Callum Grant
Photo by: Mick Walker
Historic single-seater ace Callum Grant has shot to the top of the Autosport National Rankings following his stellar weekend at the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting.
Grant took no fewer than five race wins across the prestigious event at the Cheshire parkland circuit, to move onto 15 victories for the season.
He scored a double in the Formula Junior races aboard a Merlyn Mk5/7, took a Merlyn Mk20A to a brace of Historic Formula Ford 1600 successes, and only missed out on a clean sweep because he claimed ‘just’ one of the two 1-litre Historic Formula 3 victories in a Brabham BT21B.
That has moved Grant up from ninth position to the pinnacle of the Rankings, in which his closest rivals are on 13 wins.
The Autosport National Rankings is a tally of each driver’s race wins across the car racing season in the UK and Ireland, with each victory counting equally. This year’s has been the closest battle to top the table since the Rankings were reintroduced in 2020 – as a diversion during the COVID lockdown period!
Grant’s success means Legends racer Chris Needham topped the table for just one week. He has moved down to second, while William Antrobus has leapfrogged long table Rankings leader Connor Kay.
Antrobus remains in third place thanks to his single victory from the two Miata Trophy races at Donington Park, although his main programme has been in the Ginetta GT Championship.
Anton Landon
Photo by: Richard Styles
The Miata Trophy is for Mk3 Mazda MX-5 machinery, while it’s an older MX-5 that is the weapon of choice for this week’s other big mover towards the top of the Rankings: Craig Ewing scored a Northern Irish Modi-5 double at Kirkistown to move up eight places to fifth.
There has also been a lot of action in the lower half of the top 25 after the August Bank Holiday weekend of action – all from drivers who scored one victory this time out.
Eddie Mawer’s Ma7da triumph at Snetterton lifts him nine places to 18th; Bob Barron is also up nine after further Racing Hondas success at Brands Hatch to install himself in 19th; Luke Cooper is up eight to 21st after an FF1600 win at Castle Combe with his Swift SC20; Radical PR6 racer Jim Larkham moves up eight to 22nd with a Roadsports win at Kirkistown; and Anton Landon is up nine at 24th thanks to a Sport Specials win at Snetterton with his Cyana Mk2.
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.
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Source: Autosport