LLOYD’S COMEBACK LANDS HIM A BRACE
If fairy tales are your second choice of reading after Motorsport News, then why not try a new title that has just been written entitled ‘Daniel and theAmazing Rebuilt Racing Car’.
It is a feel-good sequel to ‘Daniel and His Wrecked Racing Car’and a ‘Trip To Hospital’. For Huddersfield-based Dan Lloyd, being on the grid at all was amazing enough after a whopping rebuild bill following his Oulton Park smash.
Two wins that followed were astonishing in a weekend in which his Excelr8 Hyundai i30 N team-mate Tom Ingram retook the championship lead as Josh Cook struggled with a breathless BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R in three largely static races.
Gordon Shedden won the weekend’s finale in an excellent rescue job after race-one dramas in his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R, but the main attention was reserved for Lloyd.
Race 1
Colin Turkington’s King of Croft tag is well justified. Thirteen wins have gone his way at the basic North Yorkshire venue and a sixth pole on Saturday afternoon for the WSR BMW 330e
