Plato charges to Oulton race two win

The Chevrolet driver carved his way through the field and kept his head when rain began to fall late in the race to beat Matt Neal's Honda to the flag by just under a second.

Tom Onslow-Cole led the field initially from pole position, with the Arena Ford driver being chased by Gordon Shedden's Honda and Rob Collard's WSR BMW.

However, contact between Collard and Tom Chilton's Arena Ford at the Island hairpin on the opening lap resulted in the former being spun around and hit by the unsighted Alex MacDowall.

This, coupled with a driveshaft failure for Shedden on lap two, promoted Plato to fourth, and he swiftly made it into the podium places by passing Chilton at Island next time round.

Two laps later he made a near-identical move on Mat Jackson's Motorbase BMW for second and latched onto the tail of Onslow-Cole, whom he passed for the lead on lap 10, but only after hitting the rear of the Ford and causing significant bodywork damage to the front of his own car.

Plato held the lead to the end while Neal, who also made a number of places during the latter stages, passed Jackson and Onslow-Cole.

Despite his efforts to close on Plato, he settled for second, a result that dropped him three points behind his rival in the championship.

Onslow-Cole finished third ahead of Jackson and the second Motorbase car of Steven Kane, Chilton and James Nash (Triple 8 Vauxhall).

Tom Boardman came from 21st on the grid to finish eighth in his Special Tuning UK SEAT while a recovering MacDowall outsprinted David Pinkney for ninth - and pole for the reversed grid final race - out of the final corner of the race.

Pos Driver             Car               Time/Gap
 1. Jason Plato        Chevrolet       22m22.567s
 2. Matt Neal          Honda               +0.749
 3. Tom Onslow-Cole    Ford                +3.483
 4. Mat Jackson        BMW                 +4.921
 5. Steven Kane        BMW                 +9.378
 6. Tom Chilton        Ford               +12.016
 7. James Nash         Vauxhall           +12.328
 8. Tom Boardman       SEAT               +13.134
 9. Alex MacDowall     Chevrolet          +37.184
10. David Pinkney      Vauxhall           +37.227
11. Lea Wood           Honda              +37.899
12. Matthew Hamilton   Honda              +38.522
13. Arthur Forster     BMW                +45.655
14. Martin Depper      BMW                +47.410
15. Rob Collard        BMW                +49.282
16. Andrew Jordan      Vauxhall            +1 lap
17. Andy Neate         BMW                 +1 lap

Not classified

    John George        Honda              13 laps
    Martin Johnson     Vauxhall           13 laps
    Shaun Hollamby     Volkswagen          5 laps
    Gordon Shedden     Honda               2 laps
    Paul O'Neill       Honda               0 laps