He took a hard-earned fifth overall in the qualifying event for the European Championship in Alcaniz in Spain over the weekend.

The factory Birel Motorsport driver dominated the KF2 class throughout the course of the weekend, claiming first, second, third and fourth place finishes in his four heats on Saturday.

This put him in pole position for the first of the two finals on Sunday.

In the first race, Jack, from Bassingham, made a superb start but a small error meant that he briefly lost the lead. However, in what has become his trademark attacking style, he was back in the lead within a handful of laps and took a great victory which lined him up for pole for the grand final later in the day.

However, all the earlier hard work was almost written off when, at the start of the second final, he was forced off the circuit and into the gravel trap.

But Jack somehow managed to get back onto the circuit, albeit in last place, with just 15 laps to try and make his way up the order.

A stunning drive saw him gain an incredible 12 positions on his first flying lap to move up to 22nd place. He drove brilliantly for the next dozen laps to finally cross the line 16th, good enough to give him fifth in the aggregate standings over the course of the weekend.

The drive was made even more remarkable when the team checked the kart after the race and found a number of bent components that were caused in the first corner incident.

Afterwards Jack said:

"It was obviously disappointing to be taken out like that so early on. I pushed as hard as I possibly could when I got back onto the track, but I knew the kart wasn't one hundred per cent after the accident and I didn't have the laps available to try and go for a podium finish."

Jack is in action again this coming weekend in the latest round of the Winning Series of Karting in Sarno, Italy.