Kay back on the move in Autosport National Rankings table

Long-time Autosport National Rankings leader Connor Kay has moved back into the top four following success at Silverstone last weekend.

Historic ace Kay featured at the top of the Rankings for a long time earlier this season thanks to victories in a variety of 1960s sportscars, before beginning to fade from the fight at the front.

But Kay was on form in the Pall Mall Cup at the big Motor Racing Legends extravaganza aboard his Lotus Elan 26R. He took a class win to move onto 15 successes for the season, leaving him just two adrift of table-topper Callum Grant’s 17.

This has moved him up three places to fourth in the table, on the same number of victories at Legends/GT Cup form man Aaron Cooke, but with fewer overall victories.

The Autosport National Rankings is a table to show the most successful drivers in car races in the UK and Ireland across the season, with each victory counting equally.

The next upwards mover this week is Fiesta Junior champion Dara McInerney. A result was issued for only one of the two races held at Oulton Park – and that one had only two laps completed amid a plague of red flags.

Peter Keen

Photo by: Jon Elsey

But McInerney’s ability to stay out front netted win number 13 for the season, and he is up three positions to eighth in the Rankings.

The 750MC was in action at Donington Park and Peter Keen enjoyed a hugely successful weekend in his BMW 116. He took class honours in the first 116 Sprint & 120 Coupe Cup race, and took overall victory in the second when it was cut short, and the only one of the faster 120s picked up a false-start penalty. Keen then completed a weekend hat-trick with another win in the standalone 116 Trophy race, and has leapt 20 positions to 12th in our top 50.

Down at Castle Combe, Jack Robinson took his XK8 to his habitual brace of wins in the Jaguar Championship, so he is up 12 places to 16th.

The two other upwards movers in the top 50 this week were both on form at Donington, but each were prevented the chance of making even further progress by the cancellation of their respective second races. Eddie Mawer’s Ma7das victory moves him up nine places to 27th, while Paul Cook’s BMW CC Racing success in his E46 M3 lifts him 10 spots to 30th.

Autosport National Driver Rankings

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.