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Giovanardi takes fifth season win

Fabrizio Giovanardi slashed Colin Turkington's British Touring Car Championship lead from 20 points to 13 by taking his fifth win of the season at Knockhill

Giovanardi started fifth in his Vauxhall, but was up to third by the end of the second lap, and then out-dragged Mat Jackson's RML Chevrolet for second on lap five as the pair exited Clark's.

His move for victory came on lap nine as he passed Gordon Shedden's Clyde Valley Racing SEAT at the hairpin, taking advantage of a lock-up by the Scotsman to put his Vectra inside, and then elbowing the yellow machine into the gravel briefly as he went by.

Jackson took the opportunity to follow Giovanardi through to second, and WSR BMW driver Turkington did his best to limit the damage done by the Italian as he also edged past Shedden into an eventual third place, six laps later.

Both Matt Neal (Vauxhall) and James Thompson (Team Dynamics Honda), put in superb recovery drives to come from the back two rows of the grid to finish fourth and sixth - sandwiching the Tech-Speed Honda of the again excellent Paul O'Neill.

Jonathan Adam finished seventh for Motorbase BMW, ahead of Stephen Jelley's WSR car and Shedden, who went backwards during the second half of the race.

Race One winner Jason Plato, meanwhile, failed to start the race on schedule, the polesitter pulling his RML Chevrolet into the pits at the end of the formation lap with an engine misfire. He did get going after a few laps, but did not make the finish.


Pos Driver               Car         Result
 1. Fabrizio Giovanardi  Vauxhall    24m12.946s
 2. Mat Jackson          Chevrolet   +   1.377s
 3. Colin Turkington     BMW         +   2.075s
 4. Matt Neal            Vauxhall    +   7.307s
 5. Paul O'Neill         Honda       +  10.316s
 6. James Thompson       Honda       +  12.122s
 7. Jonathan Adam        BMW         +  12.744s
 8. Stephen Jelley       BMW         +  16.567s
 9. Gordon Shedden       SEAT        +  18.081s
10. Andrew Jordan        Vauxhall    +  18.288s
11. Tom Chilton          Ford        +  19.013s
12. Rob Collard          BMW         +  19.110s
13. Martin Johnson       Vauxhall    +  33.464s
14. John George          Honda       +    1 lap

Retirements

    David Pinkney        Honda          13 laps
    Harry Vaulkhard      Chevrolet       2 laps
    Jason Plato          Chevrolet       0 laps

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