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Rockingham race 3: Plato takes last win

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SEAT driver Jason Plato (Oxford) has won the third of today’s (Sunday) three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Rockingham circuit in Northamptonshire.

Plato, starting from fifth on the grid, took advantage of a first-corner collision among the drivers ahead of him to take a lead he would never relinquish. He also set the race’s fastest lap.

Second position went to Mat Jackson (Henley-in-Arden) in his Jacksons MSport BMW 320si, while third was Plato’s team-mate Darren Turner.

Plato leaves Rockingham leading the championship on 72 points, 16 ahead of Vauxhall driver Fabrizio Giovanardi, winner of the day’s first two races, on 56. Third is Giovanardi’s team-mate Tom Chilton (Reigate) on 48.