The Turkington and Sutton show?
When the story of the 2020 British Touring Car Championship is told in years to come, how pivotal will last weekend’s third round at Oulton Park be regarded?
Reigning and four-time champion Colin Turkington couldn’t repeat his magician’s trick of 2019 of taking pole and victory with the maximum 60kg of success ballast aboard his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport, but he was always in the frame and took away a hefty points haul to consolidate his series lead. Rory Butcher inherited the maiden race win for the fourth-generation Ford Focus ST of Motorbase Performance, backed that up with a second, and scored more points than anyone else over the weekend. But the standout win, not for the first time this season, was taken by Ash Sutton in his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 – and it wasn’t just the fact that Sutton was the only race winner to take the chequered flag first that made his victory the Cheshire highlight.
Sutton’s new situation with Laser Tools Racing, which has combined with the BMR Engineering division of the old squad that took him to the 2017 title with the Subaru Levorg, is falling into something of a pattern. Fighting back from a big setback seems to be part and parcel of
