SEAN Walkinshaw and Autobacs Racing Team Aguri teammate Shinichi Takagi celebrated a first GT300 victory of the Super GT Championship season at Fuji Speedway in Japan with a faultless lights-to-flag performance.

Marking Chipping Norton-based Walkinshaw’s maiden win in ultra-competitive Super GT, the result also enabled the duo to leap from seventh in the GT300 championship into the top three.

“My Sunday cruise was perfect!”, said an ecstatic Walkinshaw after the race.

Takagi produced a superb lap of 1min 37.525 secs to secure his and Walkinshaw’s first pole start of the season.

Making a great start to Sunday’s race, Takagi built a healthy advantage.

After a very clean pit-stop, Walkinshaw joined the race in fourth position, the highest placed of those to have made their mandatory driver changes

Driving faultlessly, the first year Super GT racer went on to take the chequered flag comfortably clear.

l Witney's young drivers James Hall and Simon Bradley finished fifth in round five of the English Junior Rally Championship, held in Solway, Scotland.

The race was disrupted by a serious crash in heavy rain but it was decided to run the final leg, which the Witney duo started in fourth position.

However, they were just edged out, leaving them in fifth position, and the fourth English team to finish.

Hall said; . “I guess you can say there’s a hint of disappointment in me, but I have never felt so comfortable like I did today.”

l Robert Kubica will make no hasty decisions on his future after completing his first official Formula 1 test in more than six years.

The 32-year-old completed 142 laps – the equivalent of two grand prix – for Enstone-based Renault in Hungary.

Kubica made his return after partially severing his right arm in a rallying crash in 2011.