Turkington holds Hill at bay to double up at Snetterton

Team BMW's Colin Turkington extends his BTCC lead to 20-points over Tom Ingram after beating Jake Hill to the race two at Snetterton.
Colin Turkington (GBR) - Team BMW BMW 330e M
Colin Turkington (GBR) - Team BMW BMW 330e M

Team BMW's Colin Turkington has further bolstered his British Touring Car Championship points lead after holding off Jake Hill to record his second victory of the day in race꧙ two at Snetterton.

Once again, the four-time chaܫmpion led eཧvery lap from pole position, however, Turkington was made to work for his 63rd career BTCC victory, especially during the opening laps of the race.

Starting from second position, Hill made a s𝐆erious play for the race lead on the opening lap, with the BMW duo spending almost half-a-lap side-by-side as they jostled for the lead.

Having managed to get underneath Turkington on exit of Wilson corner, Hill held the inside line throughout Palmer, Agostini and Hamilton. But Turkington tenaciously held on around the o൲utside of Hill, which gave the veteran the high-ground and inside line into Oggies and Wil⛦liams.

From there, it was Hill's turn to hold on around the o💎utside as they powered down the Williams straight. By that time, Turkington wrestled the ascendency once and for all as the leaders arrived at Nelson.

Following the race's only safety car period of the race, Hill once again at🌊tacked Turkington from lap 9 onwards by using his hybrid allocation to draw closer to the rear of his team mate's BWM 330e M Sporওt.

But Turkington made his experience count and saved his 🐈hybrid deployment for the final couple of laps, where he then stretched his advanꦗtage over Hill to an eventual 1.2s race victory.

EXCELR8 Motorsport Hyundai's Tom Ingram once again completed the podium order in third ahead of BMW duo Adam🉐 Morgan and Stephen Jelley in fourth and fifth.

Toyota Gazo🥂o Racing UK's Ricky Collar𒈔d was one of the big movers of the race after jumping from 11th to finish in sixth. Collard got the better of two-time champion Jason Plato just before the safety car period.

Seemingly not as strong during race two, Plato did manage to hold off Team Dynamics Honda's Dan Rowbottom for seventh, while defending three-time champion Ash Sutton ✨finished in ninth after falling to 13th dur♕ing the opening stages.

Sutton will start the reverse grid race from pole position after his finishing position was pulled out in the r෴ace three grid draw.

Power Maxed Racing's Ash Hand finished in tenth.

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