LUKE Wright stormed to a double win at Silver-stone last weekend with a clinical and completely dominant performance at the legendary Northamptonshire Grand Prix venue.

Competing in what was billed as a ‘Cross Channel Clio Cup Challenge’ as part of the hugely popular World Series by Renault event, the Shaftesbury driver left more than 20 Dutch drivers in his wake as he took comfortable victories in both races.

After dominating both practice and qualifying, and in front of over 100,000 race fans, the Scuderia Vittoria driver made easy work of the two 25-minute races around the full GP circuit, leading every lap, along with establishing new lap records on both days.

Wright, who last week gained the required A-Level grades for a university place, was, given his recent form, a clear favourite for the Clio Cup event, but still had to complete the job.

He said: “We knew exactly what we had to do after qualifying – consistency was the key, pull a gap and maintain the advantage.

“It was a couple of the easier races we have had this season and it makes a nice change not to be fighting for position every lap.”

Although most of his main Air Asia Renault Clio Cup UK championship rivals were absent from the one-off event, Wright will surely take great confidence from a weekend where for one so young he showed the kind of maturity needed to compete at this level.

Among the other British speedsters taking to the grid was British Touring Car Championship driver and former Clio racer Jeff Smith.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver chased Luke home in both races but was unable to match the pace of the Dorset driver.

With two race meetings remaining of the 2011 championship the Shaftesbury teenager is targeting further success as the series resumes at the Rockingham circuit near Corby on September 17-18.