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Born | June 3, 1988 Kingston, Ontario |
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2012 CARS Champion | |
WSCC Career | |
Entries | 104 entries over {{{wscc_years}}} year(s) |
Championships | 0 |
First Entry | 2012 Round of Ontario |
Last Entry | 2016 WSCC Championship Weekend |
Wins | 0 |
Podiums | {{{wscc_podiums}}} |
Poles | 2 |
Independent's Trophy Statistics | |
Entries | 8 |
Championships | 0 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Lynn Erica Sawyer is a Canadian racing driver currently competing in endurance racing; she formerly competed in the World Stock Car Championship for Target TMO Racing. She is the 2011 champion of the Canadian Auto Racing Series, the second woman to win the title in that series. She made her WSCC debut in 2012 with David Brewer Racing at her home track and competed for the Indepedent's Trophy for two seasons. She raced with TMO Racing from 2014 - when she was signed to replace the departing Taylor Dawson - until 2018, after which she left stock car racing to pursue endurance racing with PMR Engineering.
Early Life and Career[edit | edit source]
WSCC Career[edit | edit source]
David Brewer Racing (2012 - 2013)[edit | edit source]
TMO Racing (2014 - 2018)[edit | edit source]
Daytona 1776 Co-Driver (2019 - present)[edit | edit source]
Endurance Racing Career[edit | edit source]
Personal Life[edit | edit source]
Sawyer currently lives in Aurora, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. She is openly gay, and has been in a relationship with punk rocker Lizzie McCall since 2011; they married during the 2014-2015 off-season. She is the first openly gay driver in series history. Sawyer stated that she "[doesn't] want to be a token of any sort. I want to be here because I have the talent for it, not for some political brownie points"; these comments were in reference to some rumors that she was only hired as part of a diversity push from higher-ups, a sentiment that many drivers and teams have pushed back against.
Sawyer has commented that she prefers privacy, and she does not want to be seen as a sex symbol. During an interview with the UK's Diva magazine, she was quoted as saying: "No offense to those in the sport who like that sort of thing, it's just not for me. I want to be known for my driving, not photoshoots or my sexuality."