Thing is she doesn't find them in the slightest bit funny.

Nor should she. Jacklyn, you see, is already a motor sport champion - at the tender age of 15.

And for her there's nothing funny about the way women drive.

Not only that but she could certainly show most blokes how to drive.

To prove the point Jacklyn won the Yorkshire Shield Stock Car Championship at Owlerton Stadium when she beat off the challenge of 25, mainly male, competitors.

Throwing her Barbie-pink Mini stock car around a tight track at speeds topping 60mph is something this girl has no problem with.

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"I used to get a little nervous," says the Darton High School girl. "But not any more even though have had the odd crash. I've rolled it three times and I hit a fence backwards once - that bruised all my spine.

"But you've just got to get on with it, get back behind the wheel. There's no point being nervous about it."

Jacklyn helped her dad Chris, himself a stockcar racing driver for 20 years, build her specially reinforced mini.

"I've been around racing all my life and one day I'd like to be red roof driver - you only get a red roof when you are at the very top." Jacklyn is getting there fast, even though she failed to finish at the British Stock Car Championships held in Skegness last weekend.

She was leading the race when there was an accident. Then after the restart her finely tuned car developed a heating problem and she had to retire.

Her dad Chris says: "She's learning all the time," he said. "Some people ask if I get nervous watching her and I say well no not really. Her mum Louise does though, in fact she gets so bad that sometimes she can be physically sick."

Away from racing, Jacklyn is being fast tracked for academic success.

Next year she will be studying law, sociology and business studies at A-level before she aims to go to university.

"I'd like one day to become a lawyer," she says. Now that's a great way to earn a fast buck.

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