West Surrey Racing’s Charles Rainford took his second career victory in Race One of the day’s British Touring Car Championship action.

Rainford won yesterday’s pole race and was never troubled after an excellent start to win ahead of Vertu Hyundai’s Tom Ingram, while Rainford’s WSR teammate Daryl De Leon was a storming third from sixth on the grid.

They were followed by Josh Cook in fourth ahead of Dan Cammish, while Dan Rowbottom reacted to a tough Brands Hatch weekend with 6th place.

Tom Chilton lead home Vertu Hyundai teammate Ricky Collard, while James Dorlin continued his good form in his Restart Racing Hyundai with 9th ahead of NAPA Racing’s Sam Osborne.

Ingram passed Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Josh Cook for second on the opening lap with an excellent switch back move on the Snetterton 300’s tight and twisty infield section, but settled for second stating later that “there was an adult in his head” when thinking about chasing the BMW in the lead.

De Leon in his fast starting BMW passed the Cataclean Plato Racing Mercedes of Dan Rowbottom off the line for fifth but didn’t make any further moves until a blistering lap 9.

There, he first despatched Dan Cammish’s NAPA Racing Ford at the end of the Bentley straight into Brundle, before a lovely late braking move on Cook’s Toyota into Agostini half a lap later.

Further back, championship leader Ashley Sutton recovered to 11th from last on the grid following technical troubles in yesterday’s Race to Pole, in no small part due to a stunning lap 1 in which he gained 8 places to move up to 13th.

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