Teenage rally driver Tom Cave finished this weekend's Severn Valley Stages rally in fifth place overall and first in the N4 class. This builds on his debut sixth and second respectively and shows his grasp of the Proton Satria Neo S2000 four wheel-drive rally car.

Tom's day started exceptionally well, with him mixing stage times with a brace of World Rally cars contesting the event. By the mid-day service, he was lying in third place overall, an exceptional achievement in only his second rally in the Proton.

For the second loop of stages, despite Tom posting a strong of top five stage times, the World cars had clearly upped their game and as Tom admits, there was never any way he was going to be able to match their pace.

However, by the finish ramp of the event, he had recorded fifth place overall but more importantly, the class N4 win, the main objective for the event.

Commenting after the finish, Tom said: "This has been a really good day and to be honest, I don't think I could have hoped for more.

"We had a good tussle with some of the world rally cars towards the end of the rally and of course, I was fully expecting them to come out on top. I think if you take the fight to the world cars in a S2000 and hope to win, you're only ever going to be disappointed. However, it was very encouraging to be setting times alongside them for much of the event.

"I was familiar with some of the stages, as parts of them had been used in Rally GB in the past. I don't feel I drove particularly well in Radnor but the rest of the stages, we found a really good feeling. I had Ieuan Thomas in the car with me for the first time and that worked really well. He was very professional, helped me during the event and I would definitely have him in the car with me again.

"We also had absolutely no issues with the car at all - it ran perfectly all day. All in all, an excellent day's work and I'm delighted to have taken the N4 win, as that was our objective.'