Ash Sutton claimed a record-breaking fifth Drivers’ Championship in Silverstone‘s Race 2, after a sensational drive to P1 from P12.
After a drive that places the emphasis on his unprecedented season, he now sits away from Andy Rouse and Colin Turkington as the person with essentially the most titles in British Touring Automotive Championship historical past.
2026 has been an unbelievable 12 months for the NAPA Racing UK driver, maybe the most unbelievable 12 months within the sequence, and successful the title with 4 races to spare is a good reward.
An excellent Tom Chilton begin noticed him instantly to P2, whereas Daryl De Leon additionally bought by Mikey Doble as one other poor begin plagued the Audi. Whereas all was occurring behind him, Aiden Moffat took benefit to dash away – earlier than encountering Osamu Kawashima who grew to become lapped after only one full lap.
From his P12 begin, Sutton had already popped himself to P4, plus the quickest lap level he required to develop into Drivers’ Champion, by the tip of the third lap.
Doble continued to fall on lap 4, with Adam Morgan, Gordon Shedden, and Charles Rainford all getting by as he dropped to P8.
On the finish of lap 5, Sutton would go one higher by getting the overspeed on Chilton out of Woodcote and going across the outdoors by way of Copse. Whereas, on the entrance, De Leon jumped forward of Moffat with an important transfer into Brooklands.
Brooklands began to develop into the favoured overtaking spot of the pack, with Sutton and Morgan each getting previous Moffat and Chilton respectively. With Sutton having all of the enhance for as soon as in comparison with De Leon’s eight laps, he would catch and move the chief with an excellent dummy at Copse on lap 9.
On lap 10, the medium-tyre runners on the entrance continued to be threatened as Rainford bought by Chilton and Moffat in a single swoop, earlier than Dan Rowbottom additionally handed Chilton for P6.
Dan Cammish additionally joined NAPA hard-charger Sutton in pushing by way of the sector, pulling himself to P10 from P21 by lap 13.
In what has been his finest season thus far, Morgan was in a position to hold pushing and get previous De Leon for P2 down the Wellington Straight on lap 14. Though setting his sights on Sutton proved to be too formidable a activity, one more podium for CPRL will definitely be celebrated effectively.
Observe restrict penalties began to be handed out in the direction of the tip of the race, with Chris Smiley and Gordon Shedden penalised. Notably, the penalty curtailed a promising climb into the reverse grid lottery positions for Smiley – from the again of the grid in Race 1.
Cammish pushed additional over the following laps, climbing above a dropping Moffat to P7 as the sector entered lap 21. Up on the entrance, it was a sometimes managed, sometimes distanced drive from Sutton.
And on the flag, Sutton would cement his legacy-defining race with a sensational drive – one in all a champion, if you’ll forgive the cliche.
Morgan and Rainford adopted to finish the rostrum, with De Leon, Rowbottom, Cammish, Árón Taylor-Smith, Tom Ingram, Moffat, and Prepare dinner finishing the highest 10.
Chilton, Shedden, Lewis Selby, Dexter Patterson, and Nic Hamilton accomplished the factors.
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