DOUBLE TITLE GLORY FOR TEAM VERTU IN BTCC FINALE

Team VERTU brought the curtain down on the 2025 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship season in fine style at Brands Hatch, with a race win and three further podiums resulting in two championship titles.

On a dramatic final weekend of action, Tom Ingram successfully wrapped up a second Drivers’ Championship whilst the EXCELR8-run team also overcame season-long rivals Alliance Racing to take the Manufacturers’/Constructors’ title for the first time.

Ingram had taken a lead of 33 points into the final round and would be nominated to also score for the Manufacturers’ and Teams’ titles alongside Senna Proctor, with Tom Chilton and Adam Morgan resuming their inter-team battle to make it into the end-of-season top six.

All four drivers showed top ten pace in their Hyundai i30N Fastbacks during free practice but there would be disappointment for Proctor in Q1 when he failed to progress to the second part of qualifying to end up 13th on the grid.

Ingram then departed in Q2 as the lack of additional TOCA Turbo Boost left him in seventh spot, although that was still ahead of title rival Ash Sutton who could only manage eleventh.

Chilton and Morgan both progressed to the Quick Six and would end up fourth and fifth in a session that saw the leading five runners covered by a tenth of a second.

Tyre strategies were split for race day, with Chilton and Morgan going for the soft tyre and Ingram and Proctor both sticking with the medium ahead of race one.

Taking full advantage of the quicker tyre, Chilton and Morgan battled their way through to the podium spots to take second and third as their own private battle continued, whilst behind, Ingram was able to stay out of trouble and take the flag in fifth to extend his points lead.

Running in the midfield pack, Proctor would take the flag back in 13th but scored valuable Manufacturers’ points going into race two.

This time, Ingram and Proctor bolted on the soft tyre and Ingram used it to full effect as he wrapped up a second championship title in fine style.

Picking off the cars in front in the early laps, Ingram took the lead by lap three and was able to control the race from the front despite two safety car periods to secure the points he needed to become a two-time champion.

Chilton had run second in the early stages before an alternator failure put him into retirement, but Proctor provided plenty of reason to cheer as he stormed through the field to take third spot – ensuring that the battle for the Manufacturers’ and Teams’ titles would go to the wire.

Morgan meanwhile was left in a frustrated tenth after lap one contact at Druids cost him places, although Chilton’s issues saw him move up into sixth in the points.

With the Drivers’ title secured, the focus turned to the remaining two titles for the season finale, with all four drivers now on the medium rubber.

Although Chilton would unfortunately retire after further alternator woes, Ingram and Proctor took sixth and eighth with Morgan ending the race between the pair in seventh.

Whilst second place for Ash Sutton meant NAPA Racing were able to cling on to the Teams’ title, a retirement for Dan Cammish enabled Team VERTU to grab the Manufacturers’/Constructors’ title by just three points.

That capped the most successful season yet for the team in Britain’s premier racing series, with all four drivers inside the top ten in the overall championship standings and Ingram setting a new record for most points scored in a season.