Matt Neal took his second win of the day after a relatively easy victory in race two at Thruxton.
The Honda Yuasa Racing driver won by nearly 1.5 seconds after pulling away at the start. His lead was only briefly cut after a safety car was scrambled to enable the recovery of Daniel Welch’s Proton which had a heavy shunt at Club.
Behind Neal, Tom Onslow Cole had another excellent race, this time to second place overall in his PPCGB.com/Kraftwerk racing VW Passat. Onslow Cole battled Jason Plato earlier in the race but his MG KX momentum Racing MG6 faded and he ended up third.
There was late race disapointment again for Andrew Jordan in his Pirtek Honda after a slide lost him third place to Gordon Shedden. Prior to tis they had both been pressuring Onslow Cole for second but the incident allowed Onslow Cole to pull away.
Jack Goff impressed in the RCIB Insurance racing Vauxhall Insignia racing the WSR BMW’s and Airwaves Focuses to take ninth and also the reverse grid pole for race 3. It will be interesting to see how well he can finish. He has Adam Morgan (another off track excursion survivor) alongside and Sam Tordoff just behind him for the fnal race of the day.
Both Airwaves cars survived scares when they spun across the track narrowly avoiding rivals.
Lea Wood took the Jack Sears Trophy win but there were only two finishers in that class this time.
1 2 Matt Neal Honda Civic 0.00
2 6 Tom Onslow-Cole VW Passat CC +1.468 1:18.314
3 1 Gordon Shedden Honda Civic +1.676 1:18.137
4 77 Andrew Jordan Honda Civic +1.891 1:17.999
5 99 Jason Plato MG6 +3.560 1:18.350
6 55 Jeff Smith Honda Civic +4.949 1:18.734
7 88 Sam Tordoff MG6 +13.072 1:18.768
8 33 Adam Morgan Toyota Avensis +14.410 1:19.445
9 31 Jack Goff Vauxhall Insignia VXR-R +20.433 1:18.755
10 8 Aron Smith Ford Focus +22.457 1:19.463
11 29 Colin Turkington BMW 125i M Sport +22.950 1:19.016
12 17 Dave Newsham Toyota Avensis +23.190 1:18.682
13 5 Robert Collard BMW 125i M Sport 19 +23.489 1:19.191
14 20 James Cole Vauxhall Insignia VXR-R +26.856 1:20.432
15 7 Mat Jackson Ford Focus 19 +28.789 1:19.032
16 18 Nick Foster BMW 125i M Sport 19 +29.063 1:20.437
17 48 Ollie Jackson Toyota Avensis 19 +34.230 1:20.405
18 13 Rob Austin Audi A4 19 +36.554 1:20.853
19 11 Frank Wrathall Toyota Avensis 19 +39.421 1:19.739
20 43 Lea Wood Vauxhall Vectra 19 +40.145 1:20.917
21 12 David Nye Ford Focus 19 +44.379 1:21.676
22 14 Will Bratt Audi A4 19 +51.062 1:20.559
Not Classified
– 90 Joe Girling Chevrolet Cruze 18 +1 lap 1:21.796
– 15 James Kaye VW Golf MK5 15 +4 laps 1:21.614
– 66 Liam Griffin Ford Focus 10 +9 laps 1:21.244
– 39 Warren Scott SEAT Leon 5 +14 laps 1:21.424
– 10 Daniel Welch Proton Gen-2 3 +16 laps 1:19.658 By Marc Waller
