Charles Rainford took his second win of the season with a win in race three at Oulton Park. He held off Hyundai pair Ricky Collard and Tom Ingram to consolidate third in the championship standings.

Rainford made an excellent start from third on the grid to pass Osborne and go second into Cascades. The Safety Car was deployed when Aron Taylor-Smith and Adam Morgan collided. The Toyota left turn one sideways and collected Morgan’s Mercedes, summing up the latter’s atrocious weekend. Nicholas Hamilton impressively avoided the sliding Morgan.

On the restart, Rainford showed pace in his BMW as he took the lead of the race passing Smiley around the outside at Cascades. Ricky Collard passed Smiley for second at Lodge.

Smiley’s descent down the grid continued with both Ingram and Cammish moving past him at Lodge before the second Safety Car intervention on lap nine. Tom Chilton was trying to stay out the way of Lewis Selby’s Ford, but the pair collided going into Cascades and ended up beached in the gravel.

On the second restart on lap 13, Rainford pulled away from Collard in second. Ingram held his own in third as Cammish was being hounded by Josh Cook. The Toyota man started 15th and was impressively fighting for fourth.

Rainford held on for the win, with Collard second and Ingram third, cutting Ash Sutton’s championship lead down to 48 points. Cammish was fourth with Cook fifth. Dan Rowbottom and Chris Smiley had a titanic battle but the Plato Mercedes of Rowbottom prevailed.

Dexter Patterson, Sutton and Aidan Moffat rounded out the top ten. Mikey Doble was 11th with Nicholas Hamilton finishing an impressive 12th. The final points places went to Sam Osborne, James Dorlin and Daryl De Leon.

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