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Lloyd crowned inaugural TCR UK Champion

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Lloyd crowned inaugural TCR UK Champion

Daniel Lloyd claimed an eighth victory of the 2018 TCR UK Championship season amid treacherously wet conditions at Donington Park at the weekend, and in doing so the WestCoast Racing driver has been provisionally crowned the series’ inaugural champion.

Lloyd made a textbook start in the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR and eased into the lead, taking full advantage of a prolonged scuffle between team mate Andreas Bäckman and JP Racing’s Josh Price (Honda Civic Type R FK2) to edge 16.782 seconds clear at the chequered flag.

The race win gave the former TCR International Series race winner an insurmountable 50 point advantage in the standings, with a maximum of just 40 available in the season finale – in which h finished a safe third.

Pyro Motorsport’s Ollie Taylor started the penultimate round of the campaign as the only man mathematically able to deny Lloyd the crown, but his charge unravelled as, despite passing Jessica Bäckman’s VW for third off the start, he slid wide in the slippery conditions at Redgate and re-joined down the order after skimming through the gravel.

“I’m just over the moon,” said Lloyd. “It’s felt like such a long summer; we made a good start, but with a few things like ballast, penalty points and a failure at Croft, it started going the other way. But I kept positive, kept focused and just did everything I could and put everything into it. The team at WestCoast Racing have been faultless, I owe it all to them and I wouldn’t have had this opportunity without them.

“It was only supposed to be a one-race deal, and we’ve built from that. On paper everyone says I should win it, but it comes with a different type of pressure, it’s expected of you. But I’m pleased about what we’ve done this year, it’s had it’s ups and downs but what I would like to say is - without this championship, I wouldn’t have started racing anything this year.

“It’s led to other good things, it’s brought on new sponsors, so whether it’s a huge series or a smaller one, it is what you make of it. Thanks again to everyone for all their supportive comments.”