Dave Heal has finished second in the Pro-Supermoto Championship.

The Heathfield ace finished second in the final at Blighton last weekend to confirm second place overall.

He said: "I am pleased considering I missed a lot of rounds. If I had done all of them I probably would have won it."

Heal qualified third, which put him on the front row of the grid, and he enjoyed a tremendous scrap with Alan Jackson and Keith Marshall in race one, which he finished in third place.

In race two, he finished second and he repeated that effort in the final.

Heal returns to action in the second round of British Winter Supermoto Championship at Cadwell Park this weekend along with a number of other Sussex competitors.

Former Formula One driver Mark Blundell is to compete in the Brands Hatch round of the championship.

Blundell will ride a 640cc bike provided by the Jack Lilley Racing team on December 8 as he switches back from four wheels to two, having been a motocross champion at the age of 16.

Blundell said: "As a youngster, I enjoyed my motocross career and have always loved riding motorbikes.

"Having competed in the Rally GB with my great little MG ZR, I'm used to slipping and sliding in mud, although I hope I don't end up covered in the stuff next month."

Maurice Hamilton, from Rudgwick, navigated Berkshire's Tony Jardine in to 35th place overall and first in class on the Network Q Rally of Great Britain which finished in Cardiff last Sunday.

The 55-year-old West Sussex map-reader who, like Jardine, reports on Formula One races throughout the world, contested the four-day, 1,024-mile event in a in a MG ZR.

A near capacity field of 85-cars started the 14th and final round of the FIA World Rally Championship from the Welsh capital city last Thursday evening.

Sixteen high-speed special stages, 13 in forests throughout mid, west and south Wales, tested not only the reliability of the cars but the skill of each of the 38 classified crews.

Competitors from 21 different countries contested the 58th Rally of Great Britain with both amateur and professional drivers alike, aged between 17-56, including seven past or present world champions.

Hove's Andrew Bargery, co-driving with Hampshire's Justin Dale in a factory Mitsubishi Lancer, was out of luck. He said: "We were braking at the end of a long straight, flat out in sixth gear and approached a left turn but as we came around the bend Justin was blinded by the sun.

"We rolled several times and the car looked a mess but the radiator had also been holed.

"The officials inspected the roll cage inside the car but deemed it too badly damaged for us to continue."