As you drive into the pretty North Yorkshire village of Croft-on-Tees, you pass a sign proclaiming it as ‘the childhood home of Lewis Carroll’.
Certainly, things got surreal at the local racetrack’s round of the British Touring Car Championship over the weekend. Tom Ingram was grinning like the Cheshire Cat regarding the quality of the Hyundai machinery with which he had been provided by Excelr8 Motorsport; Ash Sutton as the White Rabbit who was late for a very important date with the top step of the podium, thanks to a hole in the left-front tyre of his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford in race one. Yet each ended the day in Wonderland: Ingram, the winner of the opener, had converted a 10-point deficit to Sutton in the standings to an eight-point advantage, while Sutton put in a racecraft masterclass to take victory in a finale so crazy you half-expected the Mad Hatter to put in an appearance.
