It meant Turner was able to close onto the rear of Shedden, with Jackson behind, but suddenly Jones was up to fourth as Neal peeled into the pits with a puncture, resuming in 16th place ahead of Chilton. When the race resumed on the eighth lap, the conditions quickly started to claim victims as Eoin Murray, Erkut and Dave Pinkney all sailed straight on at the Chicane, Pinkney seemingly in competition with Chilton to see who could be involved in the most incidents during the race.
Neal was a man on a mission, and on lap nine he was up to eleventh after a forceful move on Simon Blanckley at the Old Hairpin (one that would lead to Blanckley being forced to retire), while ahead of him, Jordan was also making up places as he battled back from his first lap off, taking ninth for Giovanardi on lap ten and then making up further places past Matt Allison and Plato on consecutive laps – the move on Plato coming afte running three abreast with the SEAT man and
Tom Onslow-Cole on the start-finish straight before braving a side-by-side run with Plato down the Craner Curves.
Jordan's charge was halted by the reintroduction of the Safety Car again when Fiona Leggate tried to regain control when she went straight on at the Chicane and instead went into the tyre barrier, with Shedden leading from Turner, Jackson, Jones and Onslow-Cole.
On the restart, Jones got ahead of Jackson into third, while further down the order the conditions were claiming two more victims. Having spun at the opening corner, Martyn Bell – who had been running just outside the points – came across the Honda Integra of John George across the circuit at McLeans and promptly spun off again into the gravel, both drivers being forced to retire from the race. Giovanardi was also in the wars, going wide at the Old Hairpin after a touch from Matt Allison to drop the points leader out of the top ten.
