Gordon Shedden used all of his experience to take a determined win in Round 9 of the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship.

Shedden started on a reverse grid pole and his Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport Toyota came under significant pressure from championship leader Ash Sutton late on, while Tom Ingram was third on the road as he charged from last on the grid, before a track limits penalty dropped him to 8th. Daryl De Leon of WSR inherited third position.

The three-time champion did well to ward off the challenges of the Cataclean Plato Racing duo of Dan Rowbottom and Adam Morgan in the early laps before they faded late on, and led a peaceful existence in the lead until Sutton passed Morgan with an excellent move into Agostini.

From there it was the boost-laden Toyota against the Ford/Sutton combination with only a single lap of boost to its name, and it looked as if Sutton would win out as a move around the outside at Turn One briefly had him in the lead, but Shedden held the inside to repel an inspired Sutton.

Further back, it was a return to form for the West Surrey Racing BMW duo of Daryl De Leon and Charles Rainford, as they climbed from 10th and 8th on the grid to record 3rd and 5th place finishes respectively either side of Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley.

Morgan fell back to 6th as his boost ran out with Tom Chilton 7th. The top 10 was rounded out by Dan Cammish’s 9th placed NAPA Racing Ford Focus and Rowbottom, who faded badly on medium tyres.

It was an emotional podium at the end of race three, as Nicholas Hamilton won the Jack Sears Trophy in scenes that united the entire BTCC paddock.

Ash Sutton took a remarkable British Touring Car Championship victory from 11th on the grid in a chaotic Race 2 at Snetterton to extend his lead at the top of the Championship to 48 points.

He led home Team Vertu duo Ricky Collard and Tom Chilton, while Suttons championship rival Tom Ingram in another Vertu Hyundai retired with a loss of drive, after a significant lock up on lap 8 saw him drop from the lead to 5th under pressure from Sutton’s NAPA Ford.

The race started with Ingram making an early move on polesitter Charles Rainford after holding off the other WSR BMW of Daryl De Leon, and the race seemed to settle down as De Leon held back the NAPA Ford of Dan Cammish and Ricky Collard’s fast starting Hyundai, while Josh Cook dropped back from fourth on the grid in his Toyota Gazoo Racing Corolla.

That all changed midway through the race.

Sutton had been steadily gaining places after his start took him to 8th from 11th and once he eventually deposed Collard from 5th, he was quickly into the medium shod and comparatively boost starved BMWs of De Leon and Rainford, with Cammish passing De Leon for third on lap 6.

De Leon quickly fell backwards as Sutton and Rowbottom both shuffled the BMW backwards, where he would eventually end up tenth.

Sutton easily dealt with teammate Cammish and Rainford’s BMW before he attacked Ingram into Riches. Ingram covered off the inside but on the brakes into Wilson, he locked up and went off to allow Sutton, Cammish, Collard and Chilton through.

An alternator failure on lap 10 proved Ingram’s undoing, while Collard and Chilton both passed Cammish at the end of the race to get onto the podium.

Gordon Shedden in the Laser Tools with MB Motorsport Toyota was seventh overall to take Independent honours ahead of Rainford in 8th.

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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.

The result sees Sutton’s lead at the top over Ingram fall to 26 points ahead of last season’s champion Ingram, while Rainford is now third overall and atop of the Independents’ Championship.

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.

Charles Rainford will start from pole position following victory in the BTCC Race To Pole at Snetterton on Saturday afternoon.

Rainford led home Toyota Gazoo’s Josh Cook and Tom Ingram’s VERTU Hyundai, while Championship leader Ashley Sutton suffered a technical issue to drop to the back of the field.

The result sees Ingram close the gap between himself and Sutton in the standings to 39 points, with the Ford driver still in a very strong position after just six rounds.

WSR BMW driver Rainford passed Vertu Hyundai’s Tom Chilton on lap 1 in a move that ultimately relegated to polesitter to 6th on the first lap, with Cook, Ingram, Ash Sutton and Cammish all profiting from a robust move around the Snetterton 300’s infield section.

Chilton would receive a 5s penalty for a starting offence to drop to eighth at race end, while Cammish bump drafted teammate Sutton to third into Nelson’s on the first lap as the field jostled for position.

Sutton suffered a tyre failure on lap 3 at Murrays to relinquish third and headed to the pit lane to correct this, and he will start from 21st after suffering similar trouble at the season opening Donington Park round.

He finished Race One in 2nd on that occasion, but with the lowest Toca Boost available of anyone in the field he’ll have it all to do to repeat that feat.

Provisional Starting Grid For Round 7 of the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship at Snetterton:

1. Charles Rainford, West Surrey Racing
2. Josh Cook, Toyota Gazoo Racing
3. Tom Ingram, Team Vertu
4. Dan Cammish, Alliance NAPA Racing UK
5. Dan Rowbottom, Cataclean Plato Racing
6. Daryl De Leon, West Surrey Racing
7. Adam Morgan, Cataclean Plato Racing
8. Tom Chilton, Team Vertu
9. James Dorlin, Restart Racing
10. Sam Osborne, Alliance NAPA Racing UK
11. Dexter Patterson, Steel Seal With Power Maxed Racing
12. Ricky Collard, Team Vertu
13. Gordon Shedden, Laser Tools with MB Motorsport
14. Chris Smiley, Restart Racing
15. Mikey Doble, LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing
16. Nicholas Hamilton, Team Vertu
17. Lewis Selby, Alliance NAPA Racing UK
18. Max Buxton, Toyota Gazoo Racing
19. Aiden Moffat, LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing
20. Aron Taylor-Smith, Laser Tools with MB Motorsport
21. Ashley Sutton, Alliance NAPA Racing UK

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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.

Aron Taylor-Smith won his first BTCC race since the Rockingham event of 2016 from 13th on the grid as rain created chaos for Race Two at Brands Hatch.

The Irishman worked his way up the field as chaos ensued ahead as Ricky Collard and Ash Sutton traded paintwork for the lead – Collard would eventually take third behind Sutton’s Ford as a red flag ended the race after 21 laps.

What the race lacked in distance it made for with action with passing all over the field, Charles Rainford the unfortunate driver to bring out the red flag after making the early running up to fifth along with Sam Osborne.

The race was immediately neutralised as Lewis Selby’s NAPA Ford spun off at a greasy Druids hairpin, and as the cars trundled round behind the Safety Car the rain got heavier.

What followed was an advert for the British Touring Car Championship as Collard attacked and passed Sutton for the lead, and Rainford attacked and passed Cammish, who fell to 14th via two trips to the gravel, for fourth at Druids.

Rainford would launch attacks on Ingram on successive laps around the outside at Paddock Hill but the 2025 champion stood firm for two laps before Rainford eventually got ahead.

Ingram would re-pass Rainford and make contact with Sutton later in the race, giving way to the crazy end to the race as contact between Ingram and Rainford at Druids on lap 22, before Daniel Rowbottom’s Mercedes collided with Sam Osborne’s NAPA Ford, brought about the red flag and a premature end.

Aiden Moffat ended up an eventful fifth place ahead of LKQ Cart Parts with Power Maxed Racing teammate Mikey Doble, while Josh Cook continued his weekend recovery with seventh via a trip through the gravel when fourth.

Completing the top 10 were James Dorlin for Restart Racing, Dexter Patterson for Steel Seal Racing with Power Maxed and Daryl De Leon’s WSR BMW.

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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Ash Sutton will start a surprise pole position for NAPA Alliance Racing Ford at the second weekend of the 2026 British Touring Car Championship.

Sutton, who had admitted he’d have been happy to stay in the top ten prior to qualifying as a result of having his TOCA Boost limited to 1s per lap, ended the qualifying session in fifth but a jet-propelled start in the Race To Pole saw him get into third position on the first lap, before WSR’s Daryl De Leon launched an ambitious move on race leader Tom Ingram’s Vertu Motors Hyundai at Graham Hill Bend that saw both men drop backwards.

De Leon kept second place and Ingram, who sustained damage, was shuffled back to fifth place behind third placed Dan Cammish in the second of the NAPA Fords, with Ricky Collard in fourth in his Hyundai.

Adam Morgan completed the top six in his Plato Racing with Cataclean Mercedes ahead of the Power Maxed Racing Duo of Mikey Doble and Dexter Patterson.

The result sees Sutton, who scored 10 points for winning the Race to Pole, extend his championship lead to 28 points ahead of teammate Cammish, who moved up to second with 43 points.

Charles Rainford drops to third following a disappointing Race To Pole ahead of Aiden Moffat’s Power Maxed Racing Audi and Gordon Shedden’s Laser Tools MB Motorsport Toyota, while last season’s champion Ingram is down in eighth.

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Grid:

1. Ashley Sutton
2. Daryl De Leon
3. Dan Cammish
4. Ricky Collard
5. Tom Ingram
6. Adam Morgan
7. Mikey Doble
8. Dexter Patterson
9. Aron Taylor-Smith
10. Gordon Shedden
11. Sam Osborne
12. James Dorlin
13. Lewis Selby
14. Chris Smiley
15. Tom Chilton
16. Charles Rainford
17. Aiden Moffat
18. Dan Rowbottom
19. Max Buxton
20. Nicholas Hamilton
21. Josh Cook