Adam Morgan capped a sensational day at Donington Park by claiming victory in the final British Touring Car Championship race, converting a reverse-grid front-row start into the first double-winning day of his touring car career.

CPRL’s Morgan started the race from second on the grid after the top ten from race two were reversed, putting him alongside Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley for the start.

When the lights went out Smiley was able to hold his line through Turn 1, as Morgan looked to the outside. However, on the second lap, the Mercedes driver pulled off a superb move around the outside at Schwantz Curve to seize the lead, and from there he never looked back.

Although he eventually won by just under three seconds, at one stage Morgan’s lead was almost six seconds as he cantered off into the distance to secure his 14th BTCC win.

Power Maxed Racing’s Aiden Moffat followed Morgan past Smiley on the second lap with a bold move into Coppice, and held station thereafter, although he was unable to get close to Morgan and had to settle for second – the Scot’s first visit to the podium this season.

WSR’s Daryl De Leon completed the podium in third, despite having missed out on the reverse-grid benefit and starting from 11th on the grid.

De Leon had made rapid progress in the opening three laps, before dispatching the hard tyre-shod Dexter Patterson at mid-distance followed by the Toyota of Árón Taylor-Smith two laps later.

Taylor-Smith nonetheless held on to finish in fourth, whilst NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton took fifth and further extended his championship lead, which now stands at 101 points.

Sutton’s race wasn’t without incident, however. The Ford driver had unceremoniously elbowed long-time rival Tom Ingram at the Old Hairpin on lap three, costing Ingram four places, before Sutton then lost position on the next lap, allowing Ingram to pressure him once again.

Toyota’s Josh Cook was eighth, despite finishing the race with a crabbing car, whilst Ingram was just ninth. Patterson completed the top ten as the best of the four drivers running the hard tyre.

Pole-sitter Smiley failed to finish the race after slowing with an issue on lap five and limping to the pits, whilst CPRL’s Daniel Rowbottom also retired to the pits two laps earlier, having also been given a ten-second penalty for a false start by this stage.

Team VERTU’s Ricky Collard had been running in sixth before he picked up a front-left puncture and had to pit for replacement rubber, before retiring from the race with a lap to go.