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Turkington dominates eventful second Donington race

A commanding drive from Colin Turkington gave Team BMR back-to-back wins in the second BTCC race at Donington, as Matt Neal and Adam Morgan completed the podium after surviving an entertaining scrap.

Podium: race winner Colin Turkington

Podium: race winner Colin Turkington

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Colin Turkington, Team BMR leads
Matt Neal, Honda Yuasa Racing
Gordon Shedden, Honda Yuasa Racing and Colin Turkington, Team BMR
Podium: race winner Colin Turkington, second place Matt Neal, third place Adam Morgan
Adam Morgan, Wix Racing
Adam Morgan, Wix Racing
Adam Morgan, Wix Racing
Andrew Jordan, Pirtek Racing
Colin Turkington, Team BMR
Warren Scott, Team BMR

From second on a grid determined by fastest laps from the day’s opening race, Turkington, carrying 57kg of success ballast, wasted no time in seizing the advantage from poleman Gordon Shedden.

The pair made light contact as they came through Redgate, with Turkington’s Volkswagen edging clear on the run down the Old Hairpin to take the lead as Triple Eight MG driver Andrew Jordan snuck around the outside of Shedden’s Honda Civic Type R into second.

An early Safety Car period, caused by the car of BMR team boss Warren Scott getting stuck in the gravel after being hit Alex Martin’s Ford, bunched up the pack, but Turkington judged the restart to perfection as Jordan was left to fend off Shedden and Morgan’s Mercedes.

Jordan was able to hang on initially on his soft tyres, as Shedden – also on softs but carrying 66kg of ballast – began a steady descent through the field, his Honda teammate Neal going in the opposite direction from his starting slot of seventh.

But Jordan’s rubber also soon began to deteriorate, and he dropped behind both Morgan and Neal exiting Coppice with a handful of laps left, only to repass as Neal attempted a forceful move on Morgan at the chicane that cost both drivers time.

As the Mercedes driver ran wide, Neal was then able to make his pass on Jordan stick for second at Redgate, before proceeding to halve the impressive 5.7 second gap Turkington had built at the head of the field in the closing laps, falling 2.5s short at the chequered flag.

Jordan meanwhile fell back into the clutches of Morgan and Rob Collard’s West Surrey Racing BMW, the MG cutting across the gravel at the chicane as the battle for the final podium place came to a head.

While Morgan managed to make his move into third stick, Jordan managed to cling on to fourth as Collard lost out to the ballast-laden BMR VW of race one winner Plato as a result of the botched move and had to settle for sixth.

Josh Cook meanwhile battled his way through to seventh place, missing out on denying Collard sixth by a wafer-thin margin of 0.009s.

Eighth place went to Jack Goff’s MG, which had run in the leading group early on only to drop back as the race wore on, with the BMWs of Sam Tordoff and Andy Priaulx completing the top 10 finishers.

Having been a non-starter in race one, BMR’s Aron Smith fought his way from 29th and last on the grid to finish 12th behind Dave Newsham’s Chevrolet, while Shedden had to be content with 14th place as he struggled with a toxic combination of soft tyres and his considerable ballast.

In the reverse grid draw, Cook's finishing position of seventh was drawn, giving the Jack Sears Trophy runner pole for the final race of the day ahead of Collard and Plato.

Pos  Driver   Car    Time/Gap 
Colin Turkington Volkswagen 22:58.065 
Matt Neal Honda 2.501
Adam Morgan Mercedes 8.832
Andrew Jordan MG 10.484
Jason Plato Volkswagen 10.693
Rob Collard BMW 10.982
Josh Cook Chevrolet 10.991
Jack Goff MG 12.002
Sam Tordoff BMW 12.150
10  Andy Priaulx BMW 12.320
11  Dave Newsham Chevrolet 13.666
12  Árón Smith Volkswagen 14.514
13  Tom Ingram Toyota 14.695
14  Gordon Shedden Honda 17.086
15  Jeff Smith Honda 17.387
16  Aiden Moffat Mercedes 19.452
17  Hunter Abbott Audi 25.108
18  Rob Austin Audi 25.210
19  Martin Depper Honda 26.380
20  Kieran Gallagher Toyota 37.303
21  Simon Belcher Toyota 54.977
22  Stewart Lines Toyota 58.907
23  Alex Martin Ford 1:06.987
24  Richard Hawken Infiniti 1:15.832
  Retirements    
Mike Bushell Ford  
Daniel Welch Proton  
Warren Scott Volkswagen  
Derek Palmer Jr. Infiniti  
Andy Wilmot Proton

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