Tom Ingram claims first win of the season as Ash Sutton scores another podium

Team VERTU’s Tom Ingram scored his first win of the British Touring Car Championship season, as a fast-starting Ash Sutton continued his 100% podium finish record in 2026 by taking second.

The top eight finishers from race two were reversed for the race three grid, handing Restart Racing’s James Dorlin pole position, with Speedworks’ Josh Cook alongside.

At the start, it was however Sutton who was the one to watch, with the NAPA Racing UK driver flying from seventh on the grid up to second by the first corner.

Further back, NAPA’s Dan Cammish went off on the exit of Paddock Hill Bend, dropping him to the back of the field.

Ingram was quick to make his move on Sutton, passing the Ford into Clearways at the end of the lap, before getting a run on the medium tyre-shod Dorlin and taking the lead across the start-finish line, completing the move into Paddock Hill Bend.

Dorlin put up a stoic defence of second and it took until lap eight before he lost the place, but it was Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble who seized the initiative, having muscled past Sutton two laps beforehand.

With Ingram extending his advantage at the front to over four seconds, focus turned to the battle between Doble and Sutton, who got by Dorlin two laps later, for second.

Doble stayed ahead of the four-time champion for the next dozen laps, but with Sutton by that stage having more TOCA Turbo Boost [TTB] than Doble, he began to apply significant pressure.

Going into lap 20, Sutton feigned to the outside at Paddock Hill Bend before getting the cutback on Doble, diving down the inside at Druids to complete the pass for second.

Sutton by now was four seconds adrift of Ingram, who claimed the first win of the year for himself and Team VERTU.

For Sutton, second means that he has not finished lower than runner-up in any of the six races held in 2026 so far.

Doble completed the podium and the class victory in the Independents’ championship.

WSR’s Daryl De Leon was fourth, having steadily worked his way up the order in the first half of the race, ahead of the leading Toyota of Speedworks’ Josh Cook in fifth.

Plato Racing’s Adam Morgan was the leading Mercedes in sixth, ahead of Laser Tools Racing’s Gordon Shedden in seventh, the Scot fighting his way past Dorlin on the final lap, having passed team-mate Árón Taylor-Smith a lap earlier.

Dorlin was eighth, Taylor-Smith took ninth and Power Maxed’s Aiden Moffat completed the top ten.

After his opening lap off, Cammish could only take the chequered flag in 16^th, whilst Plato Racing’s Daniel Rowbottom slid down the order in the final laps, running in ninth in the first half of the race but ultimately finishing in 17^th.

Team VERTU’s Ricky Collard progressed to fourth on the opening lap but was quickly shuffled down the order thereafter, before slowing on lap four with suspected overheating of his engine after several trips across the grass.

Sutton leads the drivers’ standings with 169 points, comfortably ahead of Ingram (82), Doble (68), Collard (67), Cammish (61) etc.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	80	M		Tom INGRAM	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	24	19:29.659	48.009	5
2	116	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	24	3.848	47.627	7
3	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	24	4.426	48.079	3
4	2	I		Daryl DE LEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	5.131	47.682	10
5	66	M		Josh COOK	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	8.054	47.862	2
6	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	24	9.816	48.143	15
7	52	I		Gordon SHEDDEN	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	16.642	48.181	20
8	132	I		James DORLIN	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	24	17.080	48.333	1
9	50	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	17.241	48.298	8
10	16	I		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	24	17.664	48.323	4
11	17	I		Dexter PATTERSON	Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	24	18.431	48.333	9
12	3	M		Tom CHILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	24	18.714	48.234	19
13	99	I		Charles RAINFORD	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	18.970	48.108	16
14	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	24	19.206	48.151	17
15	15	M		Lewis SELBY	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	24	19.544	48.255	21
16	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	24	21.061	47.946	14
17	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	24	21.776	48.345	13
18	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	24	24.297	48.413	12
19	28	M		Nicolas HAMILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	23	+ 1 LAP	48.627	11
R	19	M		Max BUXTON	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	17	DNF	48.544	18
R	11	M		Ricky COLLARD	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	14	DNF	47.912	6