FORMER Stanford-le-Hope student Emily Linscott is continuing to make big waves on the American motor-racing circuit.

In her second race weekend the 2020 season in America with the Lucas Oil School of Racing Formula Car Series, she was challenged with a new track that she was seeing for the first time but she proved herself well up to the challenge in the three races.

She was racing at the NOLA Motorsports Park in Louisiana, which she had only ever previously seen on a simulator.

A successful Saturday morning qualifying saw Emily make light of this competitive disadvantage with a sixth place qualifying. Still learning the track as she raced, she then converted this pace into seventh and sixth place finishes in the first two races after race-long on track battles with her competitors for position. In the second race she missed bringing home a top five finish by under one tenth of a second in a drag race to the finish line.

On Sunday in race three of the weekend, weather intervened. Emily started ninth on the grid but fought her way up to sixth place, battling for fifth when the rain started to fall. Wet track conditions and slick dry weather tires meant the safety car was dispatched to control the field until the racetrack was deemed in good enough condition for racing to resume. At the restart in the mixed and difficult conditions Emily continued to challenge and gained another position in the closing laps to take a top five finish in the final race of the weekend.

Emily, who attended St Clere's School, is back in action at the Autobahn Country Club circuit in Illinois, USA, at the end of the month; another new track to her but she is planning to test ahead of the upcoming event on 29/30 August.