RACE REPORT: BTCC ROUNDS 1,2,3
Chase report: BTCC Rounds 1,2,3 The Auto Express backed 2011 BTCC touring car championship kicked off on April 2nd – and we were there to watch the action.
The 2011 Dunlop British Touring Car Championship assuredly got the blooming ablaze on April 2nd – with antagonism at the Brands Hatch Indy ambit in Kent.
And afterwards a amazing weekend’s racing, it was adept rivals Jason Plato and Matt Neal who aggregate wins.
It will be a weekend to bethink for Plato in particular, who won two contest in his Chevrolet Cruze and burst Andy Rouse’s almanac of 60 BTCC wins.
The 43-year-old promptly took advantage of Neal’s circuit in chase one to yield victory, before Rouse’s accomplishment in the process.
Youngster James Nash took a best-ever additional abode in his Vauxhall Vectra, and AON’s Tom Chilton came third in the Ford Focus.
Plato again went one bigger and won chase two admitting a best balance of 45kg. Neal’s Honda team-mate Gordon Shedden accomplished in additional place, advanced of Mat Jackson in the Airwaves Ford Focus.
Neal took advantage of pole accomplishment in chase three to annals a aboriginal win for the anew turbocharged Honda Civic. Jackson this time managed an absorbing second, with Paul O’Neill finishing abaft him in his absolute Cruze.
The aftereffect leaves Plato eight credibility bright of his competitors in the Drivers Championship, while Jackson and Nash absorb additional and third spots respectively.
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