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BTCC Brands Hatch II
Brands Hatch BTCC: Cook defeats Proctor as Sutton extends lead
Josh Cook claimed victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch, as Ash Sutton extended his points lead with two races remaining.
Marcus Simmons
Edited: Oct 24, 2021, 11:46 AM
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Cook, who had the slenderest of mathematical chances of the crown entering the weekend, lined up second behind the sister BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R of Senna Proctor, but demoted the Yorkshireman into Druids on the opening lap.
Cook, carrying 39kg of success ballast on the Honda, could not pull out a gap on Proctor, but was not challenged on his way to victory by 0.639 seconds.
Attentions instead turned to Gordon Shedden, who got past Team Dynamics Honda teammate Dan Rowbottom for third into Paddock Hill Bend on the second lap.
Shedden then set fastest lap as he closed on the BTC Honda pair, before the safety car appeared due to Andy Neate – who announced his retirement from BTCC competition this morning – going off in the gravel at Druids.
The safety car appeared to take the sting out of the contest and, while Proctor couldn’t get a run on Cook, neither could Shedden on Proctor.
Dan Lloyd took advantage of Shedden’s move on Rowbottom to slip his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra into fourth place at Druids, and held position from there in a processional contest.
Sutton brought his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 home in sixth place ahead of Colin Turkington, while 12th place for Jake Hill and 13th for Tom Ingram mean that they, along with Cook, are now out of contention for the title, which is between Sutton and Turkington.
Turkington jinked his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport inside Aiden Moffat’s LTR Infiniti at Paddock for seventh on the opening lap, and applied pressure to Sutton early on, but the Infiniti drew away after the safety car.
Tom Chilton was ninth in his Ciceley Motorsport BMW, while Stephen Jelley’s WSR BMW followed him for most of the race.
Jelley’s car sounded off-song in the closing stages and he slid down the order, promoting a ferocious scrap between Ollie Jackson’s Motorbase-run MB Motorsport Ford Focus and Tom Oliphant’s WSR BMW.
Jackson pipped Oliphant to 10th, while Hill held off a ferocious attack from Ingram for 12th, which included a nerf at Clearways as they passed the slowing Jelley.
The result secured BMW its sixth successive BTCC manufacturers' crown, while Laser Tools Racing wrapped up the Independent teams' title.
Race results:
Cla # Driver Chassis Gap 1 Josh Cook
2 Senna Proctor
0.639 3 Gordon Shedden
1.522 4 Daniel Lloyd
2.387 5 Daniel Rowbottom
3.021 6 Ashley Sutton
4.721 7 Colin Turkington
6.673 8 Aiden Moffat
8.081 9 Tom Chilton
9.598 10 Ollie Jackson
17.350 11 Tom Oliphant
17.538 12 Jake Hill
18.454 13 Tom Ingram
18.644 14 Adam Morgan
18.784 15 Chris Smiley
18.803 16 Rory Butcher
19.148 17 Jack Goff
19.981 18 Sam Osborne
21.685 19 Jason Plato
22.147 20 Sam Smelt
22.911 21 Jack Mitchell Jr.
25.044 22 Carl Boardley
30.495 23 Stephen Jelley
30.797 24 Rick Parfitt Jr.
30.975 25 Andy Wilmot
37.693 26 Jade Edwards
39.312 27 Aron Taylor-Smith
1'13.399 Nicolas Hamilton
5 Laps Andy Neate
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