13-year-old Wayne Ryan moved up to third in the Aprilia Dunlop Superteen class this weekend and closed in on his rivals after completing the most successful race weekend of his career thus far with Thundersport GB.

Wayne, from Lydd in Kent, was fifth overall in the standings going into Wales and was desperate to overturn the bad luck from rounds one and two and close up on Andy Reid, Connor Tagg and Lee Jackson.

Qualifying was an unusual affair and with riders only getting four dry laps before the heavens opened, it was all down to who had pushed the hardest in the early stages.
A blistering lap from Ryan meant that he would sit on pole position, just ahead of championship leader Andy Reid, newcomer Arran Climpson and Aussie Matt Davies.

With Connor Tagg and Lee Jackson having qualified in a lowly 26th and 27th due to pure bad timing, this was a real chance for Wayne to play catch up and show why he was a pre-season favourite.

Race one was a tight affair, five bikes battled for the lead and although Wayne looked one of the stronger members of the group, he hit traffic on lap eight pushing him down to fifth with only a few laps to go.
On the final lap, Wayne had fought his way back to third but Aussie Matt Davies wasn’t going to be caught and recorded his first overseas win, just ahead of Danny Murphy and Wayne, who this time had to settle for third.

Race two was very much different though and the talent of Wayne became only too apparent as he got away off the line well and blasted away his opponents with a stunning display to collect his first win of the season and leave a chasing pack with an awful lot to think about for race three.

On Sunday Wayne looked his usual calm self and was not interested in involving himself amongst too much of the action, his aim was clear, get away and stay out of trouble.
The plan had worked too as both times he managed to get away from the line well, but with one problem, he had a shadow in the form of Australian Matt Davies.

In both race three and four, the pair would edge away from the main danger and swords were drawn. Having won a race each, the heat was on and with nothing to split the pair, it was going to go down to the wire. On the day though, Wayne just had the edge on his opponent.

The fast young Aussie who has now revived talks of him becoming ‘the next Casey Stoner’ is without doubt a very classy rider but Wayne was back to his best form and won the last two races, taking his third of the weekend and moving up to third overall in the standings too.