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Romanek rises into the top five of Autosport's National Driver Rankings

Lucas Romanek's steady accumulation of Formula Ford 1600 wins has powered him into the top five of Autosport's National Driver Rankings after his latest triumph at Kirkistown last weekend.

The Van Diemen JL13 driver (number 73 above) has launched a three-pronged attack this year, contesting the National, United and Castle Combe FF1600 championships.

And, while in recent weeks he has usually only registered one win per event, his tally has now risen to 11 victories after a further success when the National series headed to Northern Ireland. He jumps up four places on the leaderboard but still remains five wins behind table-topper Freddie Slater.

In fact, Romanek is the only driver to improve inside the top 12 this week but there is a plethora of movement further down Autosport's table.

The highest-ranked of those improvers is Junior Saloons star Daire Flock, who only took one win at Thruxton - and even then, it was only after CJ Morgan was penalised for an aggressive move on Flock - but it still enabled the Citroen Saxo pilot to climb five places into 13th.

That is one position ahead of Radical Cup UK frontrunner James Lay, who was again on scintillating form at Silverstone.

Despite a drive unit failure in qualifying that left him starting at the back of the field, he stormed up the order in the 20-minute opener to take the spoils and later doubled up in race two to gain 10 spots in the rankings.

Another driver to take two wins in Northamptonshire was Tom Mills, whose relentless charge towards the GB4 title continued. He won the first two contests but heavy rain led to the finale being cancelled and denied him the chance to climb higher than his jump from 31st to 17th.

Continuing the Silverstone conquerors, Jonathan Lovell picked up another Boxster Cup win although he did suffer a rare defeat in the finale and therefore only gains one position, moving to 20th. Lovell is, in turn, one place ahead of Dan Silvester, who was a class victor in both Toyota MR2 bouts at Snetterton to rise up from 34th.

Source: Autosport

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