Gordon Shedden, Sam Tordoff and Aron Smith scored a win apiece at Rockingham

Gordon Shedden, Sam Tordoff and Aron Smith scored a win apiece at Rockingham over the weekend in rounds 22,23 and 24 of the 2016 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship with the latter's victory making it a record 12 different winners from eight different marques in the 2016 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

The title race has become a lot narrower as Tordoff left the Northamptonshire circuit just five points clear of triple champion Matt Neal in the overall standings.

Halfords Yuasa Racing's Shedden secured a lights-to-flag victory in the opener, after fending off fellow front-row starter Mat Jackson in the early stages.

Team JCT600 with GardX driver Sam Tordoff won the second contest with an impressive performance.

Running in third place by mid-distance, Tordoff then cruised up behind the Motorbase Performance duo of Andrew Jordan and Mat Jackson. He disposed of Jordan with consummate ease before repeating the trick by Jackson on lap nine.

The ballast-laden Ford of Jackson couldn't hang on to second either as team-mate Jordan took him for second and then West Surrey Racing's Rob Collard,who drove a great race, passed him in the closing stages to take third.

Aron Smith then made it an incredible 12 different winners in the 2016 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship – a record number in the illustrious 59-season history of the series – after the Irishman soaked up race-long pressure to win the final encounter.

The VW driver had to contend with three safety car periods and two double champions in his rear mirrors, but he drove an absolutely fantastic race on his way to a first ever victory for the fledgling Team BKR outfit.

Neal and Jackson initially pressured Smith off the line, but the pair would later succumb to the charging Shedden and Turkington – both running the medium Dunlop SportMaxx compound.

In the end the battle between Shedden and Turkington over the final three-lap shootout aided Smith's cause with the trio eventually crossing the finish line separated by just half a second.

Two events remain on the 2016 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship calendar with the penultimate weekend taking place at Silverstone in three weeks time (17/18 September).