BTCC 2024 Silverstone Race Recap: Hill vs Ingram Battle
Jake Hill led the championship heading into the penultimate meeting of the season at Silverstone by nine points from Tom Ingram. Reigning champion, Ash Sutton, was twenty points behind, while the remaining top six of Colin Turkington, Dan Cammish and Josh Cook were still mathematically in the hunt, but had a gap of over forty points to the leaders. Would they be able to bring themselves back in to contention"
Qualifying
Saturday?s qualifying session originally brought about a one-three for Power Maxed Racing?s Árón Taylor-Smith and Mikey Doble, but they were disqualified for failing the ride height, along with Dan Zelos who had also made the top six. As a result, Ingram was promoted to pole with Turkington joining him on the front row. Cook and Cammish completed the second row, while the third row was an all BMW affair with Hill edging out Adam Morgan. Sutton initially qualified in 17th, but was helped by the disqualified trio.
Race One: 5.5/10 – Tom Ingram, Jake Hill, Dan Cammish
The opening race of the day started on a wet, but drying, track. The top two started well, with Hill moving up to third. Cook and Cammish had a good opening battle, while Sutton was already eighth by the end of lap 2, which soon became seventh with an ?elbows out? move on Morgan.
His progress didn?t stop there as his teammate Dan Rowbottom crashed into the back of Cook, allowing him and several others by.
On lap 7, Ingram had a three second lead fr...
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