Hwyel Lloyd increases Renault title lead

Hwyel Lloyd maintained and increased his lead in the 2007 BARC Formula Renault Championship after another a storming performance as the championship reahed its halfway point at Silverstone on the weekend. Taking a 6 point lead over Dean Stoneman into the weekends races, Hwyel was 3^rd fastest in practice, but in the first race got locked into race long dice with Stoneman, emerging in 4^th place with some battle scars. "It was a tight race, Dean got a bit close and ripped part of my front wing off! I thought it might affect the handling but it was ok so I kept going" Race 2 was better as Hwyel explained "I’ve not been getting brilliant starts so we made a few changes and this time I got away well, slotted into 2^nd and took the lead into Luffield corner" After that Hwyel concentrated on building a lead and had almost 2 seconds to spare at the end over his main rival Dean Stoneman thereby increasing his points lead to 7 points. Hwyel summed it up "It was a really good, the car was brilliant all weekend"

With half of the season over Lloyd is in a strong position and the next rounds in the 2007 BARC Formula Renault Championship are at Snetterton in Norfolk on 11/12^th of August.

Happiness personified! Hywel wins at Silverstone