British tour automotive championship chief Tom Ingram has admitted his aid for showing from an incident-packed reverse grid race “fairly unhurt” after ending behind title rival Ash Sutton at Croft.
Beginning the ultimate race of the day from the second on the grid, Ingram rapidly fell into motion thickness after boldly shifting across the exterior of West Surry Racing’s Aidenmofat in the course of the opening sequence of the corners.
Ingram’s early bid for the race lead introduced slight contact between himself and Moffat, with the Hyundai driver falling third for the ultimate race winner Sutton.
After a protracted security automotive interval, Ingram was in a position to simply re-pass Sutton in his second place on the time, however proved short-lived because the Hyundai driver returned to the again of Ford following a sensational double mauve from the title rival.
Ingram later returned to fourth place after Senna Proctor, however took benefit of contact between Moffat and his crew Vertu Stablemate, however the pair challenged the second place.
The 2022 BTCC champions ultimately despatched Proctor for the second time on their second lap, however have been too far behind Sutton to problem for the victory.
“It was filled with numerous motion from the primary lap to the top, and it was good to see it really got here out unhurt,” Ingram mentioned.
“It was clearly disappointing that Ash (Sutton) was in a position to get the factors for us, however we managed to get a quick lap and get by fairly unhurt, so it was high quality.
“Ash took some injury. All of us picked up some type of injury within the race.
Ingram carries an eight-point lead earlier than Sutton because the sequence visited Knock Hill yearly.
