A TEENAGE racing driver is back on the road this week.

Emily Linscott, 17, from Basildon, was granted permission to travel to the USA as a motorsport athlete and has finished her 14 days of quarantine.

This means she will be back in the cockpit of a race car tomorrow, for the first time in four months.

She will be racing at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, and then at the same venue the following week with the Lucas Oil School of Racing Formula Car Series.

After winning third place in the Lucas Oil School of Racing Scholarship Shoot-Out in December of 2019, and then successfully crowd-funding a full campaign for 2020, she missed the first event of the season due to Covid-19.

Emily said: "I’m so thankful to be back on US soil, and I’m so ready to be back behind the wheel of a race-car.

"I’m excited to get my season back on track, and with the precedence of the championship being won by a driver who was forced to miss an event in 2019, I’m still hoping to repeat that feat.”