Just a few weeks after celebrating his 14th birthday, karting sensation Jonny Edgar has moved into second place in the world rankings.

Edgar pulled off a stunning performance against the world’s top senior drivers during a major international event in Italy.

Last year, Jonny from Asby near Frizington, was crowned as the European Junior Champion.

A rule change by karting’s international regulating body, meant that he could move up into seniors earlier than usual and Jonny took on the challenge, placing him amongst some of the sport’s hardened professional drivers.

His first test came during round one of the WSK Super Masters Series at Adria in February. Eighth position in a field of more than 60 entrants confirmed his potential but there was better to follow.

Last weekend, at round two, at La Conca in Southern Italy he emerged as the top points scorer from three heats and two finals.

It all began with Friday’s timed qualifying session when Jonny recorded the fifth-fastest time.

Later that afternoon, he finished a very close second behind Denmark’s Nicklas Nielsen in heat one.

He won the next heat on Saturday morning and followed this up with a third position in the afternoon. Those results were good enough to earn him a front row start for Sunday’s pre-final alongside Nielsen.

The Danish driver got off to a quick start with Jonny initially dropping back to fifth.

However, he came storming through and soon clawed back a 50-yard lead.

He promptly overtook the leader and cruised to a comfortable win.

Things seemed to be going to a similar pattern in the next final with Nielsen pulling out a lead of 30 yards before Jonny caught him once more.

On this occasion, however, the Barbados driver, Zane Maloney was able to take advantage as Nielsen adopted defensive tactics.

Maloney hit the front and pulled out a good sized gap before Jonny took second spot. Despite putting in a very fast final lap, Jonny could not quite close the gap and had to settle for second place.

He scored 110 points from this meeting compared to Maloney’s 89 and Nielsen’s 75.

It has moved him up into second place in the world rankings just 16 points behind Germany’s Hannes Janker, who was able to increase his score by just 45 points at this event.