Formula Ford 1600 star Jason Smyth is the highest-placed improver in the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings this week after bagging another victory at Brands Hatch.
The Van Diemen RF00/JL12 pilot has achieved success in the Northern Irish championship this year but has now climbed to seventh in the winners' table after prevailing in the opening United FF1600 contest in Kent.
Smyth was on course to win the second race, too, until his engine suddenly cut out without warning on the penultimate lap.
His earlier victory took his tally for the year to 10 and sends him up from ninth on the leaderboard, but he would have climbed to third and be just two wins behind table-topper Stewart Black had he been able to seal the double.
Smyth is two places above another of this week's improvers, Irishman Michael Cullen - who topped the final rankings last year.
The veteran racer enjoyed a successful weekend on less familiar territory as the Irish categories had an away round at Anglesey.
Cullen again topped both Stryker bouts at the Welsh venue and also prevailed in one of the Irish Fiesta ST contests (when the cars shared a grid with their Scottish cousins), but missed out on a quadruple success as he was pipped by his son Victor by less than a second in the opener.
Nevertheless, Cullen has still soared 14 places up the leaderboard as he has now registered 10 victories this year and his attention will have turned to matching last year's glory.
Completing the changes inside the top 10 is Ben Timmons, the Caterham 270R racer taking a brace of triumphs at Knockhill.
However, he was another driver to narrowly fail to clinch a clean sweep after finishing third - albeit three tenths behind the winner - in the middle encounter.
Timmons' other successes still enable him to leap up eight places and into 10th.
Further back, two unbeaten Armed Forces Race Challenge class winners topped further battles at Snetterton.
Class D pacesetter Douglas Inglis added two more wins in his Mazda MX-5 in Norfolk, to jump 30 places up the leaderboard and into 18th.
He is one spot above the similarly dominant David Russell (BMW E36), who has had a slightly lower number of average starters in Class C this year.
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Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings
| Pos | Driver (Car) | Overall wins | Class wins | Total |
| 1 | Stewart Black (Legends Coupe) | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | Piers Grange (Ford Escort Mk2) | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 3 | Dan Brown (Honda Civic Bali) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Ben Short (Mazda MX-5 Mk1) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Chris Lulham (Radical SR3) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Richard Neary (Mercedes-AMG GT3) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Jason Smyth (Van Diemen RF00/JL12) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | Mckenzie Douglass (Ginetta G56 GTP) | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | Michael Cullen (Raw Stryker/Ford Fiesta ST) | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Ben Timmons (Caterham 7 270R) | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 11 | Peter Bennett (Mini Cooper) | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 12 | Stuart Waite (BMW M3 E36) | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 13 | Daniel Clark (Legends Coupe) | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 14 | Samuel Harrison (Reynard SF79) | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 15 | Andrew Hibberd (Brabham BT18/Lotus 20) | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 16 | Jake Hill (BMW 330e M Sport/Nissan Primera/TVR Griffith) | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 17 | Ian Loggie (Mercedes-AMG GT3) | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 18 | Douglas Inglis (Mazda MX-5 Mk1) | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 19 | David Russell (BMW E36) | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 20 | Ryan Cunningham (Honda Civic EP3) | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 21 | Stuart Bliss (Toyota Aygo) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 22 | Jack Parker (Legends Ford Coupe) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 23 | Patrick Fletcher (Mazda MX-5 Mk3) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 24 | Benn Simms (Jomo JMR 7) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 25 | Andy Hiley (Chronos HR1S/Lotus Elise S2) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 26 | Lewis Thompson (Caterham 7 420R) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 27 | Craig Ewing (Mazda MX-5 Mk1) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 28 | Tony Greenan (Dallara F317) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 29 | Gavin Stanfield (Subaru Impreza) | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 30 | Oly Mortimer (Mini Cooper) | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 31 | Adam Shepherd (Cupra Leon Competicion TCR/Honda DC5) | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 32 | Stephen Primett (Ford Escort Mk1) | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 33 | Bill Garner (Maverick KE01) | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 34 | Sam Shaw (Radical SR1) | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 35 | Dave Cockell (Ford Escort Cosworth) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 36 | Mark White (Honda Civic Type R) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 37 | George Line (Dallara F308) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 38 | Andrew Jordan (Mini Miglia/Mini Se7en/Ford Mustang) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 39 | Will Gibson (Legends Ford Coupe) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 40 | Andy Southcott (MG Midget Lenham) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 41 | Matty Cobb (Volkswagen Beetle) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 42 | Aidan Hills (Mazda MX-5 Mk3) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 43 | Michael Blackburn (Ford Fiesta ST150) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 44 | Matt Wilkins (Honda Civic Type R) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 45 | Gerry Hendry (Ford Fiesta ST) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 46 | Ross Alexander (Mini Cooper S) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 47 | Mike Taylor (Ginetta G56 GTA) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 48 | Lewis Clark (Ford Focus Zetec S) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 49 | Keith Hogg (Sheane FS01) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 50 | Sam Tordoff (Ford Falcon Sprint/Austin A40 Speedwell) | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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.
