INGRAM DOUBLES UP BEFORE DISASTER
Roundabouts certainly aren’t a feature of race tracks, and nor are swings. But the weekend’s three British Touring Car Championship races at Oulton Park showed the fickle nature of success in the category.
Two dominant wins for Tom Ingram in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N pushed him into the joint lead of the points chase after the opening salvo in Cheshire, but a bruising third race left him spat across the grass and unable to capitalise on the building blocks he had put in place.
Stephen Jelley drove superbly from a race-three pole position to control the reversed-grid encounter all the way through in his WSR BMW 330e M Sport, but it was BTC Racing’s Josh Cook who maintained his charge at the top of the table in his BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R despite only one podium in the triple-header at Oulton Park.
Race 1
Ingram was not thanking onlookers on Saturday for pointing out that he, during his previous 24 attempts at claiming a BTCC triumph at the Cheshire venue, he hadn’t even managed a solitary podium finish.
