Sarah Moore has been described as an “angel outside the car and a Yorkshire Terrier inside it”. These words were not spoken by her driving instructor: she is two years shy of sitting her test. They come from the boss of Ginetta Juniors, the motor racing championship in which Moore has made history by claiming three wins from six rounds.
When the 15-year-old stood on the top step of the podium at Hampshire’s ultra-fast Thruxton circuit last month, she became the only female to win a race on the TOCA package – home to the country’s biggest motor racing series, the British Touring Car Championship. Some of her male competitors said it was a fluke: she silenced them by taking victory again the following day. Having added a further win and podium at Donington Park, she is comfortably leading the points standings in the series created for 14 to 16-year-olds, and is destined to become the first female to ever win a mixed-sex motorsport championship.
“She’s fast, she’s aggressive and out of the car she’s perfect – good in front of the camera and really sweet,” says Richard Dean, managing director of Ginetta Cars and a sportscar racer himself. “That said, I’m not sure I’d like to go wheel to wheel with her! After her first win you could just see the confidence in her. I’d love to see her in touring cars – it needs a good, fast female driver to mix it up.”
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