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James Turkington took the maximum
possible fifty points from the two
TCR UK races at Brands Hatch and so
moved into the lead in the
championship with only two more
races remaining.
In Race 1, Turkington made a great
start from fourth on the grid and
went into Turn 1 in second place
behind pole-sitter Nick Halstead.
Championship leader Lewis Kent
dropped a place and then struggled
with a car that was fully laden with
Success Ballast. Turkington snatched
the race lead from Halstead on Lap 3,
while Kent passed Darelle Wilson for
fifth position. With Henry Neal, in a
TCT class Honda, passing Halstead for
second place overall, the attention
switched to the battle between
Halstead, Stewart Lines and Kent for
third, fourth and fifth positions. Neal
then passed Turkington for the race
lead on Lap 10, but Turkington won
in TCR UK with Halstead second and
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Round 7 – Sunday 28 July,
Brands Hatch
1. J. Turkington (Cicely Motorsport,
CUPRA); 2. N. Halstead (Orange
Motorsport, Honda Civic FK2),; 3. S.
Lines (Maximum Motorsport, CUPRA)
Round 8 – Sunday 28 July,
Brands Hatch
1. J. Turkington (Cicely Motorsport,
CUPRA); 2. L. Kent (Essex & Kent
Motorsport, Hyundai i30 N); 3. S. Lines
(Maximum Motorsport, CUPRA)
for recovery by Kent that would see
him steadily carving his way through
the field. His championship rival,
however, made a superb start from
second on the grid and so
Turkington led into Turn 1. Kent’s
thrilling recovery drive saw him first
pass Wilson, Lines and Halstead to
finish third overall behind
Turkington and the Neal’s TCT car.
However, both Neal and Halstead
were given five-second penalties for
track limit infringements, so Kent
finished second overall ahead of
Neal, with Lines third in TCR UK
once again.
Turkington now has a nineteen-point
lead over Kent in the standings, with
a break of nearly three months until
the final pair of races at Donington
Park on October 19th/20th.
Lines third after he passed Kent with
only a handful of laps remaining.
In Race 2, Kent again made a poor
start and ran through the gravel at
Druids on Lap 1, dropping to last
place. The incident triggered a battle