Three finishes for Marsh in finale.

After a campaign dogged by engine problems, Richard Marsh was able to enjoy his best weekend of racing as the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season came to a close at Silverstone.

At the wheel of his Team Farecla Peugeot 307, Marsh took three finishes home from Finals Day at the Northamptonshire circuit and even managed to get the distinctively-liveried car into the top ten during the second race of the day - coming close to scoring his first points of the season.

The first race of the day saw Marsh stick to his game plan of keeping out of trouble and an incident free run saw him take the flag in 17th place out of the 25 starters.

In race two, an incident on the second lap left the field circulating behind the Safety Car before the red flag came out - with Marsh running in ninth position.

"It was pretty surreal," he said. "I was watching SEATs, Hondas and MGs flying off all around me and I just kept picking my way through them."

When the race was restarted, some of the quicker cars that had lost time prior to the red flag were able to get ahead of the Peugeot, but Marsh battled to the flag in twelfth place - a position good enough to claim his first Independents top ten of the year.

With many of the cars damaged in race two back of the grid for the final race of the year - and starting behind the Peugeot on the grid - the start of the race was always going to be manic, and so it proved on the run into Copse.

"It was really all done for me at the first corner," he said. "I was in this huge gaggle of cars all looking for the same piece of track. One of the Lexus spun in front of me and I lost momentum. I was passed by three or four cars and I was never going to be able to make up the gap after that."

Two Safety Car periods ensured that the racing remained close and Marsh was locked in a tight battle with Mark Smith's Alfa Romeo for most of the race. Despite being quicker in the corners, Marsh lost out on the straights and finally had to settle for fourteenth overall and another Independents' top ten.

"All in all, this weekend has marked a real step forward for me and for the car," he said. "The team have been superb again and I hope that three decent finishes is some sort of repayment for all of the effort that they have put in - often with nothing, results-wise, to show for it.

"I'd like to thank them for all their hard work and also everyone who has supported me this season in the Team Farecla Peugeot. I'm already looking forward to next season and hopefully will soon be able to announce some details of our 2007 BTCC campaign."