MOTOR SPORT: Budding professional race driver Kerry Giddings took a step closer to achieving his dream after making the final preliminary round of the 2001 Michelin Renault Sponsorship competition.

Giddings is bidding for a fully funded season in championship-winning team Tim Sugden Motorsport's Renaultsport Clios at the 2002 Elf Clio Renaultsport Cup.

He impressed the judges in the first two rounds and must do the same among 30 drivers in the pre-final at Donington Park in February.