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Welsh dissapointment for Lomax
Friday 31st July 2014 - Leeds racer Craig Lomax, Finally had a bad weekend in 2014, with Craig dominating the three previous rounds of the Shannon Group British Rallycross Hot Hatch Championship, the team expected to conquer Wales in the same way.
A spin in Practice wasn’t the best of starts,. Heats 1 and 2 were dominant victories with Craig running away into the Welsh sun, leaving the rest of the field to battle hard. Setting times that would have comfortably qualified him into the MSA Supernational Final. Heat 3 was a battle between Craig and Tomasz Marciniak, and a first corner incident meant Craig was playing catch up the heat, despite driving hard Craig could only finish second.
“I was really enjoying driving the car, I don’t think I’ve ever gone through Honda as fast as I have today, and the engine is just so strong.”
The Final saw Craig get a poor start, leaving a lot of work to do, On Lap 2 Lomax passed local Boy Jeff Hope Davis for the lead, and began pulling away but on lap 4 the car started to develop Gearbox and Clutch issues, which despite trying to nurse the car, meant Craig lost all hope of making it four Victories out of four.
With the Citroen Saxo having had a mid-season engine and gearbox refurb the team were extremely disappointed with the failure.
Team Extreme Driver Craig Lomax
“The Baxi Avanti Team Extreme Rallycross team worked hard to rebuild the car after early season battles, and the one thing we didn’t get to test was the gearbox before we went to this event, unfortunately this looks to have cost us a good result here, with the clutch exploding and causing damage to the new gearbox. We will just have to work hard in the next 26 days to make sure the car is ready for Lydden Hill. We have already sourced a new clutch from Questmead one of our supporters and the team were bust stripping the gearbox the Monday evening after the event.”
Craig still leads the Championship, by 24 points, meaning even if he has a bad round at Lydden hill in August, he will still be leading the Championship going into the Final Rd at Croft Circuit Darlington
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http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1426300/events/3206212 (Hot Hatch Heat 1 – 24 mins Heat 2 - 42 mins Heat 3 2hr.05 mins, Final 3h 55 )
Current Shannon Group British Rallycross Hot Hatch Championship Standings
Craig Lomax 79
Tomasz Marciniak 45
Tomasz Wielgosz 56
Jeff Hope Davis 27
David Ellis 27
Source www.britishrallycross.co.uk
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