Xcel Motorsport's Rowan Campbell-Pilling emerged from the Silverstone season opening weekend as the top British contender, following an impressive start to life in GB3.
The Sheffield-based driver qualified sixth and seventh in his first qualifying sessions in the series, and never finished outside the top-seven across the triple header, putting him fifth overall in the early standings.
"We've started as we mean to go on" he said. "We were P6 and P7 in qualifying, so that was a really good start. Speaking of starts, we need to sort those out."
While he went from sixth to fourth on the opening lap of race one, he was demoted to ninth from seventh on the grid at the start of race two, and ninth again in the early stages of race three, having started sixth once more. Despite that, he still claimed finishes of fifth, fifth and seventh respectively.
"It's something we need to work on behind the scenes a bit, as it's a process issue for sure, and we need to fix that.
"Once we're there, the race pace is there, everything else is there. We had two top-fives and a P7, we'll take that all weekend long and we'll see where we're at in Spa."
Further underlining his performances was the consistency he displayed across the races. During race one in particular, he was able to deliver metronomic lap times, with a string of seven laps split by just a couple of tenths of a second, before a safety car appearance. He's hoping that sort of performance can push him further towards the front next time out when the series makes its annual trip to the Belgian Grand Prix venue on 30/31 May.
"The race pace is really strong, the consistency is there, and the speed is there over a race distance.
"I feel it's about executing the start of the race really well. If I'm not having to make up ground during the first couple of laps that we've lost from a poor start, I can then have a go at the top three or four."