EAST Lancashire's Dan Barritt celebrated a superb success at the Wales Rally GB.
Co-driver Barritt, from Barrowford, helped Welshman Elfyn Evans claimed his maiden World Rally Championship victory on home soil as Sebastien Ogier secured the world title.
Evans and Barritt finished 37.3 seconds ahead of Belgium's Thierry Neuville to become the rally's first British winner since 2000, with Ford Fiesta team-mate Ogier a further 7.9secs behind.
That was enough for the 33-year-old Frenchman to secure a fifth consecutive FIA World Rally Championship title ahead of next month's final round in Australia.
Evans, 28, who is the first Welsh driver to win a WRC event and joins Roger Clark, Colin McRae and Richard Burns as the fourth homegrown winner of Rally GB, said: "It's been a good rally.
"I'm incredibly grateful to everybody that has stood by me through all these years - to get to this point has taken a lot.
"To all the people who have supported me and backed me - this is for you. And this result only makes us even hungrier for more."
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