Jackson continued to hold his lead over Giovanardi, but behind him there was a train of cars led by the two diesel SEATs. Right in the middle of them were the two Halfords Civics, with Tom Chilton moving ahead of Shedden when the Scot got slightly out of shape on lap six on the entrance to Clearways. Someone else making a move was debutant Steven Kane, who muscled his way past former champion
Matt Neal coming out of Druids on lap seven to take eighth place.
Having started to lap the back-markers, making contact with Taylor's Integra in the process, Jackson saw his lead start to vanish when a brief rain shower hit the circuit at the half-way mark – with the damp condition playing to Giovanardi's strengths.
The Italian started to close the gap to the BMW and by lap 17, he was right on the tail of the
BMW. When Jackson got slightly out of shape at Clearways – a la Shedden earlier in the race – Giovanardi took his chance to slide through into the lead of the race.
In the battle for third, Turner was putting Plato under pressure, and the two actually made contact at Graham Hill Bend on lap 18 which saw Turner lose a bit of time before closing back onto the tail of his team leader. But behind the two SEATs, a queue of cars was developing with Chilton having moved into fifth and Neal into sixth, with Shedden now seventh and
Tom Onslow-Cole having slipped to eighth.
Neal had been a man on a mission in the damp conditions as he attempted to recover from being forced wide at the start and on lap 22 he went for fifth place at Clearways, hanging Chilton out to dry and sending the Civic plummeting down the order.
Out front however, the win went to Giovanardi from Jackson and Plato, with Turner, Neal and Shedden completing the top six. Onslow-Cole was seventh ahead of the impressive Kane, while Chilton was left to settle for ninth from Adam Jones.
