Sutton got a good getaway, certainly compared to front-row partner Tom Ingram, and was able to lead from lights to flag.
Ingram clung on to second, and from then on, as in the earlier race, his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N was the only threat to the NAPA-liveried Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST of Sutton.
The race didn’t really get going until after an early safety car.
Colin Turkington made a good launch from fourth on the grid in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, but appeared to have his path blocked by Ingram and instead ran side by side for third with Bobby Thompson’s Team Hard Cupra Leon.
Dan Cammish, in the second of the Alliance Fords, also had a look down the inside of Turkington at Druids. There was minor contact, Turkington slowed dramatically, and he was hit by Ronan Pearson’s Excelr8 Hyundai, which in turn was collected by Michael Crees’s Hard Cupra.
From the restart, Sutton set fastest lap straight away to extend a 0.993 seconds advantage over Ingram. This then oscillated around 1.5s for most of the race until the safety car appeared again late on.
Sam Osborne (Alliance Ford) and BTCC returnee James Gornall (Hard Cupra) made contact as they ran side by side down the pit straight, and Osborne slewed across Gornall and went heavily into the tyre wall at Paddock Hill Bend.
Source: Autosport