The summer arrived at Thruxton giving the British Touring Car Championship glorious weather to entertain another bumper crowd.

James Kaye (Isle of Wight) and Rob Collard (Hook) were both in action.

Kaye qualified his Honda Civic Type R for race one in 12th while Collard, in the Team RAC MG ZS, was seventh.

Collard ended qualifying with an engine fire, giving his team plenty of work overnight to make sure he started race one.

He made the grid and finished fifth while Kaye climbed to seventh.

Collard claimed a podium finish in race two, finishing third.

With the lottery style of grid line up, race three saw Kaye start from pole after again finishing seventh.

Kaye finished fourth with Collard sixth.

Team Halfords driver Neal, the reigning champion, has now opened up a 33-point lead in the Drivers championship over Team RAC's Turkington as the title chase now heads to the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire on 16 July Other locals of note were Salisbury's Ross Curnow who, in the Formula BMW Championship, finished ninth and seventh.

Mark Cole (Newbury) made a return to Thruxton in the Porsche Carrera Cup.

Having worked as an instructor at the circuit for many years, Cole suffered a technical infringement and was demoted on the grid before a puncture in race one.

That meant he started race two at the rear of the grid, though he recovered to finish fourth.

The next racing at Thruxton is the Dunlop Festival on August 5/6.

THRUXTON RESULTS Race 10 result: 1 Gordon Shedden (GBR), Team Halfords/Honda Integra, 21m27.943s 2 Matt Neal (GBR), Team Halfords/Honda Integra, +6.698s 3 Darren Turner (GBR), SEAT Sport UK/SEAT Leon, +11.314s Fastest Lap: Shedden, 1m18.709s Race 11 result: 1 Matt Neal (GBR), Team Halfords/Honda Integra, 22m36.444s 2 Gordon Shedden (GBR), Team Halfords/Honda Integra, +0.328s 3 Robert Collard (GBR), Team RAC/MG ZS, +1.020s Fastest lap: Dave Pinkney (GBR), 1m19.728s Race 12 result: 1 Colin Turkington (GBR), Team RAC/MG ZS, 26m45.270s 2 Matt Neal (GBR), Team Halfords/Honda Integra, +11.591s 3 Jason Plato (GBR), SEAT Sport UK/SEAT Leon, +14.714s Fastest lap: Turkington, 1m18.799s Leading BTCC points after Thruxton: 1 Matt NEAL 131pts 2 Colin TURKINGTON 98pts 3 Jason PLATO 86pts 4 James THOMPSON 77pts 5 Gordon SHEDDEN 76pts 6 Tom CHILTON 67pts 7 Rob COLLARD 51pts