She earned another page in the record books with an Indy 500 qualifying lap of 227.32 mph that stood as a record for women until Sarah Fisher’s lap of 229.675 mph qualifying for the 2002 “500.” That was just one of 21 national and international speed records Lyn authored. In 1988 she set a closed course speed record for women at 212.577 mph in a Bill Elliott-built Thunderbird. James.įor Lyn the eighties were fast and productive.
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Lyn celebrates after winning the IMSA GTO class at the Serengeti Drivers New York 500 at Watkins Glen in 1985. A month later, on one of her favorite tracks, the full Grand Prix course at Watkins Glen, Lyn scored an unprecedented and still unequalled solo IMSA GTO class victory in the Serengeti Drivers New York 500 racing a Roush Mustang. The eighties also saw two class victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona. That was a very good year: an IMSA GTO victory came in August 1985 at Road America in the Lowenbrau Classic.
A year later she won IMSA’s Norelco Driver of the Year award. In 1984 Autoweek magazine named her Rookie of the Year in IMSA’s GTO class. She graduated to the pro ranks in the 1980s as a Ford factory racer. By then corporate America liked what they were seeing and hearing from the racer from Willoughby, OH.
A brave class victory in the punishing 1979 24 Hours of the Nurburgring racing an AMC Spirit AMX sponsored by BF Goodrich is an exotic and sometimes overlooked line on Lyn’s deep resume. She moved up quickly racing a Corvette at Sebring, Palm Beach and Daytona. Her first titles were a pair of regional south Florida road racing championships. Lyn’s life is a high speed motorsports adventure. Her racing career began in a Ford Pinto –her daily driver – in the 1970s and had its grand finale more than two decades later in a special commemorative ceremony on the “yard of bricks” at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. James is the Honoree of the 26 th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for May 20-23, 2021. Racer, writer, broadcaster, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Lyn St.
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