After a weekend of frustration in Wales, Baxi Avanti Xtreme RX Driver Craig Lomax returned to winning ways, with a dominant victory at Lydden Hill for Round 5 of the MSA British Rallycross Championship in association with The Shannon Group and in turn secured the 2014 British Rallycross Championship Hot Hatch Championship with a round to spare.

Heading to Lydden Hill the Baxi Avanti Xtreme RX team had a lot to prove, on the last visit here they were dominant in the heats, but the Finals didn't run, and this time there was a very strong field, including 2012 Champion Andrew Twomey who was keen to mix it with the 2014 challengers. 

In what only can be described as extreme weather conditions Lomax managed to win two heats out of three, resulting in pole position for the A final. The opening heat was ruined by a coming together with long-time adversary Tomasz Wielgosz, where Lomax ended in the gravel at the elbow on the second lap, meaning Lomax had to push hard on the remaining laps to get a decent result, and at the flag Lomax had fought back up to 4th place.

Heats two and three were run in torrential rain so Lomax had missed the opportunity to claim the bonus points for fastest time of the day as this had been set in the opening heat.

The A final was run in similar wet conditions; where Lomax made an excellent start, and won the final, and with it too the title. The Round Five victory left Lomax 24 points in front of Marciniak and with only 22 points available at the last round it secured Lomax and the team the 2014 Championship.

The team had worked hard in the relatively short gap between Round Four at Pembrey and this round at Lydden Hill, replacing the gearbox and clutch in the Citroen Saxo and Lomax said “This is a fantastic result for all the lads, we’ve worked hard as a team all year, and the results might show that we had a fantastic year, but it has been fraught with accident damage and the gearbox at Pembrey was just what we didn’t need. But we all rallied together and put in the hard work and this really makes it all worthwhile, I can’t wait to have some fun at Croft. It is going to be stress free, and we can just go and race hard and not worry, and hopefully there will be a grid to finish the year off with. Then we can put the Citroen Saxo in the garage, and begin with our exciting 2015 Plans."

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