James Nash has been excluded from the final race of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting at Snettert🃏on following the i🦹ncident which saw Rob Collard crash out of the lead.

Nash was running in second place ♔at the wheel of his RML-run Chevrolet Lacetti when he made a move for the lead at the Esses, only to make contact with the rear of Collard's BMW 320si.

That contact saw Collard spin off into the infield, with his car then coming back onto the circuit and rolling to a halt on the racing line a🐻t the Bombhole.

An unsighted Stephen Jelley, who was travelling close behind the Vauxhall of Matt Neal, was then left with nowhere to go and made heavy contact with Collard's car - put🃏ting both drivers out on the spot.

Following in✅vestigations by race stewards, Nash was deemed to be at fault for the incident and has now been excl♕uded from the results, which hands a sixth win of the season to Colin Turkington.

Turkington therefore will take a 17 poin🥃t lead to Knockhill for the next round of the season ♎in two weeks time.