Team BMW's Colin Turkington has emerged as the British Touring Car Championship points leader followi🀅ng a strong weekend across the border during Scotland's Knockhill roꦜund. 

The 🦩four-time BTCC champion delivered his strongest points hau🌄l of the season so far with a grand total of 44 combined across the three Knockhill races.

Turkington finished the first two races in the position from where he started from third on the grid, before ending a profitable day in fourth during the reve🧸rse grid race.

The 40-year old expressed his delight with 💧enjoying such a strong shꦚowing, but admitted he lacked the final bit of pace he needed to reach the top step of the podium.

"Three top four results is a really strong wee🔯kend – big, big points. Maybe I was missing the last little bit of pace but with the hybrid I had, it was important to bag the poi🅠nts," Turkington told ltxcn.top.

"Some weekends you get it hooked up in the sweet-spot, like I did at Croft and some weekends it’s a🦩 bit harder. Whenever that’s the case, to still score these points is mega.

"On race day, you’ve just got to 𒁃keep doing your own thing, but I’m sure we can have a look at that next week.

"When yo꧟u get to Brands Hatch nobody remembers what’s happened at Knockhill. It’s just important to score🐈 well and get the car home and keep improving on all sides."

Having scored two podiums in the opening two races, Turkington looked in prime position to m🍎ake it three podiums from three in race three.

The BMW 330e M Sport driver surged up to third position and was chasing down Toyota's Rory Butcher for second position. However, Turkington then fell back into the clutches of his West Surrey Racing team mate Jake Hill, and w༺as powerless in keeping Hill at bay.

Playing the team game, Turkington waved Hill through and settled for fourth, which has given the BM⛄W runner a five-point lead ahead of Tom Ingram in the drivers' championship.

"It was a battle from start to finish. It’s Knockhill, close and exciting racing. It🎃’s always one I enjoy but we move onto Snetterton now," Turkington continued.

"Mꦗy pace🐓 was good in the beginning but it slowed up once I got to Rory [Butcher], which then allowed Jake [Hill] to come. The car was strong at the beginning, dropped off a bit but I’m still happy with where I ended up."