Hat-trick of top four finishes for Mat Jackson

Motorbase Performance’s Mat Jackson confirmed his team’s resurgence in the second half of the season at Rockingham, with another podium and a trio of top-four finishes.

Qualifying again proved to be the bugbear for the Ford Focus ST, with Jackson the best placed of the team’s three drivers in 12th place.

But in tricky conditions in race one, Jackson made up 10 places to finish second, and even looked like challenging race winner Andrew Jordan in the later stages.

With 36kg of ballast on board, Jackson defended well in the second encounter to net fourth, and made up two positions from sixth on the grid in the final race of the day.

Jackson said: “A good weekend. Obviously qualifying wasn’t the best result that we had following the P3 in free practice two, which put us on the back foot ultimately. But we came through and that was the main thing.

“Overall I think we’ve turned a corner with the car. We’ve made progress, and to come here and have three results in the top four is fantastic for everybody who’s involved, and it’s great to reward the hard work with some decent results.

“Looking forward going into Silverstone we’re in good shape. It’s a circuit that I love and we intend to go there and carry on from where we are now and improve.

“We’re bouncing back, we know where we’re heading and that is the main thing. We need to move forwards with the car and I think this weekend has proved off the back of Snetterton that we’ve found something in the car and I’m a lot more confident.”