TEAM Vertu are in the hunt for both driver and team honours in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) after Tom Ingram claimed a vital race win at Silverstone.
Ingram claimed victory in race two and will take a 33-point lead into the final weekend of the season while also boosting Team Vertu’s chances in the team standings.
Team Vertu trail NAPA Racing UK by just three points with the teams title set to go down to the final race of the season.
Ingram said: “It was a really good weekend – we did everything we needed to do and a little bit more besides.
“It was important to win race two. When you’ve got the soft tyres and an advantage in terms of boost – which hasn’t been the case for us very often this year – you’ve got to exploit that.
“It’s nice to be going into the final weekend with a little bit of a points cushion, but by no means is it signed-and-sealed – far from it.
“We certainly can’t afford to just cruise and collect – just one bad result could throw it wide open.”
The Droitwich team just missed out on a podium in race one as Senna Proctor finished fourth.
Title favourite Ingram finished seventh, just ahead of title rival Ash Sutton, with Adam Morgan 10th and Tom Chilton down in 20th.
However, Ingram roared to victory in race two although a difficult race for the team saw Proctor finish 16th while Morgan and Chilton suffered DNF’s.
Ingram closed out the weekend with a fifth-place finish with Morgan and Chilton just behind in seventh and eighth respectively and Proctor 13th.
The final round of the BTCC season take places at Brands Hatch on the weekend of October 4 and 5.
