SEAT duo Jason Plato and Darren Turner dominated the British Touring Car Championship triple-header at Knockhill yesterday, winning all three rounds.
But while Turner was pleased to win the day's final race, former champion Plato was left incensed. Having won the opening two rounds, twice finishing immediately ahead of championship leader Fabrizio Giovanardi to cut the deficit in the title race, P
lato's Seat speared into the tyre wall after it was tapped by Vauxhall's Tom Onslow-Cole.
"I really don't know what Tom was playing at," said Plato. "I got past him fair and square, then he speared me into the tyre wall. He was driving like a prat."
While Plato heads to the penultimate round at Silverstone in a fortnight 41 points behind the defending champion, there was frustration for Fifer Gordon Shedden.
The Dalgety Bay racer finished fourth in both openers before his Team Halfords Honda was pitched into the gravel after Colin Turkington's BMW clashed with Matt Neal's Vauxhall. Shedden recovered to finish eighth.
Kirkcaldy's Jonathan Adam, meanwhile, won both rounds of the Seat Cupra Championship to close the gap to just five points behind leader Robert Lawson.
In the Porsche Carrera Cup Kirkcaldy 21-year-old Rory Butcher impressed with two top five finishes on his debut.
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