King gains strength from stint Down Under

King travelled to the fifth and final outing of the fiercely-contested New Zealand-based TRS at Manfeild locked in a tight tussle for third spot in the title standings.

After finishing eighth and ninth in the opening two races, the Stoneleigh teenager was still in the hunt for third heading into the final race of the championship.

However, after moving up from eighth on the grid to sixth by lap ten, King was unable to sign off in style thanks to a collision with the fifth-placed driver which sent him into a spin and stalled his engine.

It dropped him down to fifth overall in his first season of TRS, but the Princethorpe College A-level student still looked back on the experience as an overwhelmingly positive one.

“Given that my two main rivals later crashed out, if I had just finished inside the top seven, it would have been enough to take third in the championship, so that was really disappointing,” he said.

“But overall, it honestly couldn’t have gone much better. I learned a lot, improved my starts and honed my racecraft - and I definitely feel a stronger driver for it all now.”