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Ingram seals second BTCC title at Brands Hatch
Tom Ingram was crowned the 2025 British Touring Car champion at Brands Hatch on Sunday, his second title in the series.
The Team Vertu Hyundai driver clinched the crown before the day concluded, with his win in Race 2 being enough to defeat Ash Sutton.
It was Sutton’s NAPA Racing UK teammate Dan Cammish who won the first race of the day, dominating from lights to flag after starting solo from the front row of the grid after polesitter Darryl DeLeon failed to take the start due to a mechanical issue.
Behind him, Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton got by Daniel Rowbottom in another NAPA Ford Focus ST to move into second on lap 3. Rowbottom lost further ground later in the lap when Chilton’s teammate Adam Morgan also found a way past at Surtees. WSR BMW’s Charles Rainford and Ingram also got by, leaving Rowbottom to settle for sixth.
With Ingram’s top five result in the first race and Sutton down in ninth, the 2022 champion already had one hand on the championship trophy going into the second race of the day.
He made perfect use of the soft tires to move to forward from fifth on the grid, and passed Chilton for the lead on lap 3, Chilton not making life difficult for his teammate.
A pair of safety car periods added pressure to Ingram out in front, but he didn’t crack despite Sutton powering through from ninth on the grid to second. Senna Proctor rounded out the podium in another Vertu Hyundai, with Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Gordon Shedden and Cammish completing the top five.
In the final race of the day, Josh Cook made the most of a front row grid slot – a result of the partial reverse grid draw – to win.
Polesitter Aiden Moffat and third-place starter Jake Hill made stronger starts in their rear-wheel-drive BMWs, but a good run through Paddock Hill Bend on lap two allowed Cook to get by Hill for second, and two laps later he moved by Moffat at Surtees to take the lead.
Like Cook, Sutton had saved his one set of soft tires for the final race of the day, and he put them to perfect use to mount another charge through the field. Having started eighth on the grid after the draw, he was up to second by lap 5. Cook had a Toca Turbo Boost (TTB) over the four-time champion, however, and was able to maintain his position out in front.
Hill, the outgoing champion and competing in his final BTCC race ahead of an anticipated move into international GT racing, finished third, with Shedden once again in fourth and Moffat slipping to fifth by the end of the race.
Restart Racing’s Dan Lloyd wrapped up the Independents title despite finishing 18th, behind rivals Mikey Doble and teammate Chris Smiley, while DeLeon wrapped up the Jack Sears Trophy as the highest ranked driver who started the season without a podium finish.
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Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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