NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton dominated the second British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Oulton Park, recording the biggest winning margin this century ahead of Team VERTU’s Tom Ingram.

With the top three drivers in race one mandated to start race two on the hard tyre, it was going to be a tall order for Dan Cammish to repeat his victory feat from race one.

At the start, Sutton enjoyed a superb getaway from the line, leaping from seventh on the grid up to fifth in the first few hundred metres, as Toyota’s Josh Cook was passed by Ingram through the first corner.

Laser Tools Racing’s Árón Taylor-Smith then took third from Cook into the Hislops chicane, before Sutton followed through into fourth at Lodge corner at the end of the lap.

Taylor-Smith, the top-placed driver on the soft rubber, then tried to go around the outside of Ingram at the Island hairpin on the next lap, but the Hyundai driver held firm and Taylor-Smith went wide, allowing Sutton into third.

Half a lap later, Sutton eased by Ingram into second at Old Hall Corner, before Cammish allowed him into the lead at the end of the lap.

From there, the four-time champion was in a class of his own, going on to win by a mammoth 19.3 seconds in the largest winning margin in the BTCC for 27 years, since Alain Menu won by over 22 seconds at Knockhill in 1999.

Ingram eventually passed Cammish for second on lap 12 with a late move into Lodge, but continued to fall further behind Sutton in the closing laps, which saw rain arrive on the final tour. Cammish completed the podium in third.

A fierce battle soon developed for fourth; Taylor-Smith, involved in an incident with Tom Chilton on lap four which saw the Hyundai driver spear off the circuit at Dentons and miraculously avoiding the barriers, seemed to lack the pace to keep up with the hard-tyre shod cars in front and acted as a cork-in-the-bottle for the chasing pack.

The Irishman held fourth for the first ten laps of the race, but eventually WSR’s Daryl De Leon got by on lap 11, after several laps of trying and moments of being forced wide, to take fourth.

Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble and Laser Tools Racing’s Gordon Shedden followed through a lap later into fifth and sixth respectively, where they would stay to the chequered flag.

Taylor-Smith held on to take seventh, ahead of Team VERTU’s Ricky Collard in eighth, who fought his way into the top ten in the second half of the race.

Power Maxed Racing’s Dexter Patterson and WSR’s Charles Rainford completed the top ten, whilst NAPA’s Sam Osborne took 11th and will thus start the final race of the day from pole position after Sutton randomly selected his team-mate to start from pole.