BTCC: Ingram beats Hill to race two win to set up title showdown

As was the case during race one, Ingram once again led every lap from💖 pole position, but, this time, was forced to soak up severe pressure from fellow title contender Jake Hill during the final third of the race.
By in large, Ingr♈am controlle𝕴d the race at the head of the field, but that changed once WSR's Hill displaced Toyota's Rory Butcher for second position on lap 8 of the race.
H🉐ill began to unleash a string of quick laps and rapidly caught the race leading Hyundai with a handful o💯f laps to go. However, Ingram saved his arsenal for late in the race and used his hybrid deployment to perfect effect.
Although Hill ꧃managed to draw alongside Ingram on a couple of occasions, the Hyundai driver kept his BMW 𝐆title rival at bay by deploying his hybrid during the optimum moments.
Ingram also set the faste🌊st lap of the race, which gave the 29-year-old what could prove to be a vital extra point ahead of Hill in second.
Four-time champion Colin Turkington produced a determined drive to score his first podium finish since Snetterton, but it still wasn't enough to keep the Team BMW driver in championship contention 🉐for the final race of the season.
During the latter stages of the second race, Turkington was comfortably the fastest driver on the circuit after the 40-year-old dispatched Butcher for thir🍒d position.
But the four-time champion ran out of laps after finishing within a s𒈔econd of♒ the race win.
Butcher finished in a distant fourth, while defending champion Ash S🧸utton clung onto to fifth to remain within mathematical contention of retaining his drivers' title.
Sutton will go into the final race 14🤪-points adrift of Ingram𓆏.
For the second race in succ🎶ession, Adam Morgan finished in sixth ahead of BTC Racing's Josh Cook in seventh.
Dan Cammish, Bobby Thompson and Dan Lloyd completed the remainder of the top-ten in eighth🍸, ninth and tenth.
By virtue of finishing in tenth, Ingram's EXCELR8 Motorsport team mate Lloyd will start the season finale from pole position after his 🔯tenth-place finishing position was selected by the retiring two-time champion Jason Plato in the reverse grid draw. That means Ingram will start the🍌 finale from tenth.