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Knockhill BTCC: Andrew Jordan closes points gap with victory

Andrew Jordan signed off his British Touring Car Championship weekend at Knockhill with an accomplished victory to keep himself in the heart of the title fight

The Eurotech man was drawn on pole position for the final reversed grid event and powered to a comfortable win, leading every lap to cross the line nearly four seconds clear.

The victory means he has zeroed in on points leader Matt Neal, who brought his works Honda home in second place. Jordan is six points adrift.

He had overcome an early disruption when the safety car had to be used to remove a stricken car.

"I was nervous when that happened, but the car was simply great," said Jordan. "I needed that to maintain my title hopes."

Neal had battled his way ahead of the hard-charging Rob Collard, who had taken his WSR-run BMW 1 Series into second place away from the startline. Neal had to work hard to force an opening and managed it with six laps remaining with a bold late-braking move.

Behind Collard, his BMW team-mate Colin Turkington, twice a winner earlier in the day, consolidated a strong weekend with a fourth place finish and he was hard on the heels of the fight for second.

NEWS UPDATE: Turkington excluded for boost infringement

Rob Austin ended a strong weekend for the Rob Austin Racing Audi with a fifth placed finish. He was ahead of works MG man Jason Plato, who was struggling with the handling of the Triple Eight-run MG6.

The major drama of the race was the retirement of Gordon Shedden, whose works Honda Civic burst into flames with a suspected engine problem as he was running in fifth place at the start of the 17th lap.

In the Jack Sears Trophy, Liam Griffin's winning streak came to an end when he was bumped off the track by a backmarker. That allowed Lea Wood to collect his 10th class victory of the season.

Results - 26 laps:

Pos  Driver            Team/Car               Time/Gap
 1.  Andrew Jordan     Eurotech Honda       24m04.003s
 2.  Matt Neal         Honda                   +3.962s
 3.  Rob Collard       WSR BMW                 +4.440s
 4.  Colin Turkington  WSR BMW                 +5.359s
 5.  Rob Austin        Austin Audi             +9.206s
 6.  Jason Plato       MG                     +12.782s
 7.  Daniel Welch      Welch Proton           +15.899s
 8.  Mat Jackson       Motorbase Ford         +16.450s
 9.  Nick Foster       WSR BMW                +16.646s
10.  Adam Morgan       Ciceley Toyota         +16.967s
11.  Will Bratt        Austin Audi            +27.162s
12.  Ollie Jackson     Speedworks Toyota      +27.969s
13.  Lea Wood          Wood Vauxhall            +1 lap
14.  Kieran Gallagher  Hard Vauxhall            +1 lap
15.  David Nye         Welch Ford               +1 lap
16.  Aron Smith        Motorbase Ford           +1 lap

Retirements:

     Paul O'Neill      Hard Vauxhall           19 laps
     Liam Griffin      Motorbase Ford          18 laps
     Gordon Shedden    Honda                   16 laps
     Tom Onslow-Cole   Hard VW                 12 laps
     Mike Bushell      IP Chevrolet            12 laps
     Dave Newsham      Speedworks Toyota       12 laps
     Warren Scott      BMR VW                   2 laps
     Frank Wrathall    Dynojet Toyota            1 lap
     Aiden Moffat      Finesse Chevrolet        0 laps
     Sam Tordoff       MG                       0 laps

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