The BTCC resumed a month after its last meeting at Donington Park as the countdown to silverware started in earnest. Ash Sutton arrived at Silverstone with one hand already on the trophy thanks to a 42-point lead over reigning champion Tom Ingram. Jake Hill, in third, started the meeting a further 20 points back. If things went really well for Sutton, he could claim his fourth title with a meeting to spare, but how did the Silverstone?s National Circuit play out" 

Qualifying – Mikey Doble, Colin Turkington, Tom Ingram, Jake Hill, Ash Sutton

The Top Ten Showdown format was used for the final time this season and for the first time this year, a NAPA Ford was not on pole. The honour of securing the first grid box went, somewhat surprisingly, to Mikey Doble in his Power Maxed Astra. Colin Turkington joined Doble on the front row, with Ingram and Hill behind. Sutton?s teammate, Dan Rowbottom, sacrificed his final faster lap in the normal qualifying session to ensure that Sutton remained in the top ten and he rewarded the team game with fifth on the grid, just ahead of Tom Chilton. 
Race One: 7/10 – Jake Hill, Dan Rowbottom, Andrew Watson

The weather decided to have some fun for the start of the opening race. Although the track was wet and greasy, it wasn?t raining, or at least it wasn?t until it was too late to change tyres on the grid. As a result, there was a real mix of tyre choices, with only Hill going with the full wet out of...