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VX Racing, Brands Hatch: Race Two Bulletin |
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
Fabrizio Giovanardi started round 26 well, leaping from sixth on the grid to fourth with a robust move on Rob Collard. The Italian could not hold off the Honda Integra of Gordon Shedden though, and ran in fifth until the chequered flag.
Tom Chilton had a bad start and slipped to seventh from fourth on the grid. The 21-year-old made steady progress throughout the race to finish sixth, right on Giovanardi's bumper.
The result means that Chilton and Giovanardi will start from first and second place respectively in this afternoon's third race at 15:50.
There was not enough time to fix Gavin Smith's Astra Sport Hatch before the start of race two after the damage it sustained in today's first race. The team kept working, though, and the Dubliner joined on lap 18.
Fabrizio Giovanardi: "That was much better. I was really fast in the first part of the race but after five or six laps I started to have a problem with the tyres. My big problem was the safety car. When I restarted the car was not like before."
Tom Chilton: "On the start I had no initial bite on my brakes. I had nothing but it clicked in about half way around the first lap.
"Dave Pinkney did a lunge from hell in between me and Rob Collard, then made a mistake and I repassed him. I just chipped away at the times for the rest of the race and by the end Fabrizio was holding me up.
"In the third race I can definitely fight. The work I've done in the first two races has definitely helped me."
DUNLOP MSA BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP Round 26, provisional result
| Driver |
Car |
| Jason Plato |
SEAT Léon |
| Matt Neal |
Honda Integra |
| Colin Turkington |
MG ZS |
| Gordon Shedden |
Honda Integra |
| Fabrizio Giovanardi |
Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch |
| Tom Chilton |
Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 December 2006 )
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