Colin Turkington doubles up with dominant race two drive

Team BMW’s Colin Turkington won again in the second British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Brands Hatch, as a dicing Tom Ingram and Ash Sutton completed the podium.

Turkington made another strong start to hold his lead away from the line, as stable-mate Jake Hill initially slotted into second from fourth on the grid.

Laser Tools Racing’s Hill held second for the first half dozen laps, but as Turkington quickly established a near four-second lead, his WSR colleague became a cork in the bottle.

On lap seven, Hill lost three places as NAPA Racing UK’s Sutton dived inside at Druids and Speedworks Motorsport’s Josh Cook took advantage to follow by into Surtees, collecting a radiator full of grass in the process.

EXCELR8 Motorsport’s Tom Ingram then capitalised on out-of-position Hill to seize sixth inside Clark Curve, leaving Hill circulating in fifth.

A lap later, Hill lost another three places to drop to eighth, followed by another two places on the next tour.

Hill’s race came to a premature conclusion on lap 15 when he went straight on at Druids, suffering from apparent steering failure which left him completely unable to turn.

With Hill’s BMW stuck in the gravel, a three lap safety car period was required. After the race resumed, Turkington soon opened a gap of over a second over the chasing Sutton, who by now was under pressure from Ingram.

Ingram had made a place at the start from his seventh-place grid position when team-mate Tom Chilton was slow away from the line, and then passed NAPA’s Daniel Rowbottom exiting Clark Curve on lap three for fifth.

He then dived inside Cook’s Toyota for fourth on lap 13 into Paddock, although there was slight contact with the Corolla racer in the process, resulting in a flapping rear bumper for Cook.

That became third with Hill’s demise, and when the race restarted Ingram made a late lunge on Sutton for second, three laps from the finish.

Despite Sutton trying to fight back, Ingram prevailed in a close tussle between the recent champions, leaving the Ford Focus racer to settle for third.

BMW’s Adam Morgan was fourth, coming through from 15^th on the grid and benefitting from using the soft tyre in the race.

Rowbottom was fifth, ahead of Chilton in sixth, whilst seventh-placed Dan Cammish came through from 18^th on the grid in an impressive drive on the medium-compound tyre.

Speedworks’ Aiden Moffat was eighth, with the top ten completed by Power Maxed Racing duo Mikey Taylor and Árón Taylor-Smith.

Two of Speedworks’ four cars suffered from contact in the race. Rob Huff in the factory-backed Corolla had worked his way up to eighth, but received a black-and-orange flag for damage to his rear bumper, forcing him to pit, where he retired.

Likewise, Cook received contact from Ingram which damaged his bumper, and he too was forced to pit when running in fourth, dropping him to 16^th.

Race three is scheduled to get underway at 17:15 BST.

Race results

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	20	M		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	27	23:39.873	48.728	1
2	80	M		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	27	3.397	48.661	7
3	1	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	27	3.656	48.509	3
4	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	27	3.681	49.169	15
5	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	27	7.348	48.901	5
6	3	M		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	27	7.911	48.789	6
7	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	27	8.088	49.091	18
8	16	M		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	27	8.585	49.012	9
9	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	27	10.183	49.336	13
10	40	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	27	10.388	49.357	10
11	14	M		Ronan PEARSON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	27	11.748	49.101	19
12	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	27	12.377	49.015	12
13	22	M		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	27	12.439	49.530	17
14	18	I		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	27	16.428	49.921	20
15	11	M		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	27	21.371	49.261	8
16	66	M		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	27	43.151	48.885	2
17	222	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	25	+ 2 LAPS	49.521	14
R	12	M		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	19	DNF	48.944	11
R	24	M		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	14	DNF	48.723	4
R	29	I		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	7	DNF	49.690	16