Giovanardi beats Plato in race one

Plato, who started from fourth place, came home behind Giovanardi after getting past Vauxhall guest driver Alain Menu, who had a puncture, on the last lap.

In a drama-filled encounter, early race leader and pole-sitter Tom Chilton retired with a puncture - while Plato's SEAT teammate Darren Turner also had a tyre deflate, dropping him to the back of the field. The results meant that the drivers', teams' and manufacturers' titles are all still open..

Team Dynamics' Gordon Shedden came third, while Menu hung on to fourth.

Classified:                    

Pos  Driver               Car         Time
 1.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  Vauxhall    21:33.994
 2.  Jason Plato          SEAT        +   1.004
 3.  Gordon Shedden       Honda       +   5.204
 4.  Alain Menu           Vauxhall    +   5.662
 5.  Matt Neal            Honda       +   6.329
 6.  Colin Turkington     BMW         +   6.744
 7.  Mat Jackson          BMW         +   7.024
 8.  Tom Coronel          SEAT        +  13.417
 9.  Adam Jones           SEAT        +  18.206
10.  Tom Onslow-Cole      BMW         +  18.555
11.  Rob Collard          SEAT        +  24.479
12.  Eoin Murray          Alfa Romeo  +  24.645
13.  Paul O'Neill         SEAT        +  28.462
14.  Jason Hughes         MG          +  33.962
15.  Erkut Kizilirmak     Vauxhall    +  43.730
16.  John George          Honda       +  49.223
17.  Alan Taylor          Honda       +  55.717
18.  Darren Turner        SEAT        +1:05.481
19.  Fiona Leggate        MG          +1:11.838

Not classified/retirements:

     Driver               Car         Laps
     Matt Allison         SEAT        15
     Tom Chilton          Vauxhall    13
     Mike Jordan          Honda       9
     David Pinkney        Alfa Romeo  7
     Martyn Bell          BMW         5
     Rick Kerry           BMW         5