Tom Ingram beats Dan Cammish to qualifying race pole

Team VERTU’s Tom Ingram beat NAPA Racing UK’s Dan Cammish to pole position for the qualifying race at Brands Hatch, emerging exactly a tenth of a second ahead of Dan Cammish.

Ingram topped his group in the first part of qualifying by going just over a tenth of a second faster than WSR’s Daryl De Leon, having posted three successive top times, although it was only the latter which was ultimately quick enough to take pole.

Cammish, in the second qualifying group, topped the times in his session but ended up a tenth adrift of Ingram, having been half a tenth quicker than EXCELR8’s Ricky Collard.

But De Leon managed a faster time than Collard by 0.043 seconds, giving the BMW driver third on the qualifying race grid, ahead of Collard in fourth.

Championship leader Ash Sutton, with just one second of TOCA Turbo Boost (TTB) available to him, was fifth quickest, ahead of Plato Racing’s Adam Morgan in sixth.

Power Maxed Racing duo Mikey Doble and Dexter Patterson share the fourth row of the grid in seventh and eighth respectively, although the latter had been challenging for the top time in his qualifying group he ended up fourth in the group, translating to eighth in the combined times.

Team VERTU’s Tom Chilton and WSR’s Charles Rainford completed the top ten.

Speedworks Corolla Racing’s Josh Cook was the leading Toyota driver in 11^th, ahead of Laser Tools Racing stablemate Árón Taylor-Smith in 12^th.

Plato Racing’s Daniel Rowbottom had several of his lap times disallowed for exceeding track limits, leading the Donington Park pole-sitter down in a disappointing 18^th, half a second adrift of the pace.

Restart Racing’s James Dorlin completed the times, the Hyundai driver having suffered from a head gasket failure earlier in the day.

The qualifying race gets underway at 15:05 BST.

Combined qualifying result (*note: time gaps shown are to the fastest driver in each respective session)

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	80		Tom INGRAM	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	9	47.310	–
2	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	16	47.410	0.100
3	2		Daryl DE LEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	15	47.415	0.105
4	11		Ricky COLLARD	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	15	47.458	0.148
5	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	14	47.478	0.168
6	33		Adam MORGAN	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	15	47.474	0.164
7	88		Mikey DOBLE	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	15	47.491	0.181
8	17		Dexter PATTERSON	Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	15	47.496	0.186
9	3		Tom CHILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	11	47.523	0.213
10	99		Charles RAINFORD	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	15	47.584	0.274
11	66		Josh COOK	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	15	47.541	0.231
12	50		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	15	47.629	0.319
13	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	15	47.586	0.276
14	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	47.792	0.482
15	15		Lewis SELBY	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	15	47.697	0.387
16	19		Max BUXTON	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	47.817	0.507
17	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	14	47.737	0.427
18	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	14	47.835	0.525
19	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	15	47.748	0.438
20	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	11	48.127	0.817
21	132		James DORLIN	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	12	47.941	0.631