Jackson charges to wet victory

It looked for most of the race that it would be Jason Plato and SEAT celebrating, the race one winner effortlessly passed Gordon Shedden for second on lap four after exiting Becketts quicker than his rival. He then overtook Tom Onslow-Cole's Vauxhall for the lead three laps later.

Jackson though, was unrelenting in his progress. He made it into the middle of a five-car battle for second place with Onslow-Cole, Colin Turkington, Adam Jones and Fabrizio Giovanardi.

After contact between Turkington and Onslow-Cole at Luffield on lap nine left the BMW spinning down the field, Jackson then seized the initiative, grabbed second from Onslow-Cole at the same place a lap later, and set off in chase of Plato.

The BMW Dealer UK driver took the lead at Becketts around the outside with nine laps to go, and pulled away to a three-second victory.

Jones took an excellent second place in his Team Air-Cool SEAT and Giovanardi came home third ahead of the recovering Turkington and Plato - who now lies 42 points behind the Italian in the championship with only 52 on offer at the Brands Hatch finale.

Onslow-Cole and Rob Collard - who started from the front row - were next up, while eighth place represented the best BTCC finish in the career of In-Tune Honda driver Michael Doyle.

Pos Driver                Team              Time    
 1. Mat Jackson           BMW          26:03.875
 2. Adam Jones            SEAT            +3.254
 3. Fabrizio Giovanardi   Vauxhall        +4.303
 4. Colin Turkington      BMW             +6.481
 5. Jason Plato           SEAT            +7.768
 6. Tom Onslow-Cole       Vauxhall        +8.721
 7. Rob Collard           BMW            +13.640
 8. Michael Doyle         Honda          +15.111
 9. Tom Chilton           Honda          +18.093
10. Stephen Jelley        BMW            +27.638
11. Gordon Shedden        Honda          +29.372
12. Steven Kane           BMW            +29.881
13. Harry Vaulkhard       Chevrolet      +31.305
14. John George           Honda          +53.757
15. Matt Neal             Vauxhall       +56.292
16. Alan Taylor           Honda        +1:02.895
17. Erkut Kizilirmak      Vauxhall        +1 lap
18. Martyn Bell           Vauxhall        +1 lap
19. Darren Turner         SEAT            +1 lap
20. Andrew Jordan         Honda           +1 lap

Retirements

    Mike Jordan           Honda          19 laps
    Jason Hughes          Honda          16 laps


Fastest lap, Plato 1:09.464 on lap 3