Ash Sutton stormed to this third win of the season in round 11 at Thruxton. He was unchallenged and comfortably secured victory, with title rival Tom Ingram second and Josh Cook securing another third place finish.
Sutton, the only multiple winner so far this season, got the best possible start off the line, surging from fourth to first by the end of the first corner. He scythed between Cook and Dan Cammish in front, before diving down the inside of Ingram at turn one. He built a lead of near two seconds and never surrendered it.
Ingram was largely unchallenged behind from Cook, with the title in mind, the Hyundai man held off Cook’s Honda for second.
Further down the field there were some scrappy moments. Jake Hill was in the wars, making contact with Adam Morgan into the final chicane – pitching the latter into a half spin. Hill then also battled Dan Rowbottom throughout as well as Cammish, with both Ford drivers finishing ahead of Hill’s WSR BMW.
Sutton, Ingram and Cook took the top three spots, but Cook was disqualified after the race for failing the ride height check in parc ferme, with everyone moving up a place.
Rowbottom took third, with Cammish and Hill battling for fourth. Senna Proctor’s fine return to the championship continued with a seventh place finish on the road, promoted to sixth, from ninth on the grid in his Hyundai. He was initially rewarded with reverse grid pole for race three but Cook’s exclusion means that now goes to James Dorlin.
James Dorlin had another fine race as the Toyota Gazoo Racing team are still getting to grips with the Corolla this season, he took seventh. Chris Smiley, Daryl DeLeon and Dan Lloyd rounded off the top ten.
Charles Rainford was next, ahead of Adam Morgan, who had finished eighth on the road but a track limits penalty sent him down to 13th before being promoted back to 12th.
The final points places were taken by Aiden Moffat, Ronan Pearson and Dexter Patterson.
|
Pos |
Name |
Team |
Car |
|
1 (4) |
Ash SUTTON |
NAPA Racing |
Ford Focus |
|
2 (1) |
Tom INGRAM |
Team Vertu |
Hyundai i30N |
|
3 (5) |
Dan ROWBOTTOM |
NAPA Racing |
Ford Focus |
|
4 (2) |
Dan CAMMISH |
NAPA Racing |
Ford Focus |
|
5 (6) |
Jake HILL |
Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport |
BMW 330e |
|
6 (9) |
Senna PROCTOR |
Team Vertu |
Hyundai i30N |
|
7 (7) |
James DORLIN |
Toyota Gazoo Racing |
Toyota Corolla |
|
8 (11) |
Chris SMILEY |
Restart Racing |
Hyundai i30N |
|
9 (10) |
Daryl DELEON |
Team WSR |
BMW 330e |
|
10 (13) |
Dan LLOYD |
Restart Racing |
Hyundai i30N |
|
11 (17) |
Charles RAINFORD |
LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR |
BMW 330e |
|
12 (8)* |
Adam MORGAN |
Team Vertu |
Hyundai i30N |
|
13 (14) |
Aiden MOFFAT |
Team WSR |
BMW 330e |
|
14 (16) |
Ronan PEARSON |
Toyota Gazoo Racing |
Toyota Corolla |
|
15 (20) |
Dexter PATTERSON |
RoKIT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport |
Cupra Leon |
|
16 (19) |
Stephen JELLEY |
ONE Motorsport |
Honda Civic Type-R |
|
17 (12) |
Aron TAYLOR-SMITH |
Toyota Gazoo Racing |
Toyota Corolla |
|
18 (21) |
Nicholas HAMILTON |
Powder Monkey |
Cupra Leon |
|
19 (18) |
Gordon SHEDDEN |
Toyota Gazoo Racing |
Toyota Corolla |
|
20 (23) |
Sam OSBORNE |
NAPA Racing |
Ford Focus |
|
DNF (22) |
Mikey DOBLE |
Power Maxed Racing |
Vauxhall Astra |
|
DNF (15) |
Tom CHILTON |
Team Vertu |
Hyundai i30N |
|
DSQ (3) |
Josh COOK |
ONE Motorsport |
Honda Civic Type-R |
|
DNS |
Max HALL |
RoKIT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport |
Cupra Leon |
