Photo by: Jonathan Mills
The gap between Ali Bray and George Line at the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings remains at four wins after each took a hat-trick last weekend.
Many of the Rankings’ heavy-hitters were in action, and there has been plenty of change towards the top of the table – albeit with a stalemate between the leading pair.
Bray has absolutely dominated the Mazda MX-5 Championship for Mk1 models this season, and his triple victory at Cadwell Park made it 17 wins in 17 races for the Japanese sportscars’ long-time ace and preparation maestro.
Line has similarly been on fire in the Monoposto Championship at the wheel of his Volkswagen-powered Formula 3 Dallara of 2008 vintage. Like Bray, his latest winning spree was on the Eastern side of the country, although in his case it was further south at Snetterton.
Simon Allaway has been having a spectacular season in his familiar Lotus Esprit V8, and a couple of victories at Donington Park on an ‘away’ day for the Oulton Park-based CNC Heads Sports/Saloons series have pushed him up to 11 for the season and into third position in the Rankings – up from eighth last week.
Another name making headway – and another in Mazda MX-5s – is Aidan Hills, although in his case it’s in the Mk3 models. His double success in the Miata Trophy at Oulton has given him a surge up from 13th to fourth in the table, with the grid average tie-breaker giving him the nod over the other drivers on 10 wins.
The Classic Touring Car Racing Club’s portfolio of series were in action at Snetterton and gave us a number of progressors in the Rankings table, with BMW M3 exponent Ian Bower making headway from 18th to seventh owing to his double success in the Pre 93 action.
Photo by: Steve Jones
Likewise, Jonathan Corker with his Datsun 510 had another ‘corker’ of a weekend to net a Pre 83 brace that moves him up 26 positions to 12th.
The remaining improver in the top half of the table comes from the other of the MX-5 Mk3 series in the UK – the MX-5 Supercup – with a double success at Cadwell lifting Will Blackwell-Chambers all the way up to 18th from outside the top 50.
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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