Shedden takes final victory of the day

Gordan Shedden has won race 3 at Oulton Park, in Cheshire after another eventful race. Andrew Jordan who started on pole could not hold Shedden for long, however his final race was still superb finishing on the podium for the first time taking a well deserved third place. The race had not long started when on the first lap Chilton, braking too late and then losing control was guilty of causing an accident that took himself out as well as innocent bystander Steven Kane.

Gordon Shedden had a fantastic race. Shedden followed Andrew Jordan for 5 laps but managed a pass with little objection from Jordan. From then on Shedden was never challenged and took a great win ahead of his home race at Knockhill in a few weeks.

Adam Jones finished second having battled hard with Jordan and Jackson. Adam Jones gained third passing Mat Jackson after Jackson had got too close to Jordan and was forced slightly wide.

Jordan was quite obviously pleased when he finished race 3. Starting on pole he did well to hold off Shedden until lap 5. Jordan raced faultlessly for much of the race keeping second. His grip levels however dropped off and with just a couple of laps to go the Jordan’s Honda had a little slide and then under pressure from Jones made a small mistake going wide at the hairpin. Although Jones was through and into second place Jordan then defended superbly against the rampant Mat Jackson to take his first ever podium.

Mat Jackson having lost out to Adam Jones battled hard to regain his third position, first putting pressure on Jones, then pressuring Jordan to the very end of the race, however it wasn’t to be and Jackson settled for 4th.

Much of the midfield remained in position with a few exceptions. Turner was racing well at the start of the race however like Plato his SEAT Leon TDI lost a lot of pace leaving Turner to limp round the track some 11 seconds off the pace. He eventually finished…

The action did continue at the back however. Plato having started at the back due to the engine issues he had in race 2, then battled hard despite also hitting Kane during the carnage of lap 1. He finished race 3 9th and posted the fastest lap all of which will be of little comfort given his rival Giovanardi moved further ahead in the championship with a 6th placed finish. Plato has a mammoth battle in the back end of the season to close the gap and stand any chance of a title in 2008.

Alan Taylor continued his impressive ability to spin the car and knock of a bumper. Having had both bumpers repaired after race 2 he spun and damaged his rear bumper, taking himself out of the race on lap 6. Other retirements came from Chris Stockton and John George.