Following a month?s break, the BTCC races resumed at a sun-soaked Croft. Jake Hill topped the standings at the halfway point of the season, with a lead of just four points over Tom Ingram. However, reigning champion, Ash Sutton, had a poor meeting at Oulton Park and found himself dropping to third in the standings, over twenty points behind the leader. 

Qualifying

Hill could only qualify 11th on Saturday thanks to a combination of limited hybrid use, but more importantly, a questionable track limits decision. However, after a poor meeting for Colin Turkington last time out as well, he bounced back with a superb pole position at one of his favourite tracks and he was joined at the front by Dan Cammish. Ingram claimed an impressive 3rd given his hybrid allocation, with Árón Taylor-Smith, Rob Huff and Sutton completing the top six. 
Race One, 4.5/10 – Colin Turkington, Tom Ingram, Dan Cammish

Huff was the only driver in the top six not to start on the favoured soft tyre and Turkington used his to get away well from the line, although by the end of the lap, Ingram was right on his tail after his pass on Cammish. 

Sutton made a couple of positions on the opening laps, but Ingram was continuing to make Turkington work for his advantage, while there was a good scrap between several cars for 11th.

Meanwhile, Hill, who was also on soft tyres, was charging through the field and on lap 6, he was sixth, following a pass on Huff at the hairpin. Ho...