Donington Park BTCC: Andrew Jordan triumphs in race two

The reigning Independents' champion made a good start but could not quite outdrag polesitter Gordon Shedden's works Honda Civic to lead.

Jordan's challenge had to be put on hold as a startline clash involving James Kaye and David Nye brought out the safety car.

At the restart, Jordan tracked and pressured the reigning champion and dived down the inside at Redgate to take the lead.

The Eurotech Honda then drove away as Jordan headed to his first victory of 2013.

Jason Plato's MG, which had driven around the outside of Matt Neal's works Civic down the Craner Curves to run third, then moved forward to challenge Shedden.

Their fight allowed Neal and Adam Morgan's Ciceley Racing Toyota Avensis to close and the four cars ran together for much of the race.

After several attempts, Plato got a good run out of Redgate with three laps to go to power past the Honda. He then closed on Jordan, but the Honda was still two seconds ahead at the flag.

Behind Shedden, Neal and Morgan, Sam Tordoff finally overcame a defensive Colin Turkington (WSR BMW) to finish sixth in his MG6, chased by Dave Newsham's Speedworks Toyota.

Aron Smith's Motorbase Ford Focus also made it by Turkington to finish eighth, while Tom Onslow-Cole completed the top 10 in Team Hard's new VW Passat, and will start on pole for the reversed-grid race.

After a startline crash, the S2000 field was further reduced by an off for Warren Scott and problems for Liam Griffin and Joe Girling.

That left Lea Wood to win the Jack Sears Trophy as the only class finisher.

Race 2 - 18 laps:

Pos  Driver            Team/Car                   Time/Gap
 1.  Andrew Jordan     Eurotech Honda           23m07.443s
 2.  Jason Plato       MG                         + 1.955s
 3.  Gordon Shedden    Honda                      + 3.233s
 4.  Matt Neal         Honda                      + 4.365s
 5.  Adam Morgan       Ciceley Toyota             + 4.980s
 6.  Sam Tordoff       MG                         + 7.004s
 7.  Dave Newsham      Speedworks Toyota          + 7.422s
 8.  Aron Smith        Motorbase Ford            + 10.469s
 9.  Colin Turkington  WSR BMW                   + 10.977s
10.  Tom Onslow-Cole   HARD VW                   + 11.470s
11.  Jeff Smith        Eurotech Honda            + 14.458s
12.  Rob Collard       WSR BMW                   + 14.770s
13.  Mat Jackson       Motorbase Ford            + 19.626s
14.  Jack Goff         HARD Vauxhall             + 22.534s
15.  Daniel Welch      Welch Proton              + 26.803s
16.  Nick Foster       WSR BMW                   + 43.201s
17.  Lea Wood          Wood Vauxhall*            + 43.368s
18.  James Cole        HARD Vauxhall             + 48.354s
19.  Will Bratt        Austin Audi             + 1m16.788s

Retirements:

     Rob Austin        Austin Audi                 12 laps
     Ollie Jackson     Speedworks Toyota           12 laps
     Frank Wrathall    Dynojet Toyota               7 laps
     Liam Griffin      Motorbase Ford*              7 laps
     Joe Girling       Finesse Chevrolet*           5 laps
     Warren Scott      BMR SEAT*                    4 laps
     James Kaye        AmD VW*                      0 laps
     David Nye         Welch Ford*                  0 laps

* S2000