NAPA Racing UK made it ten wins to date in the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship after battling a performance on track at Donington Park.

The Alliance Racing-run squad headed into the eighth event of the season holding a slender lead in both the Manufacturers’ and Teams’ Championships. Not only holding good ground from a team perspective, but also from the drivers’ perspective, with Ash Sutton, Dan Cammish and Dan Rowbottom all inside the top four in the standings.

Qualifying would result in disappointment for the three previously mentioned drivers as they would fail to make it through to the Quick Six, with Cammish and Rowbottom in seventh and eighth place, and Sutton in 11th, along with Sam Osborne settling for 17th on the grid.

Although Osborne bolted on the hard tyre for race one, the remaining three drivers went with the medium compound and made the most of the pace in the Ford Focus ST to storm through the pack.

Rowbottom led the challenge as he raced his way to third spot for a seventh podium of the year, with Sutton and Cammish close behind in fourth and fifth. Osborne, meanwhile, finished just outside of the points in 16th, having used his only set of hard tyres for race day.

Race one podium-finisher Rowbottom was obliged to run the hard tyre for race two and slipped behind Sutton early in the bout, with Cammish holding onto fifth when the safety car was called after an incident at McLeans.

The restart saw both Sutton and Rowbottom lose ground after the former was hit from behind by the latter at Redgate, with Cammish taking advantage to nip through into second spot. From there, he wasted little time in overhauling leader Tom Ingram.

Then, with three laps to go, a sudden downpour hit the circuit at McLeans and saw Cammish – and much of the field behind – go off track, but having managed to retain the lead, the #27 wrapped up his 15th career BTCC victory in his 200th BTCC race start as the race ended behind the safety car.

Despite initially dropping down to 13th, four-time champion Sutton fought his way back through the field to end up in eighth with Rowbottom in 12th. Whilst after being caught up in a lap one incident, Osborne fought his way back into the points to finish 13th.

The reverse grid draw put Sutton on pole for race three, surrounded by people on the medium tyre, whilst having to use his regulatory-mandated one set of hard Goodyear tyres.

Despite that, he produced a battling drive to go wheel-to-wheel with title rival Ingram, before finishing in second, with Rowbottom battling his way through to third place and a second podium finish of the weekend.

Cammish would end his weekend in 12th, with Osborne two spots back to bag more championship points of his own.

Sutton, Cammish and Rowbottom end the weekend still holding second, third and fourth in the Drivers’ Standings, with Alliance Racing a point clear in the Manufacturers’ title race.

All four NAPA Racing UK drivers and their Ford Focus STs return to action at Silverstone (20/21) September for the penultimate event of the 2025 season.