Tom Ward has been crowned “Lord of Lydden” after enjoying success at the Lydden Hill circuit.

The 25-year-old National Superstock racer dominated throughout the weekend, scooping up five victories, including winning the Sunday feature race, which was first held in 1966.

Canterbury’s Ward won in 2019 and, after missing last year’s event, he was determined to retake his title after powering ahead in qualifying by 1.5sec, just in front of Phil Baker and Kieran Smith and then going on to win by a country mile on his Buildbase Suzuki.

Race two took a similar pattern as the BMW rider crossed the line a whopping seven seconds ahead of Luke Dixon.

In race three and four, he carried on dominating the field with Dixon again piping Smith to second.

The final Lord of Lydden race saw Ward start from row five of the grid as it was a reverse grid, although only the front five rows were reversed for safety reasons.

It was newly-crowned Thundersport champion Ryan Dixon who stormed off into P1 by the end of the first lap.

But Ward overtook him on lap four, making light work of the overtake, before he raced clear and won by a margin of 6.7sec.

Ward was delighted to have won the Lord of Lydden and will be back next year to try and retain his title.

Before then, though, he will be going to Spain to do some testing ready for the 2022 Bennetts British Superbike season and his plans for 2022 will be announced soon.

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