Ingram disqualified from race one for overboosting, Doble inherits win

Tom Ingram has been stripped of his victory in the opening British Touring Car Championship race of the season at Donington Park due to overboosting on his Hyundai.

Team VERTU’s Ingram had won the race by almost a second and a half from Power Maxed Racing’s Doble, but after technical inspections following the race he was thrown out of the result.

It means Doble claimed victory on the début of the team’s new Audi, picking up his second outright victory.

Also penalised following the race was Plato Racing’s Adam Morgan, who had initially inherited third when team-mate Daniel Rowbottom was given a ten-second penalty for exceeding track limits.

However, Morgan was penalised with five seconds added to his race time for a technical infringement relating to his ‘Closed Loop Boost System’ (CLBS) (a boost infringement not as significant as Ingram’s) and he dropped to tenth, just ahead of Rowbottom’s classification in 11^th.

Revised race result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	21	26:01.652	1:08.351	4
2	116	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	21	1.749	1:07.944	21
3	99	I		Charles RAINFORD	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	21	5.392	1:08.246	5
4	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	21	6.276	1:08.755	13
5	52	I		Gordon SHEDDEN	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	7.401	1:08.928	9
6	16	I		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	21	7.693	1:08.654	8
7	17	I		Dexter PATTERSON	Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	21	8.102	1:09.026	10
8	50	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	8.180	1:09.054	11
9	3	M		Tom CHILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	8.417	1:08.748	6
10	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	21	8.775	1:08.835	7
11	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	21	11.667	1:08.291	1
12	2	I		Daryl DE LEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	21	12.155	1:08.966	17
13	132	I		James DORLIN	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	13.376	1:09.457	15
14	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	21	13.616	1:09.442	18
15	15	M		Lewis SELBY	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	21	14.032	1:09.249	16
16	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	14.160	1:09.149	14
17	28	M		Nicolas HAMILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	21.131	1:09.646	19
18	19	M		Max BUXTON	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	21.349	1:09.693	20
R	11	M		Ricky COLLARD	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	14	DNF	1:09.167	12
R	66	M		Josh COOK	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	6	DNF	1:08.347	3
EX	80	M		Tom INGRAM	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	26:00.184	1:08.158	2