A whole host of tin-top action took part around the world this weekend. The British Touring Car Championship went to Oulton Park in Cheshire, the World Touring Car Championship was at Valencia and the V8 Supercar Championship visited Symmons Plains in Tasmania.
Colin Turkington enjoyed wins in the first two races of the Oulton Park meeting, and James Thompson took victory in the final race. Turkington led from pole to take his victories whereas Thompson moved into the lead ahead of Jonathan Adam and Andrew Jordan off the line. The first two races were largely uneventful, with the exception of some very close racing in the second between rivals Jason Plato and Matt Neal. The final race saw a host of action. Matt Neal made his presence felt as he pushed Jonathan Adam wide at the hairpin to take the place away from him. The drive of the day came from Rob Collard, as he drove ex
SEAT Sport's Yvan Muller took victory in the first race at Valencia and Augusto Farfus drove his BMW to the top step of the podium in the second race. Triple World Champion Andy Priaulx twice finished in the points to maintain a push for the 2009 title. Muller overtook pole sitter Gabriele Tarquini and sealed the race win from there. Farfus started from 5th in race two, and he had the perfect start jumping to second by the first corner. He then made light work of his BMW team mate Jorg Muller, as he passed the German on lap three.
Garth Tander returned to winning ways in the first race at Symmons Plains, and Jamie Whincup took the win in the second race. Tander won Holden's first race in sometime, in what was a close finale to where he was pushed all the way by Russell Ingall. Ingall was benefiting from a brilliant piece of tactical planning, as a simple diagonal tyre swap during his pit stop caused his tyres to out-last most others. If it hadn't been for bad luck in traffic Ingall may well have beaten Tander as the difference between the two drivers was a mere 0.1 seconds. Team Vodafone's Jamie Whincup took victory in an exciting second race, which provided action aplenty. Greg Murphy and Steven Richards were battling hard, and after many slight contacts Richards overtook Murphy, but were swapped again after pit-stops. The battle commenced and ended when Richards spun Murphy, who was later spun by Richards' team mate at the same corner. Dale Wood ended Jamie Whincup's race, and inflicted heavy damage to the Jim Beam Falcon, and incident which ultimately led to Rick Kelly spinning off track.
A two week break sits in between the next weekend of motorsport action. The WRC heads to the notorious car breaking Rally Acropolis in Greece as the BTCC makes its way further North to Croft. Last, but certainly not least, is the worlds most famous race – the Le Mans 24-Hour, or officially the “24 Heures du Mans”. The 77th running of this iconic event will see yet another full quote of cars and drivers take their places on the ceremonial herringbone grid formation at 3pm CEST.
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