Outgoing British Touring Car champion Ashley Sutton has signed off the 2018 season in spect꧟acular style after beating Josh Cook in a photo-finish for the race three honour♌s at Brands Hatch.

The Subaꦕru Levorg driver suffered a slow start to the final race of the se♐ason but picked himself back up to 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 at the start of the race, Cook led the vast majority of the final encounter despite coming under seve💮reౠ pressure from recovering BMR Subaru of Sutton.

After laps of trying, Sutton looked to have pulled the decisive move on ꦕthe tenth lap of the race. Howev✅er, 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 twitch mid-way through the final lap.

But Sutton managed to gain superior drive out of the final corne♍r 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 ꦓback in third after fending off Tom Chilton in fourth.

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