ROB Collard collected his second podium of the season as Donington proved to the happy hunting ground for the Hook racer in the British Touring Car Championship.

Collard took second place in race two of the meeting at the East Midlands circuit his best finish of the day.

In the opening race, the Hook driver started from 15th on the grid battling his way up to sixth including passing two cars on the final lap in his West Surrey Racing BMW.

Race three started in awful conditions with plenty of standing water on the track.

Collard was hit as he came down the old hairpin and when Matt Neal beached in the gravel the race was red flagged.

This meant the Hampshire driver could take his place back on the grid, but with a lot of suspension damage he produced a battling performance to finish 12th.

The results left Collard joint fourth in the driver’s championship 19 points behind the leader Tom Ingram.

Collard said: “We showed great race pace throughout the weekend. I was pleased with my points haul, but I think we would have done better in the last race, but I was hit really hard in the first start and was really limping the car home to get points.”

Collard’s youngest son Jordan had a really tough weekend at Donington in the Ginetta Junior Championships as he was caught out by other drivers.

In race one he lasted five laps before he was taken out and failed to finish.

In race two he was doing well until an incident saw him have to settle for 11th.

Then in his final outing he was in the top six, until one of the cars in front of him spun.

The young Collard was forced onto the grass to avoid him and in the process spun on the grass and so had to settle for 14th.

His father Rob Collard said: “He is driving well, but for the whole weekend he was involved in incidents not of his making.”

The pair are next in against at that home circuit of Thruxton on the weekend of May 6 and 7.