Tom Ingram tops timesheets in second free practice

Tom Ingram set the quickest time in the second free practice session during this weekends Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting at Thruxton, with the Speedworks Motorsport driver edging out practice one pace-setter Andrew Jordan by 0.503 seconds and a surprise Aiden Moffat in third.

Ingram, who has topped a practice session at each of the three meetings thus far this season, completed a total of 18 laps across the forty minute session, which was punctuated once with a red flag stoppage at half distance due to an incident for Chris Smiley, and set a best time of 1:16.542 around the 2.4 mile Hampshire venue, around four tenths of a second off the qualifying lap record.

Andrew Jordan continued his strong form and looks to be the man to beat heading into this afternoon’s qualifying session, available live on the ITV website from 16:00, however his Motorbase team-mate Mat Jackson looked out of position for the first time in several weekends and could only manage the tenth fastest time, over a second slower than Ingram.

Eurotech Racing continued their strong showing with another brace of top fifteen classifications, Jeff Smith again edging out series newcomer Daniel Lloyd in 9^th and 12^th respectively. The works Honda outfit, also running the Civic Type-R, allocated another session to developing a strong setup ahead of this afternoon and finished 18^th and 20^th, Shedden this time beating three-time champion Matt Neal, whilst Martin Depper and Matt Simpson clocked the 17^th and 24^th fastest times to round out the seven Honda models on the grid.

Adam Morgan recovered from a crash at Allards this morning to finish the session in sixth, though there were less impressive showings for Josh Cook, who dropped from 2^nd this morning to 19^th in the second session, whilst Rob Collard and Sam Tordoff also failed to break into the top ten despite having been solid top eight fixtures in practice one.

Silverline Subaru BMR Racing continued their development of the four brand-new Subaru Levorg models, with Colin Turkington once again using his rear-wheel drive expertise to lead the line for Warren Scott’s outfit in 13^th, with double champion team-mate Jason Plato the next highest placed BMR machine in 21^st.

Aron Smith and Rob Austin also staked their claim to a strong finish this afternoon, putting the 7^th and 8^th fastest times on the board as the former looks to continue his streak of podium finishes, and the latter looks to return to the rostrum for the first time in several rounds.

Qualifying gets underway this afternoon at 16:10, with Andrew Jordan seemingly the favorite so far to claim a first pole position in over a year, however he will surely face stern competition from the Team Dynamics duo once they show their hand in the tense, closely fought thirty minute qualifying session that awaits us this afternoon.

Session results

POS	NO	CL	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	80		Tom INGRAM		Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	19	1:16.542	0.000
2	77		Andrew JORDAN		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus	17	1:17.045	0.503
3	16		Aiden MOFFAT		Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	16	1:17.142	0.600
4	31	C	Jack GOFF		Team IHG Rewards Club	BMW 125i M Sport	14	1:17.167	0.625
5	116	M	Ashley SUTTON		MG Racing RCIB Insurance	MG6GT	9	1:17.185	0.643
6	33		Adam MORGAN		WIX Racing	Mercedes-Benz A-Class	16	1:17.529	0.987
7	40		Árón SMITH		BKR	Volkswagen CC	16	1:17.626	1.084
8	11		Rob AUSTIN		Handy Motorsport	Toyota Avensis	17	1:17.798	1.256
9	55		Jeff SMITH		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	1:17.834	1.292
10	7		Mat JACKSON		Motorbase Performance	Ford Focus	16	1:17.857	1.315
11	53		Hunter ABBOTT		Power Maxed Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	21	1:17.889	1.347
12	23		Daniel LLOYD		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic Type R	16	1:17.956	1.414
13	4	M	Colin TURKINGTON		Silverline Subaru BMR Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	20	1:18.062	1.520
14	600	C	Sam TORDOFF		Team JCT600 with GardX	BMW 125i M Sport	20	1:18.121	1.579
15	17		Dan WELCH		Goodestone Racing	Proton Persona	12	1:18.164	1.622
16	100	C	Rob COLLARD		Team JCT600 with GardX	BMW 125i M Sport	17	1:18.167	1.625
17	30		Martin DEPPER		Eurotech Racing	Honda Civic Type R	17	1:18.229	1.687
18	52	M	Gordon SHEDDEN		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	19	1:18.232	1.690
19	66	M	Josh COOK		MG Racing RCIB Insurance	MG6GT	15	1:18.274	1.732
20	25	M	Matt NEAL		Halfords Yuasa Racing	Honda Civic Type R	18	1:18.352	1.810
21	99	M	Jason PLATO		Silverline Subaru BMR Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	12	1:18.601	2.059
22	24		Jake HILL		RCIB Insurance Racing	Toyota Avensis	16	1:18.655	2.113
23	84		Kelvin FLETCHER		Power Maxed Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	20	1:18.751	2.209
24	303		Matt SIMPSON		Speedworks Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R	17	1:18.864	2.322
25	39	M	Warren SCOTT		Silverline Subaru BMR Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	18	1:18.947	2.405
26	14		Alex MARTIN		Dextra Racing with Team Parker	Ford Focus	20	1:19.152	2.610
27	48		Ollie JACKSON		AmD Tuning	Audi S3	10	1:19.454	2.912
28	20	M	James COLE		Silverline Subaru BMR Racing	Subaru Levorg GT	14	1:19.718	3.176
29	22		Chris SMILEY		TLC Racing	Toyota Avensis	7	1:19.754	3.212
30	95		Stewart LINES		Maximum Motorsport	Ford Focus	19	1:20.448	3.906
31	38		Mark HOWARD		BKR	Volkswagen CC	14	1:20.813	4.271
32	12		Mike EPPS		RCIB Insurance Racing	Toyota Avensis	7	1:22.245	5.703

Complete session results.