Tom Ingram

Ingram began karting at the age of eight in 2001, competing in the Open Cadet Class. He rapidly accumulated wins and championship successes across multiple regional championships including the Formula 6, Buckmore Park, and Bayford Meadows series. In 2006 he won the BRDC Minimax Stars of Tomorrow Championship, his first national title, and was voted local Sports Personality of the Year in both 2006 and 2007. He competed through several kart classes over eight seasons before making the transition to car racing in 2009.

Ingram's debut car season in 2009 saw him enter the Ginetta Junior Championship, a one-make series for drivers aged 14 to 17 running as a support series to the British Touring Car Championship. Despite missing six rounds due to funding difficulties, he reached the podium in only his second race. In 2010, driving for Hillspeed, he won the Ginetta Junior Championship outright with five wins, eight fastest laps, and 13 podiums.

In 2011 Ingram was named a BRDC Rising Star. He won the G50 class of the Ginetta GT Supercup with Plans Motorsport, taking ten wins and 18 podiums across the season. He followed this with strong performances in 2012 and 2013, winning the KX Academy scholarship founded by Jason Plato and taking the 2013 Ginetta GT Supercup Championship with an extraordinary run of 22 consecutive podiums, 11 wins, and five pole positions. He was the only KX Academy member to win a championship.

Ingram made his British Touring Car Championship debut in 2014 with Speedworks Motorsport, driving a Toyota Avensis. He scored 13 top-ten finishes in his debut season despite the car being among the first NGTC-specification Toyotas. He re-signed with Speedworks for 2015 and secured his first BTCC podium at Rockingham, finishing second in a race voted by fans as the best of the season.

The breakthrough year came in 2016 when Ingram qualified on pole at Brands Hatch Indy, set a new Touring Car lap record of 47.994 seconds, and converted that into his first BTCC race win. He also took his first Independents Cup victory that year.

In 2017 Ingram opened his second consecutive season at Brands Hatch with a race win and secured a further victory at Donington Park. He briefly led the BTCC championship standings mid-season after Gordon Shedden was excluded from race results. He won the Independents' title in both 2017 and 2018. At the 2018 season finale he went into the last round with an outside mathematical chance of the overall title, starting 33 points behind Colin Turkington, but was unable to close the gap.

Ingram continued with Speedworks through 2019, 2020, and 2021, taking the new Toyota Corolla to its first win in only its sixth race in 2019 in front of some 4,000 Toyota factory employees. After seven seasons with Speedworks the partnership ended in 2021 due to conflicting sponsor requirements, and Ingram moved to EXCELR8 Trade Price Cars to drive their Hyundai i30 Fastback for 2021.

Ingram won the BTCC title in 2022 and again in 2025, establishing himself as one of the most successful British touring car drivers of his generation. The 2022 title was his first outright drivers' championship after years of contention and multiple Independents' Cup wins. The 2025 title confirmed his status as a serial contender, and he carried that momentum into 2026 as reigning champion for Team VERTU.

Ingram's career arc — from a karting champion in the Home Counties through the Ginetta ladder to a two-time BTCC title winner — represents one of the more complete journeys through the British motorsport system. His long association with Toyota through Speedworks helped build the manufacturer's BTCC programme and his record of producing the first win for a new car model underscored his technical development abilities as well as his outright pace.