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Thruxton BTCC: Colin Turkington secures 100th series win for BMW

Colin Turkington sealed his second win of the British Touring Car Championship with a lights-to-flag triumph in the final race of the weekend at Thruxton

The Northern Irishman's win, which he took from a reversed-grid pole position, was BMW's 100th outright success in the BTCC after team-mate Rob Collard had taken the spoils in race two.

The two-time champion took the lead at the start and was never headed, finishing the race 2.5 seconds clear in his WSR 125i M Sport.

"We had problems with the car's handling earlier in the weekend and we were chasing the set-up," said Turkington.

"We took a step in race three and on the opening lap, I knew I had a really great car underneath me.

"To take the 100th win for BMW is an incredible feeling too. I am over the moon."

Jack Goff ran second initially in his Eurotech Racing Honda Civic Type R but was soon confronted by a charging Tom Ingram in his Speedworks Toyota Avensis.

Ingram had previously overtook Rob Austin for third at the Complex on lap three, and then set off after Goff, taking the place six laps later at Allard corner.

Goff finished in third place, while Gordon Shedden was the leading Team Dynamics Honda in fourth positon after he too had overtaken Austin at the Complex.

Ash Sutton was the top Team BMR Subaru Levorg in sixth spot, having been unable to get by Austin despite putting the Handy Motorsport driver under severe pressure late on in the event.

Race two winner Collard had run competitively earlier on but his BMW, carrying the maximum 75kg of ballast, dropped back as the tyres wore.

He rescued seventh spot, just ahead of the two Mercedes-Benz A-Class cars of Aiden Moffat and Adam Morgan.

Matt Neal (Team Dynamics Honda) had started from 29th after problems in race two, but he powered through the pack to claim the final position in the top 10.

After the weekend's three races, Ingram still leads the standings with 131 points.

He has a 17-point buffer over Shedden, with Turkington 19 points off the title summit. Collard is fourth on 103 points.

RESULT - 16 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 20m56.728s
2 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 2.576s
3 Jack Goff Eurotech Racing Honda 4.081s
4 Gordon Shedden Dynamics/Honda Honda 5.836s
5 Rob Austin Handy Motorsport Toyota 10.002s
6 Ash Sutton Team BMR Subaru 10.756s
7 Rob Collard WSR BMW 11.732s
8 Aiden Moffat Laser Tools Racing Mercedes 12.414s
9 Adam Morgan Ciceley Racing Mercedes 12.989s
10 Matt Neal Dynamics/Honda Honda 13.225s
11 Tom Chilton Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall 13.694s
12 Dave Newsham BTC Racing Chevrolet 14.616s
13 Andrew Jordan WSR BMW 14.917s
14 Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 17.474s
15 Jake Hill Team Hard Volkswagen 19.220s
16 Matt Simpson Dynamics/Honda Honda 20.962s
17 Ollie Jackson AmD Tuning Audi 21.430s
18 Chris Smiley BTC Racing Chevrolet 21.647s
19 Senna Proctor Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall 22.520s
20 Michael Epps Team Hard Volkswagen 22.865s
21 Stephen Jelley Team Parker Racing Ford 26.224s
22 Josh Cook Maximum Motorsport Ford 26.275s
23 Will Burns Team Hard Volkswagen 32.973s
24 Josh Price Team BMR Subaru 34.599s
25 Aron Taylor-Smith Triple Eight/MG MG 41.519s
26 James Cole Team BMR Subaru 42.960s
27 Jeff Smith Eurotech Racing Honda 52.180s
28 Jason Plato Team BMR Subaru 2 Laps
- Luke Davenport Motorbase Ford Retirement
- Daniel Lloyd Triple Eight/MG MG Retirement
- Martin Depper Motorbase Ford Not started
- Ant Whorton-Eales AmD Tuning Audi Not started


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