Colin Turkington blitzed the field in race one at Croft by taking a dominant lights-to-flag victory ahead of Honda Yuasa Racing duo Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.

Turkingtons eBay Motors team-mate Nick Foster claimed a memorable fourth place after a late race pass by the MG of Jason Plato. Pirtek Racings Andrew Jordan completed the top six order.

Turkington held the lead off the line in his BMW 125i M Sport while Neal immediately squeezed his way by Plato. The BMW of Rob Collard tried to follow suit but was left on the outside at Hawthorn, and with little room to manoeuvre his car made contact with Platos MG. Collard was sent spinning to the rear of the field while Plato continued in third.

Jordan retook fifth on the opening lap after an initially sticky getaway left him behind the fast starting MG of Sam Tordoff. Shedden had escaped during the tussle behind and he immediately set about attacking Plato ahead of him. The two champions ran side-by-side for much of the second lap, giving each other ample room in the battle, before Shedden eventually slipped by and into third.

The two manufacturer-backed Hondas ran in tandem for the remainder of the race with championship leader Neal maintaining second until the finish, but he could do little about Turkingtonthe Northern Irishman also breaking the lap record on his way to his second win of the season.

Everything just workedit was a great performance and strategy from the team to use the soft tyre, enthused Turkington. Croft suits the rear wheel drive cars so its great to get another fantastic result here. I was able to manage the tyre pretty well being ahead with a clear track in front of me, so Im hopeful that we have the same sort of performance in the other two races. I hope it doesnt rain as these conditions suit us perfectly, but well just have to see.

Fosters charge to fourth included eye catching moves by Tordoff, Jordan and Platohighlighting the overall pace of the WSR-run BMWs. Team-mate Collard would have arguably been in the mix too had in not been for his earlier incident, but he still provided the fans with some fantastic action during his recovery drive.

The largely lonely races of Jordan and Tordoff in sixth and seventh respectively were followed by a pulsating battle for eighth.

Dave Newshams Toyota was seen off early on after contact damage forced him into retirement, which left the VW Passat of Tom Onslow-Cole to defend the position for much of the race. In the gaggle of cars behind, Michael Caine made his way by Ford Focus team-mate Aron Smith, whilst the sister car of Mat Jackson endured heavy contact with the tyre barriers after the Airwaves Racing driver lost control at turn one.

The recovering Rob Collard, plus the Toyota of Adam Morgan and Honda Civic of Jeff Smith were also in the mix before Caine made arguably the move of the race. As Collard lent on Morgan on the approach to the chicane, Auto Glym-backed Caine eyed his opportunitysqueezing by both in the process. He then went on to make a last lap manoeuvre by Onslow-Cole and was followed through by Collard as they took eighth and ninth ahead of the Team HARD. machine.

Jake Hill took a fantastic Jack Sears Trophy win on his debut in the series. The Addison Lee Motorbase driver completed an early move by class leader Lea Woods Vauxhall Vectra and the youngster never looked backtaking the victory by more than nine seconds from the other Focus of David Nye, who himself relegated Wood down the order.

"A huge well done to Addison Lee Motorbase," said Hill. "The car was mega and it's just a great start to the day. I am really going to enjoy this moment, but probably only for about ten minutes, before we turn our attention to the second race!"

That second race will get underway at 14:37 and the action from the entire day can be watched live on ITV4 now.

2013 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car ChampionshipCroftRace 1

1 Colin Turkington (eBay Motors) 15 Laps2 Matt Neal (Honda Yuasa Racing) +9.334 3 Gordon Shedden (Honda Yuasa Racing) +9.552 4 Nick Foster (eBay Motors +12.819 5 Jason Plato (MG KX Momentum Racing) +18.580 6 Andrew Jordan (Pirtek Racing) +20.810 7 Sam Tordoff (MG KX Momentum Racing) +27.9618 Michael Caine (Addison Lee Motorbase) +34.8819 Robert Collard (eBay Motors) +35.040 10 Tom Onslow-Cole (PPCGB/Kraftwerk Racing) +36.176 11 Adam Morgan (Ciceley Racing) +36.640 12 Jeff Smith (Pirtek Racing) +36.943 13 Rob Austin (WIX Racing) +38.686 14 Aron Smith (Airwaves Racing) +41.608 15 Will Bratt (Rob Austin Racing) +45.050 16 Jack Goff (RCIB Insurance Racing) +56.267 17 Daniel Welch (Welch Motorsport with Sopp + Sopp) +58.775 18 Jake Hill (Addison Lee Motorbase) +1:00.819 19 James Cole (RCIB Insurance Racing) +1:02.934 20 Frank Wrathall (Dynojet) +1:08.478 21 David Nye (Welch Motorsport with Sopp + Sopp) +1:10.053

Not Classified

- Dave Newsham (Speedworks Motorsport) +9 Laps - Mat Jackson (Airwaves Racing) +10 Laps - Ollie Jackson (Speedworks Motorsport) +12 Laps