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Flash Gordon's amazing adventure

Gordon Shedden beat Matt Neal and Jason Plato to score his first British Touring Car Championship title this year. AUTOSPORT's Kevin Turner looks back at how the drama unfolded

Kevin Turner Oct 31, 2012, 12:48 PM

Six years after his first victory in the series, Gordon Shedden can finally call himself the British Touring Car champion. In what was a mixed year for all the major contenders, Shedden used the new Honda Civic's superb chassis to great effect and clinched the title with a race to spare at the Brands Hatch finale.

In the first year of the NGTC regulations taking prominence over the older S2000 machines, the works Honda and MG squads both produced race-winning cars. The championship fight thus boiled down - unsurprisingly - to a fight between Shedden and multiple champions Matt Neal and Jason Plato.

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Author Kevin Turner

Kevin Turner is Autosport’s Chief Editor. While studying History at the University of York, Kevin began covering UK club events as a freelance reporter for Autosport and Motorsport News. He joined the Autosport staff as Editorial Assistant on the magazine in 2006, winning what is now known as the Motorsport UK Young Journalist of the Year Award. He became National Editor in 2008 and over the next few seasons covered a range of international events, including the Le Mans 24 Hours, as well as the British Touring Car Championship and British GT. Kevin became Features Editor before switching to edit Motorsport News in 2014.

He returned to Autosport in 2016 to become editor of the magazine, a dream job that is still part of his role.

He became Chief Editor in 2020, helping to plan content for autosport.com and Autosport’s podcast as well as seeing the magazine through the coronavirus pandemic. Kevin also led work on the special publication celebrating 70 years of Autosport and has been a judge on the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award, formerly known as the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, since 2008. He lives in Warboys with his wife and two children.