Blink and you miss it! Incredibly at the end of the meeting at a sun-soaked Oulton Park, the season would reach its halfway point after a fifth meeting in eight weeks. Reigning champion, Ash Sutton, won his first race of the season in the third race at Thruxton, but would he extend his championship lead ahead of the summer break" 

Qualifying

Coming into the meeting third in the standings, Tom Ingram set about chasing Sutton by securing pole position on Saturday with a blistering lap that destroyed the previous qualifying lap record at the circuit, albeit Sutton joined him on the front row.

Their teammates, Dan Cammish and Tom Chilton, lined up behind them on the second row with Dan Rowbottom and Adam Morgan completing the top six. The man second in the championship standings, after four wins in six races, Jake Hill, was seventh with Colin Turkington, who had a relatively torrid time at Thruxton, only ninth. 
Race One, 3.5/10 – Tom Ingram, Ash Sutton, Dan Cammish

The top seven all started on the soft tyre and while the front runners got away well, Hill jumped to 5th, but Turkington stalled on the line with a clutch issued that became apparent on the green flag lap. He eventually rejoined the race, but over a lap down. 

On the second lap, Sutton was all over Ingram and was down the inside of him at the Island Bend, but as they powered away, Ingram was ahead and after contact with Sutton, he skipped the corner at Hislops,...