BTCC Brands Hatch: trio going for title in this weekend’s finale

Obviously, Sutton took time to change and get into his full swing this time – even though he still scored a podium at the first assembly of the 12 months. It’s his relentless regularity and focus on the more substantial picture, of approximately constantly scoring first rate details even when victory is out of arrive at, that’s essential to his fantastically helpful approach. He has won a few races because Knockhill at the finish of July, but the Silverstone functionality exemplified why he’s top the way into the ultimate knockings. Sixth, fourth, 2nd: on a day when his motor vehicle wasn’t the fastest in the discipline, he stuck to his extensive-match mission. 

He’s a shining case in point to any ambitious racing driver in any discipline if they want to generate a number of titles.

Chasing their to start with victory 

Sutton is superb, but he’s not unbeatable, specially if the playing cards drop in opposition to him, as they did so immediately for Turkington at Silverstone – and in Hill and Ingram, he faces formidable foes, both equally of whom are hungry and additional than capable of snatching their very first BTCC crowns. 

When compared with Sutton, Hill has travelled in reverse this time, from a front-pushed Focus ST to a rear-pushed BMW 330e run by WSR beneath the badging of Mark Blundell’s MB Motorsport. 

Also 28, he has matured into a devastatingly effective BTCC star. He’s heading to his household circuit, where fiercely happy father Simon put in quite a few many years as a racing faculty teacher, so it would be the perfect backdrop if destiny is to slide on his aspect. 

Hill was the star performer at Silverstone, shadowing Rory Butcher’s Toyota Corolla in race just one, then pulling off the move of the weekend on Gordon Shedden’s Honda Civic Form R to acquire race two, and really should be pumped total of self-confidence this weekend. 

Two times a BTCC runner-up, 29-12 months-old Ingram has four wins underneath his belt this expression, his second driving Excelr8’s Hyundai i30 N Fastback, and he has no desire in enjoying the bridesmaid again. 

There was some fortune in his race-a few earn at Silverstone, when Josh Cook and Dan Cammish came jointly off the line and then Cook dinner was tail-ended by Adam Morgan at Becketts – but anyone demands and relies on a slice of luck in motorsport.