Tom Ingram keeps title hopes alive with race two win at Silverstone

Tom Ingram took his third victory of the season in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Silverstone, charging through from 14^th on the grid to slash his points deficit to Colin Turkington to 36 points.

The Speedworks Motorsport driver, free of ballast and on the prime tyre, made two places on the opening lap and by the third lap of the race was in eighth position.

He set about picking off the top ten over the first nine laps, before catching race one winner Sam Tordoff on lap ten, with Tordoff’s Ford carrying the full 75 kg of ballast.

Ingram them romped clear thereafter, also posting the fastest lap of the race by a comfortable margin to reduce his deficit to Turkington significantly. It also means that the Northern Irishman cannot now lift the title this weekend, taking the fight to the final meeting of the year at Brands Hatch.

Ciceley Motorsport’s Adam Morgan took second after getting into the podium positions by lap four, before passing Tordoff for the runner-up spot on Lap 14 exiting Woodcote corner.

Tordoff held on the complete the podium and take just his second of the season in as many races.

Team BMW’s Ricky Collard was fourth, ahead of the leading Honda of Simpson Racing’s Matt Simpson in fifth, who had got past Eurotech Racing’s Jack Goff for the position on the second lap of the race.

Goff himself took sixth, ahead of Laser Tools Racing’s Aiden Moffat in seventh. Moffat made a forceful pass on championship leader Turkington on the ninth lap, nudging the BMW driver wide to secure the position. However, Turkington took the chequered flag in eighth, despite having also momentarily lost out to Honda’s Dan Cammish when Moffat made contact.

After a troublesome first race, HMS Racing’s Rob Austin brought his Alfa Romeo home in ninth from 24^th on the grid, with Power Maxed Racing’s Senna Proctor completing the top ten in his Vauxhall.

Ciceley Motorsport’s Tom Oliphant followed up his ninth in race one with yet more points in 11^th in race two.

Despite starting from second, Motorbase’s Tom Chilton slipped down the order with 66 kg of weight in his Ford, including losing five places on the 12^th lap. He then lost out to Power Maxed’s Josh Cook, who took 12^th, on the penultimate lap of the race.

The title race took a turn for the worse for Subaru’s Ash Sutton, who finished down in 27^th after his car picked up a punctured wooden floor ahead of the race, leaving him to start from the back of the grid. A further pitstop at the end of the warm-up lap scuppered his chances of making progress in the safety car-free race, and Sutton ended the encounter having slipped to fifth in the standings, 62 adrift of Turkington.

BTC Norlin Racing’s Dan Lloyd had briefly run inside the top ten, but the Honda driver was contacted by Tom Oliphant at Maggots and dropped to 24^th, before he eventually recovered to take 19^th.

The race saw three retirements, with both Team HARD’s Bobby Thompson and AmD Tuning’s Josh Caygill retiring to the pits, whilst Team Parker Racing’s Stephen Jelley was spun into the gravel at Copse corner by Brett Smith on the 15^th lap, with his BMW requiring recovery under yellow flags.

Race three is scheduled to get underway at 17:20 BST (18:20 CEST).

Race result

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	80		Tom INGRAM		Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	22	21:50.946	58.817	14
2	33		Adam MORGAN		MAC Tools with Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	22	6.412	59.185	6
3	600		Sam TORDOFF		Team GardX Racing with Motorbase	Ford Focus RS	22	7.921	59.484	1
4	55	M	Ricky COLLARD		Team BMW	BMW 125i M Sport	22	8.019	59.278	3
5	303		Matt SIMPSON		Simpson Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	10.84	59.337	5
6	31		Jack GOFF		WIX Racing with Eurotech	Honda Civic Type R	22	11.883	59.446	4
7	16		Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	22	12.318	59.509	13
8	2	M	Colin TURKINGTON		Team BMW	BMW 125i M Sport	22	12.391	59.528	7
9	11		Rob AUSTIN		DUO Motorsport with HMS Racing	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	22	12.875	59.423	24
10	18	M	Senna PROCTOR		Power Maxed TAG Racing	Vauxhall Astra	22	13.096	59.364	17
11	15		Tom OLIPHANT		Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	22	15.916	59.467	8
12	66	M	Josh COOK		Power Maxed TAG Racing	Vauxhall Astra	22	16.577	59.205	28
13	3		Tom CHILTON		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher	Ford Focus RS	22	17.449	59.608	2
14	25	M	Matt NEAL		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	17.719	59.145	29
15	27	M	Dan CAMMISH		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	18.652	59.634	9
16	6		Rory BUTCHER		AmD with AutoAid / RCIB Insurance Racing	MG 6	22	18.726	59.589	11
17	99	M	Jason PLATO		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	22	19.197	59.227	26
18	22		Chris SMILEY		BTC Norlin Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	19.717	59.624	31
19	26		Daniel LLOYD		BTC Norlin Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	20.353	59.423	15
20	32		Ethan HAMMERTON		Team HARD. with Trade Price Cars	Volkswagen CC	22	22.123	59.523	23
21	39		Brett SMITH		WIX Racing with Eurotech	Honda Civic Type R	22	22.431	59.578	12
22	77	M	Andrew JORDAN		BMW Pirtek Racing	BMW 125i M Sport	22	22.967	59.188	25
23	43		Ollie PIDGLEY		Trade Price Cars with Brisky Racing	Volkswagen CC	22	23.377	59.811	19
24	21		Mike BUSHELL		Trade Price Cars with Brisky Racing	Volkswagen CC	22	23.519	59.761	30
25	48		Ollie JACKSON		AmD with Cobra Exhausts	Audi S3	22	24.541	59.494	16
26	23		Sam SMELT		AmD with Cobra Exhausts	Audi S3	22	25.602	59.994	21
27	1	M	Ashley SUTTON		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	22	35.954	59.093	10
28	20		James COLE		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher	Ford Focus RS	22	37.712	59.656	20
R	54		Josh CAYGILL		AmD with AutoAid / RCIB Insurance Racing	MG 6	18	DNF	59.728	22
R	60		Stephen JELLEY		Team Parker Racing	BMW 125i M Sport	14	DNF	59.055	27
R	19		Bobby THOMPSON		Team HARD. with Trade Price Cars	Volkswagen CC	3	DNF	1:00.532	18