GORDON SHEDDEN will aim to keep his British Touring Car Championship dream alive during the penultimate round at Silverstone this weekend.

The Dalgety Bay race ace is third in the standings, 64 points behind championship leader Colin Turkington, with a maximum of 120 points available during the final two rounds.

It will be a tall order for the 35-year-old to overhaul the eBay motors driver and win his second BTCC title after enduring a frustrating weekend at Rockingham at the start of the month, claiming just 16 points from two eighth-place finishes in the first two races before failing to finish race three because of a first lap collision.

Looking back on his Rockingham woe, Shedden said, “The car was good in races one and two. We were looking really strong in the first of them until my steering got damaged. After that, we extracted the best that we could out of the situation, although two eighth places was evidently not what we had been hoping for.” In 2013, when Shedden missed out on championship glory to Andrew Jordan, ‘Flash’ had a mixed bag of results with an 11th place in race one, seventh in race two before winning the final race of the weekend to claim 34 points.

But with a significant gap to Turkington – and a nine point defecit to second-placed Jason Plato - to overcome, Shedden will need to produce three consistently good drives to give him a chance of the title going into the final round at Brands Hatch on 11th and 12th October.