BTCC Oulton Park: Plato doubles up in second race

The MG man built up a 2.5-second lead in the first two laps before Jack Goff's Team Hard Vauxhall Insignia stopped on the pit entry and brought out the safety car.

Plato again pulled away at the restart and the main interest was created as rivals tried to find their way past Sam Tordoff's soft tyre-shod MG.

Gordon Shedden made it by first with a fine move at Old Hall just before half-distance. He quickly pulled away, but could not match Plato's pace.

Colin Turkington's WSR BMW continued its fine weekend. Turkington jumped to third at the start, lost out to Shedden just before the safety car, and then secured the final podium place by breaching Tordoff's defences across the start/finish line.

Matt Neal's works Honda Civic and the similar machine of Andrew Jordan also made it by the struggling MG before contact between Tordoff and Mat Jackson's Motorbase Ford Focus on the penultimate lap left the two machines crawling around out of contention.

Dave Newsham's Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis thus completed the top six, ahead of Adam Morgan's Ciceley Racing example and the Audi A4 of Rob Austin.

Lea Wood, who was handed Jack Sears Trophy victory in race one after a penalty for Liam Griffin, led the S2000 runners throughout.

Plato's fourth 2013 victory moves him ahead of rival Matt Neal in the drivers' table with the reversed-grid event at Oulton still to go.

Results - 17 laps:

Pos Driver            Team/Car              Time/Gap
 1. Jason Plato       MG                   26m33.600s
 2. Gordon Shedden    Honda                 + 2.691s
 3. Colin Turkington  WSR BMW               + 3.285s
 4. Matt Neal         Honda                 + 5.591s
 5. Andrew Jordan     Eurotech Honda        + 9.354s
 6. Dave Newsham      Speedworks Toyota     + 10.326s
 7. Adam Morgan       Ciceley Toyota        + 10.849s
 8. Rob Austin        Austin Audi           + 13.396s
 9. Daniel Welch      Welch Proton          + 16.078s
10. Jeff Smith        Eurotech Honda        + 16.270s
11. Tom Onslow-Cole   Hard VW               + 17.222s
12. Frank Wrathall    Dynojet Toyota        + 18.733s
13. Will Bratt        Austin Audi           + 22.368s
14. Aron Smith        Motorbase Ford        + 22.913s
15. Nick Foster       WSR BMW               + 30.994s
16. Ollie Jackson     Speedworks Toyota     + 31.633s
17. James Cole        Hard Vauxhall         + 32.595s
18. Lea Wood          Wood Vauxhall*        + 33.833s
19. Liam Griffin      Motorbase Ford*       + 35.787s
20. Mat Jackson       Motorbase Ford        + 45.237s
21. Sam Tordoff       MG                    + 1m00.564s
22. David Nye         Welch Ford*           + 1m20.279s

Retirements:

    Rob Collard       WSR BMW               11 laps
    Aaron Mason       AmD VW*                6 laps
    Jack Goff         Hard Vauxhall          1 lap
    Warren Scott      BMR SEAT*              0 laps

 * S2000