JACKLYN Ellis is like any 15-year-old girl - except she spends her weekends driving a beat-up car and trying to smash her friends off the road.

She has just won a trophy at the world stock car racing championships in Kings Lynn.

Jacklyn, of Uplands Avenue, Kexbrough drives mini-stocks and was one of only three girls at the event on Saturday. She says there are only about six female competitors in the country.

Mini-stock racing is divided into different experience level grades and because of her victory Jacklyn has moved up a class.

She said: “It was nerve-wracking in the championship. It was a really hard race. At every corner someone would be put into the fence.

“A couple of my friends have been put in hospital with broken feet and legs and things. “It was very competitive and I was very lucky to win.”

Jacklyn said she is not put off by competing in such a dangerous sport.

“It’s very scary. A couple of weeks ago I got spun out and put in the fence backwards and bruised my lumbar vertebrae.

“It just makes you want to get back out there and get revenge.

“If you want to win you’ve just got to smash them them out of the way.

“They know they’re going to get it. Afterwards, we all laugh about it but you’ve got no friends on the track.”