TOM Ingram has vowed to come back ‘even stronger’ next season after just missing out on a second British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) title.
The Coventry driver lost out to rival Jake Hill in a thrilling title tussle at Brands Hatch despite claiming two podium finishes from three races.
And while disappointed to miss out on a coveted second BTCC success, Ingram praised the work Team Bristol Street Motors put in over the course of the season and insists the team will come back stronger next term.
Ingram said: “Obviously there is disappointment with the end result, but we can’t be disappointed with the way we have performed across the season. We’ve been the strongest that we have ever been and each weekend, we have rocked up with a car that been fantastic – which is credit to all the hard work that has gone on behind the scenes.
“If you look at the our pace in the dry in the first two races were were staggeringly fast and had it not been for the contact at the start of race one and then getting caught up behind Colin, we could have scored two wins and it been a different story going into race three, but that is how it goes in racing sometimes.
“It was a shame that the conditions in race three were perhaps the only conditions where the car isn’t at its best and even though I’d done the hard work to get up ahead of Jake at the start, I knew from about three laps in that we were in trouble as I was starting to struggle with the front end.
“That is something we can focus on over the winter, but we can go into the off-season proud of our record when you consider we scored more pole positions than we ever had, set 10 fastest laps and were on the podium in half of the races. We’ve just got to make sure we come back even stronger in 2025.”
Ingram ended the season on 413 points after securing six race wins and 15 podium finishes, just eight points behind eventual champion Hill.
