Gordon Shedden wins third British Touring Car race at Silverstone
British Touring Car Championship challenger Gordon Shedden won the third race of the day at Silverstone in his Honda Civic Type-R to move to within 11 points of the title lead
The reigning champion passed early leader Rob Collard's BMW 125i M Sport on lap two as the pack headed into Becketts and scampered clear to an untroubled win, despite the fact he was on the less-favourable soft tyres.
"The rear-wheel-drive BMW went away well at the start, but I was able to nip past and pull away," said Shedden.
"The car was great and I could have gone on for another 20 laps.
"I knew I would have grip at the start and the move for the lead was strong. I thought I was going too fast for the soft tyres, but the car was handling really well and I was able to stay off the kerbs and look after it."
Collard also fell victim to a copycat overtaking move on lap three that allowed Mat Jackson to power his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus into second position.
Collard fended off the Subaru pairing of Jason Plato and Colin Turkington to the final lap, when Plato dropped out of fourth place with three corners to go after suffering a puncture.
That allowed another title contender, Matt Neal, to climb to fifth at the end in his Team Dynamics Honda Civic after he had early overtaken points leader Sam Tordoff (BMW 125i M Sport).
Behind Tordoff, Josh Cook grabbed seventh place in his Triple Eight Racing MG6 after a fierce battle.
He was ahead of race two winner Andrew Jordan's Motorbase Performance Ford Focus and Aiden Moffat's Ciceley Racing Mercedes-Benz A-Class.
Ash Sutton's Triple Eight Racing MG6 rounded out the top 10.
Tordoff now leads Shedden by 11 points, with Neal 13 points adrift. The final rounds are at Brands Hatch on October 1/2.
RESULTS - 22 LAPS:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 21m54.766s |
2 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 0.668s |
3 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1.087s |
4 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 2.009s |
5 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 2.426s |
6 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 2.586s |
7 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 5.399s |
8 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 7.119s |
9 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 7.914s |
10 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 9.275s |
11 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 9.290s |
12 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 9.291s |
13 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 9.518s |
14 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 11.619s |
15 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 12.044s |
16 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 17.184s |
17 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 17.262s |
18 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 20.244s |
19 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 24.714s |
20 | Tony Gilham | Team Hard | Toyota | 25.798s |
21 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 26.044s |
22 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 26.805s |
23 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 27.819s |
24 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 28.855s |
25 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 38.231s |
26 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 2 Laps |
- | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | Retirement |
- | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | Retirement |
- | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | Retirement |
- | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | Retirement |
- | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | Not started |
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:
Pos | Driver | Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Sam Tordoff | 278 |
2 | Gordon Shedden | 267 |
3 | Matt Neal | 265 |
4 | Rob Collard | 261 |
5 | Mat Jackson | 257 |
6 | Andrew Jordan | 247 |
7 | Colin Turkington | 241 |
8 | Jason Plato | 220 |
9 | Adam Morgan | 210 |
10 | Tom Ingram | 200 |
11 | Jack Goff | 186 |
12 | Ash Sutton | 155 |
13 | Josh Cook | 138 |
14 | Aron Taylor-Smith | 130 |
15 | Rob Austin | 110 |
16 | Aiden Moffat | 103 |
17 | Jake Hill | 70 |
18 | Jeff Smith | 50 |
19 | Hunter Abbott | 38 |
20 | Daniel Lloyd | 36 |
21 | Dave Newsham | 28 |
22 | Martin Depper | 27 |
23 | Daniel Welch | 23 |
24 | Michael Epps | 23 |
25 | James Cole | 15 |
26 | Ollie Jackson | 13 |
27 | Warren Scott | 7 |
28 | Alex Martin | 3 |
29 | Matt Simpson | 1 |
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