Maiden rookie win for Harry King at Oulton Ginetta Junior

Harry King maintained his impressive recent form in the Simpson Race Products Ginetta Junior Championship with a maiden rookie class victory in the latest rounds of the season at Oulton Park.The 15-year-old, from Holyport in Berkshire, made the trip north to Cheshire looking to build on his best weekend of the year to date so far at Thruxton last month – where he secured his first rookie class podium finishes of the year.Qualifying around the picturesque Oulton Park circuit saw Harry post the 15th quickest time, despite being just 1.3secs away from the fastest lap.Making up places when the opening eight lap encounter got underway, Harry fought his way forward to twelfth place by the chequered flag, lapping quickly and consistently and securing third place amongst the rookie racers; his third straight class podium finish.From the same position on the grid for race two, Harry made up two spots on the opening lap to run inside the top ten and would stay out of trouble as a number of his rivals clashed on track to fight his way forwards into the top eight by lap three, heading the rookie drivers in the process.A collision involving two drivers behind would result in the Safety Car being deployed and with marshals unable to remove one of the stricken cars before the race was scheduled to finish, the decision was taken to call the result with seven laps complete.It meant Harry extended his run of rookie class podiums to four with a first class victory of the campaign, and he heads away from the weekend now just eleven points away from the top ten in the championship standings.“Despite my success at Thruxton, I expected Oulton Park to be a lot more difficult as it isn’t one of my strongest circuits and I felt it would be a good weekend if I could get a rookie podium from it,” he said. “To come away from it with two podiums and my first rookie win is fantastic, and more than I was hoping for.“Oulton Park is a totally different circuit to Thruxton so it’s a big positive for me to show that I have the pace at two tracks that are so different to each other. Where Thruxton is quite wide and very quick, here it is much tighter and more technical but I was still on the pace of the front-runners and am going home with more silverware.“Getting the first win under my belt is another boost to my confidence and hopefully I can keep my current run going at Croft next time out.”


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