Wayne Boyd
Wayne Boyd is a British racing driver from County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Boyd won the British Formula Ford Championship in 2008 with Jamun Racing. He won 13 out of 25 championship races. He sat on the pole for 15 races and was on the podium 20 times out of 25 races. In the same year, he won the Formula Ford Festival Duratec class. His dominate performance earned him named as one of British Racing Driver Club Superstars and nominated for the BRDC McLaren Autosport Award. Boyd also won the Walter Hayes Trophy in 2014 and won the Formula Ford Festival for a second time in 2015.
In 2009, Boyd raced full-time in the British Formula Three Championship for T-Sport and won a race at Donington Park. He started that race outside thetop-ten and in the rain raced his way to the win on slicks. At the Macau GP, Boyd walked away from an incredible crash - surviving after landing upside down and will be remembered as a great escape. He finished 12th in points overall. He was again nominated as BRDC Superstars and British MSA Race Elite Driver.
In 2010, financial constraints only allowed Boyd to make two one-off races Hockenheimring for Sino Vision Racing in British F3, the second was the F3 Masters event at Zandvoort in which he started 24th on the grid and finished eighth in poor weather conditions.
In 2011, Boyd signed to race for Belardi Auto Racing in the U.S. F2000 National Championship in America. The deal came together days before the start of the season. He captured two wins, including one on the oval at the Milwaukee Mile, six podiums in total and finished third in the Championship points behind Petri Suvanto and Spencer Pigot.
In 2012, Boyd raced two event weekends for Belardi Auto Racing at Baltimore and Virginia International Raceway posting a third- and second-place finish at VIR.
Early years: Boyd starting karting in September 2001 in the cadet class finishing in the top-ten in his first year in the Northern Irish Championship. Contested the Five Nations Championship at Nutts Corner finishing fifth. His first championships were in 2004 winning the Ulster Championship at Nutts Corner, the Five Nations Championship. He raced for Maranello in 2005 placing first in the Ulster Cup and second in the Northern Ireland Karting Association. In 2006, he stepped up to Intrepid Karts and continued placing first and second in Ulster championships.
In 2007, Boyd raced Formula Ford 1600 and won the Northern Irish FF1600 Championship. He was named Novice of the Year. He set new track records on his first visits to Knockhill; Mondello Park; Brands Hatch during the Formula Ford Festival and at Silverstone during the Walter Hayes Trophy.
Racing Record
U.S. F2000 National Championship
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Rank | Points |
| 2011 | Belardi Auto Racing | SEB 11 | SEB 6 | STP 7 | STP 3 | ORP 5 | MIL 1 | MOH 2 | MOH 2 | ROA 10 | ROA 3 | BAL 1 | BAL 15 | 3rd | 229 |