The final round of the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch served up a thriller as expected.

Gordon Sheddon came away from the weekend with the title, having had to come from way down the grid in the final race of the season to finish fourth and deny Jason Plato the title in his 25^th year in the sport.

The Kent based teams and drivers also had an excellent and entertaining final round of the season, and none more so than Wrotham based Motorbase Performance.

Mat Jackson led from lap one in race one and looked comfortable throughout, even with the punctuation of regular safety car periods to take another emphatic victory for the team.

The AMD Tuning.com duo of Mike Bushell and the returning Jake Hill had an eventful opening race with Bushell finishing inside the points once again in 13^th place.

Hill pushed the Audi to its limits and finished in 17^th just outside of a points paying finish.

Tony Gilham flirted with the top 20 in the opening race having some excellent and entertaining battles with some drivers who found themselves out of position, eventually slipping back to finish in 22^nd place.

With 75kg of success ballast on board Mat Jackson could have been a sitting duck from pole position in race two, but once again the Wrotham base team underlined their class.

Jackson once again had to deal with several safety car periods and the advancing Tom Ingram but he had enough experience and race craft to bring the Focus home for his second win of the day.

The AMD duo of Bushell and Hill would come home pretty much line astern in 17^th and 18^th places with less than a second separating the talented duo.

Once again Tony Gilham was flirting with the top twenty and had the unusual carat of Gordon Sheddon in front of him in 19^th place to catch, and he wasn’t that far away from being able to do just that, finishing in 20^th.

Treble victories don’t come along often in the BTCC, and Mat Jackson was targeting one in the final race of the season. He nearly did it as well, coming from seventh on the grid to finish in second place and cap an excellent end to the season for the team. He took Adam Morgan and Matt Neal in one corner to take that second place.

Once again the race was punctuated by regular safety car periods, and one of those was due to a Jake Hill crash on the first lap, that ended his race before it had even got started.

Meanwhile teammate Bushell was engaged in a midfield battle for the final points paying positions and he rounded off his debut season in the series with a 14^th place finish.

Gilham once again was getting involved with a few good scraps, first with Alex Martin and then with James Cole and Martin Depper, as he would finish his home round with another top twenty finish.

Brands Hatch once again drew to a close another epic and entertaining BTCC season of thirty races with plenty of twists and turns along the way.

Now we move onto the 2016 season and who knows what that will bring, but one things for sure it is bound to be exciting once more.

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