The Northern Irishman opted to make use of the soft-compound Goodyear tyre for this race in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport and used it to perfection to win by a mammoth 6.826 seconds.
The hole to Turkington steadied at round a second for the primary few laps, earlier than the BMW started to tug away and Sutton got here underneath stress from Cammish, homing again in on the wheel of a Ford that had a brand new clutch fitted after qualifying.
Sutton didn’t make it simple for Cammish, however couldn’t maintain off the soft-tyred Ford for lengthy and the Berkshire-domiciled Yorkshireman made it via at Druids on lap six.
No sooner had that occurred than Cammish instantly started slowing with a punctured left-front tyre, sending him to the pits earlier than rejoining just below two laps adrift.
Ashley Sutton, NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus ST
Photograph by: JEP
Prepare dinner was on gentle tyres – the primary time he’d ever run them on the Toyota – and on the 14th lap of 24 he received a run up the within on the exit of Paddock Hill Bend, just for Sutton to maneuver over and power Prepare dinner to place two wheels on the grass.
Prepare dinner then gave his pal Sutton a little bit of a love faucet at Graham Hill Bend on the next lap, however didn’t have to attend lengthy to cross – the lanky West Countryman received a very good run off Clearways and surged previous.
With 9 laps remaining, Turkington was 4.784 seconds clear, and he lastly took the chequered flag 6.826s to the great.
“It’s by no means simple on the entrance, particularly on the gentle tyre,” stated Turkington. “It was barely uncharted territory, and also you by no means know what the dropoff is perhaps.
“I managed to interrupt Dan, after which he disappeared and it was Ash. A couple of laps jockeying with the hybrid, after which I used to be away.”
Tom Ingram, Bristol Road Motors Hyundai i30 N Fastback
Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Images
Ingram fought again on the medium tyres to shadow the sister Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback of seventh-placed Tom Chilton throughout the end line.
After the race, Watson was penalised right down to eighth for the contact with Ingram, selling Hill to fourth, Rowbotton to fifth and Chilton to sixth.
Ingram retains his championship lead, however is now simply three factors forward of Turkington and Sutton.
Morgan, who had struggled to modify the rear-wheel-drive BMW’s medium tyres on, hit the obstacles on the method to Druids along with the Excelr8 Hyundai of Ronan Pearson. Morgan plugged on to complete fifteenth, whereas Pearson rejoined after a pitstop.
Aiden Moffat was ninth in his Speedworks Toyota, with Aron Taylor-Smith (Energy Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra) grabbing tenth from Rob Huff’s Speedworks Toyota with a lap to go.