Race One Gareth Howell in the Honda Interga and Tom Chiltern in the Honda Civic placed their cars on the front row of the grid for race one around the shorter National circuit at Silverstone. Championship leaders Matt Neal and Yvan Muller could only manage sixth and eighth places respectively. An amazing start saw Muller blast from eighth to third before the cars had even reached turn one at Copse, whilst Howell lost out to Chiltern at the front. A mistake at Maggots on lap two saw Howell drop to fourth and James Pickford slot into third and then ease past Muller at Luffield the following lap. Just a lap later Dan Eaves, who’d begun the race in a respectable third, found himself in the gravel trap. It was an incident that would bring out the yellow flags and the safety car for four laps. The restart saw Chiltern, Pickford and Muller lead a huge snake of cars barreling into Maggots then running three and four abreast down the National straight. Soon the SEATs were the cars to watch as Jason Plato, who’d started the race just seventh, made quick work of moving up through the pack. By lap nine he was sitting fifth, by lap 10 an impressive fourth and lap 12 saw him overtake Muller at Copse for third. With the bright yellow SEATs of Plato and Pickford clearly on fire it was Pickford who was looking for a win and all over the gearbox of Chiltern by lap 18. Chiltern came under particular pressure at the major overtaking points of Maggots and Luffield but put on a fine defensive display to hold off the two rampaging SEATs all the way to the chequered flag, to claim his fourth win of the season. Race Two
 | | Chiltern, Pickford and Plato |
Race two saw the grid line up as they had finished race one: Chiltern, Pickford, Plato, Muller and Howell. Plato was having another good race and found himself in the lead by lap seven but it wasn’t without some controversy as he put Chiltern into a full 360 degree spin on the run down to the fast right-hander at Brooklands. It was a move that he would later come to regret. Howell, also making easy work of things, moved quickly from fifth to second in the opening laps. But on lap eight an unlucky Pickford went off at Luffield in a race that was quickly becoming incident-packed. By lap 10 Plato and Howell were clear of the chasing drivers, headed by Muller who himself pulled into the pits with a broken driveshaft that lap leaving third place to a fortunate Luke Hines. For a while it was SEAT versus Honda as the teams alternated down the order of the top six places. Plato, Howell, Hines, Eaves, Neal, Pickford. But somewhere Howell lost time and dropped back to the battle between Hines, Eaves and Gavin Smith who’d found his way up to a surprising fourth. The final result was a one, two for the SEAT boys, whilst Smith made a good day even better by stealing third from Eaves late on. But when Plato was later excluded from the results for the incident with Chiltern (careless driving), it was a twist that saw Hines inherit the win and the increasingly fortunate Smith, who at half-distance had been running in just eight, walk away with a career-best second. Race Three
 | | Race 3: Chiltern leads. |
For the third race of each BTCC weekend, the drivers are faced with a reverse top 10 grid which meant that Rob Collard was able to line his MG up on pole position as a result of Plato having been excluded from the results of race two. Ian Proctor lined up second in his Vauxhall Astra Coupé with Chiltern third, Richard Williams in the Lexus fourth and Pickford fifth. But it was Howell, who’d begun the race outside the top 10, who romped up to fifth on the opening lap. Wasting no time at all he took fourth place from Pickford when the SEAT driver left the door open at Copse, whilst Neal was to see his good work, to move up to third, undone when he copied Pickford’s mistake, allowing Howell to snatch third from him. Laps four, five and six saw the safety car lead the pack around the circuit as Williams’ Lexus was removed from the gravel trap and Howell closed up on the leaders Collard and Chiltern. At the restart Howell made short work of Chiltern for second whilst Muller and Plato battled further down the field. By lap nine Collard had created himself quite an impressive traffic jam. Howell looking for a way to get up into first but needing to be mindful that he had the lively Chiltern right on his rear bumper. On lap 11 it was an excellent move out of Collard’s slipstream that saw Howell out drag the MG driver down the pit straight and pass at Copse. Immediately Collard had to deal with Chiltern on the run down to Maggots. By lap 16 Chiltern had his lights ablaze and was monstering all over the back of the MG. With less than two seconds separating the top four drivers Chiltern was becoming increasingly frustrated but the racing was always clean, even if Chiltern would probably have been happy enough to push Collard’s car around the track. But despite pressuring Collard into several small errors over the closing laps Chiltern was unable to pass and had to settle for third as the top three crossed the line giving Howell his first taste of victory in the BTCC. | 
