Touring car driver hopes for record fifth title
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The leader of the British Touring Car Championship said it was "surreal" to potentially wrap up his fifth title at Silverstone - something no driver has done before.
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Ash Sutton drives from the Northampton-based NAPA Racing UK and is leading by 115 points in the 2026 campaign.
The race at the Northamptonshire circuit is the penultimate round of the championship which sees modified production cars, such as a Ford Focus, Audi A3 or Toyota Corolla, competing.
Sutton said the lead in the championship was "a great place to be for me and the team to be, heading to Silverstone with an opportunity to wrap this up".
The 32-year-old, from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, began karting in 2000, and competed in his first British Touring Car Championship in 2016.
He said: "I can remember in 2006, I was a little boy sitting on a sofa watching British Touring Cars, aspiring to be on the grid.
"To now be on the grid racing people I looked up to, heroes essentially, and going on to match the record of four titles with the opportunity to go after the fifth, it's pretty surreal."
Ash Sutton drives a modified Ford Focus in the championship [Getty Images]The British Touring Car Championship has been running since 1958, when it was known as the British Saloon Car Championship. It currently takes place across 10 race weekends.
Three races take place at each circuit, with 20 points awarded to the winner of the race.
Sutton leads from his teammate Dan Cammish, and hopes to wrap up the title, which he previously won in 2017, 2020, 2021, and 2023.
He said: "It's not something that's kind of probably going to sink in straight away.
"It'd be one of those where actually you sit down over the winter period and really think then what you've actually gone and achieved, not just me, but by the whole team."
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