Moffat’s LKQ-liveried Toyota Corolla GR Sport began on the entrance row alongside the polesitting Toyota Gazoo Racing GB model of Rob Huff from the opposite aspect of the Speedworks Motorsport secure, however neither may stop Adam Morgan from propelling his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport into the lead at the beginning.
Morgan stayed in entrance for 3 laps earlier than the protection automobile emerged to retrieve the Limitless Motorsport Cupra Leon of Daryl DeLeon, who ended up within the Previous Hairpin gravel after shedding it on the Craner Curves.
On the primary lap of the restart, Morgan locked up at McLeans and that allowed Huff and Moffat via right into a Toyota 1-2.
The duo then battled on the entrance, Moffat transferring in entrance at half-distance, Huff snatching it again, earlier than Moffat made a transfer stick on the chicane.
Morgan was subsequent to assault Huff, however his transfer at McLeans despatched each vast and it was Colin Turkington who sailed previous each into second in his WSR BMW.
Turkington slashed the hole of 1.590 seconds to Moffat, however with 5 laps remaining the Northern Irishman had used all of the hybrid allocation in his WSR BMW, whereas the Scot had three in his pocket and the chasing Ash Sutton had two.
Attempt as they could, neither may do something concerning the different, and in flip, they’d Tom Ingram, the winner of each of the primary two races in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai and Jake Hill’s WSR BMW closing in.
Colin Turkington at Donington
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Ingram made the most important bid on Sutton on the ultimate lap, however the Alliance Racing Ford Focus driver in some way held a slide whereas defending into McLeans to hold onto third, with Hill in fifth.
Sutton had earlier pulled off a sensational transfer on Turkington on the Previous Hairpin for what on the time was fourth place, just for the BMW to sail again forward on the principle straight through the use of hybrid.
Hill and Ingram additionally survived a collision on the chicane simply previous half-distance when the BMW driver tried a transfer, with Ingram and the avoiding Huff flying throughout the gravel earlier than rejoining.
Huff dropped to sixth on the end and Morgan to seventh, whereas the highest 10 was accomplished by Dan Rowbottom (Alliance Ford), Josh Cook dinner (Speedworks Toyota) and Dan Cammish (Alliance Ford).
Cammish had seemed on for a high consequence from the second row, however unintentionally activated the road lock on his brakes at the beginning, and fell into the decide the place all hell was breaking unfastened.
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