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Wins for Plato, Giovanardi & Jackson

Turkington won't give up championship lead

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Jason Plato, Fabrizio Giovanardi and Mat Jackson shared the wins in today's three highly-charged British Touring Car Championship races at the spectacular Knockhill circuit in Scotland. But it is still Northern Ireland's Colin Turkington who leads the Drivers' standings, albeit by the reduced margin of just nine points from reigning champion Giovanardi as the championship battle now heads to the world-famous Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire for its next three races on Sunday 30 August.

Vauxhall superstar Giovanardi's win came in race two following some world-class overtaking moves. Fifth in the day's first race, he then followed up his race two win with third in race three. Compared to Team RAC BMW driver Turkington's results of fourth, third and fifth, it means the Italian has cut what was a 17-point gap to the Portadown man down to just nine points as the title race - surely now between these two - moves south to Silverstone for a bank holiday weekend showdown.

Meanwhile, it proved to be a day of mixed fortunes for the two home Scottish drivers. Gordon Shedden (Dalgety Bay) finished the day's first race in second. He also briefly led race two in his Cartridge World SEAT Leon but fell to ninth and then crashed out of race three. Jonathan Adam (Kinghorn) finished the first two races in fifth and seventh but then retired from race three when his Airwaves BMW's fire extinguisher went off in his face.

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