MATT Neal made it two out of two with victory in today’s second Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship race at Croft.
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As in race one, Neal led every lap in his Honda Racing Team Civic but this time was shadowed all the way by Robert Collard’s WSR BMW.
Andrew Jordan finished a distant third in his Pirtek Racing Vauxhall Vectra after first picking off Mat Jackson’s Airwaves Ford Focus and then, in the closing stages, Neal’s team-mate Gordon Shedden.
Notably, it was Jackson’s team-mate Liam Griffin who perhaps caused the most excitement during the race – his car veering left behind the barriers at high speed before coming to rest some 200 yards further on in a farmer’s crop field in what was a truly bizarre incident.
Meanwhile Neal, who also set the race’s fastest lap en route to his second win of the day, has now stretched out a commanding 21-point lead in the championship ahead of Jackson and Shedden. Jordan is up to fourth, ahead of Jason Plato who retired his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze from the race with a CV joint failure.
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