Colin Turkington doubles up at Snetterton to retake points lead

Colin Turkington took a second straight victory in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Snetterton, with the BMW driver winning ahead of championship rivals Tom Ingram and Ash Sutton.

Turkington started the race from pole courtesy of his victory earlier in the day, and the Northern Irishman initially pulled away into a good lead, before Ingram came back at him on the opening lap.

However, Ingram didn’t appear to have the pace to pass Turkington’s BMW, as he came under increasing pressure from Motorbase Performance’s Rory Butcher, who had moved into third at the start.

Butcher kept the pressure on Ingram for much of the race, as Turkington pulled away to a three-second lead before the safety car was required at the end of lap ten when Team HARD’s Jack Goff crashed heavily at the first corner.

Goff, who was in clear air on his own, went slightly too wide on the exit of the turn, pitching his Volkswagen CC across the track and heavily into the armco on the inside. Goff emerged uninjured from the car, but the race was neutralised for three laps as a result.

When the safety car returned to the pits there was only time for a one lap sprint to the end, and Butcher attempted a move on Ingram at Turn 2, but misjudged badly and hit the rear of the Toyota hard.

Ingram continued, whilst Butcher was then passed by the Infiniti of Ash Sutton, as the Scot slipped to fourth.

Although Sutton tried initially to pas Ingram, he couldn’t keep the pressure up over the whole lap, as Ingram took second once again with Sutton completing the podium, now seven points adrift of Turkington in the drivers’ standings.

Butcher held on to take fourth, ahead of MB Motorsport’s Jake Hill in fifth. Hill had started third but a poor getaway meant he dropped to sixth on the first lap. He made amends at the very end of the race, pipping Honda’s Dan Cammish on the run to the finish line by a mere 0.047 seconds.

Cammish was thus sixth, although he had looked like possibly threatening Butcher for fourth on the final lap before he got a poor exit from the last corner.

BTC Racing’s Josh Cook claimed seventh, ahead of Motorbase’s Ollie Jackson in eighth, who had staged an impressive recovery drive through the field from 21^st on the grid after his race one off.

Ciceley Motorsport’s Adam Morgan and Excelr8 Motorsport’s Chris Smiley completed the top ten, with the latter claiming the reverse-grid pole position for race three after Turkington drew the number ten ball after the race.

BMW’s Tom Oliphant made modest progress to take 11^th, from 14^th on the grid after a race one incident, ahead of Honda’s Matt Neal in 12^th.

Along with Goff, Nic Hamilton and Aiden Moffat were also classified as non-finishers. Hamilton pitted with a lap to go, whilst Moffat again suffered from technical issues on his Infiniti, pitting after three laps before later re-joining the race.

Race three is scheduled to get underway at 15:54 GMT.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	1	M	Colin TURKINGTON		Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	14	30:02.296	1:57.669	1
2	80	M	Tom INGRAM		Toyota Gazoo Racing UK with Ginsters	Toyota Corolla	14	1.763	1:57.894	2
3	116	I	Ashley SUTTON		Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	14	1.914	1:57.985	5
4	6	I	Rory BUTCHER		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus ST	14	3.547	1:58.025	4
5	24	I	Jake HILL		MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Honda Civic Type-R	14	3.742	1:57.875	3
6	27	M	Dan CAMMISH		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	14	3.789	1:58.059	6
7	66	I	Josh COOK		BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	14	4.714	1:57.850	8
8	48	I	Ollie JACKSON		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus ST	14	4.993	1:58.246	21
9	32	I	Adam MORGAN		Carlube Triple R Racing with Mac Tools	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	14	4.995	1:57.725	7
10	22	I	Chris SMILEY		Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	14	5.355	1:58.205	11
11	15	M	Tom OLIPHANT		Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	14	5.989	1:58.005	14
12	25	M	Matt NEAL		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	14	6.712	1:58.089	13
13	18	I	Senna PROCTOR		Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	14	7.578	1:58.904	9
14	777	I	Michael CREES		The Clever Baggers with BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	14	8.193	1:58.529	10
15	4	I	Sam OSBORNE		MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Honda Civic Type-R	14	9.060	1:58.667	17
16	3	I	Tom CHILTON		BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	14	9.577	1:58.456	16
17	12	I	Stephen JELLEY		Team Parker Racing	BMW 125i M Sport	14	10.747	1:59.445	12
18	88	I	Glynn GEDDIE		RCIB Insurance Racing with Fox Transport	Volkswagen CC	14	10.913	2:00.053	25
19	23	I	Ethan HAMMERTON		GKR TradePriceCars.com	Audi S3	14	11.583	1:59.882	24
20	32	I	Jack BUTEL		Carlube Triple R Racing with Mac Tools	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	14	12.176	1:59.553	20
21	39	I	Jessica HAWKINS		Power Maxed Car Care Racing	Vauxhall Astra	14	12.588	1:59.765	22
22	44	I	Andy NEATE		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus ST	14	12.861	1:59.494	26
23	222	I	Paul RIVETT		GKR TradePriceCars.com	Audi S3	14	29.398	1:59.630	19
24	41	I	Carl BOARDLEY		Team HARD.	BMW 125i M Sport	13	34.317	1:58.966	15
25	28	I	Nicolas HAMILTON		ROKiT Racing with Team HARD.	Volkswagen CC	11	+ 1 LAP	2:00.025	23
26	16	I	Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	10	+ 3 LAPS	1:58.675	27
R	31	I	Jack GOFF		RCIB Insurance Racing with Fox Transport	Volkswagen CC	0	DNF	1:58.161	18