Colin Turkington doubles up on way to 50th BTCC win at Oulton Park

Colin Turkington secured a second successive lights-to-flag win in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Oulton Park, as the BMW driver took his 50^th victory in the series.

Turkington had earlier won race one from pole position and the reigning champion took another dominant victory in the second race under sunny skies in Cheshire, with little challenges coming to the points leader at the front of the field.

Andrew Jordan took second in his BMW Pirtek Racing 3 Series, having got the jump on Honda’s Dan Cammish off the line at the start to take his second straight podium and move up to second in the points standings.

Cammish had to settle for the final podium position, the Team Dynamics driver unable to challenge the leading BMW duo despite running on the soft, and favoured, tyre.

There was less than one racing lap before the safety car was required for the second time of the day when Team HARD’s Jack Goff was knocked off the circuit approaching the hairpin by BTC Racing’s Josh Cook – who ended up punting Goff into his BTC team-mate Chris Smiley, taking both the Volkswagen and Honda drivers out of the race.

Racing resumed on lap six, with Turkington comfortably opening up his lead at the front, whilst behind the fiercest battles came on the fringes of the top ten.

Honda’s Matt Neal made his way up to 12^th by lap 12, with the Civic driver on form as he passed Ollie Jackson and Jake Hill on successive laps to move up to 11^th before the safety car was needed again due to Exceler8 Motorsport’s  Sam Osborne going off into the barriers on the exit of Old Hall Corner.

There were no further changes of position in the top five places after the race restarted on lap 16, as BMW’s Tom Oliphant took fourth, having made up two places at the very start of the race with a lightning getaway.

AmD Tuning’s Sam Tordoff took fifth, ahead of Team Parker Racing’s Stephen Jelley in sixth, the BMW 1 Series driver passing Jason Plato, Tom Ingram and Rory Butcher in the final five laps of the race to equal his best result of the year.

Butcher was seventh, the AmD driver losing out to Jelley two laps from the flag, ahead of Ingram in eighth, the Toyota driver having gone wide exiting the chicane on lap 16 and losing two places as a result.

Completing the top ten were Plato and Cook, with the latter Honda driver sustaining intense pressure from Neal, who came from 30^th on the grid, in the final laps.

Motorbase’s Tom Chilton retired to the pits after six laps whilst running in 12^th following contact with Jake Hill.

The second Exceler8 MG of Rob Smith failed to finish, crashing just metres from the finish line after contact from Michael Crees exiting the final corner turned him into the barriers in a hefty impact which threw the car airborne.

Turkington’s landmark win gives the Northern Irishman a 38-point lead at the top of the points table ahead of Jordan in second and Sutton and Cook in joint third.

Race three gets underway at 17:10 BST.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	1	M	Colin TURKINGTON		Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	18	30:27.871	1:26.204	1
2	77	M	Andrew JORDAN		BMW Pirtek Racing	BMW 330i M Sport	18	1.229	1:26.409	3
3	27	M	Dan CAMMISH		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	1.859	1:26.669	2
4	15	M	Tom OLIPHANT		Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	18	2.460	1:26.728	6
5	600	I	Sam TORDOFF		Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid / RCIB Insurance	Honda Civic Type R	18	3.662	1:26.775	5
6	12	I	Stephen JELLEY		Team Parker Racing	BMW 125i M Sport	18	3.802	1:27.061	10
7	6	I	Rory BUTCHER		Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid / RCIB Insurance	Honda Civic Type R	18	5.785	1:26.906	4
8	80	M	Tom INGRAM		Team Toyota GB with Ginsters	Toyota Corolla	18	6.306	1:26.860	7
9	11	M	Jason PLATO		Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	18	6.756	1:27.014	8
10	66	I	Josh COOK		BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	7.627	1:26.945	17
11	25	M	Matt NEAL		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	7.780	1:26.633	30
12	24	I	Jake HILL		TradePriceCars.com	Audi S3	18	8.046	1:27.176	12
13	48	I	Ollie JACKSON		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher	Ford Focus RS	18	9.487	1:27.094	9
14	16	I	Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	18	9.724	1:27.335	18
15	32	I	Daniel ROWBOTTOM		Cataclean Racing with Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	18	9.953	1:27.289	21
16	116	M	Ashley SUTTON		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg	18	10.19	1:27.201	13
17	41	I	Carl BOARDLEY		RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport	Volkswagen CC	18	11.032	1:27.246	20
18	18	M	Senna PROCTOR		Adrian Flux Subaru Racing	Subaru Levorg	18	11.177	1:27.290	22
19	33	I	Adam MORGAN		Mac Tools with Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	18	12.337	1:26.967	29
20	303	I	Matt SIMPSON		Simpson Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	13.083	1:27.401	24
21	19	I	Bobby THOMPSON		GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct	Volkswagen CC	18	14.092	1:27.256	19
22	9	M	Rob COLLARD		Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	18	14.748	1:27.714	15
23	8	I	Mark BLUNDELL		TradePriceCars.com	Audi S3	18	17.216	1:27.749	28
24	777	I	Michael CREES		GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct	Volkswagen CC	18	17.908	1:28.130	27
25	28	I	Nicolas HAMILTON		ROKiT Racing with Motorbase	Ford Focus RS	18	40.385	1:26.963	23
R	37	I	Rob SMITH		Exceler8 Motorsport	MG6	17	DNF	1:27.637	25
R	4	I	Sam OSBORNE		Exceler8 Motorsport	MG6	11	DNF	1:28.355	26
R	3	I	Tom CHILTON		Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher	Ford Focus RS	6	DNF	1:49.444	11
R	31	I	Jack GOFF		RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport	Volkswagen CC	0	DNF	N/A	14
R	22	I	Chris SMILEY		BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	0	DNF	N/A	16