Gordon Shedden took victory in the final British Touring Car Championship race of the day, after MG’s Jason Plato relinquished the lead following a tyre deflation.
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The race started in frantic fashion, with Adam Morgan and polesitter Jack Goff duelling side by side off the line, before Morgan snatched the lead into Campbell. Goff then ran wide into the corner, but returned to the track in third place.
Further on around the lap Morgan carried too much speed into Church and ran wide over the grass, but held onto his lead from Jeff Smith and Jason Plato, who had got the better of Goff.
Things only got worse for the young racer from there, as he was forced wide once more at Campbell, only to pull off at the side of the track shortly afterwards.
Back at the front, Plato increased the pressure on Smith for the lead, whislt Honda duo Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal worked their way around the Passat of Tom Onslow-Cole.
When Plato finally got past Smith, he was able to pull into a comfortable lead as it was a few laps before Shedden was able to repeat the feat. Shedden got round the sister Civic on lap 12, and quickly set about eating into Plato’s three-second advantage.
He wasn’t required to do so however, as Plato slowed on lap 14 with a front-left deflation. He pulled into the pits at the end of the lap, with his chances of retaining his championship lead shattered.
That left Shedden in the lead, but the drama was to continue behind as the remaining Hondas came to blows. The chance was there for a Honda 1-2-3-4, but Smith and Neal got close into the chicane, with the former spinning off before rejoining to finish in sixth.
Neal and Jordan chased Shedden to the line, but the order remained the same as the cars crossed the line.
Tom Onslow-Cole kept his nose clean to complete a fine weekend in fourth place, whilst the signs of improvement were definitely glowing for Airwaves, with Aron Smith taking fifth, split from his teammate Jackson by the recovering Jeff Smith.
Sam Tordoff had held a podium position in the early stages of the race, but he faded to eighth place ahead of Dave Newsham and Colin Turkington, who completed the top ten. Daniel Welch put in an impressive display to bring his Proton home in 11th position, having started at the back of the grid.
It was a near-perfect weekend for Lea Wood, as he scooped his second victory in the Jack Sears Trophy, beating the NGTC car of Will Bratt. His teammate Rob Austin looked like he might salvage some points from the event, but he crawled into the pits a third of the way through the race.