Summers beat British Championship leader Scott Moran

Young driver Alex Summers has targeted more success after his debut victory in the British Hillclimb Championship.

Summers performed strongly to take the win ahead of two-time former British champion Scott Moran, the current 2011 Championship leader.

"I still can't believe it," Summers told BBC Radio Shropshire after the event at Shelsley Walsh.

"To qualify for the run off in a national event is great, but to go on and win it is just like a dream."

The 20-year-old student from Tenbury Wells beat Moran by one tenth of a second over the measured run.

He was competing for the first time in a supercharged Firehawk car, and added: "The conditions were wet and tricky, I had dry tyres on, and I didn't think I'd have got used to the car so quickly - so I suppose that just made me go for it."

Ludlow-based Moran's second place was enough to pull him 18 points clear of Trevor Willis in the British Hillclimb drivers' table, going into this weekend's next round at the Loton Park circuit near Shrewsbury.

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