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Jackson wins Oulton race three

Mat Jackson won the reversed-grid British Touring Car race at Oulton Park this afternoon

The Motorbase Ford Focus driver started the event from pole and overcame the fast-starting Nick Foster (WSR BMW) on the opening lap.

Race one winner Gordon Shedden (Honda Civic) soon followed Jackson through. He stayed around a second behind, but could not challenge and eventually fell back to settle for second.

Once ahead of Foster, Eurotech Racing's Andrew Jordan looked secure in third until he was caught by the flying Matt Neal. His Civic had started 18th, but carved through the field - passing old rival Jason Plato among many others - to challenge Jordan for third in the closing stages.

With less than three laps to go, Neal dived down the inside of Jordan into the Knickerbrook chicane. Both outbraked themselves, Neal going across the grass and Jordan down the escape road. Jordan emerged ahead and held on to complete the podium.

A long way behind, a fine multi-car battle for fifth was eventually won by the Special Tuning Racing SEAT Leon of Tom Boardman, just ahead of Arena Ford Focus duo Andy Neate and Tom Chilton.

Boardman's new team-mate Dave Newsham also pipped Foster in the closing stages to secure ninth.

Behind final points-scorer Jeff Smith came Plato's Chevrolet Cruze. He had been battling the WSR BMWs of Foster and Rob Collard for fifth when an overtaking move at Lodge resulted in the two cars going off. Collard also spun, eventually coming home 14th.

Results - 17 laps

Pos  Driver          Team/Car                 Time/Gap
 1.  Mat Jackson     Motorbase Ford         26m21.782s
 2.  Gordon Shedden  Honda                    + 4.388s
 3.  Andrew Jordan   Eurotech Vauxhall        + 6.489s
 4.  Matt Neal       Honda                    + 6.933s
 5.  Tom Boardman    Special Tuning SEAT     + 27.307s
 6.  Andy Neate      Arena Ford              + 27.508s
 7.  Tom Chilton     Arena Ford              + 28.276s
 8.  Dave Newsham    Special Tuning SEAT     + 29.172s
 9.  Nick Foster     WSR BMW                 + 30.256s
10.  Jeff Smith      Eurotech Vauxhall       + 34.334s
11.  Jason Plato     Chevrolet               + 35.787s
12.  Tony Gilham     Triple 8 Vauxhall       + 37.036s
13.  James Nash      Triple 8 Vauxhall       + 42.575s
14.  Rob Collard     WSR BMW                 + 43.886s
15.  Lea Wood        Central Honda           + 46.972s
16.  Rob Austin      Austin Audi           + 1m00.045s
17.  Tony Hughes     Speedworks Toyota     + 1m09.560s
18.  Alex MacDowall  Chevrolet                + 2 laps

Retirements:

     John George     Tech-Speed Chevrolet      15 laps
     Liam Griffin    Motorbase Ford            12 laps
     Frank Wrathall  Dynojet Toyota             4 laps
     Paul O'Neill    Tech-Speed Chevrolet       0 laps

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