Newly crowned two-time British Touring Car champion Ash Sutton says thiꦡs year's title 'feels leaps and bounds better than the first' after beating Colin Turkington to the 202𓆉0 crown at Brands Hatch.

Sutton came into the final race weekend of 20✱20 nine-points behind Team BMW's Turkington in the title race, but the Laser Tools Racing driver ended up🍸 14-points ahead of his rival by the end of the three races to add to his 2017 championship win.

Having finished second in race one before taking a crucially💦 emphatic victory in race two, Sutton once again outscored Turkington with a sixth place finish during a treacherously wet third and final ꦇrace.

Sutton admitted ꩲhe had to keep his racing instinct in check during the final race, as he sat back and stalked his main rival Turkington for a sizeable chunk of the ღrace.

"I’m standing here getting all emotional," Sutton told ltxcn.top. "It’s absolutely crazy. To think I ruined my own race in race two at S﷽ilverstone and clawed it back in race three. Went to Croft a♐nd ruined my own race again in race two!

"Finally it all clicked this week♑end. There was a little side𓆏 of me that maybe just sat there and there was a devil on the other side.

"One 🦄is telling me to go for the gap and other is telling me to calm down. We’ve f♓ound that balance!"

After winning his maiden BTCC crown in factory Subaru colours bꩵack in 2017, Sutton says the backstory of coming into this season with a new car and new team, as an Independent entry with Laser Tools Racing, means this year's title means more than the first.

Sutton took the title with five vic☂tories behind the wheel of the re✱developed Infiniti Q50, the same tally as Turkington in the BMW 330i M Sport machine.

"They say they get easier, but they definitely don’t! The second one means that little bit more. We’re in an Independ𓄧ent team going against the big manufacturers’," the Infiniti driver continued.

"It’s a new car, first season and a merge between the two teams. It’s not been the easiest of starts. Especially with what’s going on around the world. But we’ve for sure 🅘made the most of it.

"It’s not quite sunk in yet. It was a new car out of the blocks. The merge of two teams so it was nev🃏er going to be a straight forward year. We were up against some big manufacturers. So for Laser Tools to take that on is mega and for me to do that for them is mega.

"Its leaps and bounds better than the first so ꧙I wonder what the third one is g🔜oing to be like!"