Perfect Getaway in Race Two but Drama Behind

Despite a perfect getaway in race two, Jason Plato's MG was slow away from the starting line, and then Neil and Collard collided at the opening corner, causing drama behind the scenes. However, Sheldon took advantage of the situation by slipping around the outside into second place as the top two drivers made their escape.

Turkington was the man on the move, passing Collard for fifth position, Foster for fourth, and then Neil for third. The BMW closed down the two leading Hondas, but a late safety car following an accident between the MG of Mark Hines and the Honda of Martin Deppa slowed Turkington's progress and forced him to settle for third place behind a delighted Jordan and Sheldon at the checkered flag.

Faster Back from 27th on Opening Lap

The delayed Plato recovered from 27th on the opening lap to grab 11th position and what could be five vital Championship points come October with the top six reversed for the day's final race. This time, it was the two BMWs of Collard and Foster that lined up at the front, but Turkington was the man to watch from fourth spot who grabbed third at the start.

He then squeezed past teammate Foster for second before pulling a similar move on Card's sister BMW for the lead following a brief safety car period. Menu and impressive rookie Tom Ingram came together, and all eyes switched to Plato who slipped past the new Mercedes of Adam Morgan to move into the top five and then made Swift work of Sheldon's Honda for fourth.

Neil and Plato then both outwitted Card to secure spots on the podium, but with laps running out, they couldn't catch Turkington who ran home to notch up his 25th BTCC career victory.

A Good Weekend

Luise Goodman caught up with Andrew Jordan, saying, "Andy two nice shiny trophies on the table behind you that's always a sign of a good weekend isn't it?" It's been a good uh, good day at the office today, and a good weekend at the office if you'd um said that I could get Paul two race wins in the lead of the championship, I' would have uh snapped your hand off. So yeah really really happy last race wasn't great but qualifying race one and two were were really really special and and to do it the way we did you know qualifying last 3 minutes of the session to get poll, that really then set us up for race one and two.

Looking Forward to Donington

Looking forward to the next round, Donington is your home event isn't it? Yeah, I love Donington; it's a you know it's a classic old school circuit really fast and flowing, and it's my home event. You know, I live half an hour away so uh really look forward to going there. Obviously, we're going to be carrying some weight but what heard it's going to be a great weekend.

Donington Circuit

Donnington park is the venue for three more frantic touring car showdowns on Easter Sunday. The circuit is known for its classic old-school charm and fast flowing nature, making it an exciting place to watch racing.

What Cars Can We Expect?

I think the usual ones are going to be yeah you know obviously I think Jason would be very strong in the MG, OB Colin and the BMW will look very strong too, as well as the Honda. There's so many people that are going to be up there, including Menu in the VW. You can't just focus on one person; you have to focus on what you do um get as much performance as you can, and see what the others do at the end of the weekend.

A Classic Track for Spectators

The circuit is classic driving around it but it's a great circuit for spectators too isn't it? You've got some fantastic views there if I was going to go and watch there I'd Park myself with a de chair down the Crane of Curves cuz it's such a cool fast flowing part of the circuit unlike anything else really in the country you know with that undulation then back up the hill, and St. Well what was St as Bridge so it's a real old school to go and watch that and there'll be some classic racing there as usual hopefully a few more trophies to take home with you after that one as well.

The Teams Head to Donnington Park

Despite only finishing 13th in the day's final race, thanks to his two earlier wins, the defending Champion leads the 2014 title race. The teams now head to Donnington park for three more frantic touring car showdowns on Easter Sunday, eager to continue their title battles and gain vital points in their quest for the championship.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwowed by a record 31 car entry a huge crowd packed into the tight brand hatch Indie circuit for the opening three rounds of the eagerly anticipated 2014 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship adding to the excitement this year's full capacity grid not only included cars representing 11 of the world's largest car manufacturers but also no fewer than seven proven btcc champions 2013 champion Andrew Jordan headed the star studed cast which also featured past Champs Gordon shedon Matt Neil Jason Plato and Colin turkington as well as welcome btcc returns for two touring car Legends fabito giovanardi and Anna menu in brilliant spring Sunshine the 2014 action kicked off with a fiercely fought qualifying session that lived up to all pre-season expectations incredibly the top 23 cars were covered by little more than an eighth of a second with Champions filling the top five places Jordan kicked off his title defense in fine Style by claiming pole position in his pertech racing Honda Civic just ahead of Plato's mg6 turkington's BMW and the two new Honda Civic tours of Neil and shedon menu lined up a competitive eighth in his BMR VW while giardi was struggling to come to grips with his Airwaves backed forward focus and found himself languishing in a lowly 18th spot as the lights went out front row men Jordan and pl fended off turkington's fast starting BMW back in the huge pack menu's comeback lasted little more than the first corner with the double Champion spinning his Volkswagen out of the predictably hectic first lap action Neil wasted little time musing thirdd place from the frustrated turkington and shedon repeated the trick at Mid distance the BMW speed dropped off thereafter and the 2009 champ slipped behind the Audi of hard charging Rob Austin and teammate Rob Collard in the closing laps up front the Peerless Jordan maintained his slim advantage over the fast following Plato to take maximum points with his first ever btcc win at Brands Plato was happy to kick off what's a long 30 round campaign with a solid second place while Neil shedon and Austin completed the top five Jordan again made the perfect getaway in race two but there was drama behind as first Jason Plato's mg was slow away and then Neil and collard collided at the opening corner while the two of them recovered control shedon took advantage slipping around the outside into second as the top two made their escape turkington was was the man on the Move passing Collard for fifth Foster for fourth and then Neil for third the BMW then closed down the two leading Hondas but a late safety car following an accident between the mg of Mark Hines and the Honda of Martin deppa slowed his progress and the sterman had to settle for third behind a delighted Jordan and shedon at The Checkered Flag further back the delayed Plato recovered from 27th on the opening lap to grab 11th Place and what could be five vital Championship points come October with the top six reversed for the day's final race this time it was the two BMWs of Collard and Foster that lined up at the front it was turkington though from fourth spot who was the man to watch grabbing third at the start he then squeezed past teammate Foster for second before pulling a similar move on card's sister BMW for the lead following a brief sa car period after menu and impressive rookie Tom Ingram came together all eyes switched to Plato who was continuing to make up for his race two dramas the mg slipp past the new Mercedes of Adam Morgan to move into the top five and then made Swift work of shed's Honda for fourth Neil and Plato then both outwitted card to secure spots on the podium but with laps running out they couldn't catch turkington who rared home to notch up his 25th btcc career victory after the champagne flow Luise Goodman caught up with Andrew Jordan Andy two nice shiny trophies on the table behind you that's always a sign of a good weekend isn't it it's been a good uh good day at the office today a good weekend at the office if you'd um said that I could get Paul two race wins in the lead of the championship i' would have uh snapped your hand off so yeah really really happy last race wasn't great but qualifying race one and two were were really really special and and to do it the way we did you know qualifying last 3 minutes of the session to get poll and that really then set us up for race one and two looking forward to the next round Donington your home event isn't it yeah I love Donington it's a you know it's a classic old school circuit really fast and flowing and it's my home event you know I live half an hour away so uh really look forward to going there obviously we're going to be carrying some weight but what heard it's going to be a great weekend Donington are working really hard to to make the circuit back to how it used to be and they're doing that so I'm really looking forward to going there it's been a great crowd here and I'm sure that continue on to Donington what kind of of cars which teams do you think are are likely to be at the four at Donington what's what's the circuit like which cars will it suit I think the usual ones are going to be yeah you know obviously I think the success Bal is going to have more of effect on your position in qualifying this year because there's so many more people up there so we're carrying 45 which is the way it is we'll see where we can get to with that uh I think Jason would be very strong in the mg OB Colin and the BMS look very strong the Honda strong there's so many people that are going to be up there I think menu in the VW is going to be strong as well so you can't just focus on one person you you know we just focus on what we do um you know get as much performance as we can and see what the others do at the end of the weekend classic track for you guys driving around it but it's a great circuit for spectators as well isn't it you've got some fantastic views there if I was going to go and watch there I'd Park myself with a de chair down the crane of Curves cuz it's such a cool fast flowing part of the circuit unlike anything else really in the country you know with that undulation then back up the hill and St well what was St as Bridge so it's a real old school to go and watch that and there'll be some classic racing there as usual hopefully a few more trophies to take home with you after that one as well we'll see you there thank you despite only finishing 13th in the day's final race thanks to his two earlier wins the defending Champion leads the 2014 title race as the teams now head to Donnington park for three more frantic touring car showdowns on Easter Sunday ewowed by a record 31 car entry a huge crowd packed into the tight brand hatch Indie circuit for the opening three rounds of the eagerly anticipated 2014 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship adding to the excitement this year's full capacity grid not only included cars representing 11 of the world's largest car manufacturers but also no fewer than seven proven btcc champions 2013 champion Andrew Jordan headed the star studed cast which also featured past Champs Gordon shedon Matt Neil Jason Plato and Colin turkington as well as welcome btcc returns for two touring car Legends fabito giovanardi and Anna menu in brilliant spring Sunshine the 2014 action kicked off with a fiercely fought qualifying session that lived up to all pre-season expectations incredibly the top 23 cars were covered by little more than an eighth of a second with Champions filling the top five places Jordan kicked off his title defense in fine Style by claiming pole position in his pertech racing Honda Civic just ahead of Plato's mg6 turkington's BMW and the two new Honda Civic tours of Neil and shedon menu lined up a competitive eighth in his BMR VW while giardi was struggling to come to grips with his Airwaves backed forward focus and found himself languishing in a lowly 18th spot as the lights went out front row men Jordan and pl fended off turkington's fast starting BMW back in the huge pack menu's comeback lasted little more than the first corner with the double Champion spinning his Volkswagen out of the predictably hectic first lap action Neil wasted little time musing thirdd place from the frustrated turkington and shedon repeated the trick at Mid distance the BMW speed dropped off thereafter and the 2009 champ slipped behind the Audi of hard charging Rob Austin and teammate Rob Collard in the closing laps up front the Peerless Jordan maintained his slim advantage over the fast following Plato to take maximum points with his first ever btcc win at Brands Plato was happy to kick off what's a long 30 round campaign with a solid second place while Neil shedon and Austin completed the top five Jordan again made the perfect getaway in race two but there was drama behind as first Jason Plato's mg was slow away and then Neil and collard collided at the opening corner while the two of them recovered control shedon took advantage slipping around the outside into second as the top two made their escape turkington was was the man on the Move passing Collard for fifth Foster for fourth and then Neil for third the BMW then closed down the two leading Hondas but a late safety car following an accident between the mg of Mark Hines and the Honda of Martin deppa slowed his progress and the sterman had to settle for third behind a delighted Jordan and shedon at The Checkered Flag further back the delayed Plato recovered from 27th on the opening lap to grab 11th Place and what could be five vital Championship points come October with the top six reversed for the day's final race this time it was the two BMWs of Collard and Foster that lined up at the front it was turkington though from fourth spot who was the man to watch grabbing third at the start he then squeezed past teammate Foster for second before pulling a similar move on card's sister BMW for the lead following a brief sa car period after menu and impressive rookie Tom Ingram came together all eyes switched to Plato who was continuing to make up for his race two dramas the mg slipp past the new Mercedes of Adam Morgan to move into the top five and then made Swift work of shed's Honda for fourth Neil and Plato then both outwitted card to secure spots on the podium but with laps running out they couldn't catch turkington who rared home to notch up his 25th btcc career victory after the champagne flow Luise Goodman caught up with Andrew Jordan Andy two nice shiny trophies on the table behind you that's always a sign of a good weekend isn't it it's been a good uh good day at the office today a good weekend at the office if you'd um said that I could get Paul two race wins in the lead of the championship i' would have uh snapped your hand off so yeah really really happy last race wasn't great but qualifying race one and two were were really really special and and to do it the way we did you know qualifying last 3 minutes of the session to get poll and that really then set us up for race one and two looking forward to the next round Donington your home event isn't it yeah I love Donington it's a you know it's a classic old school circuit really fast and flowing and it's my home event you know I live half an hour away so uh really look forward to going there obviously we're going to be carrying some weight but what heard it's going to be a great weekend Donington are working really hard to to make the circuit back to how it used to be and they're doing that so I'm really looking forward to going there it's been a great crowd here and I'm sure that continue on to Donington what kind of of cars which teams do you think are are likely to be at the four at Donington what's what's the circuit like which cars will it suit I think the usual ones are going to be yeah you know obviously I think the success Bal is going to have more of effect on your position in qualifying this year because there's so many more people up there so we're carrying 45 which is the way it is we'll see where we can get to with that uh I think Jason would be very strong in the mg OB Colin and the BMS look very strong the Honda strong there's so many people that are going to be up there I think menu in the VW is going to be strong as well so you can't just focus on one person you you know we just focus on what we do um you know get as much performance as we can and see what the others do at the end of the weekend classic track for you guys driving around it but it's a great circuit for spectators as well isn't it you've got some fantastic views there if I was going to go and watch there I'd Park myself with a de chair down the crane of Curves cuz it's such a cool fast flowing part of the circuit unlike anything else really in the country you know with that undulation then back up the hill and St well what was St as Bridge so it's a real old school to go and watch that and there'll be some classic racing there as usual hopefully a few more trophies to take home with you after that one as well we'll see you there thank you despite only finishing 13th in the day's final race thanks to his two earlier wins the defending Champion leads the 2014 title race as the teams now head to Donnington park for three more frantic touring car showdowns on Easter Sunday e\n"