2024 BTCC Knockhill Recap: Tight Championship Battle Unfolds as Ingram, Hill, and Sutton Vie for Victory
As the teams headed to Scotland, it looked like there were four serious contenders for this year?s drivers? championship. After another strong showing at Croft, Tom Ingram held a 21-point lead over Jake Hill, with reigning champion, Ash Sutton, a further eight points behind. Dan Cammish remained in contention, but it was a probably a stretch too far for Josh Cook and Colin Turkington before the meeting north of the border.
Qualifying
Despite the NAPA Racing Fords looking like the cars to beat in the morning FP sessions, it was Turkington that was the star of qualifying with the best time in every session, as he just edged out Ãrón Taylor-Smith. It was a good qualifying session for Turkington?s teammate, Adam Morgan, as he secured third alongside Dan Rowbottom. Josh Cook and Andrew Watson completed the top six, with Hill lining up seventh. It was a poor qualifying session for Ingram and Sutton, who could only manage 15th and 12th respectively.
Race One, 7/10 – Colin Turkington, Josh Cook, Adam Morgan
Turkington got away well, with Cook and Hill making a place each on the opening lap. Sutton moved up to 8th, but on lap 4, Ingram was languishing in 16th as Turkington started to build a comfortable lead.Â
Ingram?s luck was out even more on lap 7 as he battled with Aiden Moffat when the pair exchanged a slide into each other, but it resulted in bodywork rubbing against Ingram?s front tyre. Despite carrying on for a few laps, the damage was term...
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