Colin Turkington has won today’s second HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship race at the Thruxton circuit in Hampshire – he becomes the fifth different winner in as many races to be held so far this season.

Team RAC BMW driver Turkington overtook Vauxhall’s Fabrizio Giovanardi on the final lap to take the victory – a vital result as it moves him back towards series leader Matt Neal at the top of the points table.

Neal finished the race in third having also been passed earlier by the charging Turkington. He will go into this afternoon’s third race just four points clear of Turkington while Giovanardi, the reigning Champion, is third in the standings.

Behind, Turkington’s team-mate Stephen Jelley finished the race in fourth ahead of Airwaves BMW’s Robert Collard – the local Hampshire driver coming through from near the back of the 20-car grid – and Jason Plato, sixth in his Racing Silverline Chevrolet Lacetti.

There were several tales of woe. Dan Eaves, who had failed to start race, this time only got as far as the first corner before crashing backwards into the barriers in his Cartridge World Carbon Zero SEAT Leon – an incident that required a lengthy safety car period to recover the stricken car.

Vauxhall’s Andrew Jordan, third in race one, also suffered a spin after the lightest of brushes with Jelley’s BMW but paid a heavy price as he fell to a lowly 18th.

Paul O’Neill, fifth in race one, ended up an eventual tenth after his Sunshine.co.uk/Tech-Speed Honda Integra was spun round after contact with Adam Jones’s Cartridge World SEAT. But O'Neill has had the last laugh, having been drawn on pole position for race three's reversed grid.