Tom Ingram pleased to claim long-overdue win

Tom Ingram enjoyed a return to the top step of the British Touring Car Championship podium at Silverstone, claiming his third win of the season and first since Thruxton back in July.

On a weekend that saw Ash Sutton officially wrap up the Drivers’ title, the two-time title winner put his recent run of bad luck behind him to triumph in a wet reverse grid contest.

The EXCELR8 driver bounced back from contact in race one to move forward on the soft tyre in race two, which in-turn set him up for a charging drive in the wet. Hitting the front early doors, the Hyundai driver soon streaked clear to win ahead of Sutton.

That result means that Ingram heads to Brands Hatch leading Dan Cammish in the battle for second in the standings.

“It’s been a challenging season and we’ve had a lot of misfortune, so when you have a result like this you appreciate it a little but more,” said Ingram.

“We’ve only had three wins this season when we expected more but that final race was really good in what were very challenging conditions with the rain. It’s just a shame we didn’t predict the rain coming as we could have run the soft tyre in race two – although then we maybe wouldn’t have benefitted from the reverse grid.

“It was a good way to end the weekend considering how difficult Saturday was with the lack of TTB in qualifying and the qualifying race, which has a particularly big impact round here. We then had a plan for Sunday and although we weren’t able to really benefit from it in race one, we got the victory we wanted from the weekend at a circuit where we’ve always gone well.

“It was also nice that the win came in race three because of the fact it was Marvin’s 750th BTCC race. He’s such a legend of the paddock and a big part of Team VERTU, so that one was for him.”