Turkington doubles up at Croft

The Team RAC driver never led by more than a second in the 16-lap race, but kept himself out of trouble and held off a determined charge by Mat Jackson to do it. The victory was BMW's 50th BTCC success.

Jackson started way down in 18th, but drove sensationally to carve through the field and finish second, just a tenth of a second behind Turkington.

He used the superb acceleration of his German machine to slingshot past his rivals exiting Tower, with that particular move accounting for Tom Onslow-Cole, Jason Plato, Fabrizio Giovanardi and Matt Neal.

The move on the Vauxhalls propelled him into second and a mighty tankslapper from Turkington entering the Complex on the final lap almost enabled him to sneak by into the hairpin. Second though, was still a superb result.

Neal finished third for Vauxhall, ahead of Rob Collard, who was able to hang on the double champion's tail all race long and only lost third to Jackson after sliding wide exiting the chicane on the penultimate lap.

Steven Kane ought to have made it Motorbase BMWs in fourth and fifth, but the Northern Irishman slowed dramatically on the final lap and was classified in 19th place.

His technical problem allowed Giovanardi to claim fifth, although his championship lead over team-mate Neal still reduced from 20 points to 16.

Adam Jones finished seventh in his Team Air-Cool SEAT, with Mike Jordan's Eurotech Honda and the SEATs of Jason Plato and Darren Turner completing the top 10.

Gordon Shedden, who finished on the podium in race one, retired with damage following a coming together with Neal on lap three that resulted in the Honda striking the barriers at Tower.

Pos Driver                 Car                 Time
 1. Colin Turkington       BMW            26:24.098
 2. Mat Jackson            BMW               +0.101
 3. Matt Neal              Vauxhall          +3.712
 4. Rob Collard            BMW               +4.295
 5. Fabrizio Giovanardi    Vauxhall          +7.783
 6. Adam Jones             SEAT              +8.546
 7. Mike Jordan            Honda             +9.859
 8. Jason Plato            SEAT             +12.102
 9. Darren Turner          SEAT             +12.409
10. Stephen Jelley         BMW              +14.818
11. Tom Onslow-Cole        Vauxhall         +18.053
12. Jason Hughes           Honda            +21.777
13. Harry Vaulkhard        Chevrolet        +24.569
14. Tom Chilton            Honda            +53.155
15. Erkut Kizilirmak       Vauxhall         +55.612
16. Martyn Bell            Vauxhall       +1:10.211
17. John George            Honda          +1:15.089
18. Chris Stockton         SEAT           +1:35.013


Retirements:
    Driver                 Car                 Laps
    Steven Kane            BMW              15 laps
    Stuart Oliver          SEAT             12 laps
    Andrew Jordan          Honda             8 laps
    Michael Doyle          Honda             6 laps
    Gordon Shedden         Honda             2 laps


Fastest lap, Kane 1:35.559 on lap 2