Colin Turkington secures lights-to-flag race one win

Team BMW’s Colin Turkington secured West Surrey Racing’s 100^th victory in the British Touring Car Championship by taking a lights-to-flag win in race one at Knockhill, ahead of BTC Racing’s Senna Proctor and Josh Cook.

Turkington made the most of his rear-wheel drive BMW to pull clear with ease in the opening laps, opening up an advantage of over four seconds before the safety car was required on lap four when Daniel Lloyd went off into the barriers at the chicane, after reportedly suffering from a breakage on his Vauxhall.

Racing resumed seven laps later, with Turkington again able to ease clear of Proctor’s chasing Honda, as the third-placed Hyundai of Chris Smiley came under sustained pressure from the second BTC Honda of Cook.

It took Cook until the 20^th lap of the race to find a way past Smiley, with Cook making a late lunge up the inside at Clark curve which also allowed Ash Sutton to claim fourth in his Infiniti.

Despite applying heavy pressure late in the race, the fully-ballasted Sutton couldn’t find a way past Cook and had to settle for fourth.

Northern Irishman Smiley claimed fifth, ahead of the MB Motorsport Ford Focus of Jake Hill in sixth, who lost out to Sutton on lap 17 at Clark.

Aiden Moffat brought the second Laser Tools Racing Infiniti home in seventh, ahead of Team Dynamics’ Gordon Shedden in eighth, the Honda driver having battled past tom Ingram for the place exiting the hairpin on lap 13.

Two laps from the chequered flag Toyota’s Rory Butcher claimed ninth from Ingram, who ultimately slumped to tenth in his Hyundai, which had been the second heaviest car in the field.

Team BMW’s Stephen Jelley was 11^th after fighting past PMR’s Jason Plato on lap 17 for what was then 12^th, before gaining another place when team-mate Tom Oliphant was spun out at the hairpin by Butcher whilst running just outside the top ten.

Ciceley Motorsport’s Tom Chilton again finished just outside the top ten in 12^th, directly ahead of team-mate Adam Morgan in 13^th – only the second time this year that Chilton has beaten his team-mate.

Plato took the finish in 14^th, with Team Dynamics’ Daniel Rowbottom completing the points-scoring finishers in 15^th.

MB Motorsport’s Ollie Jackson had been challenging for the final point, but he ultimately retired to the pitlane having lost seven places on lap 21 when he went deep into the final hairpin.

By finishing in fifth, Sutton has now grown his championship tally to 139 points, 12 points ahead of Ingram. Rowbottom sits in third with 115 points, ahead of Hill (113), Turkington (112) and Cook (110).

Race two is scheduled to get underway at 14:40 BST.

Race results

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP	GD
1	2	M		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	27	26:03.813	51.006	1
2	18	I		Senna PROCTOR	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	27	4.254	51.236	2
3	66	I		Josh COOK	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	27	8.076	51.041	4
4	1	I		Ashley SUTTON	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	27	8.643	51.405	6
5	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	27	12.071	51.351	3
6	24	M		Jake HILL	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	27	13.061	51.288	5
7	16	I		Aiden MOFFAT	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	27	13.111	51.558	7
8	52	I		Gordon SHEDDEN	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	27	16.273	51.514	11
9	6	M		Rory BUTCHER	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	27	25.848	51.967	8
10	80	I		Tom INGRAM	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	27	27.688	51.960	9
11	12	M		Stephen JELLEY	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	27	27.899	51.900	14
12	3	I		Tom CHILTON	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	27	28.167	51.861	16
13	33	I		Adam MORGAN	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	27	28.487	51.738	13
14	11	I		Jason PLATO	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	27	29.759	51.956	15
15	32	I		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	27	30.167	51.962	19
16	31	I		Jack GOFF	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	27	30.727	52.074	18
17	23	M		Sam SMELT	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	27	32.558	51.933	21
18	41	I		Carl BOARDLEY	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	27	33.619	52.016	25
19	4	M		Sam OSBORNE	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	27	34.705	52.084	20
20	96	I		Jack BUTEL	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	27	35.693	52.477	27
21	62	I		Rick PARFITT Jr	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	27	38.341	52.488	29
22	19	I		Jack MITCHELL	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	27	38.665	52.399	26
23	20	20		Paul RIVETT	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	27	39.317	52.501	24
24	28	I		Nicolas HAMILTON	ROKiT Racing with iQuoto Online Trading	CUPRA Leon	27	39.869	52.485	28
25	40	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Team HARD. with HUB Financial Solutions	CUPRA Leon	27	41.021	52.192	23
26	99	I		Jade EDWARDS	PHSC with BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	26	+ 1 LAP	52.300	22
27	48	M		Ollie JACKSON	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	22	+ 5 LAPS	52.047	17
28	15	M		Tom OLIPHANT	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	21	+ 6 LAPS	51.607	10
R	123	I		Daniel LLOYD	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	3	DNF	52.163	12