29 Facts About Tom Ingram

Tom Ingram was born on 20 August 1993 and is a British racing driver, currently racing in the British Touring Car Championship for Team VERTU.

Tom Ingram won his first BTCC race at the first round of the 2016 season at Brands Hatch.

Tom Ingram set 3 lap records at 3 different circuits.

Later in 2004 Tom Ingram contested in the Super 2 National Championship and the Formula 6 Championship.

Tom Ingram finished 2nd in the F6 and 6th in the National 4 stroke Championships.

In 2005 Tom Ingram managed to finish 3rd in the Buckmore Park winter championship, 4th in the Bayford Meadows Winter Championship and 1st in the Lydd Winter Championships.

Tom Ingram finished 2nd in both Buckmore Park and Bayford Meadows Summer Championships and gained many other notable results in the year including 2nd in The Brazilian Cup and 1st in the Renault Champion of Champions meeting his first major win.

In 2006 Ingram won his first ever British Championship which was The BRDC Minimax Stars of Tomorrow Championship.

Tom Ingram was voted local Sports Personality for the Year for the second year in a row.

Tom Ingram finished 12th in the championship after missing 6 rounds due to funding issues.

Tom Ingram managed to get onto the podium in his second race as well as getting 2 pole positions and 5 top 5 finishes.

Tom Ingram made it into the final four of the Porsche Supercup Scholarship.

Tom Ingram was voted Radio Le Mans Young Driver of the Year.

For 2013, Tom Ingram remained with JHR Developments in his Ginetta G55 in the Ginetta GT Supercup.

Tom Ingram finished the season as the 2013 Ginetta GT Supercup Champion with 22 consecutive podiums, 11 wins, nine 2nds, two 3rds, five poles and 15 fastest laps.

Tom Ingram was the only member of Jason Plato's KX academy to win a championship and remains very proud of this achievement.

Tom Ingram made his debut in the British Touring Car Championship, driving for Speedworks Motorsport in their Toyota Avensis.

Tom Ingram re-signed for Speedworks Motorsports in their very heavily revised Toyota Avensis.

In race three at Rockingham Tom Ingram secured his first ever podium after a titanic battle with his former mentor Jason Plato and despite swapping the lead on a couple of occasions he finished a very emotional 2nd.

Tom Ingram re-signed for Speedworks Motorsports in the Toyota Avensis and at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit he qualified on pole for the first race of the season setting a new Touring Car lap record of 47.994 and then went on to secure his first British Touring Car Championship race win.

Tom Ingram took second place on the grid for the first race of the 2017 season at Brands Hatch, and went on to win the opening race of the season as he had in 2016.

However, in the second race his car twice failed to start, and Tom Ingram would have taken a drive through penalty had the race not been red flagged for a crash involving Jason Plato.

Tom Ingram became the first driver to score two race wins in 2017 after winning Race 2 at Donington Park.

Tom Ingram continued to race for Speedworks in 2018, going into the final round at Brands Hatch with an outside chance of winning the championship, starting the day 33 points behind championship leader Colin Turkington.

Tom Ingram carried on to win the 2018 Independents' title for a 2nd year in a row.

The new car looked fantastic straight out on the box and in only its 6th race Tom Ingram took the new car to its 1st of 4 wins that year and this win was in front of 4000 employees from the nearby Toyota factory.

Tom Ingram had 3 wins and a total of 11 podiums with 4 non scores Tom Ingram was still in the title shootout at the season finale.

The 2021 season would see the end of an Tom Ingram's impressive run with Speedworks, with the driver and team parting ways due to conflicting requirements of sponsors.

Tom Ingram went on to sign with EXCELR8 Trade Price Cars, driving their Hyundai i30 Fastback.