BTCC: Turkington keeps BTCC title hopes alive with race three win

Team BMW's Colin Tur🦹kington has kept his hopes of winning a fifth British Touring Car Championship title alive after dominating the final race of the day at Donington Park.
From what could have been a day of despair following his race two spin, Turkington was picked to start race three from pole position in the reverse grid draw and took full a🌳dvantage by taking a comfortable win ahead of Jake Hill to claw bac🌸k some ground on runaway points leader Ash Sutton.
Not even a brief s♌afety car phase could rein Turkington in with the BMW 330i M Sport driver setting a string of fastest laps a♚s he marched away from the chasing pack, led by Team Dynamics Honda man Dan Rowbottom for much of the race.
Turkington 𝔍eventually cros🥀sed the line with a winning margin over four-seconds to secure a milestone 60th career BTCC win and move to within 32-points of championship leader Sutton.
🎉Once Hill dispatched the Civic Type-R of Rowbottom, the MB Motorsport driver held of Laser Tools Racing Infinit of Aiden Moffat to clinch second place and remains in championship contention in fourth, 45-p♚oints back from Sutton.
Mo🎃ffat too✱k an impressive route to the podium after moving ahead of the battling duo Josh Cook and Dan Rowbottom in one pounce on lap 11.
Toyota Gazoo Racing UK's Rory Butcher consol🌟idated a strong afternoon with fourth position in race three, ahead of Cook and Rowbottom, while Dan Lloyd held off Sutton for seventh.
Stephen Jelley and Tom Ingr🐽am completed the remainder of the 🌱top-ten places in ninth and tenth.