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Silverstone BTCC: Jason Plato wins again as Rob Collard crashes

Jason Plato won the second British Touring Car Championship race at Silverstone, which ended prematurely with a dramatic crash for Rob Collard

, Colin Turkington's WSR BMW snatched the advantage at the start, but once more Plato's MG was able to dive back by into Brooklands, this time on lap two.

Plato's hard tyre-shod Triple Eight machine and Turkington (on softs) again ran together for much of the race. At one stage the lead pack comprised nine cars, but Plato always looked in control.

Mat Jackson's Motorbase Ford Focus, also running on softs, stayed with Turkington until his tyres seemed to fade.

That allowed Alain Menu to attack into Copse just after half-distance, the BMR Volkswagen driver completing the move on the run to Becketts.

As the top three edged clear, Jackson put on a robust rear-guard action against the VW of his former team-mate Aron Smith, with the fight ending early when the red flags flew.

Collard had risen as high as fifth, but started to struggle in the closing stages and dropped back.

Going on to lap 21 of 22, the BMW had fallen out of the top 10 when Jack Clarke had a half-spin at Becketts in his Motorbase Focus.

As Collard tried to avoid the Ford, the BMW was side-swiped and launched into a series of rolls.

The race was stopped and the results taken back to the order at the end of lap 20.

NEWS UPDATE: Collard taken to hospital

RESULTS - 20 LAPS (RED FLAG):

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Jason Plato Triple Eight MG 19m56.217s
2 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 1.013s
3 Alain Menu Team BMR Volkswagen 1.739s
4 Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 2.778s
5 Aron Taylor-Smith Team BMR Volkswagen 2.979s
6 Sam Tordoff Triple Eight MG 5.739s
7 Fabrizio Giovanardi Motorbase Ford 5.942s
8 Andrew Jordan Eurotech Honda 6.981s
9 Warren Scott Team BMR Volkswagen 8.417s
10 Jack Clarke Motorbase Ford 9.353s
11 Gordon Shedden Team Dynamics Honda 9.869s
12 Marc Hynes Triple Eight MG 10.062s
13 Matt Neal Team Dynamics Honda 11.355s
14 Jack Goff Team BMR Volkswagen 11.615s
15 Adam Morgan Ciceley Racing Mercedes 11.930s
16 Nick Foster WSR BMW 13.672s
17 Dave Newsham AmD Ford 16.152s
18 Aiden Moffat Moffat Chevrolet 18.662s
19 James Cole United Autosports Toyota 19.626s
20 Luke Hines United Autosports Toyota 20.923s
21 Lea Wood Houseman Racing Toyota 29.029s
22 Chris Stockton BTC Racing Chevrolet 29.546s
23 Hunter Abbott Rob Austin Racing Audi 29.746s
24 Simon Belcher Handy Motorsport Toyota 32.211s
25 Robb Holland Rotek Racing Audi 33.220s
26 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 39.599s
- Rob Collard WSR BMW Retirement
- Rob Austin Rob Austin Racing Audi Retirement
- Martin Depper Eurotech Honda Retirement
- Daniel Welch Welch Motorsport Proton Retirement
- Ollie Jackson Welch Motorsport Proton Retirement

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