Jordan ends season with win

The Eurotech Vauxhall driver started from pole position on the reversed grid and resisted intense pressure during the second half of the race from Steven Kane's Motorbase BMW to take his second win of the year.

Kane tried everything he had to get by Jordan, knowing that victory would probably make him independents' champion. However, he whacked a kerb at Druids on the final lap, giving his rival the breathing space he needed to win.

With Kane failing to win, Tom Chilton became independents' champion by finishing third in his Arena Ford.

Chilton became the title favourite when his team-mate Tom Onslow-Cole, who had been leading the points, pitted at the end of the warm-up lap with an apparent mechanical problem.

Chilton led a four-car pack all separated by less than a second at the finish line.

For most of the race Rob Collard had pressured the Arena Ford driver, but the WSR BMW man was denied fourth by Mat Jackson's Motorbase version.

Jackson passed Collard with three laps to go after getting a run on him out of Clearways. Unfortunately for Collard, as he pulled wide to give himself a good line through Paddock, Paul O'Neill dived past in his Tech-Speed Honda for fifth.

James Nash (Triple 8 Vauxhall), Gordon Shedden (Honda), newly-crowned champion Jason Plato (Chevrolet) and Sam Tordoff (Triple 8) completed the top 10, the latter scoring his first BTCC point.

There were two safety car periods; the first triggered when Lea Wood's Wood Honda dropped oil on the track as it was pulled off the track on the opening lap; and the second when Ben Collins spun his Motorbase BMW into the gravel at Paddock later on.

Pos  Driver           Car           Time/Gap
 1.  Andrew Jordan    Vauxhall    23m37.692s
 2.  Steven Kane      BMW           + 0.949s
 3.  Tom Chilton      Ford          + 1.342s
 4.  Mat Jackson      BMW           + 1.605s
 5.  Paul O'Neill     Honda         + 1.973s
 6.  Rob Collard      BMW           + 2.330s
 7.  James Nash       Vauxhall      + 3.124s
 8.  Gordon Shedden   Honda         + 3.470s
 9.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet     + 4.146s
10.  Sam Tordoff      Vauxhall      + 5.961s
11.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet     + 6.116s
12.  Andy Neate       BMW           + 6.560s
13.  Martin Depper    BMW          + 14.522s
14.  John George      Honda        + 14.802s
15.  Martin Johnson   Vauxhall       + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Arthur Forster   BMW         25 laps
     Ben Collins      BMW         12 laps
     James Kaye       Honda       3 laps
     Shaun Hollamby   Volkswagen  3 laps
     Matt Neal        Honda       0 laps
     Tom Boardman     SEAT        0 laps
     Tom Onslow-Cole  Ford        0 laps
     Lea Wood         Honda       0 laps