After a two-hour delay because of the persistent heavy rain, the unlucky crowd was handled to 14 laps underneath the protection automotive after the fast-starting Sam Osborne crashed closely on the high of the Craner Curves on the opening lap when he was tapped by the Energy Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of Aron Taylor-Smith, and the Allied Racing Ford Focus barely slowed down throughout the moist grass on its journey into the limitations.
Though Osborne emerged unscathed, the identical couldn’t be mentioned of one of many marshals rebuilding the tyre wall, who fell over and wanted consideration from medics, which prolonged the warning whereas he was attended to and left time for simply six laps of racing.
That was in all probability simply as nicely – Ingram in all probability loved driving his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N round on the entrance of the sector, however he was vastly superior to the remainder of the sector.
With one lap remaining Ingram was 2.652 seconds in entrance, earlier than that was trimmed to 2.485s as he took the chequered flag.
Ingram’s solely risk got here on the preliminary begin, when the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Colin Turkington made a speedy getaway from third on the grid to nostril alongside – and briefly forward of – the Hyundai.
However Turkington was on the surface line for Redgate, permitting team-mate Jake Hill a free run into second place on the within.
Turkington then fell sufferer to the NAPA-liveried Allied Ford of Ash Sutton, who gave the BMW a slight nudge on the {Old} Hairpin after which accelerated across the outdoors at Schwantz Curve and into third spot.
Hill saved Sutton at bay for 2 laps following the restart, earlier than an error when he misplaced the rear of the BMW allowed the Ford to rise up the within at Coppice after which full the transfer into the chicane to take the runner-up place.
“In circumstances like that, you’re truly in a bizarre type of method fairly completely happy it’s a reduced-distance race,” mentioned Ingram, “as a result of the circuit was altering each lap.
“It was a reasonably distinctive set of circumstances within the sense that all of us had hybrid each single racing lap, and as a place to begin, it was spot-on. Pole, win the primary race, quickest lap, completely happy days.”
Behind Turkington, Ronan Pearson continued his wonderful weekend to run fifth all the way in which in his Excelr8 Hyundai, nevertheless it wasn’t such a nice story for his associate on the third row: Andrew Watson.
The Speedworks Motorsport Toyota-driving Northern Irishman dropped out of the highest 10 on the ultimate lap by the hands of the sister Corolla of Aiden Moffat, and as an alternative, it was Moffat’s fellow LKQ Toyota runner Josh {Cook} who sliced his method as much as sixth.
Subsequent up have been Taylor-Smith, Adam Morgan (WSR BMW), Dan Cammish (Allied Ford) and Moffat.
Rob Huff was within the entertaining midfield battle with Cammish and Moffat, just for the Allied Ford of Dan Rowbottom to run into Mikey Doble on the {Old} Hairpin, with the PMR Vauxhall unable to keep away from harpooning Huff’s Speedworks Toyota for a visit by the gravel.