Tom Ingram scythes through to win on the road before penalty

Excelr8 Motorsport’s Tom Ingram scythed through the order from 11^th on the grid to win the second British Touring Car Championship race at Donington Park, finishing ahead of race one winner Gordon Shedden.

UPDATE: However, Ingram was later handed a post-race one-second penalty following a protest by Team Dynamics that he had gained an unfair advantage in passing the Honda driver, dropping him to second.

At the start, Ingram rocketed from 11^th up to sixth on the opening lap, as at the front of the field Toyota’s Rory Butcher jumped ahead of Power Maxed Racing’s Daniel Lloyd to claim second.

Butcher then took the lead from Shedden at the exit of the first corner, although the lead would be short-lived as Shedden re-claimed the position from his brother-in-law on the second lap at the Old Hairpin.

The ballast-free Ingram, meanwhile had passed BMW’s Colin Turkington for fifth at the first corner, before dispatching BTC Racing’s Senna Proctor for fourth on the run to the chicane at the end of the lap.

The next lap saw Ingram overtake Lloyd for third at Coppice, before he passed Butcher for second at the first corner on lap five.

At this stage, Shedden had opened up a lead of 1.3 seconds at the front, but it only took three laps for Ingram to close down the gap and be all over the rear bumper of the Honda.

Lap ten saw Ingram finally pass Shedden at the exit of Coppice on the run to the chicane, and once in front the Hyundai driver never looked back, eventually claiming his fourth win of the season by just under a second.

Shedden held on to take second in his fully-ballasted Honda, with Butcher completing the podium.

Laser Tools Racing’s Ash Sutton was fourth in a fortuitous race for the championship leader. At one stage, it had looked that he would lose points to both Ingram and Turkington, but dramas befell the latter on lap 13.

Turkington had been running in sixth by lap three, having lost out to Ingram early on, but a handful of laps later he was up to fourth after picking off Proctor and Lloyd.

However whilst pressuring Butcher for third, the four-time champion clipped the kerb at the Old Hairpin and spun all by himself, dropping him down to 11^th.

In the avoiding action that followed, Sutton picked up two places to fourth, having passed both Josh Cook and Proctor in the two laps preceding.

Lloyd claimed fifth at the chequered flag, ahead of Proctor in sixth and BTC team-mate Josh Cook in seventh.

Aiden Moffat brought home the second Laser Tools Infiniti in eighth, with the top ten being completed by MB Motorsport’s Jake Hill and Team Dynamics’ Daniel Rowbottom.

Turkington took the flag in 11^th, unable to recover any of his lost ground in the final three laps. However, the BMW driver had a turn of luck after the race when the top 11 were randomly selected to be reversed, giving him pole position for the final encounter.

Elsewhere, PMR’s Jason Plato finished outside the points in 18^th after the Vauxhall driver was squeezed out on the exit of the first corner on the opening lap, losing him 11 places in one go.

Race three is scheduled to begin at 17:20 BST.

Original race result (subsequently revised)

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	80	I		Tom INGRAM	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	18:49.531	1:09.610	11
2	52	I		Gordon SHEDDEN	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	16	0.746	1:09.819	1
3	6	M		Rory BUTCHER	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	3.197	1:10.051	3
4	1	I		Ashley SUTTON	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	16	3.964	1:09.570	7
5	123	I		Daniel LLOYD	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	16	6.860	1:10.130	2
6	18	I		Senna PROCTOR	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	16	8.232	1:10.100	4
7	66	I		Josh COOK	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	16	8.270	1:09.789	8
8	16	I		Aiden MOFFAT	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	16	8.537	1:09.875	13
9	24	M		Jake HILL	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	16	8.958	1:09.578	17
10	32	I		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	16	9.045	1:09.755	14
11	2	M		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	16	9.307	1:09.524	5
12	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	10.989	1:09.853	9
13	12	M		Stephen JELLEY	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	16	11.173	1:09.791	15
14	48	M		Ollie JACKSON	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	16	11.368	1:10.076	10
15	31	I		Jack GOFF	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	16	11.992	1:09.953	20
16	4	M		Sam OSBORNE	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	16	13.055	1:09.999	12
17	40	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Team HARD. with HUB Financial Solutions	CUPRA Leon	16	14.247	1:10.269	18
18	11	I		Jason PLATO	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	16	14.909	1:10.238	6
19	19	I		Jack MITCHELL	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	16	16.153	1:10.292	24
20	3	I		Tom CHILTON	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	16	16.413	1:10.068	19
21	99	I		Jade EDWARDS	PHSC with BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	16	17.851	1:10.181	25
22	23	M		Sam SMELT	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	18.407	1:10.170	21
23	41	I		Carl BOARDLEY	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	16	20.096	1:10.507	27
24	15	M		Tom OLIPHANT	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	16	20.265	1:10.175	16
25	96	I		Jack BUTEL	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	22.362	1:10.124	23
26	44	M		Andy NEATE	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	16	23.213	1:10.416	26
27	62	I		Rick PARFITT Jr	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	28.931	1:10.264	22
28	28	I		Nicolas HAMILTON	ROKiT Racing with iQuoto Online Trading	CUPRA Leon	16	35.000	1:10.997	28
NS	33	I		Adam MORGAN	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	–	DNS	N/A	29