ADDERBURY racing driver Will Bratt finished this season's Formula Renault Championship with a solid performance in the second of two races at Silverstone on Sunday.

Bratt, 18, was a close-up sixth in the 24-lapper - proving again that he is one of the UK's most promising young racers - and was promoted to fifth when Sam Bird, who came home second, was disqualified.

Bratt started the race from fourth on the grid but dropped a place at Beckett's first time round when he was forced wide, and three laps later was overtaken by Hampshire driver Jeremy Metcalfe.

But then Bratt showed his mettle by holding on to sixth despite determined efforts by Oxford-based Cheng Cong Fu to get past.

Bratt crossed the line just 6.6 seconds behind race winner and 2006 Formula Renault champion Sebastian Hohenthal.

He said: "It has been a good season. Obviously I was delighted to win my first race at Oulton Park earlier in the year and our podium at Donington was another great weekend.

"We've shown we have the pace to run at the front and if we can do that more regularly next year, we stand a good chance in the championship."

Silverstone was the end of a long but successful year for Bratt who finished eighth in the Formula Renault series - one of the country's most hotly-contested championships for up and coming racers, and a supporting event on the popular British Touring Car Championship programme.