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the running order is:
Jordan, Neal, Oliphant, Plato, Moffat, Cammish, Turkington, Sutton, Cook, Morgan.
Jordan took the lead on Lap One and has held it since. Turkington, ballast-free, started 14th and has climbed to 7th. Morgan, having started 3rd has slowly dropped back to 10th – possibly struggling with the ballast. M.Jackson has climbed from 21st into a points position and Boardley has retired.

Lap 12 – Hill and Ingram rub panels in the first corner, Hill manages to get ahead and takes 12th. Further back, and Cress takes 23rd from Hamilton. Gornall gets a good run in sector two and passes Osborne for 18th.

Lap 13 – and Plato tries to get into a podium position. He passes Oliphant but runs wide on exit and Oliphant can get back ahead. Moffat tries to follow Plato through, but gets caught up a bit and loses momentum. Cammish takes advantage and passes up into 5th. Hill passes Butcher to take 11th. The incidents continue further round the lap. Sutton gets into a tangle with Turkington and comes of worse. Getting out of shape, Cook passes and now sits on the back of the BMW. Crees has a tussle with O.Jackson but fails to make the move stick. Hamilton and Rowbottom are the beneficiaries whilst Jelley also gains a place on Thompson, who is now the last of the runners. Thompson immediately fights back though and retakes the place at the next corner. Just ahead of them, Gornall passes Bushell for 17th.

Lap 14, the battle between Jelley and Thompson continues, with Jelley moving ahead again. Bushell slips down even further though, as Osborne climbs to 18th. In sector 2, Morgan manages to get past Sutton, despite carrying ballast. Disaster strikes for Gornall though. He appears to have lost power and pulls off to the side of the track. Retiring the car in a safe place, the rest of the field streams past.

Lap 15, Ingram passes Chilton towards the bottom end of the points, moving up to 13th. Just outside the points, team-mates Goff and Bushell swap places, with Goff now ahead in 18th.

Onto Lap 16, final lap, and drivers are still looking to make an impression on the season. Cammish has been pushing for a while now, and finally gets past Plato to take 4th place. That makes it BMW, Honda, BMW, Honda at the front. Jelley gets past Thompson again, in the battle to not be the last runner. Bushell and Goff swap back, with Goff not having made any ground on the cars ahead. Bushell immediately capitalises and overtakes Proctor to take 18th. Just behind, Hamilton sneaks another place at the end and takes 21st. The bottom end of the points positions sees Ingram, M.Jackson and Chilton tangle. Chilton comes out ahead in 13th, followed by M.Jackson and Ingram in 15th. Coming out of the final chicane, Moffat takes advantage of the slowing Plato and takes 5th – with the Astra looking to be struggling a bit after the earlier incident with the Honda.


The final order is: 1-Jordan, 2-Neal, 3-Oliphant, 4-Cammish, 5-Moffat, 6-Plato, 7-Turkington, 8-Cook, 9-Morgan, 10-Sutton, 11-Hill, 12-Butcher, 13-Chilton, 14-M.Jackson, 15-Ingram, 16-Neate, 17-Osborne, 18-Bushell, 19-Proctor, 20-Goff, 21-Hamilton, 22-O.Jackson, 23-Rowbottom, 24-Crees, 25-Smiley, 26-Jelley, 27-Thompson, DNF-Gornall and Boardley