George Lines
Photo by: Richard Styles
You have to go down to 16th place in the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings to find the first change in this week's leaderboard, courtesy of George Line.
The Dallara F308 driver topped all three Monoposto F3 contests at Croft in a dominant display to take his 2024 victory tally to nine and send him rocketing up 34 positions on the leaderboard.
Despite high-profile events like the Silverstone Festival and the latest round of the British Touring Car Championship, there was relatively little club racing last weekend and hence the limited change towards the summit of Autosport's winners' table - in contrast to the previous week's flurry of movement.
In fact, the only other driver to improve inside the top half was another who enjoyed a successful event in North Yorkshire.
Matty Cobb prevailed in both Class A & E Northern Saloon bouts in his unusual Volkswagen Beetle/Radical creation to rise from outside last week's top 50 and into 24th spot.
Andy Southcott stormed through from the back of the Special Saloons & Modsports grid to win
Photo by: Gary Hawkins
Cobb is two places above British Formula 4 star Deagen Fairclough, who came within a whisker of sealing the title with two events to spare at Donington Park.
The Hitech driver 'only' won one of the four races held in Leicestershire and narrowly failed to score sufficient points to put the title out of reach of Alex Ninovic.
However, Fairclough's eighth win on UK soil of a dominant campaign still lifts him five places in the rankings.
Also taking their tally to eight triumphs for the year was Midget & Sprite Challenge competitor Hugh Simpson, who twice topped Class D at Brands Hatch in his Midget to join Cobb in entering the top 50 this week, in 32nd position.
Andy Southcott was another victorious driver at Brands as he bounced back from differential woes that caused him to miss Special Saloons & Modsports qualifying to storm from the back to win the second encounter in his MG Lenham Midget. That victory sends him to 35th on the leaderboard.
While Fairclough could not quite seal title success, a driver who did was Daniel Garrett. He took the spoils in both Locost races at Brands to wrap up the championship and enter Autosport's table in 36th.
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All car races in UK and Ireland are included except qualification/repechage, consolation and handicap races. No races in other countries.
Class wins are only counted when there are at least six starters in the class, except: when the race is part of a multi-stage event where six or more have taken part in earlier heats that feed into a semi-final or final; when multiple championships are merged in the same race, the ‘overall’ winner from the slower championship can count a class win as long as that championship has at least 10 starters across all classes.
Only classes divided by car characteristics are included, not those divided by driver characteristics such as ability, professional status, age, experience (for example rookie or Pro-Am classes). Each race counts only once, so an overall winner’s class win is not added.
Where there is a tie, overall wins take precedence. Where there is still a tie, average grid size for a driver’s wins determines the order.
Source: Autosport