Three-times British Rallycross Champion Pat Doran has just days to find a car to drive in the opening round of the Monster Energy MSA British Rallycross Championship at Lydden Hill.

The race at Lydden Hill this Saturday, in association with MaKTraK, is proving to be a problem for Doran because delays mean that his new Citroën DS3 Supercar will not be ready to race.

Father of Rallycross Superstar Liam Doran, Pat Doran won British titles in 2005, ’09 and ’10 and is now in the position of trying to borrow a car from his son in order to be on the grid at Lydden.

“The best chance I’ve got to race at Lydden is to use the Citroën C4 that Liam will drive in America later this year,” said Doran Snr.

“The problem with that is that the car is not ready to race and was not scheduled to be complete for another couple of weeks. The team is busy and changing plans at this stage is not easy so it’s a case of trying to sort everything out and hoping that the car can be ready. I want to be there because the British championship looks like being very good again this year, there are ten Supercars entered for the first event and I really don’t want to start the year with a non-score.”

The new DS3 that Pat Doran will drive in the British championship is being built by Autopoint Specialist Engineering and is now not expected to be ready until the Knockhill event on May 12, which means that whatever car Doran races in this weekend’s British championship round will almost certainly also be used in the British round of the European championship – the Monster Energy International Rallycross Festival – at Lydden Hill over Easter weekend.