Title rivals Fabrizio Giovanardi started first and second and finished the same way - but Plato had to charge from the back of the pack after an early collision with Tom Chilton.
With several cars still missing from the first race including Matt Neal and Fiona Leggate there were hopes for a clean second start. Most [...]

Brands Hatch greeted the return of the British Touring Car Championship for its second event of the year with wet weather.
It provoked an enormous crash on the first lap that left two drivers hospitalised, blocked the circuit and caused the race to be restarted.
After a action-packed race it was the championship leaders that came out [...]

Rain-lashed Donington Park had the kind of weather we’re more used to seeing at Knockhill. So it was fitting that Dunfermline native Gordon Shedden triumphed in terrible weather in the first race.
Behind him were two drivers with extraordinary tales to tell. Adam Jones finished second in a three year old Seat and Matt Neal stormed [...]

Mat Jackson capitalised on a first-lap crash and his BMW’s superior traction to take his first ever BTCC victory.
The family run Jackson team held off the works Seats of Jason Plato and Darren Turner.
Race one winner Gordon Shedden was fourth ahead of ;pole sitter Adam Jones in a fine showing for the Team Air Cool [...]