Jason Plato has revealed that the w🌞ork of the RML team was enough to reduce him to tears after it battled hard to ensure he was able to salvage points from the 𒁃second meeting of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season at Donington Park.

Plato had finished outside the points after a puncture in race one and was then sent into a barrel roll after Gordon Shedden tagged the Ford of Liam Griffin - who in turn 🐠hit Plato - coming down the Cra🍷ner Curves at the start of race two.

The defending champion described his Chevrolet Cruze as '?250,000 of scrap metal' following ﷽the race but the RML team - with help from staff at the event as spectators - was able to patch the car up fꦐor race three, where Plato came through to finish sixth and score crucial points towards his championship tally.

"It was amazing," he said. "You can see the passion in everybody, there wer♑e seriously tears in our eyes, including mine. To turn that car around and get it on the grid for race three looked an impossible task, but they did it and that makes RML the best team out there.

"That is teamwork. To see their commitment makes up fꦗor all the bad weekends we'll ever have. That was real emotio🐽n out there today."

Team manager Rod Underwood also praised the team for its work in the two hourꩲs betwe🌺en the race two and race three, where Plato's team-mate Alex MacDowall also finished inside the points in fourth.

"That was a tremendous effort from the whole team to get the car on the grid," he said. "We thought it near impossible, but RML will never give up and the guys put in 1ಞ10 per 𝐆cent.

"For both cars to finish in the points is just reward for the ha𝓡rdwork and Jason's sixth place will be greatly celebrated by us all, given how it looked post race two."