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BTCC Croft
Tordoff cruises to second Croft win
Sam Tordoff converted pole position into a comfortable lights-to-flag win in the second BTCC race of the weekend at Croft, ahead of Jason Plato and Colin Turkington.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jun 28, 2015, 3:25 PM
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The West Surrey Racing BMW driver led away teammate Andy Priaulx and Plato at the start, Turkington moving up from fifth on the grid to slot into fourth.
By the end of lap one, Tordoff was six tenths clear of his nearest pursuer, and by the time Priaulx – carrying maximum success ballast after his race one win – had slipped behind the BMR Volkswagens of Plato and Turkington, his lead was up to 1.6s.
From there, there was nothing that Plato could do to reel in the leader, Tordoff stretching his advantage to take a second win of the season by a margin of 2.3 seconds over the two-time champion.
Turkington and Priaulx held station in third and fourth places close behind Plato, with Gordon Shedden repelling the advances of Rob Austin and then fighting his way past Rob Collard at two-thirds distance to take fifth.
Collard held off Austin by just a tenth in the battle for sixth, with Tom Ingram the best of the soft-tyre runners in eighth. Adam Morgan and Jack Goff completed the top 10, Matt Neal unable to manage any better than 11th from his grid slot of 13th.
Andrew Jordan also suffered on the soft tyres in the second of the works MGs, slipping from the fringes of the top 10 down to an eventual 14th in a race to forget for the 2013 champion.
Race results:
Pos Driver Car Time/Gap 1 Sam Tordoff BMW 21'48.128 2 Jason Plato Volkswagen 2.368 3 Colin Turkington Volkswagen 2.936 4 Andy Priaulx BMW 3.548 5 Gordon Shedden Honda 8.023 6 Rob Collard BMW 8.404 7 Rob Austin Audi 8.558 8 Tom Ingram Toyota 13.384 9 Adam Morgan Mercedes 14.725 10 Jack Goff MG 15.620 11 Matt Neal Honda 16.933 12 Hunter Abbott Audi 24.820 13 Dave Newsham Chevrolet 26.263 14 Andrew Jordan MG 26.431 15 Warren Scott Volkswagen 26.741 16 Aron Smith Volkswagen 27.186 17 Alex Martin Ford 38.175 18 Aiden Moffat Mercedes 41.648 19 Mike Bushell Ford 41.926 20 Daniel Welch Proton 45.386 21 Simon Belcher Toyota 51.553 22 Andy Wilmot Proton 52.541 23 Derek Palmer Jr. Infiniti 52.603 24 Jeff Smith Honda 57.778 25 Nicolas Hamilton Audi 1'03.448 26 Stewart Lines Toyota 1'10.823 27 Max Coates Infiniti 2 laps Ret Martin Depper Honda - Ret Josh Cook Chevrolet -
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