Two rounds in, the British Touring Car Championship title favourite for 2025 is a driver who hasn’t yet won a race. Brands Hatch last weekend was a mirror image of the opening round at Donington Park – this time, Ash Sutton and his Alliance Racing Ford pals seemed a little bit behind the curve; Jake Hill and his West Racing Surrey Racing BMW compadres were on fire.
Yet that mirror image rests upon a fulcrum of Tom Ingram and his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai. The 2022 champion and his car have been consistently excellent (would the team write that ‘Excelnt’?), yet circumstances have conspired to restrict Ingram’s results to three seconds, two thirds and a measly 11th.
