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Brands Hatch BTCC: Gordon Shedden wins soaking finale for Honda

Gordon Shedden ended the 2014 British Touring Car Championship season with a superb win in wet conditions on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit

The works Honda Civic Tourer driver started fifth but, after a brief safety car period, Shedden passed Jack Goff's Volkswagen CC into Druids and dived by the WSR BMW of Nick Foster at Hawthorns.

Shedden then closed on the Motorbase Ford Focus of Jack Clarke. The former single-seater racer started on pole, lost out to Foster, and then retook the lead during the most impressive drive of his BTCC career.

The Scot was nevertheless faster and when Clarke defended the inside into Westfield on lap four, 2012 champion Shedden got a better run through the corner and took the lead on the exit.

Shedden was 1.3 seconds clear by the end of the lap and was nearly six seconds ahead when an off for Martin Depper's Eurotech Honda Civic brought out the safety car once more.

At the restart, Shedden easily pulled clear to take his third victory of the season.

Clarke held off first Goff, who retired with a steamed-up windscreen, then Aron Smith's BMR VW and finally team-mate Mat Jackson.

Jackson had tapped Smith at Druids after the second restart, taking third and allowing Sam Tordoff to attack the VW.

Tordoff got by, was repassed at Surtees, and finally made the place his own into Hawthorns to secure fourth.

Smith then fell back and finished just ahead of Andrew Jordan's Eurotech Honda and Jason Plato, who starred in the difficult conditions.

After his penalty from race two, Plato started the finale from the pitlane but scythed through the field.

He caught Jordan and went side-by-side with the outgoing champion through Surtees, but had to settle for seventh.

Newly crowned champion Colin Turkington rose from row 12 into the top 10, but started to struggle in the closing stages. An off at Surtees on the final lap dropped him back to 20th.

RESULTS - 15 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Gordon Shedden Team Dynamics Honda 28m42.621s
2 Jack Clarke Motorbase Ford 3.614s
3 Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 4.426s
4 Sam Tordoff Triple Eight MG 4.758s
5 Aron Taylor-Smith Team BMR Volkswagen 7.083s
6 Andrew Jordan Eurotech Honda 8.523s
7 Jason Plato Triple Eight MG 9.192s
8 Nick Foster WSR BMW 14.286s
9 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 14.947s
10 Marc Hynes Triple Eight MG 15.405s
11 Adam Morgan Ciceley Racing Mercedes 16.642s
12 Dave Newsham AmD Ford 17.703s
13 Fabrizio Giovanardi Motorbase Ford 18.736s
14 Lea Wood Houseman Racing Toyota 19.544s
15 Rob Austin Rob Austin Racing Audi 22.751s
16 Aiden Moffat Moffat Chevrolet 22.968s
17 Luke Hines United Autosports Toyota 25.542s
18 Simon Belcher Handy Motorsport Toyota 26.861s
19 James Cole United Autosports Toyota 29.721s
20 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 30.453s
21 Ollie Jackson Welch Motorsport Proton 33.474s
- Hunter Abbott Rob Austin Racing Audi Retirement
- Martin Depper Eurotech Honda Retirement
- Chris Stockton BTC Racing Chevrolet Retirement
- Warren Scott Team BMR Volkswagen Retirement
- Jack Goff Team BMR Volkswagen Retirement
- Alain Menu Team BMR Volkswagen Not started
- Rob Collard WSR BMW Retirement

FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:

Pos Driver Points
1 Colin Turkington 434
2 Jason Plato 399
3 Gordon Shedden 349
4 Mat Jackson 316
5 Andrew Jordan 310
6 Rob Collard 277
7 Sam Tordoff 255
8 Matt Neal 207
9 Aron Taylor-Smith 201
10 Adam Morgan 185
11 Alain Menu 176
12 Rob Austin 147
13 Fabrizio Giovanardi 138
14 Tom Ingram 121
15 Jack Goff 119
16 Nick Foster 101
17 Dave Newsham 70
18 Marc Hynes 54
19 Jack Clarke 50
20 Hunter Abbott 20

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