Jackson wins race three at Croft
Mat Jackson took his third reversed-grid race victory of this year's British Touring Car Championship in the day's final race at Croft
Jackson's Motorbase Ford Focus powered past the WSR BMW of series rookie and polesitter Nick Foster on the run to Tower on lap one. For a while he looked safe, but Foster and team-mate Rob Collard, up from sixth, were never far behind.
Collard looked faster than Foster and, after initially fighting, Foster allowed his colleague to slip by into the complex with five laps to go.
Collard closed right up to Jackson but, despite being much faster in the final twisty section, could not find a way by the Focus. On the final run to the line, Collard allowed Foster through to give his team-mate his best BTCC result so far.
Gordon Shedden's Honda Civic had run fourth early on, but he again hit tyre problems and was easily overcome by Andrew Jordan's Eurotech Racing Vauxhall Vectra in the closing stages.
The Honda also fell behind the Triple 8 Vectra of James Nash, who completed a feisty drive up from row six, on the final lap.
Shedden was therefore sixth, just ahead of Alex MacDowall (Chevrolet), who finished off a fine drive from 16th on the grid by passing Matt Neal's Honda on the final tour.
Reigning champion Jason Plato started on row 10 after a cv joint failure in race two and could only climb as high as 11th.
Results - 15 laps:
Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap
1. Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 22m10.663s
2. Nick Foster WSR BMW + 0.638s
3. Rob Collard WSR BMW + 0.922s
4. Andrew Jordan Eurotech Vauxhall + 10.909s
5. James Nash Triple 8 Vauxhall + 12.269s
6. Gordon Shedden Honda + 14.866s
7. Matt Neal Honda + 15.915s
8. Alex MacDowall Chevrolet + 16.512s
9. Tom Chilton Arena Ford + 21.112s
10. Dave Newsham Special Tuning SEAT + 21.855s
11. Jason Plato Chevrolet + 31.066s
12. Tony Gilham Triple 8 Vauxhall + 34.691s
13. Tom Onslow-Cole Arena Ford + 38.211s
14. Jeff Smith Eurotech Vauxhall + 38.359s
15. Shaun Hollamby AmD Volkswagen + 45.095s
16. Liam Griffin Motorbase Ford + 54.858s
17. John George Tech-Speed Chevrolet + 1m01.548s
18. Chris James ES Chevrolet + 1m02.209s
19. Lea Wood Central Honda + 1m19.308s
Retirements:
Paul O'Neill Tech-Speed Chevrolet 13 laps
Tom Boardman Special Tuning SEAT 10 laps
Rob Austin Austin Audi 5 laps
Andy Neate Arena Ford 5 laps
Frank Wrathall Dynojet Toyota 1 laps
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