Tom Ingram leads Ash Sutton home in Silverstone race two

Tom Ingram further extended his British Touring Car Championship lead in the second race at Silverstone, although Ash Sutton kept close to his rival throughout and limited his deficit with second.

Before the race got underway there was misfortune for NAPA Racing UK’s Dan Cammish, who pulled into the pits with a turbo pipe issue and failed to take the start.

When the lights went out, pole-sitter Daniel Lloyd made a good start and led the field for the first half of the opening lap, but was passed by Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill into Becketts as the leading duo went side-by-side.

The fast-starting Team Vertu Hyundai of Ingram was up three places away from the line and ended the opening lap in third.

Ingram then powered past Lloyd for second along the Wellington Straight on the second lap, before quickly catching and latching onto the back of early leader Hill.

Ingram powered past Hill for the lead on the Wellington Straight on the fourth lap, and immediately began to build up a lead.

However, that was wiped out on lap eight when the safety car was called for following contact between Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton and WSR’s Charles Rainford at Luffield – just a few corners after Chilton had pulled a superb pass on the other WSR BMW of Aiden Moffat for tenth.

Chilton’s left-front wheel touched Rainford’s right-rear wheel, immediately breaking the suspension on the Hyundai, which drifted helplessly into the gravel.

Racing resumed on lap 14, and two laps later NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton – who had hauled himself into fifth by the fifth lap – relieved Hill of second into Brooklands with a late dive down the inside.

However, Sutton couldn’t challenge Ingram, on the soft compound tyre to Sutton’s medium rubber, for the win, and Ingram took his sixth victory of 2025 by just under three seconds from Sutton.

Hill completed the podium, and has moved up to fourth in the championship in the process, past Daniel Rowbottom, who retired his NAPA Racing UK car from fourth with smoke coming from the back three laps from the finish.

Árón Taylor-Smith was the leading Toyota driver in fourth, ahead of WSR’s Rainford in fifth.

Lloyd slipped to sixth by the end, but still scored his fourth Independents’ victory on the bounce to eke out his advantage.

Toyota’s Gordon Shedden was seventh, ahead of WSR’s Moffat in eighth, whilst the top ten was completed by Toyota’s Josh Cook and WSR’s Daryl DeLeon.

Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble kept his Independents’ title charge alive with 11^th, whilst NAPA’s Sam Osborne was 12^th, and after the top 12 were randomly selected to be reversed for the race three grid he will thus start on pole position for the final race of the day.

Team Vertu’s Adam Morgan had been running in eighth, but he went into the back of team-mate Senna Proctor on lap 14 and his bonnet flipped open, forcing him to the pits where he retired after the team were unable to secure the damaged body panel.

Proctor himself was classified in 16^th, having run wide and lost seven places on lap 17 before being handed a ten second time penalty for repeatedly exceeding track limits.

Race three is scheduled to get underway at 17:10 BST.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	80	M		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	25	25:44.248	56.875	7
2	116	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	25	2.875	57.382	8
3	1	M		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	25	4.654	57.406	2
4	40	M		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	4.829	57.704	11
5	99	M		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	25	6.280	57.626	14
6	123	I		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	25	8.721	57.870	1
7	52	M		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	8.864	57.972	3
8	16	M		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	25	9.448	57.713	6
9	66	M		Josh COOK	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	11.569	57.773	5
10	2	M		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	25	12.364	57.861	13
11	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	25	13.121	58.266	21
12	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	25	14.256	57.892	19
13	19	M		Max BUXTON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	16.511	58.185	16
14	50	I		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	25	23.425	58.790	18
15	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	25	24.602	57.932	15
16	18	M		Senna PROCTOR	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	25	25.507	57.689	4
17	17	I		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	25	26.181	58.677	17
R	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	23	DNF	57.579	9
R	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	DNF	57.626	10
R	3	M		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	7	DNF	57.560	20
R	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	4	DNF	58.197	12
NS	28	I		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	–	DNS	N/A	22