Andrew Jordan sets the pace in second Snetterton practice

Pirtek Racing’s Andrew Jordan set the pace in second practice for the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) at Snetterton, with the session having been red-flagged at the half-way point due to an accident for Laser Tools Racing’s Aiden Moffat.

Jordan, who is sporting a special chrome livery this weekend to celebrate the extension of his sponsorship deal with Pirtek, posted the fastest lap of the day in the closing seconds of the session. The MG driver ended up 0.020 seconds faster than Team BMR’s Colin Turkington, who also improved at the very end.

Jason Plato ensured the Team BMR cars continued to be prominent at the top of the times, ending up third quickest, just 0.040 seconds off the pace, having earlier been at the top of the timesheets for much of the final ten minutes.

Aron Smith had earlier been quickest in the first half of the session and ended up fourth, ahead of WSR’s birthday boy Andy Priaulx in fifth.

The second works’ MG of Jack Goff was a late improver in sixth, ahead of Speedworks Motorsport’s Tom Ingram in seventh.

Power Maxed Racing’s Dave Newsham improved to eighth in the closing minute of the session, with WSR’s Rob Collard and Honda’s Matt Neal completing the top ten.

Just missing out on the top ten were WSR’s Sam Tordoff in 11^th and Honda’s Gordon Shedden in 12^th, with the duo being the last drivers to be within a second of the pace around the long 2.97 mile Snetterton 300 circuit.

Moffat brought out the red flags half-way in to the session when the youngster crashed in the first sector at the Montreal hairpin. The incident saw the Scot referred to the medical centre, where he is reported to be conscious and showing signs of concussion.

Qualifying takes place at 15:45 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	77	M	Andrew JORDAN		MG 888 Racing	MG 6GT	14	1:56.543	0.000
2	1		Colin TURKINGTON		Team BMR	Volkswagen CC	14	1:56.563	0.020
3	99		Jason PLATO		Team BMR	Volkswagen CC	11	1:56.583	0.040
4	40		Árón SMITH		Team BMR	Volkswagen CC	13	1:56.733	0.190
5	111	C	Andy PRIAULX		Team IHG Rewards Club	BMW 125i M Sport	8	1:56.905	0.362
6	31	M	Jack GOFF		MG 888 Racing	MG 6GT	12	1:56.954	0.411
7	80		Tom INGRAM		Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	14	1:56.955	0.412
8	17		Dave NEWSHAM		Power Maxed Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	14	1:57.030	0.487
9	6	C	Rob COLLARD		Team JCT600 with GardX	BMW 125i M Sport	15	1:57.099	0.556
10	25	M	Matt NEAL		Honda Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	14	1:57.151	0.608
11	7	C	Sam TORDOFF		Team JCT600 with GardX	BMW 125i M Sport	17	1:57.218	0.675
12	52	M	Gordon SHEDDEN		Honda Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	13	1:57.293	0.750
13	39		Warren SCOTT		Team BMR	Volkswagen CC	10	1:57.545	1.002
14	55		Jeff SMITH		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic	14	1:57.599	1.056
15	66		Josh COOK		Power Maxed Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	12	1:57.732	1.189
16	4		Mat JACKSON		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus	10	1:57.748	1.205
17	54		Hunter ABBOTT		Exocet AlcoSense	Audi A4	14	1:57.821	1.278
18	21		Mike BUSHELL		AmD Tuning.com	Ford Focus	11	1:58.165	1.622
19	30		Martin DEPPER		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic	13	1:58.189	1.646
20	33		Adam MORGAN		WIX Racing	Mercedes Benz A-Class	15	1:58.238	1.695
21	101		Rob AUSTIN		Exocet AlcoSense	Audi A4	15	1:58.823	2.280
22	22		Derek PALMER Jr		Support Our Paras Racing	Infiniti Q50	14	1:59.311	2.768
23	67		Robb HOLLAND		Handy Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	13	1:59.476	2.933
24	44		James COLE		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus	14	1:59.543	3.000
25	28	G	Nic HAMILTON		AmD Tuning.com	Audi S3	11	2:00.373	3.830
26	114		Barry HORNE		Dextra Racing	Ford Focus	14	2:00.624	4.081
27	95		Stewart LINES		Houseman Racing	Toyota Avensis	12	2:01.689	5.146
28	16		Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes Benz A-Class	5	No time	N/A

Complete session results.