Patrick O’Donovan has described his breakthrough international rallycross victory at Ferratum World RX of Rīga-Latvia last weekend (3-4 September) as the ‘best day of his life, as the British teenager produced a sensational performance to soar to the top step of the podium in the FIA RX2e Championship.

Patrick O’Donovan has described his breakthrough international rallycross victory at Ferratum World RX of Rīga-Latvia last weekend (3-4 September) as the ‘best day of his life’, as the British teenager produced a sensational performance to soar to the top step of the podium in the FIA RX2e Championship.

One of the leading lights in the all-electric, single-spec series’ inaugural campaign last year, O’Donovan endured a more troubled start to his 2022 challenge – failing to reach the final in either of the first two rounds in Sweden and Norway – but in Latvia, he came out-of-the-blocks on flying form.

After ending Saturday sitting fourth overall – pushing championship leader Viktor Vranckx hard indeed in heat two – the 18-year-old got the better of Nils Andersson, local hero Roberts Vitols and Pablo Suárez following an absorbing scrap in tricky conditions in heat three in front of a huge Latvian crowd, before out-gunning Vranckx at the start of his progression race to assume a lead he would never surrender.

Words by FIA World Rallycross and images Red Bull Content Pool