BTCC Brands Hatch: Jordan beats Turkington to race three victory
WSR BMW 125i M Sport racer Andrew Jordan won the British Touring Car Championship finale at Brands Hatch, holding off team-mate Colin Turkington in the closing laps
Tom Chilton (Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra) had started the race from pole position but Jordan powered from third on the grid to leapfrog Josh Cook and Chilton when the lights went out, grabbing the lead around the outside going into Paddock Hill Bend.
After an early spell of pressure from behind Jordan began to pull away in the middle part of the race, and Chilton soon fell back into the clutches of third-place Turkington - who worked a way past on lap 17 of the 24-lap event, before setting off after team-mate Jordan.
He quickly chopped into Jordan's two second lead and was right in his wheeltracks over the closing turns.
The two made slight contact at the final corner, but Jordan held on to win by 0.3 seconds.
"That wasn't the most comfortable moment in my career when I saw Colin coming up behind me," said Jordan.
"I had hurt my tyres earlier on, and in that instance it is easy to push too hard but I made it.
"This was a fantastic start to my career with WSR and the BMW was awesome. Colin and I are proper drivers and we were able to race well.
This was my first weekend with the car and it has been a good learning process. We still have got more to come, so I am delighted."
Turkington said he was pleased to have rescued his weekend after shunting out of the opener at the start line.
"It is easy to let your head drop in this championship, but I know how quickly things can turn around to you have to push on," said Turkington.
"The guys gave me a great car and my softer-spec tyres held on wonderfully."
Chilton finished in third place on Vauxhall's first weekend back in the championship as a factory-blessed team, while Matt Neal (Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R) advanced from 11th place on the grid to grab fourth.
Ciceley Racing's Adam Morgan brought his Mercedes-Benz A-Class home fifth, with the third WSR BMW of Rob Collard rounding out the top six.
RESULT - 24 LAPS:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andrew Jordan | WSR | BMW | 19m53.418s |
2 | Colin Turkington | WSR | BMW | 0.315s |
3 | Tom Chilton | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 4.692s |
4 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 7.558s |
5 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 10.205s |
6 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 10.812s |
7 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 11.719s |
8 | Jack Goff | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 12.141s |
9 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 12.970s |
10 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 14.367s |
11 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 18.859s |
12 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 21.500s |
13 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase | Ford | 21.648s |
14 | Dave Newsham | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 22.117s |
15 | Daniel Lloyd | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 22.587s |
16 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 23.653s |
17 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 25.070s |
18 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 25.546s |
19 | Senna Proctor | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 25.942s |
20 | Luke Davenport | Motorbase | Ford | 26.183s |
21 | Ash Sutton | Team BMR | Subaru | 26.540s |
22 | Martin Depper | Motorbase | Ford | 26.932s |
23 | Ant Whorton-Eales | AmD Tuning | Audi | 29.636s |
24 | Josh Price | Team BMR | Subaru | 30.355s |
25 | Chris Smiley | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 33.244s |
26 | Josh Cook | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1 Lap |
27 | Stephen Jelley | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 2 Laps |
28 | Will Burns | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 3 Laps |
- | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | Retirement |
- | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | Retirement |
- | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | Withdrawn |
- | Matt Simpson | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | Retirement |
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