Gordon Shedden claimed victory in the second race of the day at his home circuit Knockhill.

Race one winner and pole sitter Tom Chilton led most of the race which didn’t quite have the same amount of drama as the first.

He led the two Hondas of Neal and Shedden into the first corner, while Rob Collard made the most of his rear wheel drive BMW’s start line speed to jump the Toyota of Frank Wrathall into fourth. Wrathall retook the place a lap later though, as he out braked Collard into the first corner and set off after the Hondas.

At the front meanwhile Chilton had started well pulling out an advantage of almost two seconds by the fourth lap.

Further down the field Mat Jackson’s weekend went from bad to worse as he paid the price for running wide on the exit of the chicane by ripping off his front splitter and damaging the underside of his car on the resultant trip through the gravel. It meant immediate retirement for the Airwaves Racing driver.

Another car that ended up in the gravel shortly after Jackson was the Volkswagen Golf of Martin Byford who went backwards into the
tyres at the hairpin. This brought out the safety car.

After three laps behind the safety car the race distance was extended to 27 laps, which effectively meant a twelve lap sprint to the flag.

At the restart Chilton made a decent getaway but by this time the success ballast he was carrying courtesy of winning the first race was
beginning to hurt him and it was clear that the Hondas were much quicker. On lap twenty, Chilton had a massive moment at the chicane as his car over steered horribly and this allowed Neal an overlap on the run to the hairpin. Neal slipped down the inside and took the lead, closely followed by Shedden who also moved past Chilton under braking for the hairpin. Wrathall got a good exit onto
the start/finish straight and dived down the inside of Chilton into third on the way into the first corner.

With Chilton out of the way Shedden had a chance to attack Neal and took full advantage of a better run out of the chicane to get the
smallest of overlaps. Neal didn’t fight too hard and Shedden had gone from third to first in the space of one lap. From that moment on there was no denying the Scot who drove away from Neal at quite a pace over the closing laps. This left the former double champion to defend from Wrathall who tried hard but couldn’t find a way through.

At the flag it was a Honda 1-2 in the “right” order as far as the crowd were concerned. Wrathall’s third place finish not only marked his
first BTCC podium but also the first for an NGTC spec car.

Tom Chilton finished fourth, just ahead of Rob Collard who put a relentless amount of pressure on the Ford driver over the last few laps.

Tom Boardman was an excellent sixth for Special Tuning Racing and had begun to close the Chilton/Collard battle down but just ran out
of laps.

Jason Plato finished seventh after a last lap overtake on James Nash who had to settle for eighth. This became all the more crucial after
the race when number seven was drawn out of the pot for the reverse grid, meaning Plato will start the final race of the day from pole position.

Andy Jordan had a quiet race starting ninth and finishing ninth ahead of Nick Foster who claimed the final points paying position in
tenth.

For the full classification see here:http://www.tsl-timing.com/toca/2011/113503trg.pdf

The final race of the day begins at 17:05.

Photo Credit: Jonathan Hobley

Tom Surgay is the Porsche Carrera Cup GB correspondant for 2011. Tom's currently studying English Language with Journalism at Huddersfield University. You can contact him at tom@btcccrazy.co.uk or on twitter @tsurgay.