Tom Ingram won his first race of the 2026 British Touring Car Championship with a dominant display at Brands Hatch.
Ingram took the win in his Vertu Racing Hyundai ahead of a hard charging Ash Sutton who took his third podium of the day in his NAPA Racing Ford, while Mikey Doble completed an excellent weekend with third overall and a victory in the Independents Championship in his LKQ Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing Audi.
Daryl De Leon was fourth for WSR ahead of Josh Cook and a recovering Adam Morgan, while Gordon Shedden recovered to seventh ahead of polesitter James Dorlin, who suffered on his medium tyres while those around him were on softs.
Ingram started the reverse grid race from fifth and was quickly up into the top two with an excellent start, and passed Sutton on the run to Clearways at the end of lap one.
He picked his way past Dorlin shortly after, while Doble then tried a double move from fourth to second – succeeding only in passing Sutton for third as Dorlin grimly held on.
That allowed Ingram to build a gap in tranquillity before Doble eventually passed Dorlin midway through the race, quickly followed by Sutton and De Leon as the Restart Racing Hyundai fell backwards.
Sutton eventually passed Doble three laps from the end but was unable to do anything about Ingram ahead, while Shedden passed Laser Tools MB Motorsport teammate Taylor-Smith and Dorlin on the final lap to steal seventh.
The weekend’s results leave Sutton on 129 points and with a mammoth 47 point lead over Ingram having finished no lower than second all season, with Mikey Doble in third on 68 points and in the lead of the Independents Championship ahead of a return to the scene of his first BTCC at Snetterton in 2025.
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