Knockhill BTCC: Mat Jackson ends Motorbase's win drought
Mat Jackson won the second British Touring Car Championship race at Knockhill to give Motorbase its first victory since October 2012, while Colin Turkington stormed from 27th to fourth
Jackson's Ford Focus started fourth, but jumped to second when Rob Austin's Audi touched Gordon Shedden at Scotsman and sent the Honda Civic Tourer into the gravel.
Jackson and Jason Plato's MG6 went by the delayed Audi, while Shedden was forced to start a recovery drive that would eventually yield 12th.
Matt Neal's Honda Civic Tourer led after the safety car period the incident triggered, but soon had to serve a drive-through penalty for a jumped start.
That left the soft tyre-shod Jackson to pull clear of the Plato-Austin battle, which went the way of the MG driver by 0.7 seconds.
The main excitement, however, was behind the top three. Turkington stormed through the pack on his soft tyres, recording a fastest lap that would have been good enough for pole position.
He caught WSR BMW team-mate Rob Collard in fifth with six laps to go.
Although Collard defended, he could not stop Turkington passing him into Clark's and both then drove by Adam Morgan's Ciceley Mercedes on the start-finish straight to finish fourth and fifth.
Morgan and Tom Ingram's Speedworks Toyota Avensis were thus left to finish sixth and seventh, while Dave Newsham and Fabrizio Giovanardi made it three Ford Focuses in the top nine.
After being taken out of race one, reigning champion Andrew Jordan came through to 11th in his soft-shod Eurotech Honda.
Results - 25 laps
Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 22m36.360s
2. Jason Plato MG +1.637s
3. Rob Austin RAR Audi +2.362s
4. Colin Turkington WSR BMW +3.669s
5. Rob Collard WSR BMW +5.193s
6. Adam Morgan Ciceley Mercedes +6.777s
7. Tom Ingram Speedworks Toyota +11.206s
8. Dave Newsham AmD Ford +12.911s
9. Fabrizio Giovanardi Motorbase Ford +14.912s
10. Nick Foster WSR BMW +14.914s
11. Andrew Jordan Eurotech Honda +15.343s
12. Gordon Shedden Honda +20.461s
13. Jack Clarke Motorbase Ford +27.487s
14. Matt Neal Honda +29.897s
15. Alain Menu BMR VW +29.904s
16. Hunter Abbott RAR Audi +30.910s
17. Jack Goff BMR VW +33.176s
18. Sam Tordoff MG +36.192s
19. Aiden Moffat Moffat Chevrolet +36.610s
20. Glynn Geddie UA Toyota +48.358s
21. Robb Holland Rotek Audi +48.861s
22. Marc Hynes MG -1 lap
23. Simon Belcher Handy Toyota -1 lap
24. James Cole UA Toyota -3 laps
Retirements
Aron Smith BMR VW 24 laps
Chris Stockton BTC Chevrolet 21 laps
Martin Depper Eurotech Honda 8 laps
Dan Welch Welch Proton 7 laps
Lea Wood Houseman Toyota 4 laps
Warren Scott BMR VW 1 lap
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