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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