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BTCC Brands Hatch R2: Turkington fends off Ingram for win

Four-time British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington soaked up race-long pressure from Tom Ingram to score his second win of the season in race two at Brands Hatch

The rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport of Turkington predictably outdragged the polesitting Team Dynamics-fielded Honda Civic Type R of Dan Cammish away from the line, before Cammish's revs dropped and he fell to fourth.

Up to second came Ollie Jackson, but the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST was passed in audacious fashion by Ingram's Speedworks Motorsport-tended Toyota Corolla into Sheene Curve on the opening lap.

Jackson then ran wide at Sheene on lap three, allowing Cammish an easy pass up to third, before the safety car emerged.

A barging match over 12th between Michael Crees (BTC Racing Honda) and Bobby Thompson (Trade Price Cars Audi) on the short straight between Hawthorns and Westfield ended with the two cars plunging into the gravel, and there was a lengthy delay while diggers trundled into action to remove them.

Ten laps of racing remained, and they turned into something of a war of attrition.

Turkington, Ingram and Cammish formed the leading group, but on the 16th lap of 18 Cammish ran off the road at Surtees, with early reports suggesting power-steering failure.

While Cammish resumed at the tail of the field, Ingram fell away to finish 3.222 seconds adrift of race winner Turkington.

Ash Sutton continued his progress from his poor qualifying session, racing the Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 from sixth on the grid to third, thanks to an aggressive move on Jackson into Clearways.

Jackson was also demoted by his extraordinary team-mate Rory Butcher.

Following his first-race puncture while leading, Butcher started his Focus from 25th on the grid, but was up to 12th by the time the safety car emerged on lap three, and finished fourth.

Right behind the Fords was the Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes A-Class of Adam Morgan in sixth, with the second BMW of Tom Oliphant, Senna Proctor's Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai, Stephen Jelley (Team Parker Racing BMW 125i) and James Gornall (TPCR Audi) completing the top 10.

Tom Chilton was running fourth, after passing Jackson, when his BTC Racing Honda was struck by power-steering problems, forcing him out of the race.

Jake Hill was sixth in the older-spec MB Motorsport Honda when he pulled off onto the grass and retired on the straight after Surtees.

Remarkably, for the second successive event, race-two winner Turkington has drawn the number '12' for the reversed grid, meaning Aiden Moffat will start on pole in his Infiniti, with Jack Goff's Team Hard Volkswagen alongside.

BTCC Brands Hatch R2 - 18 laps

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 32m37.235s
2 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 3.222s
3 Ash Sutton Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 6.546s
4 Rory Butcher Motorbase Performance Ford 12.822s
5 Ollie Jackson Motorbase Performance Ford 13.943s
6 Adam Morgan Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 14.269s
7 Tom Oliphant WSR BMW 15.082s
8 Senna Proctor Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 16.596s
9 Stephen Jelley Team Parker Racing BMW 16.759s
10 James Gornall Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 17.408s
11 Jack Goff Team Hard Volkswagen 19.429s
12 Aiden Moffat Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 20.142s
13 Chris Smiley Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 20.329s
14 Andy Neate Motorbase Performance Ford 20.546s
15 Carl Boardley Team Hard BMW 22.240s
16 Sam Osborne AmD Tuning Honda 27.470s
17 Nicolas Hamilton Team Hard Volkswagen 31.282s
18 Jack Butel Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 31.479s
19 Dan Cammish Team Dynamics Honda 59.604s
20 Ollie Brown Team Hard Volkswagen 1 Lap
- Jake Hill AmD Tuning Honda Retirement
- Josh Cook BTC Racing Honda Retirement
- Tom Chilton BTC Racing Honda Retirement
- Matt Neal Team Dynamics Honda Retirement
- Michael Crees BTC Racing Honda Retirement
- Bobby Thompson Trade Price Cars Racing Audi Retirement

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