Nathan edged into the lead of the Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup driver standings for the first time at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire on, Saturday, 13th June, after claiming his fifth back-to-back race win of the campaign.

Opening his account at Donington Park in mid-May, the Century Motorsport racer hasn’t been stopped since and during the 12th round of the championship he once again produced a superb lights-to-flag performance to open-up a slender one point advantage in the title race. Qualifying went well and resulted in 2 pole positions and a grid 2 after being baulked on one of his flying laps – a great effort considering Nathan had not driven the Croft Circuit prior to Friday testing. In addition to winning the first race he also claimed the fastest lap – a new lap record. Nathan now holds 4 lap records out of the 5 circuits visited. Commenting on win number five, a delighted Nathan said: “I think the only doubt about taking another win today was the start. My starts have been a little bit inconsistent so I had to make sure I got the car off the line well - actually I think I’ve found something that works now!

Sunday racing was a less straightforward affair and a decision was taken not to use the 2 remaining new tyres available to the team and save them for race 3 when Nathan was starting from grid 2 and would need them should he have to overtake after the start. This would make the race more difficult on old tyres but the gamble paid off when Nathan got away into the lead with Carl Breeze following. Nathan started to eke out a lead when on lap 7 trying too hard Breeze hit a tyre barrier and span off into a field badly damaging his car. Nathan then controlled the race from the front to take his sixth win in a row and open up a 38 point lead in the series.

Hopes for a similar result in race 3 were dashed when a monsoon struck and the race had to start under a safety car, after 3 laps the cars were released and Nathan was immediately under pressure from Frank Wrathall who seemed to have a better wet setup. After 7 laps of fierce defence Wrathall finally found a way past and pulled a small lead until the last 2 laps when Nathan pulled him back and nearly reclaimed the lead – but 2nd was an excellent result and a 52 point championship lead.