🇬🇧 Ash Sutton

Ash Sutton is a professional racing driver competing in the British Touring Car Championship for NAPA Racing UK, where he has been a mainstay since 2016. He drives a single-class touring car in a national championship that fields amateurs and professionals on equal terms. His career spans 301 BTCC starts and a nascent endurance programme in GT World Challenge Europe, which began in 2025.[1]

Sutton has won the BTCC four times: 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2023. Across 301 starts in the championship, he has taken 49 wins and 116 podiums, making him a consistent front-runner in a series where a field of mixed professional and semi-professional drivers compete weekly. He is closely matched with Tom Ingram, a fellow two-time BTCC champion and Gold-graded professional, in their regular meetings. Against Adam Morgan, a Silver-graded professional who races BTCC regularly, Sutton has typically finished ahead. His only indexed outing against established professionals from outside the championship came in GT World Challenge Europe in 2025 and 2026, a shared-car endurance series where he has completed one round so far this season.[2]

His record places him among the stronger entrants in a field where Gold and Platinum-graded drivers race alongside semi-professionals and amateurs. He has beaten Lance Stroll, a Platinum-graded professional with Formula 1 experience and a Formula 3 European title, once in their one recorded meeting, and has a win against Jordan Pepper, a Gold-graded endurance professional. In the 2026 BTCC season, which remains in progress, Sutton has won at least once and leads the championship after the Knockhill round.