WSR’s Daryl DeLeon scored his second Jack Sears Trophy round win of the 2025 British Touring Car Championship on a dramatic day of racing at Donington Park.
A perfect 60 points from the 60 available helped the BMW 330i M Sport driver to an increased series advantage with just six races remaining in the season.
Dick Bennetts, Team Principal, said: “I’m quite pleased with the speed we’ve had with all four BMWs today. We’ve made a big step forwards from Saturday, when qualifying put us further back than we should have been. Daryl’s had a very good day to score every point available in the Jack Sears Trophy and while Jake (Hill), Aiden (Moffat) and Charles (Rainford) all had a bit of misfortune, they were all fast a lot of time time so that’s something we can definitely take forwards into the last couple of events.”
The Anglo-Filipino was shuffled back from fourth place to 13th on the opening lap of the morning race and finished 11th, but showed superb form in Race Two as he climbed the order to fifth – driving off-track at McLeans in the closing stages as a sudden rainshower created gripless conditions at the turn and caught out almost every driver on track.
Saving his mandatory use of the series’ hard-compound Goodyear tyre until the last race of the day, he came home ninth to increase his Jack Sears Trophy advantage to 14 points over WSR stablemate Charles Rainford.
Reigning champion Jake Hill scored his best result of the day with fifth in Race Three. That the Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport driver was able to do this on the hard tyre was indicative not only of his class, but also of the speed of the BMW.
He was sixth and ninth in the other two races; the Kent ace one of the many drivers caught out by the rainshower at McLeans after making a number of carefully-executed passing moves to climb the order.
LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR drivers Charles Rainford and Aiden Moffat qualified on the eighth row after experiencing misfortunes in qualifying and opted to use the hard tyre in the opening race with the aim of moving forwards later on.
The duo showed strong pace on the less-favourable rubber to finish 13th and 15th, but both suffered on the stronger medium tyre in Race Two; Aiden punted off into the gravel by a rival on the first lap and Charles spinning in the damp in the closing laps.
While Aiden staged a magnificent recovery from 20th to 11th, despite a heavily-damaged car, Charles’s incident dropped him to 17th. They were 10th and 13th in the finale; Aiden again being pushed off-track by rival drivers.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 8/10
DRIVERS
1/ Tom Ingram – 377 points
2/ Ash Sutton – 345
3/ Dan Cammish – 264
4/ Dan Rowbottom – 248
5/ Jake Hill – 225
6/ Tom Chilton – 204
8/ Charles Rainford – 143
9/ Daryl DeLeon – 132
12/ Aiden Moffat – 119
MANUFACTURERS
1/ Ford – 698 points
2/ Hyundai – 697
3/ BMW – 537
4/ Toyota – 406
TEAMS
1/ Team Vertu – 642 points
2/ NAPA Racing UK – 640 points
3/ LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR – 360
4/ Restart Racing – 300
5/ Toyota Gazoo Racing UK with IAA
6/ Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport – 244
7/ WSR – 188
JACK SEARS TROPHY
1/ Daryl DeLeon – 369 points
2/ Charles Rainford – 355
3/ Sam Osborne – 324
4/ Dexter Patterson – 268
5/ James Dorlin – 247
6/ Nicolas Hamilton – 174
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