{"id":20900,"date":"2018-10-10T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=20900"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:56:59","slug":"tcr-uk-title-decider-at-donington-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/tcr-uk-title-decider-at-donington-park\/20900","title":{"rendered":"TCR UK title decider at Donington Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final round of the inaugural TCR UK series will take place at Donington Park on October 13-14, where the winner of the first ever Championship will be decided.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20901 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Brands-Hatch-Race-1-2018-UK-Brands-Hatch-R1-32-Oliver-Taylor_1-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Brands-Hatch-Race-1-2018-UK-Brands-Hatch-R1-32-Oliver-Taylor_1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Brands-Hatch-Race-1-2018-UK-Brands-Hatch-R1-32-Oliver-Taylor_1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Brands-Hatch-Race-1-2018-UK-Brands-Hatch-R1-32-Oliver-Taylor_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Brands-Hatch-Race-1-2018-UK-Brands-Hatch-R1-32-Oliver-Taylor_1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going into the final rounds, two drivers remain in the running to take the Championship honours. The early season leader Daniel Lloyd, in his WestCoast Racing Volkswagen Golf currently stands at 433 points after 10 podium finishes including seven race wins during the season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd will go head to head with Pyro Motorsport\u2019s Oliver Taylor in his Honda Civic, who has clawed his way back into contention with a particularly strong performance in the second half of the season. Fresh from winning the previous round at Croft and currently in second place in the Championship with 402 points, Ollie has a chance to take the title with a possible 80 points up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Evans, head of motorsport for Yokohama said: \u201cWhat a fantastic first season for TCR UK! We\u2019ve seen plenty of thrilling wheel-to-wheel action at all stages of the Championship with the final round and title decider coming right down to the wire. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing who is crowned the champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20902\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20902 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Croft-Race-2-2018-UK-Croft-R2-podium-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Croft-Race-2-2018-UK-Croft-R2-podium-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Croft-Race-2-2018-UK-Croft-R2-podium-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Croft-Race-2-2018-UK-Croft-R2-podium-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-2018-Croft-Race-2-2018-UK-Croft-R2-podium-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lloyd (left) of WestCoast Racing and Oliver Taylor (centre) of Pyro Motorsport will go head to head to win the championship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With dry weather conditions forecast throughout the weekend of October 13-14, competitors are expected to be driving on the Advan A005 Yokohama tyre, which is also the control tyre for the European and world TCR series.<\/p>\n<p>All the TCR action from Donington Park will be streamed live on the TCR website, the TCR UK YouTube channel and Facebook page, as well as on Motor Trend On Demand and the online platform Motorsport.tv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final round of the inaugural TCR UK series will take place at Donington Park on October 13-14, where the winner of the first ever Championship will be decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-yokohama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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