Round 6 – Driffield, 1st November Bamber Bridge's Dan Lofthouse ended his Britpart British Cross Country Championship season in style with a dominant win at a very wet Driffield in East Yorkshire, his second victory of the year. Reigning champion Richard Kershaw was second, having already wrapped up this season’s title at the previous event, with Martin Cox claiming his best result of the year in third.A challenging six mile course was set out at the venue, which is usually used by the military to test their vehicles. With standing water covering large parts of the course most crews made a cautious start but Lofthouse and Martin Gould were quick out of the box and continued to occupy the first two places until the third run when Gould rolled his Mattserati.With Gould out of contention Lofthouse extended his lead and at the end of the six runs of day one he was nearly six minutes ahead of Kershaw who was using a Milner R5 instead of his usual Peugeot 206.Day two brought torrential rain and howling wind, creating very testing conditions for the crews, but Lofthouse ended the event with a lead of over four minutes from Kershaw.Results 1. Dan Lofthouse Lofthouse Proto LD4 1:54:242. Richard Kershaw Milner R5 1:58:493. Martin Cox Tornado Evo 1 2:03:234. Alan Wilkinson Milner R5 2:05:505. Bob Seaman Milner R4 2:08:446. Tony Coid Tomcat 100 2:10:337. Steven Smith JRG Indy 2 2:10:568. Martin Conboy Tornado 2:13:519. Ian Bartlett Bartletts 3M206 2:15:2110. Carl Duffield Peugeot 206 Special 2:19:46
Final championship1. Richard Kershaw 413points2. Dan Lofthouse 3983. Tim Dilworth 3614. Martin Cox 3375. Steve Smith 3376. Colin Gould 327