Will Bratt made a flying start to the final weekend of the Formula Renault UK Winter Championship at North Yorkshire’s Croft Circuit yesterday, making his presence felt in testing with the second fastest time during the morning session.Will was in tremendous form throughout in the wet conditions and just missed out on the quickest lap of all in the morning by the narrowest of margins, a mere two 100ths of a second. His best lap of 1m 19.205 seconds (96.67mph), set on slick tyres, placed him second on the timing screens behind Winter Championship joint-leader Patrick Hogan.The 17-year-old Scorpio Motorsport ace held a place within the top six for the majority of the morning. But with the circuit progressively drying prior to the lunch break, drivers were able to switch from treaded wet-weather tyres to slicks – Will mastering the greasy surface with some fantastic driving.The two and a half hour afternoon session, conducted in much drier conditions, saw almost all the competitors elect to use new tyres towards the end, resulting in quicker and quicker times.Will, however, chose to save his tyres and remained on old rubber for the entirety of the session, his best time of 1m 18.260 seconds (97.84mph) proving to be highly impressive given it was just seven 10ths of a second adrift of Patrick Hogan’s pace-setting lap and only two 10ths of a second shy of the top four.“We’re happy with what we achieved today”, commented Will, “I’m very pleased with my performance during the morning and this afternoon we proved we have the pace to be right up there as we didn’t even switch to new tyres when almost everyone else did.“It was still quite tricky and slippery during the afternoon session but to end the test ninth overall without using new tyres is a pretty good achievement. I’m fairly confident we’ll have a competitive weekend, I’m looking forward to it.”Two ‘free practice’ sessions will be held at Croft today, Friday, 11th November, with qualification and the final two rounds of the Formula Renault UK Winter Championship to take place on Saturday, 12th November.