Lloyd heads up WestCoast Racing 1-2-3 in Qualifying

WestCoast Racing’s Daniel Lloyd claimed a fourth pole position in the 2018 TCR UK Championship at Donington Park, heading up a 1-2-3 for the Swedish equipe.
Crucially, with Lloyd’s title rival Ollie Taylor (Pyro Motorsport) only fourth behind siblings Andreas and Jessica Bäckman, a 6-point swing in the opening race in the East Midlands will prove enough to see him crowned the series’ inaugural Champion.
A best time of 1:10.358s around the National circuit in the Volkswagen Golf GTI proved enough for Lloyd, with Andreas unable to get closer than 0.3 seconds adrift of his team mate. Maximum Motorsport’s Stewart Lines continued a strong showing in the Cupra TCR in fifth after a late improvement, and he will share the third row with Darelle Wilson’s Vauxhall Astra.
Lines’ teammate Carl Swift lines up behind the pair, although he was unable to topple the second Pyro-run Honda Civic Type R FK7 of Finlay Crocker for seventh. Swift will also start the final race of the campaign from reverse-grid pole courtesy of setting the best second-fastest lap time.
Essex & Kent Motorsport will look to end the year on a high after a weekend-best result of ninth for Lewis Kent’s Hyundai i30 N with the returning Josh Price (JP Racing) and Sean Walkinshaw (SWR) - both in Honda Civic FK2s - rounding out the field.
Race 1 is scheduled to get underway at 13:15 tomorrow (14:15 CET), with the final round of the 2018 season set to follow at 16:10 (17:10 CET). As usual, live streaming of all the action is available through the www.tcr-series.tv website.