Megan Gilkes
Megan Gilkes is a female racing driver from Canada. She currently competes in the W Series.
Biography
A third-generation racer, Gilkes began karting aged nine in her then-home of Barbados. Following seven years grafting her craft at the entry level, including a crash in which she broke her wrist, she was accepted into the Skip Barber Racing School and as an ambassador for Dare to be Different. In 2017, Gilkes stepped up to single-seaters in the Canadian F1200 championship. Despite not contesting all of the rounds in either season she competed in, she finished third and second overall in consecutive seasons.at the 2019 W Series Brands Hatch round.
In 2019, Gilkes applied for the W Series, a European-based Formula 3 championship solely for women. She was accepted into the category as one of 18 full-time drivers, however the learning curve proved steep. She retired from the first race having out-braked herself and crashed into Emma Kimiläinen, and found herself on the sidelines for the fourth round having finished 14th and 17th in the intervening races. A win in a non-championship experimental race at TT Circuit Assen would boost her reputation, but the 14th place from the second round at Zolder proved her best result – finishing the season last in the standings with no points and was dropped from the program for 2020.
Alongside her racing, she studies Aeronautical Engineering at the Imperial College in London.
Career results
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
| Year | Track | Car | Engine | Class | Finish | Start | Status |
| 2017 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | BRD AFV-01 | Volkswagen | Formula Vee | 23 | 24 | Running |
Complete W Series results
| Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | HOC Ret | ZOL 14 | MIS 17 | NRM | ASS 14 | BRH 18 | NC | 0 |