Tordoff beats Plato in race two

Sam Tordoff beat MG team-mate Jason Plato to win a dramatic wet second British Touring Car Championship race at Donington Park.

Tordoff, with 36kg of success ballast compared to Plato's 45kg, made a good start and was able to slot ahead into Redgate.

In an action-packed race, there was little chance for anyone to challenge Tordoff in the early stages due to a number of incidents.

James Cole's United Autosports Toyota Avensis and Alain Menu's BMR VW Passat both went off on lap one, Menu being narrowly missed by the midfield as he spun back across the pack.

At the restart, Rob Collard - who had risen to third thanks to a fine start - spun off down the Craners, and a multi-car crash at Redgate put Rob Holland and Cole in the wall.

The safety car was called again and stayed out even longer thanks to Ollie Jackson's Welch Proton twice stopping on the track.

When the race finally got under way, Tordoff led Plato and kept him at arm's length to take his first win of 2014.

Collard's mistake, along with errors by Colin Turkington, Matt Neal (under the safety car), and Andrew Jordan (at the Old Hairpin) allowed Gordon Shedden into third.

He kept the MGs in sight, but could not challenge, while Jordan came home fourth.

Neal recovered from his minor mistake to make it three Hondas in the top five, ahead of a subdued Turkington in sixth.

Mat Jackson starred in his Motorbase Ford Focus, climbing from 14th to seventh, ahead of Aron Smith's VW Passat.

The AmD Focus of Dave Newsham also impressed, the former race winner passing Fabrizio Giovanardi at Redgate and then overhauling Tom Ingram in the closing stages to take ninth.

Originally on Autosport.com