George Lines
Photo by: Jonathan Mills
George Line and his Formula 3 Dallara spearhead the movers in this week’s update of the Autosport National Rankings.
Line has been a regular Rankings force in recent years, and his two Monoposto race victories at Oulton Park at the wheel of his 2008-vintage machine have sprung him up 13 places into second place in the table.
Owing to the relatively high Monoposto average grid size, Line gets the verdict among a clutch of drivers on seven race wins for the 2026 season. But it’s still historics ace Connor Kay who clings on at the top, with his total of eight.
The Autosport National Rankings is based on the simple formula of totalling each driver’s victories in car races in the UK and Ireland across a calendar year, with every win counting equally.
Also moving onto seven wins this week is Castle Combe Formula Ford 1600 top dog Luke Cooper. As well as the modern Swift with which he has been continuing his reign on home ground, he is also racing a 1992 model in the national Super Classic Pre 99 series, and it is at the wheel of this car that he claimed his two wins last weekend from the three Super Classic races held at Silverstone. Although the Super Classic fields are strong, the threadbare nature of the Combe ensemble this season has pegged back Cooper’s average grid size, so he brings up the rear of those on seven overall wins.
Luke Cooper
Photo by: Ollie Read
Up at Anglesey, it was Fiesta Junior battler Dara McInerney on form. He took a clean sweep of all three races and has therefore vaulted from outside the top 50 into the lofty heights of seventh in the table.
The last driver to enter the top 10 this week is Michael Gibbins. There was only one Sports 2000 race at Oulton Park, and the MCR S2n of Gibbins won it to push him up six positions to 10th. Other upwards movers from the Oulton meeting are Clubmans force Michelle Hayward – her double in her Phantom promotes her from 43rd to 17th; and Production VW king Simon Hill, with two wins carrying him from outside the top 50 to 20th.
Historic Formula Ford 2000 was in action at Cadwell Park, and Ben Glasswell’s successes in both races in his Reynard SF77 lift him 22 places to 14th. Also on the card in Lincolnshire was Historic FF1600, and Callum Grant’s double in his Merlyn Mk20A has propelled him 30 spots to 18th – in a variety of historic single-seater machinery.
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