Rory Green has announced that he will remain with Ashford based WDE Motorsport for the 2016 season in the Renault UK Clio Cup.

It represents a second season with the Kent based team as he looks to build on his debut year in the popular support series to the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

The 21-year-old had a best race finish of fifth place during his debut season with the team and he and the team will be looking to build on that during the coming season.

Once again all of the UK Clio Cup’s races in 2016 will take place during the British Touring Car high weekends, meaning huge trackside crowds and live television coverage on ITV4. The first of those events takes place at Green’s and WDE’s home circuit of Brands Hatch in Kent (Sat 2/Sun 3 April).

Speaking about returning to WDE, Green said: “I’m very happy to be back with WDE – I learnt a lot with them in 2015 and as my confidence in the car grew the results and lap times kept on improving. I hope I can put that to good use and hit the ground running when the new season starts at Brands Hatch.

“My studies for my final business management exams at university will mean I have to miss the two events after that – at Donington Park and Thruxton – but I’ll be back at Oulton Park in June for the rest of the season.”

A pleased WDE Team Principal Wayne Eason said: “It’s great to have Rory back on board for 2016. We knew all along that when it clicked for Rory it would really click and things certainly started to gel very nicely for him in the second half of the 2015 season. I predict he will come back strongly and with a lot more assertiveness in 2016 as a result of everything he learnt last year.

“We are also close to announcing our other drivers and are hopeful this will be in the coming weeks – since the middle of last year we have certainly had a lot of enquiries about our UK Clio Cup programme for 2016. People have really seen the quality of the championship and the product and know it’s the place to be.”