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BTCC Silverstone: Turkington reclaims points lead after Ingram puncture

Colin Turkington battled through from an early fifth position to win a gripping second British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Silverstone and reclaim the points lead

The four-time champion finished fourth in race one, so that's where he started his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport from for the second encounter.

Turkington was overtaken around the outside of Copse Corner by pre-race championship leader Ash Sutton, but then Sutton locked up into Becketts and appeared to make contact with Rory Butcher, delaying himself and spinning Butcher's Motorbase Performance Ford Focus to the back of the field.

Up front, Tom Ingram pulled off a superb move on polesitter Dan Cammish around the outside of Brooklands, before claiming the inside line for Luffield.

Cammish attempted to retaliate immediately on the second lap, running side by side with Ingram until the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla driver took the inside line for Becketts.

Ingram could not get away, and at one third distance the leading trio were forming a train, with Cammish's Team Dynamics-run Honda Civic Type-R and Turkington immediately behind.

As the front tyres faded on the front-wheel-drive cars, Turkington was able to draw level with Cammish down the Wellington Straight on the 14th lap of 22.

That forced Cammish to defend through the end-of-lap complex, and Turkington was able to squeeze up his inside exiting Luffield, before completing the move to take second place at Copse.

That allowed Ingram to escape a little, but Turkington was closing when, with four and a half laps to go, Ingram ran wide at Becketts with a left-front puncture, forcing him into the pits.

Turkington therefore headed the final laps to defeat Cammish by 1.245 seconds.

"It was all about being patient," said Turkington.

"I knew I had good pace, but I knew I had to wait on Tom and Dan coming back to me, when their front axles dropped off a bit.

"I did a nice move on Dan, and I benefited from the misfortunes of others - it's a delicate balance where you've got to look after your left-front but you've got to be quick."

Adam Morgan was close at hand to take third place in his Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes A-Class, while Matt Neal made it two Dynamics Hondas in the top four after emerging from a frantic battle that was initially headed by Jake Hill and Stephen Jelley.

Jelley's Team Parker Racing BMW fell out of this battle during an incident on the 10th lap, while Neal passed Hill at half-distance.

Sutton fell into this scrap on the second lap, and had dropped to 10th with six laps remaining when the left-front tyre punctured on his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti, sending him to the pits.

Sutton rejoined two laps down, and nicked a point from Cammish on the final tour when he set the race's fastest lap.

While Sutton toiled, his LTR Infiniti team-mate Aiden Moffat put in his best race of the season to claim fifth from Josh Cook's BTC Racing Honda and the MB Motorsport Civic of Hill.

Ollie Jackson was eighth in his Motorbase Focus, while Turkington's BMW team-mate Tom Oliphant charged through to ninth from 25th on the grid - and got drawn on pole for the reversed-grid race.

The final spot in the top 10 went to Senna Proctor's Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai, while Butcher progressed to 14th following his first-lap drama.

BTCC Silverstone race 2 results - 22 laps

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 21m26.293s
2 Dan Cammish Team Dynamics Honda 1.245s
3 Adam Morgan Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 3.172s
4 Matt Neal Team Dynamics Honda 7.876s
5 Aiden Moffat Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 12.576s
6 Josh Cook BTC Racing Honda 13.804s
7 Jake Hill AmD Tuning Honda 14.500s
8 Ollie Jackson Motorbase Performance Ford 14.910s
9 Tom Oliphant WSR BMW 15.102s
10 Senna Proctor Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 16.911s
11 Tom Chilton BTC Racing Honda 17.115s
12 Sam Osborne AmD Tuning Honda 17.831s
13 Bobby Thompson Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 18.380s
14 Rory Butcher Motorbase Performance Ford 18.559s
15 Chris Smiley Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 20.016s
16 James Gornall Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 20.404s
17 Jack Butel Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 21.098s
18 Tom Onslow-Cole Team Hard Volkswagen 21.446s
19 Jack Goff Team Hard Volkswagen 21.913s
20 Stephen Jelley Team Parker Racing BMW 22.858s
21 Jade Edwards Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall 25.507s
22 Andy Neate Motorbase Performance Ford 26.205s
23 Carl Boardley Team Hard BMW 43.244s
24 Nicolas Hamilton Team Hard Volkswagen 1 Lap
25 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 1 Lap
26 Ash Sutton Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 2 Laps
- Michael Crees BTC Racing Honda Retirement

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