Dan Eaves won the second of Sunday's three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at Thruxton, Hampshire – adding to his victory in the first race, held during the morning.

Eaves, in his Team Halfords Honda, romped away from the field to win comfortably from pole position. His win means he is tied for the lead of the championship with team-mate Matt Neal heading into the afternoon’s third race.

Neal finished second after passing Vauxhall’s Yvan Muller in the late stages. Muller, who came home in third, was lucky to stay on the track early on after a clash with arch enemy, SEAT’s Jason Plato.

The championship’s top ten reversed grid rule means that Eaves started the third race from tenth position on the grid, with Neal ninth, Muller eighth and so on. On pole position, after finishing tenth in race two, was  Vauxhall’s new signing Gavin Smith.