Late move earns Turkington victory

Turkington, who started fifth on the grid, made a superb start to move up to third in his WSR BMW, behind the Vauxhalls of race one winner Fabrizio Giovanardi and Matt Neal.

After dropping over a second behind the pair, Turkington closed up as the race entered its final third, his rear-wheel drive BMW clearly handling better through the fast corners than the front-wheel drive Vectras.

His persistence paid off as he passed Neal for second with five laps to go, moving inside his rival at the long right-hander at Goodwood. After then closing in on Giovanardi, he sized up the Italian through the complex on the final lap and then dived past, again at Goodwood, and held off the pair to the flag.

Just 0.6 seconds covered the top three at the flag, with Turkington, who became the fifth different winner in as many BTCC races this year, reducing Neal's series lead to just four points in the process.

Andrew Jordan and Stephen Jelley battled hard over fourth for most of the race. Jelley eventually put his WSR car ahead of the Vauxhall at Noble with seven laps left as Jordan went onto the grass and spun down to 18th as a result.

Behind Jelley, Rob Collard put in a great drive to come up from 17th to fifth in his Motorbase Performance BMW. Collard passed James Thompson's Team Dynamics Honda and Jason Plato's RML Chevrolet at Allard on the last lap.

Paul O'Neill had been in the mix for another good result as well, but made contact with both Plato and the Clyde Valley Racing SEAT of Adam Jones at mid-distance, spinning him off. He recovered to 10th place by passing Jonathan Adam's Motorbase car on the final lap.

Both Arena Ford Focuses failed to make the points once again, while Dan Eaves - who failed to start race one - crashed at the first corner after making contact with Nick Leason and brought out the safety car.

Pos  Driver               Car        Time
 1.  Colin Turkington     BMW        28m38.018s
 2.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  Vauxhall    +  0.241s
 3.  Matt Neal            Vauxhall    +  0.623s
 4.  Stephen Jelley       BMW         +  9.110s
 5.  Rob Collard          BMW         + 11.205s
 6.  Jason Plato          Chevrolet   + 12.117s
 7.  James Thompson       Honda       + 12.468s
 8.  Adam Jones           SEAT        + 15.133s
 9.  Mat Jackson          Chevrolet   + 15.309s
10.  Paul O'Neill         Honda       + 18.075s
11.  Jonathan Adam        BMW         + 19.200s
12.  Harry Vaulkhard      Chevrolet   + 23.013s
13.  David Pinkney        Honda       + 23.471s
14.  Martyn Bell          Honda       + 23.913s
15.  John George          Honda       + 31.639s
16.  Martin Johnson       Vauxhall    + 32.600s
17.  Tom Chilton          Ford        + 34.432s
18.  Andrew Jordan        Vauxhall    + 38.177s
19.  Liam McMillan        SEAT        + 58.324s
20.  Nick Leason          BMW         +   1 lap

Retirements:

     Alan Morrison        Ford       8 laps
     Dan Eaves            SEAT       0 laps