DROITWICH-based Team Vertu secured three podium finishes in the latest round of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) at Oulton Park.
Team Vertu drivers Tom Ingram, Adam Morgan and Tom Chilton all stepped onto the podium at the Cheshire circuit.
Ingram claimed his second race win of the season in the first race of the weekend with Chilton and Morgan fifth and sixth respectively and Senna Proctor just behind in eighth.
And Morgan and Chilton then finished second and third respectively in race two with Ingram fourth and Proctor eighth again.
The Droitwich team missed out on a podium finish in the final race of the weekend with Ingram fourth again and Proctor fifth while Morgan finished 15th and Chilton suffered a DNF.
Speaking after his race win, Ingram said: “This Team Vertu car is unbelievable quite frankly, it’s such a joy to drive it feels sad to drive it sometimes because you think how are you ever going to get anything better than this?
“It’s an absolute joy, it seems to look after its tyres, you always want a bit of a buffer, it’s a far more enjoyable and nicer experience once you’ve got a little bit of space behind you to settle into a rhythm.
“Once we were there, we were in the pound seat, once you’ve built a gap you can control the gap as you see fit, it all went to plan really nicely, this car is unreal.”
Morgan added: “There was a little bit of rain with about two laps to go and I was just praying ‘please, please, please don’t chuck it down now’.
“It’s a good haul of points, it felt nice, to stick on the back of Ash [Sutton] for as long as I could, he had the ultimate pace over me but it was only marginal.”
Chilton said: “I got a good start initially but [Chris] Smiley on the hard tyre was not as good. Adam was on the outside and won the next corner and got ahead of me.
“We were carving through the field a little bit but I’ve got to say a massive thank you to Tom [Ingram], he gave me a little red lights on the brake at the top of the hill.
“I took the opportunity to out brake him and he let me through, I didn’t have enough hybrid left to challenge the top-two.”
The result means Team Vertu sit second in the teams standings on 391 points with leaders NAPA Racing UK on top with 410 points.
And Team Vertu driver Ingram sits second in the drivers’ standings on 223 points, 10 points behind leader Ash Sutton.
The BTCC season continues at Croft on the weekend of August 2 and 3.
