Tom Ingram guided his Team Vertu Hyundai i30N to third place at a rain-spotted Brands Hatch in Round 4 of the British Touring Car Championship.
Ingram spent the majority of his race battling Dan Cammish, with the NAPA-backed Ford Focus proving a difficult foe.
However, once the Team Vertu man got by at Paddock Hill with three to go, he never looked back.
“You just have to look where the good and bad of the car is,” he told media after the race.
“There were some areas that Dan was strong with a soft tyre, traction off, places like that. But other places where I was stronger.
“So you just had to see where was good and bad, not leave yourself vulnerable to an attack back and just play a bit of a game of chess.”
Tom Ingram admits a ‘tricky start’ to the season for him
Donington Park housed an up-and-down weekend for Ingram, with the Briton stripped of victory twice throughout the weekend before a storming drive from P21 to P2.
The weekend at Brands Hatch Indy started similarly, with Daryl De Leon and Ashley Sutton’s battle seeing Ingram sent wide at Graham Hill Bend.
Although he could recover to a P5 finish, Ingram feels the contact caused another lost opportunity.
“Obviously we’ve not had a very good start to this season in the slightest, with a load of drama obviously at Donington and getting taken out in yesterday’s race – and we should have won it.
“Just lots of tricky starts to this season, so what we can do is start to build the points up now.”
The Team Vertu driver usually manages to keep his nose away from the dramatics of BTCC, meaning his last two weekends have been particularly challenging.
“We’ve had a good run of it over the last couple of years.
We’re not actually having too much drama, so maybe we’re just not used to it.”
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