BTCC Snetterton: Sutton takes lead of the standings with second win

Team BMR driver Sutton was never headed in Sunday's second race and crossed the line the best part of three seconds clear of WSR BMW driver Colin Turkington in his Subaru Levorg.

While he held his lead when the lights went out, Sutton was stalked closely through Riches by the fast-starting WSR BMW 125i M Sport of Andrew Jordan who had started fourth.

As Jordan followed the leader around the Wilson hairpin, Sutton's Subaru team-mate Jason Plato - who himself had climbed to third from fifth on the grid - went deeper into the corner and was alongside Jordan on the exit.

Plato hung around the outside but his front-right corner made contact with Jordan's left-rear, putting the pair onto the grass.

That allowed second-place starter Jack Goff to reclaim the position, as Jordan rejoined in third and Plato dropped into the midfield.

A safety car then neutralised the field after Stewart Lines - returning to the grid - stopped on the exit of Murrays having made contact with the MG of Josh Cook.

Sutton bolted on the subsequent restart at the end of lap four, and while Goff gave chase in the early laps he began to fall away from the leader as he came under increasing pressure from the chasing BMWs.

Sutton cantered to the finish to claim his second win at the Norfolk circuit and now has a six-point lead at the head of the drivers' standings over Turkington, who advanced from seventh on the grid.

Goff had clung on to second valiantly and survived an attack from Jordan, who dropped behind team-mates Rob Collard and Turkington as a result.

Collard was the man to eventually make Goff crack, after nudging a gap on the approach to the long right-hander of Coram and squeezed into second before Murrays, with Turkington following him through.

But Turkington ended up the best-placed of the BMWs after clearing Collard at the end of the Bentley Straight and into Nelson, with Collard suggesting he had a misfire while changing gear before the move.

Mat Jackson sliced his way through the field to claim fourth in his Motorbase Ford Focus, having also made his way past eventual fifth-place finisher Goff.

Jordan slipped back as far as seventh but fought his way back past the leading factory Honda Civic of Gordon Shedden before the flag to claim sixth ahead of the erstwhile championship leader.

James Cole finished eighth in his Team BMR Subaru Levorg, and will start the reversed-grid third race from pole.

RESULT - 14 LAPS

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	Ash Sutton	Team BMR	Subaru	29m51.887s
2	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	2.955s
3	Rob Collard	WSR	BMW	3.657s
4	Mat Jackson	Motorbase	Ford	5.494s
5	Jack Goff	Eurotech Racing	Honda	8.166s
6	Andrew Jordan	WSR	BMW	8.419s
7	Gordon Shedden	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	8.901s
8	James Cole	Team BMR	Subaru	9.388s
9	Matt Neal	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	10.792s
10	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	11.765s
11	Jake Hill	Team Hard	Volkswagen	12.176s
12	Tom Chilton	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	12.582s
13	Matt Simpson	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	14.196s
14	Ollie Jackson	AmD Tuning	Audi	14.501s
15	Rob Austin	Handy Motorsport	Toyota	14.973s
16	Will Burns	Team Hard	Volkswagen	15.297s
17	Chris Smiley	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	15.708s
18	Michael Epps	Team Hard	Volkswagen	16.136s
19	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Racing	Mercedes	19.505s
20	Dave Newsham	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	22.651s
21	Ant Whorton-Eales	AmD Tuning	Audi	22.981s
22	Martin Depper	Motorbase	Ford	26.022s
23	Senna Proctor	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	26.354s
24	Jason Plato	Team BMR	Subaru	26.820s
25	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	Ford	27.230s
26	Josh Price	Team BMR	Subaru	29.882s
27	Aron Taylor-Smith	Triple Eight/MG	MG	32.587s
28	Josh Cook	Triple Eight/MG	MG	1m25.152s
29	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes	1m27.008s
-	Brett Smith	Eurotech Racing	Honda	Retirement
-	Stewart Lines	Maximum Motorsport	Ford	Retirement