Andrew Jordan and his Pirtek Racing Honda Civic claimed a fourth win of the season during rounds 19, 20 and 21 of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Knockhill (25 August). With yet another strong weekend, capped by a dominant victory in the third race, Andrew moved even closer to championship leader Matt Neal and is now just six points behind.Andrew and the team went to Scotland track carrying 36kg of success ballast on the car and also facing a six-place grid penalty for the first race due to previous on-track incidents. Unfortunately, Jeff Smith was forced to miss the Knockhill event with the second Pirtek Racing Honda due to illness.“Qualifying should have been even better if I’d hooked my best sectors together,” said Andrew after posting an impressive third-best time. “I was really pleased to out-qualify Gordon Shedden on his home track, even though I was carrying more ballast. Of course, the grid penalty then pushed us down to ninth.” He knew that, starting from P9, race day would be tough as a huge crowd packed into the track. “Knockhill is all about track position: when you are so close on pace, there are not that many chances to overtake.”However, Andrew got his down and raced hard. “In race one we made up two places initially and then Rob Collard, who was on the soft tyres, got past me, so I finished eighth. In race two we got up to sixth and had a bit of a dice with Matt Neal. He was strong in some areas and I was strong in some others. It was so close and I couldn’t find a gap.”But it was race three that Andrew and the team were focussing on and they opted to save their set of soft tyres for the final race. “I got pole in the grid draw for race three,” said Andrew of a perfect result. “Collard was third on the grid and I thought he might jump us off the grid in the rear-wheel drive BMW. We were on the soft tyres as we put all our eggs in the one basket for race three. I got a really good start and Collard got ahead of Matt Neal for second. That bottled them up a bit and Matt couldn’t really utilise his soft tyres.“Then there was a safety car, which wiped out my lead of three and a half seconds,” said Andrew. “I knew I had to get a really good re-start and get back into my rhythm. I was able to take the gap back up to four seconds and I had bit left in case Matt got into second and came after me. It could have been a really bad weekend for us, but it turned out really well. It was what we needed from Knockhill and we’ve now got four wins this season.”Issued on behalf of Pirtek Racing by Paul Lawrence (01952 51 car up, but we seemed to struggle. We have to analyse it and find out what’s caused this and learn from it. We are looking ahead.”