BTCC Snetterton: Jack Goff scores his first victory in race three

The MG driver survived a late scare to take the win ahead of Jason Plato, who has moved into the championship lead over the three races in Norfolk.

Goff led the partial reverse-grid encounter from pole and used his soft tyres to build an early lead over Andy Priaulx, who had beaten team-mate Sam Tordoff off the line and passed Plato round the outside into Riches for the first time.

Plato responded on lap two by guiding his Team BMR Volkswagen CC expertly back past the WSR BMW with a brave move at the Esses where he ran side-by-side with Priaulx through the first part and holding the inside line into the right-hander.

Goff had a 1.9-second advantage by the time they started the second lap and drove superbly to manage that gap until the final two laps, when Plato started to chip away.

With the advantage little more than a second heading into the final sector Goff had a wobble through the second part of the high-speed Coram corner, but held on to win by 0.3s.

Plato edged clear of Priaulx in the closing stages as the three-time world champion clinched his second podium of the day by fending off Tordoff.

Andrew Jordan kept his championship challenge on track with fifth, though the MG man was off the podium for the second weekend in a row.

He made up two places in the finale, first when Adam Morgan ran wide under pressure at Riches on lap four and second with a good move on the day's double victor Colin Turkington at Williams.

Turkington was also passed by Mat Jackson's Motorbase Ford Focus, though the 2014 champion will be pleased to have risen from fifth to second in the points - 16 behind Plato - thanks to two wins and a seventh this weekend.

Tom Ingram's charging drive from 20th was rewarded with ninth, less than two tenths behind a resilient Rob Austin and ahead of another recovering driver in Rob Collard.

Honda's Gordon Shedden looked set to score points in the finale after a strong start but then suffered a boost problem and was forced to pit.

It capped a miserable weekend for the erstwhile championship leader, who is now third in the standings and 32 points behind Plato.

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