Wheatley schoolboy motorcycle ace Bradley Smith crashed out of the 125cc Grand Prix of Portugal at Estoril.

The 15-year-old starlet was in a battle for tenth place with Nicholas Terol He tried to re-join the race on the Repsol Honda, but was unable to start the bike after riding from 20th place on the grid.

* 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.

* Chipping Norton's Ray and Yvonne Kempster emerged victorious from the Hillrally 2006 supported by BRITPART.

The final round of the Matador Tyres National Hillrally Championship was held over 19 timed stages in the forests around Bala, Bryn and Penllyn in Mid-Wales.

Bromsgrove's James Webb and co-driver Chris Hammond clinched second overall by a single second in a Buggy GM Proto from Huddersfield's Matt Harrison and co-driver James Baxter.

Driver Ray Kempster said: "It was a matter of keeping going and taking no risks on the final stages. It's great to finish the season with a win."

Kempster threw down the gauntlet towards the end of the first day and edged into a 1min 41sec overnight lead with fastest times on the tenth and 11th stages.