Tom Ingram continues to extend points lead with race two win

Tom Ingram further extended his points lead in the British Touring Car Championship with his fourth win of the season, whilst title rival Ash Sutton followed him home in second.

After victory in the opening race of the day, Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill started from pole position. But the BMW driver only managed to hold on for two laps on the medium compound tyre – one of only two drivers in the field on the harder rubber – before Ingram started a move for the lead at Clark Curve which he completed into the hairpin on lap three.

Ingram, on the soft tyre, then romped to a fourth win of the year by a comfortable margin, ultimately beating rival Sutton, who had taken until lap five to make any progress from his eighth-place starting position.

Sutton made steady progress, passing Senna Proctor for third on lap 15, before being handed second by team-mate Dan Cammish on the final lap.

Cammish completed the podium in third, his seventh in the season, to leapfrog NAPA Racing UK team-mate Daniel Rowbottom in the drivers’ standings.

Proctor was fourth in his Team Vertu Hyundai, ahead of the leading BMW of Hill in fifth.

Daryl DeLeon followed his stablemate home in sixth, which gives him the reverse-grid pole for race three after Ingram drew the top six to be reversed for the finale.

Aiden Moffat followed his WSR colleagues home in seventh, ahead of Tom Chilton in eighth, the Team Vertu driver putting in a strong drive from the back of the grid after he was excluded from the race one result, when he had crossed the line in 17^th, for a turbo overboost.

NAPA’s Rowbottom and Team Vertu’s Adam Morgan completed the top ten, both drivers having fallen back in the closing stages of the race.

Árón Taylor-Smith was the leading Toyota driver in 11^th, whilst Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley was the top Independent in 12^th, moving the Hyundai driver to the top of the Independent drivers’ standings.

Race three gets underway at 17:25 BST.

Race two result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	80	M		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	20:59.339	51.251	3
2	116	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	24	7.196	51.665	7
3	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	24	7.974	51.828	5
4	18	M		Senna PROCTOR	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	12.833	51.553	4
5	1	M		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	24	13.486	51.795	1
6	2	M		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	14.254	51.979	8
7	16	M		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	16.257	51.874	6
8	3	M		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	16.770	52.123	22
9	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	24	17.669	51.917	14
10	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	20.157	52.182	11
11	40	M		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	20.759	52.163	9
12	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	21.247	52.090	12
13	52	M		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	21.531	52.173	15
14	132	M		James DORLIN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	22.360	52.201	18
15	123	I		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	25.531	52.407	16
16	99	M		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	26.411	52.357	2
17	17	I		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	24	26.793	52.580	13
18	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	24	28.158	52.565	17
19	19	M		Max BUXTON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	35.741	53.093	19
20	28	I		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	24	37.622	53.059	20
21	50	I		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	24	46.344	53.112	21
22	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	24	49.565	52.245	10