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Second eBay Motors 1-2 as Colin Turkington wins

Colin Turkington won his second race of the day ahead of eBay Motors team-mate Rob Collard in the second British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Oulton Park.

The WSR driver led from lights-to-flag and was relatively unchallenged during the race, despite a strong start from team-mate Collard. The duo dominated the race and were able to pull away from the chasing pack, thanks largely to third-placed Rob Austin.

Austin got the jump on Jason Plato and Gordon Shedden at the start of the race, using his rear-wheel drive advantage to maximum effect. Thereafter he drove a defensive race to score his first podium of the season, with the former champions unable to find a way past on the Oulton Park International circuit. Austin was later promoted to second, after Collard was handed a time penalty.

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Plato and Shedden finished fourth and fifth after losing out at the start, thereafter unable to do anything about passing Austin in front.

Sixth went to Airwaves Racing’s Mat Jackson, ahead of Speedworks Motorsport’s Tom Ingram in seventh.

Árón Smith finished in eighth for Team BMR, benefitting when MG’s Sam Tordoff dropped three places on the final lap of the race. Tordoff held on to finish in ninth.

Alain Menu completed the top ten, making it two Team BMR Volkswagen’s inside the top ten. However Menu made contact with Airwaves Racing’s Fabrizio Giovanardi on lap five whilst battling for tenth, causing the Italian to drop to 25th. The incident meant that Menu was given a post-race penalty dropping him to 11th.

Reigning champion Andrew Jordan therefore finished 10th and in the process loses the lead in the points standings, with Turkington and Shedden now tied at the top.

The third eBay Motors BMW of Nick Foster had been running in eighth when his car slowed dramatically on the penultimate lap, forcing him into retirement with throttle linkage problems. Adam Morgan also slowed on the same lap and retired from the race when “something broke” and prevented him from being able to turn right.

AmD Tuning’s Dave Newsham and Pirtek Racing’s Martin Depper both met the barriers during the race, with Newsham causing the safety car to come out for two laps when he crashed heavily on the run down to Cascades.

Ollie Jackson, Chris Stockton and Aiden Moffat all endured mechanical problems in the race, with the latter failing to take the start.

Round 12 takes place at 16:57 BST (17:57 CEST).

Top ten result

POS NO CL DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP GD
1 5 I Colin TURKINGTON eBay Motors BMW 125i M Sport 14 26:49.013 1:43.005 1
2 10 I Rob COLLARD eBay Motors BMW 125i M Sport 14 1.817 1:43.494 2
3 101 I Rob AUSTIN Exocet Racing Audi A4 14 5.148 1:43.747 5
4 99 M Jason PLATO MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save MG6 14 5.701 1:43.792 3
5 52 M Gordon SHEDDEN Honda Yuasa Racing Honda Civic Tourer 14 6.279 1:43.883 4
6 6 I Mat JACKSON Airwaves Racing Ford Focus ST 14 8.944 1:44.001 7
7 80 I Tom INGRAM Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis 14 9.388 1:44.170 9
8 40 I Árón SMITH CHROME Edition Restart Racing Volkswagen Passat CC 14 9.723 1:44.016 12
9 88 M Sam TORDOFF MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save MG6 14 10.151 1:43.741 6
10 9 I Alain MENU CHROME Edition Restart Racing Volkswagen Passat CC 14 10.338 1:44.245 14

Complete race results

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