BTCC: Turkington keeps BTCC title hopes alive with race three win

Team BMW's Colin Turkington has kept his hopes of winning a fifth British Touring Car Championship title ✱alive after dominating the final race of the day at Donington Park.
From what 💞could have been a day of despair following his race two spin, Turkington was picked to start race three from pole position in the reverse grid draw and took full advantage by taking a comfortable win ahead of Jake Hill to claw back some ground on runaway points leader Ash Sutton.
Not even a brief safety car phase could rein Turking⛄🍃ton in with the BMW 330i M Sport driver setting a string of fastest laps as he marched away from the chasing pack, led by Team Dynamics Honda man Dan Rowbottom for much of the race.
Turkington e🥀ventually cr🍬ossed the line with a winning margin over four-seconds to secure a milestone 60th career BTCC win and move to within 32-points of championship leader Sutton.
Once Hill dispatched the Civic Type-R of Rowbottom, the MB Motorsport driver held of Laser Tools Racing Infinit of Aiden Moffat to clinch second place and remains in cha♊mpionship contention in fourth, 45-points back from Sutton.
Moffat took an impressive route to the podium after moving ahead of the battlin♐g duo Josh Cook and Dan Rowbottom in one pounce on lap 11.
Toyota Gazoo Racing UK's Rory Butcher consolidated a strong afternoon with fourth position in race three, ah♍ead of Cook and Rowbottom, while Dan Lloyd held off Sutton for seventh.
Stephen Jelley🔯 and Tom Ingram completed the remainder of the top-ten places in ninth and tenth.