Liv Eklund

Liv Eklund is a race car driver from Malmö, Sweden. She made her debut in stock cars in the TM Lights series in 2018. Despite not winning a race, her rate of improvement caught the attention of Lynxe Racing and she was promoted after team leader Divina Henton was ruled out for the season after a testing crash.

Background
Eklund entered the Lynxe Driver Development program in 2016, with her initial focus on touring cars and GTs. In 2017, Eklund competed in the eGT class of the North American GT series, a class reserved for electric vehicles, carrying Lynxe sponsorship in a Gessler BW25. In weekends where the eGT class did not appear, Eklund's team competed in the NA1 class with a Volpi SR570. Eklund and co-driver Lia Serroni scored 5 wins out of 8 meetings for the eGT class, being the only repeat winners in their class all season. Lynxe offered both Eklund a TM Lights test after the NAGT/TM Lights race at Provo Motorsports Park, driving one of Ingrid Haddeland's backup cars. Eklund impressed enough to earn another test with Lynxe's TM Lights team during the offseason.

In January, Lynxe Racing named Eklund as their 4th driver for their 2018 TM Lights effort, taking over Ingrid Haddeland's ride, as Haddeland moved up to the TM Master Cup level. Eklund's car carried #14, her jersey number when she briefly played youth hockey in Sweden. Her best finishes in 2018 were only a pair of 11ths, making her the only one of Lynxe's regular TM Lights drivers to fail to score a top 5 result. However, Clair Auxier noted Eklund's rate of improvement, particularly in the latter half of the season, and her willingness to learn.

Personal
Eklund has cited Alexis Rainsford as her idol in motorsport, and claims to own every single team hat Rainsford has ever used, as other forms of memorabilia were out of her means. The two met in 2018 over lunch, a meeting Eklund described as; "reassuringly casual".