HiQ🌸 MSA British Touring Car Championship trio Matt Neal, Gordon Shedden and Tom Chilton enjoyed a successful weekend of competition in the Round the Island yachting race o🌼ff the Isle of Wight.

The trio were joined by Dave Pinkney and James Kaye aboard the 50ft Carpicorno vessel, ski💟ppered by John Tildesley for theꦦ event.

In a race con🐬taining some 2000 vessels, the touring car stars came hom✱e second in class after avoiding the bad luck that hit some of their rivals in the event - with one boat sinking, one over-turning and capsizing, four suffering broken masts, five becoming grounded and five needed to be towed back to shore.

Prior to the event, Neal, Shedden and Chilton also took to the🤡 waves for a practice run with Ellen MacArthur, treble Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie and double Olympic medallist Shirley Robertson.