Outgoing British Touring 🐻Car champion Ashley Sutton has signed off the 2018 season in spectacular style after beating Josh Cook in a photo-finish for the race th⛦ree honours at Brands Hatch.

The Subaru Levorg driver suffered a slow start to the final race of the season but picked himself back up t𝓡o snatch the win away from pole-sitter Josh Cook by just 0.032s as the pair the crossed the line.

Having briefly dropped behind Rob Austin at꧙ the start of the race, Cook led the vast majority of the final encounter despite coming under severe pressure from recovering BMR Subaru of Sutton.

After laps of trying, Sutton looked to have pulled the decisive mo༺ve on the tenth lap of the race. However, Cook somehow managed to hold his ground and retained the lead right up until the final corner of the race.

The Vauxhall of Cook looked to have the beating of Sutton after the Subaru seemingly suffered a high-speed tಞwitch mid-way through the final🎉 lap.

But Sutton managed to gain superior drive out of t🀅he final corner heading onto the main straight and subsequently out-dragged Cook to the line by just 0.032s.

Austin completed the podium order just 0.7s back in third after fendinꩲg off Tom Chilton iܫn fourth.

Having suffered the heartache of losing out in the championship battle just a race before, Speedworks Motorsport's Tom Ingram capped off𒅌 his season with another fine drive in fifth place.