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|  California female driver, Lynsey Tilton from San Diego, Calif., comes from a racing family. Her father, Roger, raced sprint cars for many years, and her brothers raced as well. When Tilton was just a week old she was introduced to racing when she went to the motorcycle track with her family to watch her brothers race. Then at four years old she started to race 50cc motorcycles. Tilton moved to racing bicycles at the age of six. Here she proved she was an aggressive racer and was meant to race. She was a factory rider for Mike Redman and was a four-time national champion, along with winning a World Championship. She also was in the top-ten in the nation and number two in her age group. During this time one of her brothers was racing go-karts, so she decided to give that a try. Rapidly picking up go-karts, she was winning races and setting fast times in her rookie season. This young female driver went on to winning three class championships, one in Jr.1 (age 8-12) and two in HPV Jr. (12-16), setting track records, winning poles and was named the Most Improved Jr. driver in just her first season. Then at 15, Tilton made the move to the top level of kart racing, 125 shifter karts. In 2001 she raced in the Alex Barron Super Spec Series, where she was able to capture four of six pole positions, and finished second twice. She never finished outside the top-ten, which led her to finish fourth in the drivers’ championship. In the 2004 season Tilton embarked on a new adventure; she has started racing midgets. Tilton raced with Arizona Midget Association, where she captured Rookie-of-the-Year and finished third in the drivers’ championship. She finished the eight race season off with scoring one top-three finish, two top-five finishes and seven top-ten finishes. The 2005 season saw Lynsey making her first starts in the USAC National Midget division along with USAC Ford Focus events. Every track Lynsey saw this season was new to her and her best finish was 12th. The 2006 season has seen Lynsey in the Midwest Ford Focus Pavement series where she has a season best of 6th place. The highlight of the 2006 season was making her sprint car debut at Fremont, OH, the toughest short track in Ohio, and was only one of four females that have ever driven at the track. Another highlight was making the Hut 100 in a National Midget at Terre Haute Action Track. In 2007, Lynsey stepped into five different race cars; gokarts, 600cc up-right mini sprint, a dirt and pavement midgets, and a 410 pavement sprint car, with most of the time split between the 600cc mini sprint and the dirt national midget. Lynsey was able to win in her first start in the 600 and continued to bring home top threes the rest of the season. For 2008, Lynsey’s plans are to run the 600 mini sprint with hopes of moving up to sprint cars or any other opportunity that may present themselves. She balances school with racing. She is currently in her third year at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, where she is majoring in Mechanical Engineering Technology and holding a 3.5 GPA. She is currently enrolled in the honors program and is president of the Motorsports Club. Prestigiously she was selected by Ford Racing to participate in their woman driver search program in Indianapolis, in May of 2004. In March of 2005 Lynsey was also one of three prestigiously selected by Speed Secrets to participate for their Driver Development Scholarship. In the end, Tilton was the one that Speed Secrets choose.
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