Mat Jackson was able to take solace from wꦗinning the final British Touring Car Championship race of 2016 after technical issues in qualifying derailed his chance of the title at Brands Hatch.

The Motorbase Performance driver embarked on the finale with a reasonable chance🅘 of vying for his maiden BTCC title, 21 points back from the championship summit.

However, a differential failure suffered early in qualifying meant Jackson, instead of taking 🐻points away from his rivals, was faced with the task of clawing himself back up the grid.

Jackson succeeded in rescuing his weekend by taking a commanding fifth win of the year in race three, but by that time his title was bid over after falli💮ng out of contention.

Nevertheless, the Ford Focus ST driver still🍒 recovered to finish third overall in the points standings behဣind Gordon Shedden and Sam Tordoff.

"We couldn't do anymore. We won𝐆 the 🐷final race and that's all we could do. You can look back at the season and look at all the ones that got away but everyone could say the same," Jackson told ltxcn.top.

"It's moved us to third in the overall standings so t🔯hat's good. But the main championship is what we're here for and we just missed it so it's unfortunate.

"It's been a good weekend from what was a poor qualifying session for us which really put us on the back foot. We managed to comeback and salvage ওsomething from so overall🍨 I'm pretty happy."

As virtue of Jackson's and Andrew Jordan's efforts, Motorbase Performance tasted their first BTCC title success after being officially crowned😼 Independents' champions at the season 🎐finale.

Jackson says the ever burgeoning Motorbas𒊎e operation has allowed the Ford outfit to punch above its weight against the might of the manufacturer backed teams.

Behind only the Honda Civic Type-R, the Motorbase prepared Ford Focus ST💫 was the second most successℱful machine on the grid, having guided Jackson and Jordan to seven BTCC victories.

"There's a lot of potential still left in this Ford. The Honda is clearly a ver🔯y quick car and there not going to sit back and relax, they'll keep pushing🀅. We need to push more to get more," Jackson continued.

"It's all about the fine detail. And when you ge🃏t the fine detail, you need to get fine, finer bit of🍨 detail. I think as a team, we're moving closer towards the big teams.

"Honda and BMW are full blown manufacturer teams and we're not. We're pꦯutting up a good fight as an independent package.

"We've had a good run and could have probably had a few more but everyone can say the same. Really, the car has got the pace so to come ouꦓt with equal highest amount of wins is great for the team and myself."