TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK's Rob Huff held off Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS' Tom Ingram to take his second BTCC victory of the season in a thrilling final race at Knockhill.
A lights-to-flag triumph for the former World Touring Car Champion doesn't tell the full story as the #12 Toyota Corolla had to withstand race-long pressure from Ingram with the pair going side-by-side on a few occasions in the early stages.
Huff then nailed a mid-race restart following a brief safety car period and then perfectly positioned his car for the remainder of the bout to take his second victory of the season, whilst Ingram returned to the top of the standings with his own impressive display.
Tom Chilton completed the podium celebrations for Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS as he joined team-mate Ingram on the rostrum – as they did at Croft two weeks ago.
NAPA Racing UK's Ash Sutton came out on top of a frenetic battle for fourth, ahead of Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport's Jake Hill – keeping them both well in contention in the title battle – but there was also a mid-race scrap that took out LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ's Josh Cook.
Cook and Sutton came together and then as the former's Toyota rejoined the track there was a further tangle with Hill, which sent the #66 Corolla spiralling off-track - damaging Cook's own title chances.
NAPA Racing UK's Dan Rowbottom was next in the order, ahead of Aiden Moffat (LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ) and Dan Cammish (NAPA Racing UK).
Colin Turkington and Ronan Pearson were ninth and tenth respectively – ensuring both Scots were inside the top ten.
Race 3 – Knockhill – Classification
P/ No/ Name/ Entry/ Laps/ Time/ Gap/ Best/ On/
1 12 Rob HUFF TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK 27 25:48.020 51.791 3
2 80 Tom INGRAM Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS 27 25:49.415 1.395 51.100 3
3 3 Tom CHILTON Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS 27 25:49.875 1.855 51.981 3
4 1 Ashley SUTTON NAPA Racing UK 27 25:50.634 2.614 52.159 3
5 24 Jake HILL Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport 27 25:50.992 2.972 52.127 21
6 32 Daniel ROWBOTTOM NAPA Racing UK 27 25:52.219 4.199 52.345 23
7 16 Aiden MOFFAT LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ 27 25:59.162 11.142 52.452 3
8 27 Dan CAMMISH NAPA Racing UK 27 26:00.217 12.197 52.026 3
9 20 Colin TURKINGTON Team BMW 27 26:00.327 12.307 52.158 6
10 14 Ronan PEARSON Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS 27 26:03.046 15.026 52.275 3
11 29 Scott SUMPTON Restart Racing 27 26:06.968 18.948 52.552 3
12 40 Árón TAYLOR-SMITH Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing 27 26:17.520 29.500 51.892 3
13 222 Chris SMILEY Restart Racing 27 26:26.225 38.205 52.622 4
14 22 Nick HALSTEAD Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS 27 26:28.175 40.155 52.750 4
15 77 Sam OSBORNE NAPA Racing UK 26 26:05.418 1 Lap 52.623 17
NC 11 Andrew WATSON TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK 23 26:03.240 4 Laps 51.996 2
DNF 33 Adam MORGAN Team BMW 16 16:13.050 11 Laps 52.101 3
DNF 66 Josh COOK LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ 12 10:59.846 15 Laps 52.243 3
DQ 18 Daryl DELEON Duckhams Racing With Bartercard 0 0 0
