BTCC Oulton Park: Ingram beats Sutton in Race 2 for Oulton double

As he had in race one, Ingram led all the way in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N, although his closest pursuer was much closer this time around than in the earlier stanza.

Reigning champion Ash Sutton’s hopes of a maiden 2022 victory with the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus team effectively ended at the start when, from the front row, he was forced to tuck in behind Ingram at Old Hall.

From then on, Sutton ran in second position to notch up his fifth successive podium finish.

Sutton set the fastest lap in the early stages, and Ingram took seven of the 15 laps to pull out a second at the front.

From then on it hovered at just over a second, before Sutton trimmed it back to 0.979s at the finish line.

“It’s just feeling marvellous,” said Ingram. “It’s the same car as we’ve had since free practice.

“The first race was good – I could control the pace up front because people were battling behind.

“But this time Ash was keeping it fast – he kept coming back and it was to and fro. They’ve certainly got that Ford working now.”

Gordon Shedden was hit with a three-position penalty from race one for his incident with Adam Morgan, dropping him three places to sixth.

Rory Butcher, Toyota GAZOO Racing UK Toyota Corolla GR Sport

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That promoted his brother-in-law Rory Butcher to third, and the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla held onto this position at the start of the race.

But, as he had earlier, Butcher appeared to be unable to hold the pace of the front runners, and came under attack from the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport.

The move came at half-distance – Butcher defended the inside line into the Island hairpin, but Turkington swept around the outside of the Toyota to move up into third spot.

He then closed in on the two cars in front, and Turkington was not far off them as the chequered flag fell.

Shedden appeared a little subdued from his first-race penalty, the Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R driver chiselling his way inside the Motorbase Ford of Dan Cammish at the Island hairpin with five laps remaining to claim fifth.

Dan Lloyd held seventh for much of the race in his Excelr8 Hyundai, but Jake Hill was on a charge and the WSR BMW got the cutback out of the hairpin with two and a half laps to go to claim the inside line for Hislops and the position.

Also very close at hand were Cook (BTC Racing Honda) and Ricky Collard (Speedworks Toyota) to complete the top 10.

Ingram then made his biggest mistake of the weekend – he pulled the number 12 out of the reversed-grid balls, meaning Stephen Jelley will line up on pole with Aiden Moffat alongside.

Results:

Cla	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Tom Ingram	15	21'46.431
2	Ashley Sutton	15	21'47.410	0.979	0.979
3	Colin Turkington	15	21'48.712	2.281	1.302
4	Rory Butcher	15	21'55.913	9.482	7.201
5	Gordon Shedden	15	21'56.468	10.037	0.555
6	Dan Cammish	15	21'58.702	12.271	2.234
7	Jake Hill	15	21'59.507	13.076	0.805
8	Daniel Lloyd	15	22'00.255	13.824	0.748
9	Josh Cook	15	22'01.344	14.913	1.089
10	Ricky Collard	15	22'01.581	15.150	0.237
11	Aiden Moffat	15	22'01.816	15.385	0.235
12	Stephen Jelley	15	22'02.034	15.603	0.218
13	Michael Crees	15	22'04.697	18.266	2.663
14	Bobby Thompson	15	22'07.841	21.410	3.144
15	Aron Taylor-Smith	15	22'08.517	22.086	0.676
16	Adam Morgan	15	22'08.717	22.286	0.200
17	Jason Plato	15	22'10.206	23.775	1.489
18	George Gamble	15	22'12.772	26.341	2.566
19	Jade Edwards	15	22'17.821	31.390	5.049
20	Dexter Patterson	15	22'19.052	32.621	1.231
21	Sam Osborne	15	22'19.600	33.169	0.548
22	Ash Hand	15	22'19.650	33.219	0.050
23	Jack Butel	15	22'19.893	33.462	0.243
24	Ollie Jackson	15	22'23.209	36.778	3.316
25	Rick Parfitt Jr.	15	22'23.562	37.131	0.353
26	Daniel Rowbottom	15	22'36.153	49.722	12.591
27	Nicolas Hamilton	15	23'13.420	1'26.989	37.267
	Tom Chilton	14	21'03.058	1 Lap	1 Lap
	Will Powell	12	22'53.904	3 Laps	2 Laps
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