Following his superb Winter Series performance for the team, it was perhaps always only a formality that Jack Hawksworth would elect to re-sign with Mark Burdett Motorsport for the 2011 Formula Renault UK Championship and his maiden full campaign in car racing, and having now done so, the highly-rated young Bradford star has set his sights as high as they can possibly be.

A complete car racing novice but with an impressive karting pedigree built upon many years of top-level national and international success, Jack fairly stunned observers during the Winter Series, a toe-in-the-water exercise of sorts ahead of the serious business next year. Up against a fiercely-competitive field of rivals the majority with far more experience in cars than he has the Cullingworth-based hotshot secured four pole positions and two podium finishes from only six starts, and wound up an outstanding third in the final standings.

Palpably happy inside the team and having established an excellent relationship with his race engineer Andy Miller a man with a wealth of experience from F1, GP2 and F3.

Comment from Jack:

"To be able to work closely with someone who has such vast experience in the sport and is so knowledgeable in his field as Andy gives me an advantage over the other drivers, I feel," he affirmed. "The driver/engineer relationship is probably the most important one there is you need to have respect for each other's ability. I trust that Andy will give me the best car possible, and he needs to believe I'm capable of getting the maximum out of it.

"It's the same thing with the team's driver coach, Robbie Kerr; he and Andy have both proved themselves at an extremely high level, and to be able to learn from them is a huge benefit for me. Everyone works really well together, and there's a really good atmosphere and bond inside the team. Everybody shares the same goal of wanting to win and gives 120 per cent.