Croft may be regarded as a circuit that favours rear wheel-drive cars, but clearly nobody told Tom Ingram that last weekend as the Speedworks Motorsport star stormed to a superb podium double in North Yorkshire to close in on the top of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship title standings.
Wycombe ace Ingram said: “What a mega weekend. 

“It’s fair to say we significantly exceeded our expectations at Croft, and the most exciting thing for me is that we’ve got the car working the way I want it to again after missing something at both Thruxton and Oulton Park. 

“It was nice to have the old girl back.

“We laid the foundations for the weekend in qualifying, and to be one of only two front wheel-drive cars inside the top eight – while carrying 48kg of extra weight – was a fantastic start. Still, with so many rear-wheel drive cars around us, I genuinely didn’t expect to move forward in race one. 

“It looked like Andrew [Jordan] just missed his braking marker heading into Clervaux and went off. I was so surprised, I nearly followed him myself, which would have been a bit of a schoolboy error.

“I think Ash [Sutton] and Jason [Plato] were a bit too focussed on each other at the start of race two, which offered me the opportunity to leapfrog them both into the first corner, but I knew Ash would come back at me given the speed they had all weekend. With the bigger picture in mind, I didn’t want to get caught up in any unnecessary incidents or take too much out of my tyres so I didn’t fight him too hard when he inevitably made his move.

“Ninth was about all we were going to get out of the last race with the weight we were carrying and the standard tyre. 

“It was still another very solid top ten score and ultimately, what a great way to go into the summer break with momentum on our side.”