Home win for Rory Butcher at Knockhill

The Kirkcaldy race ace won the finale at the Fife track on Sunday after Ash Sutton had taken first place in both the opening encounters at the track.

Butcher dominated the third and final race after getting the jump by pole-sitter Senna Proctor.

The race was originally red flagged following a sizeable accident and the 33-year-old had to do it all again on the restart, and that’s exactly what he did on the run down to turn one.

He never looked back and pulled away to take a comfortable victory.

Despite his second win following last week’s victory at Oulton, he sits in third place in the Driver’s standings, trailing leader Colin Turkington by 43 points.

He said: “I felt after Oulton, Josh Cook drove so well in that race and I got handed the win; I didn’t want to take my first victory in the new car in that way.

“So to do what we just did there on home ground has made up for it.

“I’m so pleased for the team.

“I’ve had quite a difficult day. I was really pleased with race one, making up one place and getting past Cammish was great, but in race two I wasn’t really proud of my performance there.

“I kind of overdrove and had to sit down after that and reset.

“I’ve been getting superb starts this year, doing a lot of studying into how to launch the car best and I was confident going into that race that I could lead going into turn one.

“We’ve won on-the-road and I’m so proud.”