Bentwood penalised, Turkington gets pole.

British Touring Car Championship contender Michael Bentwood may have thought he was going to start the second race of the day at Brands Hatch from pole after taking the coveted tenth place in race one, but the series officials had different ideas.

Bentwood displaced WSR's Colin Turkington from tenth on the very last lap of race one, but the VX Racing Jr driver had to resort to some rather heavy-handed tactics to get past Turkington and this was all under the eyes of the ever vigilent series officials.

British Touring Car Championship contender Michael Bentwood may have thought he was going to start the second race of the day at Brands Hatch from pole after taking the coveted tenth place in race one, but the series officials had different ideas.

Bentwood displaced WSR's Colin Turkington from tenth on the very last lap of race one, but the VX Racing Jr driver had to resort to some rather heavy-handed tactics to get past Turkington and this was all under the eyes of the ever vigilent series officials.

After considering the evidence, Bentwood has been handed a one second penalty, meaning that he will now start from eleventh place on the grid for race two whilst Colin Turkington inherits the pole.

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