BTC Racing’s Josh Cook opened up a 25-point lead at the top of the drivers’ standings after doubling up in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Thruxton ahead of MB Motorsport’s Jake Hill.
Hill once again launched his BMW away from the line better than Cook and took the lead into the first corner, with Cook slipping back to third at Campbell, but Cook emerged back in second by the time the cars had exited the complex.
Hill initially looked to have enough of a lead to at least hold on for the lap, but Cook steamed up behind the BMW on the approach up the hill to the chicane and the Honda driver pulled off a superb pass around the outside of Hill on the approach to the chicane to take the lead back.
Hill then kept close to Cook as he had in the opening race, but again the MB Motorsport driver was never really close enough to mount a serious challenge for the win.
As in race one, NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton completed the podium, but the reigning champion was a distant third, finishing just over three seconds behind Cook.
Team BMW’s Colin Turkington and Team Dynamics’ Daniel Rowbottom also finished in the same positions as in race one in fourth and fifth respectively, the latter having fallen back from Turkington’s BMW.
Ciceley Motorsport’s Adam Morgan took sixth, gaining a place at the start when BTC’s Jason Plato had a poor first lap and dropped four places.
Despite that, Plato came back in the second half of the race. Having dropped to tenth, Plato moved up two places on lap four when Toyota’s Rory Butcher forced BMW’s Stephen Jelley wide at Seagrave, with Plato then getting past Butcher himself later around the lap.
The two-time champion then recovered to seventh three laps later with as pass on Excelr8 Motorsport’s Daniel Lloyd, holding station to the end of the race.
Afterwards, the reverse grid draw saw the top seven finishers reversed for race three, giving Plato pole position for the final race of the day.
Tom Ingram completed a strong recovery drive to eighth, having started from 21st on the grid due to his troubles in race one. The Hyundai driver strung together confident passes lap after lap, and from laps nine to 11 he made up at least one place per lap, with several impressive passes pulled off at the high-speed Goodwood and Village corners.
The top ten was completed by Lloyd, who lost out to his Excelr8 team-mate on the last lap, and Power Maxed Racing’s Ash Hand.
Like Ingram, Team Dynamics’ Gordon Shedden also had to put in a recovery drive after race one dramas and the Scot took the chequered flag in 11th, making up 13 places in the race.
The second PMR Vauxhall of Michael Crees was 12th, having fought close to his team-mate late in the race in a move which almost left Butcher through.
Butcher ended up in 13th, with Team HARD’s Bobby Thompson in 14th after having run as high as 11th in the early stages. Thompson was however later penalised for having gained an unfair advantage when he cut the final chicane in passing Excelr8’s Tom Chilton, with one second being added to his race time to demote him to 16th.
Troubles struck both Laser Tools Racing Infinitis – Dexter Patterson parked his Q50 by the side of the track whilst Aiden Moffat had to pit to have a flapping bonnet seen to.
Ollie Jackson took to the track late in the race after his team had missed the start to work on engine issues, whilst Excelr8’s Jack Butel didn’t take the start at all.
Race three is scheduled to get underway at 17:20 BST.
Race results (* one-second penalty)
| POS | NO | CL | NAT | DRIVER | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | BEST | GD |
| 1 | 66 | I |  |
Josh COOK | Rich Energy BTC Racing | Honda Civic Type R | 16 | 20:38.196 | 1:16.486 | 1 |
| 2 | 24 | M | |
Jake HILL | ROKiT MB Motorsport | BMW 330e M Sport | 16 | 0.487 | 1:16.597 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | M | |
Ashley SUTTON | NAPA Racing UK | Ford Focus ST | 16 | 3.067 | 1:16.771 | 3 |
| 4 | 50 | M | |
Colin TURKINGTON | Team BMW | BMW 330e M Sport | 16 | 3.717 | 1:16.834 | 4 |
| 5 | 32 | M | |
Daniel ROWBOTTOM | Halfords Racing with Cataclean | Honda Civic Type R | 16 | 7.806 | 1:16.717 | 5 |
| 6 | 33 | I | |
Adam MORGAN | Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport | BMW 330e M Sport | 16 | 8.763 | 1:16.778 | 7 |
| 7 | 11 | I | |
Jason PLATO | Rich Energy BTC Racing | Honda Civic Type R | 16 | 10.488 | 1:16.685 | 6 |
| 8 | 80 | M | |
Tom INGRAM | Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com | Hyundai i30 Fastback N | 16 | 15.424 | 1:16.997 | 21 |
| 9 | 123 | M | |
Daniel LLOYD | Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com | Hyundai i30 Fastback N | 16 | 15.735 | 1:17.261 | 8 |
| 10 | 97 | I | |
Ash HAND | CarStore Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall Astra | 16 | 19.736 | 1:17.642 | 10 |
| 11 | 52 | M | |
Gordon SHEDDEN | Halfords Racing with Cataclean | Honda Civic Type R | 16 | 20.844 | 1:16.973 | 24 |
| 12 | 777 | I | |
Michael CREES | CarStore Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall Astra | 16 | 21.559 | 1:17.437 | 13 |
| 13 | 6 | M | |
Rory BUTCHER | Toyota GAZOO Racing UK | Toyota Corolla GR Sport | 16 | 21.678 | 1:16.969 | 11 |
| 14 | 12 | M | |
Stephen JELLEY | Team BMW | BMW 330e M Sport | 16 | 23.146 | 1:16.988 | 9 |
| 15 | 3 | M | |
Tom CHILTON | Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com | Hyundai i30 Fastback N | 16 | 23.862 | 1:17.479 | 12 |
| 16 | 19 | I | |
Bobby THOMPSON* | Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero | CUPRA Leon | 16 | 23.926* | 1:17.592 | 17 |
| 17 | 21 | M | |
Ricky COLLARD | Toyota GAZOO Racing UK | Toyota Corolla GR Sport | 16 | 24.178 | 1:17.491 | 16 |
| 18 | 9 | M | |
Dan CAMMISH | NAPA Racing UK | Ford Focus ST | 16 | 25.396 | 1:17.365 | 25 |
| 19 | 40 | I |  |
Árón TAYLOR-SMITH | Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing | CUPRA Leon | 16 | 38.98 | 1:18.209 | 18 |
| 20 | 42 | I | |
George GAMBLE | Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport | BMW 330e M Sport | 16 | 39.435 | 1:17.325 | 14 |
| 21 | 99 | I | |
Jade EDWARDS | Rich Energy BTC Racing | Honda Civic Type R | 16 | 39.712 | 1:17.469 | 27 |
| 22 | 20 | I | |
Will POWELL | Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero | CUPRA Leon | 16 | 46.538 | 1:18.315 | 23 |
| 23 | 77 | M | |
Sam OSBORNE | Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan | Ford Focus ST | 16 | 47.835 | 1:18.092 | 19 |
| 24 | 28 | I | |
Nicolas HAMILTON | Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing | CUPRA Leon | 16 | 48.393 | 1:18.405 | 26 |
| 25 | 16 | I | |
Aiden MOFFAT | Laser Tools Racing | Infiniti Q50 | 14 | 2 Laps | 1:18.013 | 15 |
| R | 17 | I | |
Dexter PATTERSON | Laser Tools Racing | Infiniti Q50 | 11 | DNF | 1:17.964 | 20 |
| R | 62 | I | |
Rick PARFITT JR | Uptonsteel with Euro Car Parts Racing | Infiniti Q50 | 9 | DNF | 1:18.193 | 22 |
| R | 48 | M | |
Ollie JACKSON | Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan | Ford Focus ST | 5 | DNF | 1:18.226 | 29 |
| NS | 96 | M | |
Jack BUTEL | Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com | Hyundai i30 Fastback N | – | DNS | N/A | 28 |