The Italian then set about chasing down Neal and was soon right on the boot lid of the Civic, nudging the Halfords car on the rear as they swept through Clearways in lap 18 but unable to find a way past. Behind, the battle for third was raging, with Jones coming under ever increasing pressure from Turner behind, with the SEAT man himself being harried by Jackson who was making the most of a lack of ballast on his car to fight his way forward. On lap 21, Jones ran wide at Clearways, and both Turner and Jackson were through in an instant, with double winner Plato demoting the Air Cool man to sixth at Paddock as he followed the other two through.
Now lying only one place away from the podium place he had lost following his exclusion from race one, Jackson wasn’t about to miss out for a second time and was all over the rear of Turner’s SEAT eventually driving around the outside of Turner to go third with just four laps remaining. The reigning SEAT Cupra champion then closed the gap to Giovanardi but despite doing his best to find a way past, there simply weren’t enough laps remaining and he had to settle for third – the white
BMW firmly fixed onto the rear of the Vectra. However it was Neal who grabbed the headlines, as he took victory with a car that had only run for the first time little more than a week before the race meeting.
Turner took fourth ahead of team-mate Plato, while Jones had to settle for sixth after his fine drive in the early stages. Onslow-Cole was seventh, while Chilton, Mike Jordan and Gareth Howell rounded out the top ten.
