ALEX Lynn feels he and his DAMS Racing team can still contend for the GP2 Series title if they continue their upward progression in the final four rounds of the season.

The 22-year-old from Dunmow has gone into the GP2 Series’ mid-season break in the best possible way as he finished with a sprint race win at Hockenheim in Germany.

After taking points from just two races from the previous nine, he was back to top form with a composed drive that delivered a much-needed win for DAMS.

It is one that Lynn will have time to savour as the GP2 Series now takes a three-week break ahead of the next round at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium in August.

And it was an especially sweet victory after a testing period that has seen the DAMS team cars struggling to deliver the pace needed to allow Lynn to live up to his billing as one of the pre-season favourites to take the GP2 title this year.

The Essex man admitted ahead of the round in Germany that he and the team had found it tough to get the set-up right for the car at times this year, but they will now have the three-week break to work on that ahead of the final four rounds.

Lynn said: “It really lifts everyone going into the summer break before Spa. We’re much closer to where we want to be and hopefully we can carry on in the same way.

“I’m back up to ninth in the most open championship I’ve ever been in, so if we can carry on improving as we have done we should be in good contention.”