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00:00So, Matt Neill really taking the independence fight to the works team there,
00:04but he's got his work cut out for race two because he starts from 10th spot
00:07because of the reverse grid system.
00:09Now, taking his first pole position in a British touring car race is Robert Hough,
00:13and alongside him is new old boy, Kelvin Byrne.
00:15We'll be speaking to Kelvin after the break.
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04:16Welcome back to the British Touring Car Championship on Speed Sunday.
04:19Now, here at Silverstone, we're ready for race two.
04:22Pole winner, Robert Huff, is just sitting alongside Kelvin Burt.
04:26Now, Kelvin, the last time you were in a touring car was in a production car class,
04:30and you won, so Silverstone's pretty good for you.
04:32Yeah, same team and same circuit also, so bodes well so far.
04:36Let's see what we can do.
04:38Do you think you can win?
04:41We've made quite a lot of changes to the car in between the race in terms of set-up,
04:45so we think everything we've done is the right way.
04:48We need a better balance than we had in the first race.
04:50If the car is the same, I'm going to struggle.
04:52If it's better, which we're hoping, I don't see why not.
04:56The starting order for the second race sees Rob Huff and Kelvin Burt on that front row.
05:01Luke Hines is third for VX Racing, and Carl Brees is fourth in the Alpha.
05:05Reid is still chasing his first win of the season from fifth.
05:08Dan Eves is sixth.
05:09Then, Thompson and Plato are together again, but this time on row four.
05:12Ivan Muller starts ninth, carrying 30 kilos of ballast,
05:15but Matt Neill's car is even heavier.
05:18The MG of Turkington and the Proton of Watson Smith are on row six,
05:21and the two JKs are on row seven, James Kay ahead of Justin Keene.
05:26Eric Harriman is 15th, but Richard Marge is not starting as someone's run off with his car's ECU.
05:31There are four potentially quick cars at the back in Chilton, Bentwood, Collard and Butler-Henderson,
05:37and they'll hope to make rapid progress in the opening laps.
05:45Rob Huff on pole position with Kelvin Burt alongside him.
05:48Who's going to make the best start here?
05:50A bit of tar smoke from Carl Brees in the second row,
05:52but it's a good getaway to the ex-Ford and Volvo touring car driver of the mid-90s.
05:57Kelvin Burt, a little bit of bumping and boring going on behind him.
06:01Carl Brees trying to squeeze Rob Huff.
06:02Oh, and he loses out as a result, gets pushed wide and loses several places.
06:07Oh, unlucky for Carl Brees there.
06:08He made a good start, got a lot of wheel spin, but got away well,
06:11and then just couldn't find the room to muscle in at the front.
06:13But one man that has jumped away like a jackrabbit is Kelvin Burt.
06:17Yeah, it might be his first meeting in one of these touring cars,
06:20but he's going well, but his teammates off on the grass.
06:22That is the alpha of Carl Brees.
06:24We saw him in trouble at the first corner,
06:26and it goes even more wrong as they go through Maggots and into Beckett.
06:30Now, let's have another look at what happened at the start there, Tim.
06:33Off the start line on the outside, Kelvin Burt gets it right.
06:37Huffy gets a slightly slow start,
06:39and he's actually initially passed by Carl Brees on the outside.
06:42The man making a lot of progress and cutting to the inside was Anthony Reid.
06:45Yeah, that was a good start.
06:46Let's see what happens to Carl Brees now.
06:48He's just to the right of Plato, and he gets spun in front.
06:51My goodness, Plato was lucky.
06:53Yeah, and Plato's now got mud all over the windscreen.
06:55He can't put the wipers on, or he'll scrub it all over the screen.
06:59Here we are, one with Matnir, looking ahead,
07:02and you can just see Hines there banging straight into Carl Brees and pushing him off.
07:07So, that's what happened to Carl Brees.
07:08That's effectively putting him down the running.
07:11Hopefully, he can get back into it,
07:12but he's going to be a long way down, and Hines loses it now.
07:15The man who hit Brees loses control through the ultra-fast Cobb's corner,
07:20and he loses a lot of places.
07:22Meanwhile, up front, it's Kelvin Burt.
07:23Rob Huff in second.
07:24Thompson is in third.
07:25Look at Muller.
07:26Muller muscling his way past Anthony Reid.
07:28Reid gets squeezed out a bit, but now we have a battle on.
07:31This is for the lead of the race.
07:33Rob Huff trying to get around the outside,
07:35and Kelvin Burt, they touch,
07:37and it's tyre smoke that comes off both cars.
07:39Huff still with the inside line as they come down to the Abbey Farm hairpin,
07:43and surely he's got the place.
07:45Yes, he has, and in fact, it's allowed Thompson into second.
07:48Yes, great move by Huff.
07:50That tyre smoke looked dramatic, but it's only just rubbing,
07:53and a good move by him, and of course, Thompson,
07:56ever the opportunist, straight up the inside.
07:58Rob's dad, Peter, there in the middle, getting pretty excited about that,
08:01but Thompson now on the attack.
08:03Watch out, because the champion, Thompson, from two years ago,
08:07wants to try and take a win here at Silverstone,
08:09and Rob Huff's got his work cut out to keep him behind.
08:12That is the view from the Seat of Rob Huff.
08:15Thompson trying to take a wider line round Luffin
08:17and cut back to the inside,
08:19but we know that Seat is quick on the straights,
08:21and he's got no chance there, so Huff leads.
08:24Yes, with Thompson right behind him,
08:26and then in third place, it's still Kelvin Burt
08:28in the short-term Vauxhall Astra independent car, remember?
08:32So that's the leading independent car in this race at the moment.
08:35Then it's Muller, then Turkington and Reid,
08:37and then Dan Eves and Matt Neal, of course, struggling a bit now
08:40with the maximum ballast on board his Honda.
08:42He's not able to make his presence felt.
08:44Meanwhile, Muller gets up the inside of Kelvin Burt.
08:47He gets a bit sideways, and only just manages to keep it on track.
08:50That's Muller's favourite place to overtake,
08:52but up front, it looks like Thompson's putting the same move on Huff,
08:56but Huff made on Kelvin Burt a couple of laps ago.
08:59Yes, now, James, Thompson has the inside line,
09:01and if he can break late enough, then he should go into the lead.
09:04He's fast. If he can hold it,
09:06Huff's trying to stay with him around the outside,
09:08but that's not really on, and Thompson goes ahead,
09:11and Muller now is the man putting Rob Huff under pressure
09:13with Kelvin Burt down in fourth place
09:16with a line of cars queuing up behind him.
09:18Great close battle here with Mitchell.
09:21Oh, Charlie Butler Henderson is out again with broken front steering.
09:24Yeah, there's been contact with somebody.
09:26Oh, and look at this.
09:27Huff just taps the back of Thompson
09:28as they come into Brooklands,
09:30and Muller has got a chance, and he takes it.
09:32Well, he's never going to say no to an opportunity,
09:35but now Huff says,
09:36Oi, I want it back again.
09:37A little bit of barging,
09:39but nothing untoward us yet,
09:41and Huff holds on to second.
09:43You hear great battling between these two.
09:45Mike Nicholson shakes his head.
09:46He can't believe that Muller's actually lost the place,
09:48but Muller was a little bit rough with Huff,
09:50and Huff paid him back in kind.
09:52Now, let's have a look at Colin Turkington.
09:54Up ahead, we've got Anthony Reid and Kelvin Burt,
09:57who's in fourth place,
09:58ran a bit wide there,
09:59so that's going to give an opportunity to Anthony Reid,
10:02perhaps, as they head up towards Maggots,
10:04and then into Beckett,
10:06and Reid goes up the inside.
10:08Kelvin seems to be struggling just a little bit there
10:10with the stability of the car under braking,
10:12and now Turkington's got a chance.
10:14Kelvin Burt's a little bit slow there at Beckett,
10:16so now Turkington will try and get a run.
10:18This is on board with Justin Keene in the BMW,
10:21and he gets hit at that point coming out.
10:23Big spin, cars on the grass,
10:25no chance.
10:26James K just slips through.
10:28Yeah, now, I think that was Charlie Butler-Edison.
10:30I think that's the incident that caused the steering damage to his car.
10:33Meanwhile, look at this.
10:35This is the battle for second place
10:37between Rob Huff and Ivan Muller,
10:39and we saw how James Thompson was able to get past on this section
10:42last time out.
10:43Now is Ivan Muller going to do the same here.
10:46Break late, get down the inside.
10:47Yes, he is.
10:48Now Huff will try and come back on him,
10:50but it looks as though the Frenchman's taken second.
10:53Such a good move, that.
10:54It's actually started three corners back on the approach to Beckett,
10:57but Huff isn't done yet.
10:59We've seen this before.
11:00He fights straight back.
11:01He's coming in on the greasy line.
11:03He's got up the inside.
11:04Look at that.
11:05He's sideways, and he knocks Fuller onto the grass,
11:08and he somehow gets back on again,
11:10and Muller's still in there,
11:11but he's now got Anthony Reid trying to squeeze past his world in the MG.
11:15And these two, of course, no love lost between them.
11:18Reid gives Muller a bit of a shove as they come through the left-hander.
11:21Muller now down a place,
11:22but now he just tags the back of the MG,
11:25and he gets back alongside him again.
11:27Oh, this is great racing.
11:28That was great side-by-side racing.
11:30Starting off by Robert Huff,
11:31trying to get up the inside at Bridge.
11:33Both cars sliding out wide.
11:35Muller using all his ice racing car control,
11:37and then Reid is thinking he knows it,
11:39and Muller's showing he can dish it out as well as take it.
11:42So, Ivan Muller with the advantage now
11:44because he's got the inside line into Gopp's corner,
11:47and Reid has to beautifully follow.
11:49I wonder what the team make of this.
11:50They want to see Reid win his first race of the year,
11:52but at the moment, he hasn't found a way past the Frenchman,
11:55and up front, it's James Thompson still.
11:58This battle for second continues.
12:00Rob Huff, Ivan Muller,
12:01Anthony's clean right there as well as we saw,
12:03and, oh, Rob Huff's got sideways,
12:05completely sideways, he floors the throttle,
12:08tries to get back on track,
12:09but he's lost several places as a result,
12:12and now he rejoins,
12:14oh, just in between the two Hondas of Dan Eves and McNeil.
12:17Great shape for Rob Huff,
12:18trying to win his first race for Seat.
12:20He's had the car sliding a lot at the back,
12:22and it just tail whipped him round there,
12:24but he held it very well.
12:26Yeah, that puts him into seventh place.
12:29If he can hold on to that,
12:30well, it's a bit disappointing
12:31considering he was running in second position,
12:33but that puts Muller up to second now,
12:35Reid in third,
12:36Kelvin Burt in fourth place
12:38with Turkington and Eves behind.
12:40There is Rob Huff having recovered from that moment.
12:43Oh, fantastic car control,
12:45but he'll still be kicking himself, I think,
12:47after losing out on a possible podium finish.
12:50Turkington comes through,
12:51just ahead of him,
12:52there is Kelvin Burt.
12:53Oh, again, he's a bit sideways.
12:55Well, with mud on that part of the circuit
12:57for the very first lap,
12:58and it is a difficult position to break in
13:00because you're cornering at the same time,
13:02but just clipping the curb there
13:04and getting it screwed.
13:05Danny is running well in the number four car.
13:07Let's just see what happened a moment ago, though,
13:09when Kelvin Burt lost his rear bumper.
13:11That was with Colin Turkington.
13:12It was all getting a little close between them,
13:15but they survived.
13:16He's OK.
13:17The car's in one piece,
13:18and Thompson now has just a few corners
13:21to finish off here
13:22to take his third win of the season.
13:25Great drive by James Thompson.
13:26He's stayed out of the way
13:27of all the trouble going on behind him,
13:29and he's been very pleased with this win.
13:31Yeah, a crucial victory,
13:33and it's given him that little bit of an edge again
13:35over Ivan Muller.
13:36His battle continues between the two teammates,
13:39but on this occasion,
13:39it's James Thompson who comes out on top.
13:42Ivan Muller will take second place.
13:45A checkered flag out for Thompson.
13:46There's Muller.
13:47You can see how close Reid is in third position,
13:50but it's enough for Muller to take the place.
13:54Thompson maintains his record
13:55of one win per meeting so far,
13:57and it keeps him within one point of Muller's total.
13:59Reid wins the independence,
14:00and teammate Turkington took fastest lap.
14:03The heavyweight Honda of Matt Neill was eighth,
14:04but the lighter car of Tom Chilton
14:06moved up from 18th to finish 10th,
14:08and was one of only three cars to lap
14:09in the one-minute, 28-second bracket.
14:12The early part of the race was cracking,
14:14you know, a bit of good old-fashioned dogfighting.
14:17But then, luckily, they held themselves up,
14:18and I just, you know, just cruised home.
14:21Did you enjoy your tussle with Ivan there?
14:24Was it all clean, good stuff?
14:25It was pretty clean.
14:27You know, he lent on me very heavily
14:29in the opening couple of laps,
14:30so when he made a mistake
14:31and went off the track mid-race with Rob Huff,
14:34I took advantage of that,
14:36and there was a bit of contact there.
14:38Nothing to write home about,
14:39nothing to get upset about,
14:40but it's all part of touring car racing.
14:49So, Reid and Muller renew their close relationship there,
14:52while Vauxhall's James Thompson
14:53makes his third win of the year.
14:56Can he make it a fourth win
14:57when he starts the final race of the day from pole?
14:59Stay tuned to find out.
15:00We'll see you next time.
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