Tom Ingram doubles up in dry second race at Donington

EXCELR8 Motorsport’s Tom Ingram doubled up in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Donington Park, equalling his win tally from last year already.

The start saw Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill shoot from the second row of the grid into an early lead, as Ingram and NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton slotted into second and third respectively.

Further around the lap, Team BMW’s Colin Turkington locked up into McLeans and allowed Speedworks motorsport’s Josh Cook into fourth.

Hill held the lead for the first half of the race, initially extending an advantage of over a second, but by the mid point it was down to less than half a second as Ingram closed in.

By lap 13 Ingram was all over the back of the leading BMW, and the Hyundai driver made his move for the lead exiting Redgate corner, completing the pass through the Craner Curves.

Sutton then followed past Hill for second into the Old Hairpin, although the reigning champion then had to fight off an attack from Hill a lap later into the chicane.

By this stage, Ingram had opened up clear air over Sutton, and went on to double up his win tally, with Sutton and Hill completing the podium.

Cook held fourth for the duration of the race and finished as the leading Toyota, ahead of Turkington in fifth.

NAPA’s Dan Cammish was sixth, gaining a place when Ronan Pearson went off the circuit at Coppice on lap five and subsequently pitted, before passing Árón Taylor-Smith’s Vauxhall a lap later at McLeans.

Team BMW’s Adam Morgan, who had been penalised with a ten-second penalty for a false start in race one, took seventh after a determined drive to make up seven places over the race, ahead of Speedworks’ Aiden Moffat in eighth.

Another driver making moves through the field was Toyota’s Rob Huff, who had started down in 18^th place but fought back progressively through the race to claim ninth at the chequered flag.

That result gave the 2012 World Champion the reverse-grid pole for the final race of the day, which is currently scheduled to get underway at 18:10 BST.

NAPA’s Daniel Rowbottom completed the top ten, gaining five places at the start before making steady progress thereafter, although not at the same pace as Huff, who passed him on lap eight.

Taylor-Smith eventually finished in 11^th, ahead of the second factory-backed Toyota of Andrew Watson in 12^th.

Only Restart Racing’s Scott Sumpton and EXCELR8’s Tom Chilton failed to finish the race, the latter having pitted with black smoke emanating from his Hyundai on lap 11 whilst he was running in 11^th.

Although NAPA Racing UK managed to repair Sam Osborne’s car following his race one shunt, the Ford driver failed to take the start after pitting at the end of the warm-up lap.

Race results

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP	GD
1	80	M		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	18	21:03.154	1:09.675	1
2	1	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	18	0.917	1:09.379	2
3	24	M		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	18	1.854	1:09.595	3
4	66	M		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	5.725	1:09.582	6
5	20	M		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	18	6.775	1:09.459	4
6	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	18	8.378	1:09.264	8
7	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	18	9.004	1:09.582	14
8	16	M		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	11.653	1:09.936	9
9	12	M		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	12.697	1:09.705	18
10	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	18	13.294	1:09.247	20
11	40	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	18	17.117	1:09.687	7
12	11	M		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	18.033	1:10.053	10
13	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	18	18.534	1:09.928	12
14	222	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	18	22.870	1:10.377	15
15	18	I		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	18	25.938	1:10.438	13
16	22	M		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	18	1:01.824	1:10.798	16
17	14	M		Ronan PEARSON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	17	+ 1 LAP	1:09.134	5
R	29	I		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	12	DNF	1:10.705	17
R	3	M		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	11	DNF	1:09.963	11
NS	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	–	DNS	N/A	19