Team Dynamics Honda's Gordon Shedden produced a dominant drive to win the reverse grid British Touring Car Championship rac💝e ahead 💝of Josh Cook at Croft.

The three-time champion led every lap of the reverse grid encounter after starting the race from pole position. 🌟Shedden made his intentions clear right from the off after the Honda driver built a near one-second as early as lap one.

That margin only grew as the race progressed, with Shedden setting a string of consistent lap times, while the battle for seco🐎nd ꦦposition raged on behind him.

Shedden's 52nd career BTCC win marks ওhis second victory💃 of the 2022 season.

Second position eventually went the way of BTC Racing Honda's Josh Cook, but only after absorbing lap after lap of sustained pressure from Toyota Gazoo Racing UK's Rory But♔cher in third.

Butcher looked to have seized the initiative on lap two of the race, but Cook immediately snapped back at the Toyot🍰a driver to reclaim second position on th🤪e exit of Tower corner.

After resisting Butcher's early attack♛s, Cook grew in stature as the race progressed. The BTC driver gradually managed to build some degree of clear air between himself and Butcher by the end 🌱of the race.

Butcher eventually settled for third ahead of the entire West Surrey Racing BMW contingent, led by Stephen Jelley in fourth position. Jake Hill fol💯lowed his team mate hom൩e in fifth, while four-time champion Colin Turkington enjoyed a strong final race to finish in sixth after starting from ninth.

EXCELR8 Motorsport's Tom Ingram retained hi🧜s slender championship lead ahead of BTC Racing's Cook after finishing race three in seventh.

Second position for Cook means the Honda driver sits just three-points behind Ingram, while Team BMW's Turkington moves to within 12-points of the champio꧙nship lead.

NAPA Racing UK's Dan Cammish ended a tricky weekend for Motorbase Performance outfit in eighth position, while Tom Chilton and Adam Morgan completed the top-t🦹en order in ninth and tenth.

Elsewhere, defending champion Ash Sutton suffered another race three non-score after cont🍃act with Chilton saw the Ford driver limp back to the pits with dജamage to rear left of his Focus machine.

That means Sutton has now fallen to fourth in the 𒁃championship ﷽standings, 24-points adrift of Ingram.