Onslow-Cole earns Donington victory

In what was the best race of the season so far, Onslow-Cole took second place from Mat Jackson's Motorbase BMW at the chicane on lap five and then repeated the move to grab the lead from Gordon Shedden's Honda five laps later.

After that the Arena Ford driver pulled out a lead of almost a second and held it to the finish. It was a result that moved him into equal second in the championship with Shedden and 15 points off series leader Jason Plato.

The results mean that the championship cannot be decided in the third race of the day, and will roll on to Brands Hatch in October.

Plato's was the drive of the race. The Chevrolet man started 19th after his earlier retirement, but was ninth by the end of lap two and kept on carving his way through the field.

He and his team-mate Alex MacDowall went either side of Steven Kane's Motorbase BMW at the chicane on lap five - handing Plato fifth.

He then got by both Jackson and Tom Chilton (Arena Ford) and closed onto the tail of Shedden by the finish - setting the fastest lap in the process.

Chilton took fourth ahead of Jackson and Kane. The Motorbase pair were involved in a late scrap with Rob Collard's WSR BMW. Collard went by both into the chicane on the last lap, but left his braking too late, slid across the gravel and dropped to seventh by the finish line.

Honda's Matt Neal was given a drive-through penalty for jumping the start, but took it at the end of the opening lap and was able to close back up on the tail of the pack when the safety car came out a lap later after David Pinkney spun off at Redgate.

He finished eighth, which will give him a front-row start for the reversed grid race alongside Andrew Jordan.

Pos  Driver           Car            Time/Gap
 1.  Tom Onslow-Cole  Ford         21m07.476s
 2.  Gordon Shedden   Honda          + 0.935s
 3.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet      + 1.542s
 4.  Tom Chilton      Ford           + 7.556s
 5.  Mat Jackson      BMW           + 10.236s
 6.  Steven Kane      BMW           + 10.978s
 7.  Rob Collard      BMW           + 11.047s
 8.  Matt Neal        Honda         + 12.115s
 9.  Andrew Jordan    Vauxhall      + 13.202s
10.  James Nash       Vauxhall      + 13.549s
11.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet     + 13.908s
12.  Paul O'Neill     Honda         + 18.773s
13.  Tom Boardman     SEAT          + 23.645s
14.  James Kaye       Honda         + 25.597s
15.  Andy Neate       BMW           + 30.150s
16.  John George      Honda         + 30.710s
17.  Lea Wood         Honda         + 31.587s
18.  David Pinkney    Vauxhall      + 41.898s
19.  Shaun Hollamby   Volkswagen    + 53.274s
20.  Arthur Forster   BMW         + 1m07.580s

Retirements:

     Martin Johnson   Vauxhall    8 laps