Kevin Turner DUNBAR/LAT

Autosport’s BTCC reporter 2011-14

The 2014 Knockhill meeting highlighted the bad, the good and the ugly of the BTCC. Comfortably fastest in qualifying, championship leader Colin Turkington had a dubious eight-place penalty for contact at the previous Snetterton round. That was the bad – it was almost as though someone was trying to stop the BMW man running away with the title…

Turkington was making his way through the field in race one when he was dumped off the road by Jason Plato’s MG at Scotsman, having showed patience before making a clean pass. That was the ugly.

Now for the good. Starting race two in 27th, Turkington charged to fourth and set a fastest lap quicker than anyone else had managed in qualifying. More than that, he finished without a damaged car, underlying the fact that you don’t have to resort to argy-bargy to make progress in touring cars, even around the tight Scottish circuit. Class.