Matt Neal has won today’s third Dunlop British Touring Car Championship race at the Donington Park circuit in Leicestershire to set up a four-way title-decider at Brands Hatch on 10 October.

Honda Racing Team driver Neal took the lead several laps in and from there was never headed as he romped home for his fifth win of the season in his Honda Civic.

Second was WSR BMW driver Robert Collard and third Jason Plato – setting another new lap record in his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze – as his other title rivals Gordon Shedden and Tom Onslow-Cole finished in sixth and ninth places.

It means that Oxford’s Plato, Worcestershire’s Neal, his Scottish team-mate Shedden and Team Aon Ford driver Onslow-Cole, from New Malden, will all go to Brands Hatch’s Finals Day round with a chance of being crowned the 2010 BTCC Champion.

That is a record for the highest number of drivers to have previously gone into Finals Day with a chance of the title is three - in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2009.

However, it's all over for Team Aon's Tom Chilton, fifth in the standings. He finished the race in fifth but leaves Donington 53 points behind Plato with a maximum of only 52 available from Brands Hatch's three races.

From the reversed grid, Andrew Jordan led the race’s early laps in his Pirtek Vauxhall Vectra but then got into a side at Redgate Corner. Neal was instantly through and was followed two corners later by Collard. Jordan would then hold on to third until two laps from home when Plato also dived inside him at Redgate. From there they ran side by side to the Old Hairpin where Jordan ran wide off the track and tumbled further down the order to seventh.

This allowed Airwaves BMW’s Steven Kane through into fourth, Chilton to fifth and Shedden to sixth. Eighth was Airwaves’ Mat Jackson, ninth Onslow-Cole and tenth James Nash in his Triple Eight Vauxhall Vectra. Jackson had been the highest placed of this bunch early on but contact with Jordan at Coppice sent his car skittering off the track. Just as this happened, behind Kane was passing Chilton so suddenly found himself gaining two positions in one go!

On the last lap, Shedden made it past Chilton at Coppice Corner but the Fords’ extra torque from its LPG-turbo engine told on the following Starkeys Straight and was able to get back ahead in time for the final chicane.

Onslow-Cole, meanwhile, was lucky to escape a brush with Plato’s team-mate Alex MacDowall entering the Old Hairpin, their contact sending the latter’s Chevrolet into a spin and out of the race.

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