Butcher had a terrific opening half-lap from fourth on the grid to emerge within the lead on the exit of the hairpin.
The Scot’s Corolla was carrying 48kg of success ballast and, together with second-row accomplice Adam Morgan’s Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport, he elected to make use of the tender choice tyre for this race.
First-race winner Dan Rowbottom and Group Dynamics Honda Civic Kind R team-mate Gordon Shedden began from the entrance row on medium Goodyears, and initially the battle seemed to be between this pair.
Shedden obtained a run on Rowbottom exiting Cascades and drew alongside on the run to the hairpin, on the skin line.
Whereas defending this, Rowbottom left a chink of sunshine on the within, which Butcher’s Toyota stuffed, and the sunshine contact despatched Rowbottom into Shedden, pushing the three-time champion large and all the way down to fifth place exiting the nook.
Rowbottom, with the utmost 75kg of ballast, had no likelihood of retaining tempo with Butcher, who had prolonged his result in over a second by the tip of lap 4 of a race shortened to 12 laps because of the quite a few heavy accidents earlier within the day.
With two laps remaining, Butcher was 3.093s to the great earlier than easing off and stroking it house to the flag.
“Dan left a little bit of a niche on the exit and I managed to get the cutback – with the traction I had on the tender tyres that helped me,” stated Butcher.
“As soon as I obtained within the lead it was only a case of managing the automobile, and within the final couple of laps I used to be simply taking care of it.”
Rowbottom turned his attentions to keeping off Morgan (with 57kg on his BMW), who in flip had the Motorbase-run MB Motorsport Ford Focus (21kg) of Jake Hill in his wheel tracks.
It was an incredible defensive job from Rowbottom, who felt that with the initially scheduled 15 laps the duty might need been past him.
Whereas Rowbottom slowed that pack, Aiden Moffat homed in as soon as he’d squeezed his Laser Instruments Racing Infiniti Q50 (on 33kg of ballast) forward of Shedden, who gave the impression to be battling 66kg on his Dynamics Honda.
Behind Shedden, Stephen Jelley was emulating Rowbottom in mounting a advantageous defence in his West Surrey Racing-run BMW within the battle for seventh.
Jelley had 39kg of success weight on the automobile, and his seventh seemed to be doomed as soon as championship chief Ash Sutton obtained as much as eighth in his LTR Infiniti.
However Jelley held on properly to seventh from Sutton, with Senna Proctor (BTC Racing Honda) and Tom Ingram’s Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N finishing the highest 10.
Colin Turkington was on the again of the six-car prepare led by Jelley, simply adrift of Carl Boardley’s LTR Infiniti, to take twelfth.
That would have put him within the reversed-grid combine, however Butcher pulled the ‘9’ out of the ballbag, placing Proctor on his second pole of the day and Sutton onto the entrance row for the finale.
Tom Oliphant and Rick Parfitt had been non-starters following the heavy shunt within the first race.