Hills at the summit of early Autosport National Driver Rankings

Now the 2023 national racing season is a couple of months old, Autosport will once again be producing our weekly winners' tables looking at the most successful UK racers and it is Mazda MX-5 star Aidan Hills who is the early runaway leader.

As a reminder, the rankings treat each UK race win equally whether it comes in British GT's blue-riband three-hour Silverstone 500 or the more humble machinery found in the CityCar Cup sprint races.

Class victories, where the different divisions are determined by car characteristics, also count towards the total, provided there are at least six starters.

And one driver who has done plenty of winning so far this year is Hills. He has triumphed in seven of the opening nine Mazda MX-5 Supercup races, including taking two more wins at Croft last weekend.

Further success in his Mk3 MX-5 in the new-for-2023 Miata Trophy last month means he heads the table on nine wins, three clear of his nearest rival.

To put that strong start in context, last year's table-topper Samuel Harrison achieved 21 victories across the entire campaign and the nine first places Hills has already scored would have put him 38th in the final 2022 rankings!

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Currently in second place is another MX-5 ace, Mk1 pilot Steve Foden - who also twice prevailed at Croft to move to six wins.

However, his deficit to Hills at the summit would be less had there been more starters in the Mk1 division of the Miata Trophy Brands Hatch races - but, instead, those successes cannot be included.

CityCar Cup conqueror Elliot Lettis is third on five wins, having taken a Croft hat-trick, while Ginetta Junior dominator Freddie Slater is fourth, but would be a position higher had he not lost one of his Silverstone triumphs to a track-limits penalty.

Freddie Slater

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Colin Turkington completes the top five and heads the gaggle of drivers on four wins after taking British Touring Car glory for the first time this year at Brands Hatch last weekend, to add to his earlier success in Classic Sports Car Club races.

Further back in the top 10 is a group of drivers who had already achieved four wins prior to last weekend's race meetings - these include Formula Ford frontrunners Felix Fisher and Lucas Romanek, and BCV8 star Neil Fowler.

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