BTCC Snetterton: Turkington doubles up ahead of Hill again

Once again, the Northern Irishman headed the sister West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport of Jake Hill from start to finish – on the lap charts, anyway.

What they don’t show was an epic first-lap battle between the two BMWs. From the outside of the second turn at the Wilson hairpin to the entrance to the esses almost two miles later, Turkington and Hill ran side by side.

Right in their wheeltracks was Tom Ingram, and it was a crafty piece of NASCAR-style bumpdrafting from the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N that gave Turkington the surge to establish the lead at the esses.

Try as Ingram might, there was no way he could challenge the BMWs after that opening lap. A mid-race safety car, caused by Gordon Shedden parking his Team Dynamics Honda on the circuit at the entrance to Coram, allowed the Hyundai to close up once again, before Turkington and Hill once more scampered clear at the restart.

With four laps remaining, Hill began to put pressure on Turkington again, making a move to the outside of the hairpin, but Turkington stayed firm and, on the final tour, extended his advantage to win by 1.287 seconds.

“My car was even more in the window than in race one,” said Turkington. “That makes it easier, when you’re not fighting the car and the balance.

“I could see Jake sneaking up behind me using his hybrid, but I stayed patient and used mine on the last lap.

“On the first lap, we showed each other a lot of respect and we won out of the situation.”

Jake Hill, ROKiT MB Motorsport BMW 330e M Sport (Photo by: JEP / Motorsport Images)

Once again, Ingram was shadowed by the Ciceley Motorsport BMW of Adam Morgan, although this time it didn’t get quite as close in the earlier race, and once more it was the third WSR BMW of Stephen Jelley behind this pair at the finish.

Jason Plato’s stout afternoon-long defence of sixth position was finally breached just before the mid-race safety-car break by Ricky Collard, who drove well from 11th on the grid in his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla.

The safety car looked to make Plato’s BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R vulnerable to further attack, but he instead edged away from Dan Rowbottom (Dynamics Honda) and Ash Sutton.

Sutton and Motorbase Performance Ford Focus team-mate Dan Cammish had been edged wide in the opening-lap wildness at the hairpin, Cammish losing way more time and finishing down in 18th.

Sutton was rewarded with reversed-grid pole after he deprived top-10 completer Ash Hand’s Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of ninth position on lap five.

BTCC Snetterton - Race 2 results

Cla	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Colin Turkington	14	29'02.147
2	Jake Hill	14	29'03.434	1.287	1.287
3	Tom Ingram	14	29'07.019	4.872	3.585
4	Adam Morgan	14	29'08.066	5.919	1.047
5	Stephen Jelley	14	29'08.457	6.310	0.391
6	Ricky Collard	14	29'10.781	8.634	2.324
7	Jason Plato	14	29'11.985	9.838	1.204
8	Daniel Rowbottom	14	29'12.624	10.477	0.639
9	Ashley Sutton	14	29'12.864	10.717	0.240
10	Ash Hand	14	29'16.338	14.191	3.474
11	Daniel Lloyd	14	29'16.953	14.806	0.615
12	Rory Butcher	14	29'17.318	15.171	0.365
13	Ollie Jackson	14	29'19.235	17.088	1.917
14	George Gamble	14	29'19.502	17.355	0.267
15	Josh Cook	14	29'22.540	20.393	3.038
16	Aron Taylor-Smith	14	29'24.770	22.623	2.230
17	Bobby Thompson	14	29'24.908	22.761	0.138
18	Dan Cammish	14	29'25.161	23.014	0.253
19	Jack Butel	14	29'25.595	23.448	0.434
20	Sam Osborne	14	29'27.191	25.044	1.596
21	Michael Crees	14	29'35.833	33.686	8.642
22	Jade Edwards	14	29'45.501	43.354	9.668
23	Nicolas Hamilton	14	29'49.308	47.161	3.807
	Aiden Moffat	8	17'24.372	6 Laps	6 Laps
	Will Powell	8	17'33.769	6 Laps	9.397
	Rick Parfitt Jr.	7	15'10.435	7 Laps	1 Lap
	Gordon Shedden	4	8'09.165	10 Laps	3 Laps
	Dexter Patterson	4	13'30.873	10 Laps	5'21.708
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