Having adopted LKQ Energy Maxed teammate Aiden Moffat to the road, Mikey Doble took victory following a five-second penalty at Silverstone.
In a race the place Ash Sutton may have claimed the British Touring Automotive Championship, the NAPA Racing UK man began usually properly by climbing from P14 to P9 on the primary lap. Whereas, in one other instance of Restart Racing’s 2026 misfortune, Dan Lloyd would fall from P6 to P17 as he began with the incorrect engine map.
As an additional enhance to Sutton, Tom Ingram would fall sufferer to a domino-collision at Brooklands on lap 2, being spun and falling to P22.
The LKQ Euro Automotive Components with Energy Maxed Racing pair of Moffat and Doble would each begin properly, regardless of Doble momentarily falling from P1 to P3 on the opening tour. Having taken the lead, the Scot would set the then-fastest lap on lap 5 as he began to drag away.
After being criticised by Jason Plato in a single day, Dan Rowbottom would additionally get better from a poor Race to Pole results of P17 to carry P10 by lap 6.
Regardless of the tempo of the Audis forward, Josh Cook dinner posted a quali-like 56.956 on lap 10 for the quickest lap, whereas working P6.
Many of the battling for the rest of the 22-lap outing centred across the pair of Restart Racing Hyundais: Lloyd making an attempt to climb again by means of the sector and Chris Smiley climbing up from P22.
By the flag, Lloyd had managed to get better himself to P14, with Ingram additionally managing to get better to P13 simply forward. However, Smiley’s 11-place achieve marked the standout efficiency of the race, together with denying Sutton the P11 he wanted for the title on the ultimate lap.
On the entrance, it was Doble who would inherit victory from Moffat for his second in two weekends, with Tom Chilton and Cook dinner additionally leaping up into the rostrum in consequence. Moffat got here residence P4, with Daryl De Leon, Gordon Shedden, Charles Rainford, Adam Morgan, Árón Taylor-Smith, and Rowbottom finishing the highest 10.
Smiley scored P11, with Sutton, Ingram, Lloyd, and Lewis Selby rounding out the factors. BTCC-newbie Osamu Kawashima completed two laps behind in P22, with a difficulty forcing Dan Cammish into an identical place.
View the complete BTCC Silverstone Race 1 outcomes under!
| Place | Driver | Workforce | Hole |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mikey Doble | LKQ Euro Automotive Components with Energy Maxed Racing | |
| 2. | Tom Chilton | Workforce Vertu | +1.490 |
| 3. | Josh Cook dinner | Speedworks Corolla Racing | +4.092 |
| 4. | Aiden Moffat | LKQ Euro Automotive Components with Energy Maxed Racing | +4.908 |
| 5. | Daryl De Leon | WSR | +5.350 |
| 6. | Gordon Shedden | Laser Instruments Racing with MB Motorsport | +8.110 |
| 7. | Charles Rainford | WSR | +8.894 |
| 8. | Adam Morgan | CPRL | +12.005 |
| 9. | Árón Taylor-Smith | Laser Instruments Racing with MB Motorsport | +17.457 |
| 10. | Daniel Rowbottom | CPRL | +17.695 |
| 11. | Chris Smiley | Restart Racing | +23.028 |
| 12. | Ashley Sutton | NAPA Racing UK | +23.122 |
| 13. | Tom Ingram | Workforce Vertu | +23.283 |
| 14. | Daniel Lloyd | Restart Racing | +23.999 |
| 15. | Lewis Selby | NAPA Racing UK | +24.240 |
| 16. | Ryan Bensley | Speedworks Corolla Racing | +24.708 |
| 17. | Nicolas Hamilton | Workforce Vertu | +25.260 |
| 18. | Dexter Patterson | Metal Seal with Energy Maxed Racing | +26.350 |
| 19. | Nick Halstead | Metal Seal with Energy Maxed Racing | +29.496 |
| 20. | Lewis Gilbert | WSR | +30.200 |
| 21. | Dan Cammish | NAPA Racing UK | 2 Laps |
| 22. | Osamu Kawashima | Workforce Vertu | 2 Laps |
| DNF | Sam Osborne | NAPA Racing UK |
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