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Knockhill BTCC: Mat Jackson ends Motorbase's win drought

Mat Jackson won the second British Touring Car Championship race at Knockhill to give Motorbase its first victory since October 2012, while Colin Turkington stormed from 27th to fourth

Jackson's Ford Focus started fourth, but jumped to second when Rob Austin's Audi touched Gordon Shedden at Scotsman and sent the Honda Civic Tourer into the gravel.

Jackson and Jason Plato's MG6 went by the delayed Audi, while Shedden was forced to start a recovery drive that would eventually yield 12th.

Matt Neal's Honda Civic Tourer led after the safety car period the incident triggered, but soon had to serve a drive-through penalty for a jumped start.

That left the soft tyre-shod Jackson to pull clear of the Plato-Austin battle, which went the way of the MG driver by 0.7 seconds.

The main excitement, however, was behind the top three. Turkington stormed through the pack on his soft tyres, recording a fastest lap that would have been good enough for pole position.

He caught WSR BMW team-mate Rob Collard in fifth with six laps to go.

Although Collard defended, he could not stop Turkington passing him into Clark's and both then drove by Adam Morgan's Ciceley Mercedes on the start-finish straight to finish fourth and fifth.

Morgan and Tom Ingram's Speedworks Toyota Avensis were thus left to finish sixth and seventh, while Dave Newsham and Fabrizio Giovanardi made it three Ford Focuses in the top nine.

After being taken out of race one, reigning champion Andrew Jordan came through to 11th in his soft-shod Eurotech Honda.

Results - 25 laps                                       
                                                        
Pos Driver               Car                    Time/Gap
 1. Mat Jackson          Motorbase Ford       22m36.360s
 2. Jason Plato          MG                      +1.637s
 3. Rob Austin           RAR Audi                +2.362s
 4. Colin Turkington     WSR BMW                 +3.669s
 5. Rob Collard          WSR BMW                 +5.193s
 6. Adam Morgan          Ciceley Mercedes        +6.777s
 7. Tom Ingram           Speedworks Toyota      +11.206s
 8. Dave Newsham         AmD Ford               +12.911s
 9. Fabrizio Giovanardi  Motorbase Ford         +14.912s
10. Nick Foster          WSR BMW                +14.914s
11. Andrew Jordan        Eurotech Honda         +15.343s
12. Gordon Shedden       Honda                  +20.461s
13. Jack Clarke          Motorbase Ford         +27.487s
14. Matt Neal            Honda                  +29.897s
15. Alain Menu           BMR VW                 +29.904s
16. Hunter Abbott        RAR Audi               +30.910s
17. Jack Goff            BMR VW                 +33.176s
18. Sam Tordoff          MG                     +36.192s
19. Aiden Moffat         Moffat Chevrolet       +36.610s
20. Glynn Geddie         UA Toyota              +48.358s
21. Robb Holland         Rotek Audi             +48.861s
22. Marc Hynes           MG                       -1 lap
23. Simon Belcher        Handy Toyota             -1 lap
24. James Cole           UA Toyota               -3 laps
                                                        
Retirements                                             
                                                        
    Aron Smith         BMR VW                    24 laps
    Chris Stockton     BTC Chevrolet             21 laps
    Martin Depper      Eurotech Honda            8  laps
    Dan Welch          Welch Proton              7  laps
    Lea Wood           Houseman Toyota           4  laps
    Warren Scott       BMR VW                     1  lap
                                                        
    

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