Mat Jackson has won the third of Sunday’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at Oulton Park.

Jackson was drawn on pole position for the reversed grid and led every lap in his Airwaves Ford Focus – although into the first corner he had been headed by impressive rookie Nick Foster’s fast-starting WSR BMW.

Honda’s Gordon Shedden came through from fourth and into second early on but was unable to make an impression on the fleeing Jackson and so had to settle for the runners-up spot.

Third was Andrew Jordan but his Pirtek Vauxhall Vectra only just held off the Honda of Matt Neal that was all over him for the final five laps. Neal had come through from 19th on the grid after his controversial final corner crash with team-mate Shedden in the day's earlier second race.

As a result, Neal leaves Oulton leading his team-mate Shedden in the championship standings by just two points. Jackson is third just five more points adrift...

Tom Boardman headed a queue of cars to finish the race in fifth in his Special Tuning Racing SEAT Leon while Andy Neate achieved a career-best sixth in his Team Aon Ford Focus. Neate and Boardman’s respective team-mates Tom Chilton and Dave Newsham – making his debut with STR this weekend – took seventh and eighth with Foster being bundled down to ninth. He had held off this group for a long period until contact with Boardman at Druids Bend sent him wide off the track…

Pirtek’s Jeff Smith completed the points scorers in tenth ahead of race two winner Jason Plato who spent much of the race nursing a damaged Silverline Chevrolet Cruze after an earlier tangle with Neate’s team-mate Robert Collard at Lodge Corner had put them both off the track.

Tony Gilham took 12th ahead of 888 Racing with Collins Contractors team-mate James Nash. Starting the race Nash had looked set fair to move past Neal into the championship lead – there was just a point between them – but opening lap contact with Collard up Clay Hill sent him into a spin, his Vectra suffering damage as it glanced a barrier before rejoining. Until that moment Nash had been the only driver left to have scored points in every race so far this season...

Further back, Rob Austin was 16th in his NGTC-spec Audi A4 after a spectacular 360-degree spin while holding a fine seventh position. Alex MacDowall, who’d been in the hunt for a podium early on, instead finished 18th after a pit stop to cure a mechanical glitch with his Silverline Chevrolet.

There was huge frustration for home hero Paul O’Neill, the Widnes driver having crashed out at Druids on the opening lap after his GoMobileUK.com with tech-speed Chevrolet got into a spin on a damp patch of track while challenging Foster for second place.

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