Chilton leads Ford one-two

Chilton had trailed Onslow-Cole for the first half of the race, but on lap 12 the latter slowed on the start/finish straight, pulled off the racing line and dropped back to second.

Onslow-Cole blamed a gearshifting problem on his lack of speed on that lap, but he was able to remain on Chilton's tail for the final 10 laps, finishing 0.2 seconds behind him.

Jason Plato increased his championship lead to 27 points over Matt Neal as he took his Chevrolet to third place, ahead of his team-mate Alex MacDowall.

Andrew Jordan drove well to fifth, staying right behind the Chevrolets for the entire distance in his Eurotech Vauxhall.

Rob Collard (WSR BMW), held off a determined Paul O'Neill (Tech-Speed Honda) for most of the race, but pulled away from his rival to secure an easy sixth during the final laps.

The most intense battle of the race came between Honda driver Neal and the Motorbase BMWs of Steven Kane and Mat Jackson.

After hitting Kane's car at Luffield on lap 10, both Neal and the BMW man were passed by Jackson, but in Neal's attempts to regain eighth at Becketts next time round, he forced both himself and Jackson wide, both drivers losing ground.

A recovering Neal eventually got by Kane on the last lap while his team-mate Gordon Shedden, who dropped to 19th at the start, fought back to complete the top 10.

Pos  Driver           Car            Time/Gap
 1.  Tom Chilton      Ford         22m35.870s
 2.  Tom Onslow-Cole  Ford           + 0.282s
 3.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet      + 2.895s
 4.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet      + 3.071s
 5.  Andrew Jordan    Vauxhall       + 3.764s
 6.  Rob Collard      BMW            + 6.473s
 7.  Paul O'Neill     Honda          + 7.598s
 8.  Matt Neal        Honda          + 8.773s
 9.  Steven Kane      BMW            + 9.936s
10.  Gordon Shedden   Honda         + 10.386s
11.  James Nash       Vauxhall      + 10.940s
12.  Tom Boardman     SEAT          + 11.764s
13.  Mat Jackson      BMW           + 15.222s
14.  Philip Glew      SEAT          + 19.144s
15.  Andy Neate       BMW           + 23.721s
16.  Lea Wood         Honda         + 26.819s
17.  John George      Honda         + 40.784s
18.  Martin Johnson   Vauxhall      + 44.893s
19.  Arthur Forster   BMW           + 47.047s
20.  Martin Depper    BMW           + 53.210s

Retirements:

     David Pinkney    Vauxhall     8 laps
     Shaun Hollamby   Volkswagen   0 laps