Ingram used his one accessible lap of hybrid to slice his approach down the within of long-time chief Hill at Redgate on the 14th lap of 18, and the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N was in a position to set up a small hole over the pair behind it, with Sutton’s NAPA-liveried Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST beating the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill to second.
From third on the grid, Hill launched the rear-wheel-drive BMW off the road superbly and was in a position to transfer over to cowl poleman Ingram into Redgate.
As soon as right into a rhythm, Hill was in a position to briefly set the quickest lap and even prolonged the benefit to over a second when Sutton used one in every of his two laps of hybrid to try to cross Ingram on the fifth lap – the Ford acquired down the within at Schwantz Curve, however the Hyundai elbowed again in entrance at McLeans.
Over the center of the race Hill’s rear tyres started to fade and the main trio acquired collectively, earlier than Ingram made his transfer.
Sutton instantly adopted swimsuit by bowling down the within of Hill on the Outdated Hairpin. However, a lap and a half later, Hill acquired on the hybrid button and moved again forward of Sutton into the chicane.
As they exited, now Sutton used the hybrid to surge again into second place at Redgate, the Ford squirming on the brakes.
This allowed Ingram to increase his margin on the entrance to simply over a second, though Sutton trimmed it to 0.917s by the end.
Jake Hill at Donington
Picture by: Jakob Ebrey Pictures
“What a completely excellent weekend,” stated Ingram. “We couldn’t have requested for any extra. It’s felt incredible.
“It’s so exhausting to know whether or not to maintain your powder dry with the hybrid and when to make use of it. We have been discussing the permutations earlier than the race, however typically it’s acquired to be a spur of the second, middle-of-the-action factor.”
Josh Cook dinner put in a superb efficiency to deliver the main Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Corolla GR Sport house in fourth place.
A lock-up by Colin Turkington’s WSR BMW into McLeans on the opening lap allowed Cook dinner to slide down the within at Coppice for the place.
Turkington then got here underneath assault from the Excelr8 Hyundai of Ronan Pearson, the younger Scot persevering with his very good weekend earlier than he went off target exiting Coppice – he splashed by the lake alongside the again straight earlier than rejoining after a fast go to to the pits to complete a lap down, though he set quickest lap.
Turkington now set off after Cook dinner, however in flip Dan Cammish in his Alliance Ford was homing in on each of them. Cammish’s strenuous efforts to get previous Turkington allowed Cook dinner’s Toyota to tug a small margin by the end.
Adam Morgan (WSR BMW) completed seventh forward of the Speedworks Toyotas of Aiden Moffat and Rob Huff, with the 2012 World Touring Automotive champion drawn on reversed-grid pole. Finishing the highest 10 was the Alliance Ford of Dan Rowbottom.