Triple Eight MG’s Jason Plato bounced back from retirement for the third race at Silverstone to take the win from 20th on the grid, going three better than Mat Jackson had done in race two for his victory. Plato is now just 15 points behind Gordon Shedden in the standings.
The British Touring Car Championship races at Silverstone this weekend as the 2012 season draws to a close.
Matt Neal is going take part in the BTCC races at Rockhingham this weekend with a broken hand after a motorcycle accident two weeks ago.
The British Touring Car Championship descends on the part-oval Rockingham circuit near Corby, Northamptonshire this weekend, as the Championship heads into the final three rounds with the two Hondas hounded by Jason Plato’s MG.
There will be no Daniel Welch during the British Touring Car Championship races at Rockingham this weekend.
Team HARD will run another all new driver to the BTCC at the next round of the Championship at Rockingham, as 20-year-old Howard Fuller will make his debut in the team’s Honda Civic.
Tech-Speed Motorsport plan to return at the tail-end of this season with a turbocharged Chevrolet Cruze with Production Touring Car Trophy driver Joe Girling.
Rob Collard’s two wins at Knockhill on Sunday close him up to Andrew Jordan in both the overall standings as well as the independents’ trophy to just 34 points behind.
Mat Jackson qualified in ninth place at Knockhill with the NGTC Ford Focus of Motorbase Performance, marking the team’s first top ten with the new car in only its second appearance in the BTCC.
BTCC Series Director Alan Gow believes the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) route was the only way to bring in new competitors and maintain the strength of the field in the BTCC, and praises Motorbase Performance’s new Ford Focus ST, debuted at the last meeting at Snetterton.