Amanda Whitaker is Britain's most successful female racing driver!

Welcome to the world Harrison Steven Whitaker Dunn! Harrison was born on 3rd November 2013 in The Friarage Northallerton weighing 8lb 3oz..

Scarlet Jane Whitaker Dunn was welcomed into the World on Thursday 2nd June. Scarlet was in such a hurry to meet the world that she couldn't wait to get to Darlington Hospital - she instead arrived at 12.20 pm at Newton Aycliffe Doctors Surgery!

Amanda & husband Anthony made the front page of YourLocal newspaper in January, as the paper did an article on Amanda's racing career & how they are showing youngsters how to get involved in motor racing through the 'GoMotorsport' campaign.

Amanda will be showing her car and talking about her career in motorsport together with Anthony at Darlington College on 28th January.

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Amanda had a promising, but ultimately disappointing weekend at home circuit Croft's 'Nostalgia weekend'.

She was racing in both HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 in and Historic Formula Ford 2000 in Amaron Racing's Elden Mk8 and TIGA SF78.

Formula Ford 2000 started well when she qualified 4th overall and 1st in class - with Amanda a lot closer to the pace than she had been on the last outing in the TIGA due to improvements her father (and Chief Engineer...

Amanda made a return to the North West Formula Ford Championship at Oulton Park this weekend.

She was racing the SC93 Swift Formula Ford 1600 in the Championship, which she last raced at the start of her career in the early 1990's.

She finished 5th in class in race one and 7th in race 2, despite having limited mileage in the car.

'We are still learning about the setup and I think we were a little down on power too, so there's much more to...

Following her dominant display at the Croft season opener, Amanda had engine problems at Cadwell Park Classic Formula Ford 1600 championship in her Elden Mk8, leading to a non-start for the race.

At the start of testing on Friday, she noticed low oil pressure on her gauge on her 'out lap' and she had to switch her engine off & coast back into the pits to avoid damaging the unit.

The engine was replaced with a spare for Sunday's qualifying, but that too ...

Amanda Whitaker was once again on the top step of the podium this weekend at Croft, taking 3 wins and a third out of 4 races.

Driving Amaron Racing’s rebuilt Elden Mark 8, in its second outing since its huge accident at Mallory Park last year, Amanda took a class win on Saturday’s URS Classic Formula Ford 1600 race, although she was unlucky not to have won outright...

Amanda Whitaker took a podium place at Cadwell Park this weekend driving Amaron Racing's recently restored Elden Mk 8 Formula Ford 1600. It was the first time she was racing the car since it was badly damaged in her huge crash at Mallory Park in August 2009.

Thankfully, she showed the car still had all of the original competitiveness by qualifying and racing to 3rd b...

Amanda took a large collection of silverware home from the annual British Women Racing Drivers Club awards this weekend. 

Amanda was once again the most prolific winner of the evening, being awarded four trophies:

The Hillwood Jewellers Coupe des Dames Trophy for the member with the most wins and lap records

The Goodwin Trophy for 1st place in the overall ...

Amanda once again has been helping out with Anthony on his Go Motorsport school visits. She twice visited her old school Sunnydale in Shildon, talking to the students about a career in motorsport.

The Northern Echo covered the Sunnydale visit today. Aycliffe Village Primary school also had a visit from Anthony & Amanda - and they left a karting trophy as a competition p...

Amanda did a photoshoot for sponsor Roman outside their factory in Newton Aycliffe

For all t...

Amanda & Anthony did another school visit for GoMotorsport at High Coniscliffe Primary School.

They talked in assembly to over 100 pupils about how to get involved in motorsport either as a driver, spectator or helper. They offered a trophy as a prize to the winner of the b...

Amanda made a trip to local Primary School 'Cleves Cross' in Ferryhill, helping partner Anthony tell the kids all about how to get involved in motorsport.

See here for more photo's http://www.clevescross.durham.sch.uk/14656

Amanda took the HSCC Formula Ford Championship points lead this weekend with 5th place at Brands Hatch.
 

 
The day started well with Amanda qualifying 3rd, just 5 thousandths of a second from 2nd place Robert Wainwright. However, all was not well with Amanda's engine.

"We...