ALEX Lynn knows he and his DAMS Racing team will have to have a flying second half of the season if he is to have any hope of getting his 2016 GP2 Series title bid back on track.

His visit to Hungary, for the sixth round of the Formula One feeder series, did little to help the 22-year-old from Dunmow's hopes of claiming a title that he knows will boost his attempt to secure a race seat in F1 in the next few years.

He headed to the Hungaroring looking to put some poor recent form behind him and knowing that he had taken pole position and driven to GP2 feature race victory there last year.

However, for a third round out of the last four in the 2016 championship, Lynn failed to claim any points in his DAMS Racing car, finishing 12th in the feature race and then crashing out of the following day's sprint event.

It left the Essex driver sitting 11th in the championship standings and 56 points off current leader Pierre Gasly.

Lynn, who is also a development driver for the Williams Martini Racing F1 team, knows he will have to have some incredible form in the five remaining rounds of the GP2 season if he is to get close to catching the pacesetters.

The seeds of his failure to score points in Hungary were sown in qualifying at the Hungaroring.

The DAMS driver had been second quickest in free practice and clearly had the pace that had been lacking at times at previous recent races.

But just as he looked set to grab a spot at the front end of the grid, he ran wide at turn 11 on his flying lap and was only able to line up 11th on the grid.

Lodged in the heart of the pack meant it would be difficult to battle for a podium finish and while he tried to make an alternative tyre strategy to the one that front-runners were on work, Lynn could only finish 12th at the chequered flag.

It meant Lynn started the second half of a campaign he had been tipped as one of the favourites to win at the start of the year sitting outside the top ten in the championship standings.

And the second half couldn't have got off to a worse start.

Starting from 12th on the sprint race grid, the Essex man's race lasted only as far as the second corner.

Frenchman Arthur Pic span at turn two and Lynn was one of three cars unable to avoid ploughing into the side of the stricken Rappax driver and his race came to a very premature end.

Lynn will now be hoping for much better fortune when the GP2 Series moves to Hockenheim in Germany next weekend.