THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Daniel Wainman is following in the family tradition - as a star of the stockcar track.

Daniel, a pupil at South Craven School, has been racing cars since he was 10 years of age and last week took the 'gold roof' award in the 'Mini-Stox' competition.

In the championship young drivers race old style minis, but just about the only thing left of the original car is the roof!

They are fitted with tuned up 1,000cc engines, a new chassis, roll cage and an external steel cage designed to withstand the battering the cars take.

Like full size stockcar racing the Mini-Stox championship is a contact sport and drivers need skill and nerves of steel.

Daniel is following in the footsteps of his father, Frankie Wainman Snr, who won national stockcar racing titles in 1984, 85 and 86 and was World Champion in 1979.

His brother, Frankie Jnr, has also taken up the racing bug and won his first national title in 1994, but since 1997 has dominated the Brisca championship winning every year. He was also world champion in 1997.

The two Frankies - senior and junior - are back in action at the World Championships in Northampton this weekend.

Frankie Jnr will line up on the front row of the grid with his father on the sixth row as they fight it out for another world title.