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Mat Jackson has won the third of today’s three HiQ MSA British
Touring Car Championship rounds at the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk.
BMW Dealer Team UK's Jackson led every lap to fend off fellow BMW driver
Steven Kane who gave an ecstatic Motorbase team its first podium finish in the BTCC with second position.
Third
was reigning champion Fabrizio Giovanardi in his Vauxhall Vectra VXR.
As a result, Giovanardi has extended his championship lead over
team-mate Matt Neal to 34 points as the BTCC next heads to the Oulton
Park circuit in
Cheshire on Sunday 27 July.
The
race was a disaster for Jason Plato who had won the day’s first
two races. He retired in the pit lane with a rare mechanical problem
with his SEAT Leon TDI. Having briefly held second in the standings
after race
two, he leaves Snetterton back in third ahead of Jackson in fourth.
Giovanardi
said: “It was looking like Jason was going to come away
from today a lot closer to me in the championship, but fortunately for
me he had problems in race three and I could take the third place. Four
race
meetings to go; 12 races. I still have a nice lead but it is important
to keep up the pace – I know the others will be ready to take any
opportunities they can.”
Leading positions, BTCC race 3 Snetterton
(provisional):
1. Mat Jackson (GBR), BMW Dealer Team UK/BMW 320si, 18 laps in
22m00.124s
2. Steven Kane (GBR), Motabase/BMW 320si, +0.770s
3. Fabrizio Giovanardi (ITA), VX Racing/Vauxhall Vectra VXR,
+2.352s
Fastest lap: Giovanardi, 1m12.442s
Leading Points (provisional):
1. Fabrizio Giovanardi, 171 points
2. Matt Neal, 137
3. Jason Plato, 132
4. Mat Jackson, 122
5. Colin
Turkington, 121
6. Tom Onslow-Cole, 118
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