Ash Sutton dominated race one on Sunday morning at Brands Hatch to take his 50th career BTCC victory.
The 4-time Champion dominated in his NAPA Racing Ford Focus to lead from lights to flag in changeable conditions, to beat Ricky Collard by two seconds.
2025 Champion Tom Ingram was third for Vertu Racing Hyundai after a brilliantly executed move on Dan Cammish with 4 laps to go.
Tom Chilton was fifth ahead of a charging Sam Osborne in sixth, with Independents winner Mikey Doble seventh for Power Maxed Racing.
The rain began to fall just before the start of the race, and the conditions caught out Daryl De Leon’s WSR BMW at the start as he fell back to seventh from the front row, as Collard passed Cammish for second later in the lap.
An extended Safety Car period followed with Adam Morgan’s Plato Racing Mercedes going off on lap 2 at Paddock Hill Bend, and they weren’t racing for another six laps.
Collard attacked and briefly passed Sutton for the lead on lap 12 before being re-passed later that lap, and had to hold off a mid race assault from Cammish in the second Ford.
Cammish would eventually fade and lost out to Ingram on lap 24, while further down Chris Smiley and Charles Rainford charged from lowly grid positions to finish 8th and 9th, while after an eventful race De Leon would end up 10th following an incident with MB Motorsport’s Gordon Shedden.
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