Newly crowned champion Ash Sutton took a classy final round victory at Brands Hatch to finish his season in terrific style.
Stephen Jelley started on pole after the reverse grid draw and started well, staying in front of Tom Chilton.
It didn’t last long for the Ciceley driver as newly crowned champion Sutton got ahead of Chilton before the end of lap 1.
Dan Rowbottom made it three cars in the lead battle by the end of lap 2.
Sutton took the lead into Paddock Hill on lap 4 and Rowbottom followed through, putting Jelley into third.
The maniacal first few laps continued with Josh Cook, Tom Ingram, Tom Chilton all getting involved with Jelley and despite contact through Dingle Dell, all got through the battle.
The Safety Car was then brought out after Jack Mitchell crashed at Hawthorns.
It was a particularly long Safety Car period and racing restarting on lap 10.
Sutton kept ahead of Rowbottom with Chilton in third.
Chilton then started to fall down the order after being past by Ingram, Cook and Hill respectively.
The gaps at the front of the field were quite consistent with only Ingram closing in on Rowbottom.
Although Ingram closed in on the Honda, Rowbottom kept his cool to take second place.
Hill finished fourth ahead of Cook and Chilton.
After battling for the majority of the race Gordon Shedden was able to just keep Jack Goff behind, finishing in seventh and eighth respectively.
Rory Butcher and Jason Plato rounded out the top 10.
Round 30 Results
- Ash Sutton 30:22.671s
- Dan Rowbottom +1.369s
- Tom Ingram +1.502s
- Jake Hill +3.274s
- Josh Cook +8.001s
- Tom Chilton +8.960s
- Gordon Shedden +9.602s
- Jack Goff +10.043s
- Rory Butcher +11.992s
- Jason Plato +13.002s
- Ollie Jackson +14.806s
- Chris Smiley +15.345s
- Dan Lloyd +15.962s
- Aron Taylor-Smith +17.214s
- Tom Oliphant +17.461s
- Adam Morgan +17.697s
- Sam Osbourne +19.176s
- Aiden Moffat +19.397s
- Senna Proctor +20.545s
- Jade Edwards +21.143s
- Sam Smelt +21.462s
- Andy Neate +31.965s
- Nic Hamilton +32.503s
- Stephen Jelley +42.147s
- Andy Wilmot 1 Lap
- Jack Mitchell DNF
- Colin Turkington DNF
- Carl Boardley DNF
- Rick Parfitt DNS
