualified 4th in class in amongst a pack of faster 16valve cars.

Race 1 wasn’t until 3pm.  The weather was still dry and Dawn made a good start but the pack bunched up at Paddock Hill and she lost a place, with no contact the capacity grid of 32 Mk2 Golf’s streamed round the track, an awesome spectacle.  The new engine was performing superbly and Dawn had a great race overtaking and dicing with both classes. 

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Dawn Boyd from Andover made the long trip to Pembrey circuit in South Wales over the weekend for the latest rounds of this season’s Dunlop Great & British Mini Challenge races.

Dawn races in the club class of the challenge and shares the track with the faster S class cars during the races. Read More

On the 8th and 9th of December 2007 saw the 2nd London Motorsport show take place at the ExCel centre in Docklands. Girlracer had an impressive stand featuring many of the top female drivers in British Motorsport. There was the MG belonging to the most successful woman to race in the BTCC, Fiona Leggate, soon to be British GT driver, Anna Walewska with her Dodge Viper, Cassey Watson, an upcoming driver in the Ginetta Junior championship and Dawn Boyd from the Uk Mini Challenge Championship.

Also present were the 2006 Silverstone rally school Ladyquest winner, Beck Kirvan, and VW racer Karen Andrews and Autograss racer Michaela Bevans. It wasn’t just four wheeled Motorsport that was represented as the impressive Motorcycle racer Sam Burnam had her bike on the stand. Even Motorsport on the water was covered with National and European Championship winning Power Boat racer Sarah Donohue sharing her experiences, which even include Stunt driving for a James Bond Movie

The stand formed part of a women in Motorsport display designed to encourage potential upcoming female racing drivers to take an interest in the sport. The other purpose of the stand was to launch the Brand new Girlracer product GR1, a Fragance designed to make both your car and house smell amazing!

The stand was the busiest in the whole show with all the drivers talking to huge numbers of people throughout the two days, hopefully encouraging many more women to enter what has until recently, been a male dominated sport. The entire Girlracer range of products was on display throughout the stand and proved to be very popular with visitors.

Director Gary Wood declared the event to be a huge success, “It’s been a fantastic event, but very tiring!” he said after the show.

The next big Motorsport show is the annual Autosport event at the NEC in January where there should be another Girlracer stand. We hope to see you there!