Jack Goff takes comfortable win in second race at Silverstone

Eurotechs Racing’s Jack Goff took his second career victory in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Silverstone, leaving the rest of the pack to fight behind themselves as he opened up a comfortable lead over second placed Tom Ingram.  Third controversially went to Ash Sutton after contact with BMW’s Colin Turkington.

After their heavy accident in race one, both Rob Collard and Will Burns were taken to hospital for precautionary checks, with both reported to have avoided serious injury.  It is understood that Burns has broken a few ribs and Collard has a back injury that is being looked at and x-rayed.

Despite some serious damage in the same incident, the BMW Pirtek Racing team worked hard to get Andrew Jordan back out for the race and he lined up at the rear of the field.

Despite a small shower from the start, the track remained dry.  Ingram and Turkington would be the leading front runners starting on the harder option tyre.

Ingram got a good start, despite his success ballast and being on the harder tyre.  Morgan, on the other hand, dropped down to sixth initially before edging his way back and recovering a position from Sutton at Luffied.

On lap three,  Goff managed to get through into the lead at Becketts.  Ingram tried to fight the Honda but with the extra weight and harder tyres in such cold conditions, there was nothing he could do and Goff then took off into the distance to build his lead through to the end of the race.

Meantime, the battle for third got very heated with Turkington, also struggling on the harder tyres causing a train of cars to bunch up behind him.  This enabled Goff and Ingram to initially get away until the harder compound tyres got some heat in and Turkington managed to start chipping way at the gap to Ingram.  Morgan, in the meantime, wanted Turkingtons third position and was pushing hard, often getting alongside but not being able to make the move stick.

Elsewhere, Stephen Jelley and Andrew Jordan had a coming together and Jordan ended up with a puncture and yet another DNF.  Aiden Moffat, despite a great start also had to retire due to a broken drive shaft.

Rob Austin had a strong start, getting by Dave Newsham on lap 6 for 6th place where he remained for the rest of the race.  Meanwhile, Sutton had joined the fight for third with Turkington and Morgan.

Tom Chilton’s sub for this weekend, Rob Huff was obviously getting to grips with the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, as he got himself into the top 10 by mid race.

At half time, Goff had already pulled a 2.1 gap on Ingram but Turkington, along with Morgan, Sutton and Austin were in close pursuit.

Lap 15 saw Sutton finally get by Morgan on the inside of Copse.  Austin tried to follow but ended on the grass.  Turkington started to really push Ingram and Goff was already 3.7 down the road.

Gordon Shedden, in the meantime, had made his way up to 7th place from 11th on the grid and was starting to catch Austin and the rest of the train for third place.

In the dying stages of the race, Sutton was desperately trying to get by Turkington trying moves left, right and centre. On the final lap, Goff crossed the line with a comfortable lead of 4.3 seconds ahead of Ingram.  The battle for third however, went down to the last few corners as Sutton went around the outside at Brooklands, the pair touched, leaving Sutton on the inside line at Luffield and with a better exit and, as a result gave him third place.

The final race of the day will be at 17:22 BST

Race result

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	31		Jack GOFF		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	21:57.764	59.475	2
2	80		Tom INGRAM		Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	22	4.910	59.667	1
3	116	M	Ashley SUTTON		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	22	5.528	59.556	5
4	4	M	Colin TURKINGTON		Team BMW	BMW 125i M Sport	22	5.703	59.502	4
5	11		Rob AUSTIN		Handy Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	22	7.749	59.622	9
6	33		Adam MORGAN		Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	22	8.438	59.683	3
7	52	M	Gordon SHEDDEN		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	8.680	59.290	11
8	37	M	Rob HUFF		Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	22	9.038	59.635	16
9	17		Dave NEWSHAM		BTC Norlin Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	22	9.280	59.669	7
10	12		Mike EPPS		Autoaid / RCIB Insurance Racing	Volkswagen CC	22	9.547	59.628	10
11	22		Chris SMILEY		BTC Norlin Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	22	10.942	59.574	18
12	39		Brett SMITH		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	11.707	59.683	14
13	25	M	Matt NEAL		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	11.815	59.516	13
14	40	M	Árón TAYLOR-SMITH		MG Racing RCIB Insurance	MG6GT	22	15.096	59.722	19
15	99	M	Jason PLATO		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	22	15.149	59.493	23
16	28	M	Josh PRICE		A-Plan Academy	Subaru Levorg GT	22	16.436	59.395	21
17	24		Jake HILL		TAG Racing	Volkswagen CC	22	17.303	59.572	30
18	66		Josh COOK		MG Racing RCIB Insurance	MG6GT	22	17.668	59.637	31
19	6		Rory BUTCHER		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Duo	Ford Focus	22	18.015	59.417	20
20	30		Martin DEPPER		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Duo	Ford Focus	22	18.017	59.780	22
21	20	M	James COLE		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	22	18.418	59.505	17
22	18	M	Senna PROCTOR		Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	22	19.902	59.698	15
23	10		Ant WHORTON-EALES		AmDtuning.com with Cobra Exhausts	Audi S3	22	21.607	59.933	6
24	303	M	Matt SIMPSON		Simpson Racing	Honda Civic Type R	22	22.048	59.622	25
25	95		Stewart LINES		Team Parker with Maximum Motorsport	Ford Focus	22	22.302	59.870	29
26	7		Stephen JELLEY		Team Parker with Maximum Motorsport	Ford Focus	22	22.586	59.975	27
27	77	M	Andrew JORDAN		BMW Pirtek Racing	BMW 125i M Sport	21	+ 1 LAP	59.326	26
R	48		Ollie JACKSON		AmDtuning.com with Cobra Exhausts	Audi S3	17	DNF	1:00.086	12
R	3		Mat JACKSON		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Duo	Ford Focus	6	DNF	59.331	24
R	16		Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	6	DNF	1:00.170	8
NS	5	M	Rob COLLARD		Team BMW	BMW 125i M Sport	–	DNS	N/A	28
NS	61		Will BURNS		Autoaid / RCIB Insurance Racing	Volkswagen CC	–	DNS	N/A	–