POWER boat racer Paul Scott won the Dutch Grand Prix to finish third overall in the sport's Formula 3 world championships.

The 26-years-old Leigh businessman who has been racing from the age of 15 is now looking forward to bigger things next season when he hopes to finish on top of the world.

Paul, of Beech Walk, who recently returned from victory in Holland, is a member of the Lancashire Power Racing Club based at Carr Mill, St Helens, where his father Dave is Commodore and mum Helen is Lady Commodore.

National racing

Following in the footsteps of his father as a racer Paul, a former Leigh CE Junior and Bridgewater School, Worsley, pupil moved up through club racing classes to national racing and Formula 4. Five years ago he progressed to world championship racing in Formula 3 and last year won a race in Portugal.

Paul, who works in his father's mini soil survey company, has his own boats and a back-up team which includes three mechanics, including his 21-years-old psychology student sister, Sarah, his father as manager and mum as press agent.

And Helen has great experience in sports promotion. When Paul was young she worked for John Player Special on the Formula One grand prix motor racing circuit.

Paul said: "Power boat racing can be a costly hobby but it funds itself. My ambition now is to win the world title next year and then to go on to join the sport's elite in formula one."