The 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship saw Tom Ingram reign victorious to claim a second BTCC Drivers’ Championship. The Team VERTU star did it in style, scoring the most points by a driver in a season ever, among breaking numerous other records along the way.

Despite this, it would be the NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus of Ash Sutton that started the season in great fashion. The #116 began the opening race day of the year alongside teammate and polesitter Dan Cammish and would go on to take the first two victories of the year, securing a podium in all three races.

With Tom Chilton leading Ingram in a Team VERTU one-two in the event’s final round, the duo would walk away from our first visit to Donington Park splitting the two front row starters in the championship.

2024 Champion Jake Hill would come the fore upon returning to the site of his championship triumph not seven months earlier. The Kent local took pole position in a commanding display, going on to win the opening bout and round out his weekend with a second-place finish, pulling the Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport driver up to third in the standings.

The Brands Hatch weekend would also see WSR take all three victories with debut wins for both Daryl DeLeon and LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR’s Charles Rainford. Both Ingram and Sutton could not better a third-place finish across the second venue.

Two weeks on from a team’s trio of triumphs, Snetterton almost saw the same with once again polesitter Cammish taking the first race of the day before teammate Daniel Rowbottom would take the middle bout.

Race three would see an incredibly popular victory with 2024 Jack Sears Trophy winner, Mikey Doble, take the top step for the very first time, holding back Sutton after numerous laps of nailbiting action. Ingram would walk away with a non-score in race two after crashing into the inside barrier of Riches.

Believe it or not, it was Round 10 of the 30-round championship before Ingram would take his first victory of the season, doing so after amazing side-by-side battling with title rival Sutton, who would come home in third in the same race.

The four-time champion would go on to win the second race at the UK’s fastest circuit, winning his third race of 2025 before another had their second. That statistic would only last one race, as teammate Rowbottom would become the second multiple-race winner of the season in Round 12.

Ingram went into the qualifying session at the Chester venue already buoyant after finishing within the top two come the end of practice, only behind Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley. The Hyundai i30 N driving duo would make up the front row in reverse order after the #80 set one of the most impressive BTCC pole laps ever seen.

The 2022 Champion would win the race day opener, before a couple of fourth-place finishes to round out his first half of the campaign. Despite the pace of the Hyundai across the weekend, Sutton would extend his championship lead by a point after a victory in race two and standing on the second step of the rostrum behind Gordon Shedden, making it 10 race winners in the first 15 races.

The mid-season break is exactly what Team VERTU needed as Ingram would turn the 10-point deficit into an eight-point advantage in Yorkshire. Once again taking pole position and winning the opening race, the points swing would be significant after Sutton had his first non-score of the season.

Despite this, the #116 would actually outscore Ingram in both remaining races and even stand on the top step in the final bout. Unfortunately, the opening race loss put a dent in the record-breaking title charge.

BMW would once again dominate a single weekend as the marque would lock out the first three positions in qualifying. Rainford would take his maiden pole position, but it would be the #1 of Hill that stood victorious in the first race.

Ingram would be the only non-BMW triumph all weekend to extend his points gap, before Hill would once again place himself on the top step, taking two victories after missing the last event at Croft due to illness.

A Team VERTU car driven by Chilton would be the one setting the timesheets alight on the championship’s return to Donington Park as the 500+ race starter would turn the wet pole position into a dry race one win.

Cammish would take the top spot come race two, after a number of cars, including the race leader, would go off-track after a freak shower took the drivers by storm. Ingram would again win in race three to further extend his lead.

DeLeon would take his maiden pole position, becoming the first Filipino driver to do so in the BTCC and make it three pole positions each between Ford, Hyundai and BMW in 2025.

Even with the fast-charging pole time, Daniel Lloyd would take his first victory in Restart Racing colours and the team’s first win since entering in the BTCC. The championship leader would win in race two, with Sutton taking two podiums across the weekend, leaving Ingram with a 33-point gap with 67 remaining at Brands Hatch.

Before racing got underway at the Kent venue, DeLeon would take a second pole position of his career and his second in as many events, giving BMW and WSR the most pole positions in 2025.

Race day did not start at the sharp end for either of the title protagonists, but with Ingram outscoring Sutton in the opening race, the #80 led into race two with a 37-point gap with 44 on offer. The Team VERTU driver put on a champion’s drive in the next race to take the fastest lap, victory and the championship all in one swoop in dominating fashion. The 10 points in the final race of the year cemented what was a record-breaking season for the now two-time champion.