March stock car driver, 18, inspired by dad in world title bid

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Zoe Applegate James Burridge/BBC Brooke Kitson said Saturday's World Championship race was a "great thing to be a part of", despite feeling "gutted" that her bid was cut short A teenage driver believed to be the youngest woman to qualify for a world stock car race title says she is following in the footsteps of her trophy-winning father.

Brooke Kitson, 18, from March in Cambridgeshire, was one of two female competitors to compete for the BriSCA F1 Stock Car World Championships at Northampton's Shaleway track on Saturday.

She said she was "gutted" she only managed three or four laps of the 25-lap race before a crash and a flat tyre ended her hopes, but it was a "really great thing to be a part of".