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Gordon Shedden posts the fastest time in wet first practice

Team Dynamics’ Gordon Shedden was the fastest driver in the first British Touring Car Championship free practice session at Knockhill, lapping less than a tenth of a second quicker than Excelr8 Motorsport’s Chris Smiley on a wet circuit.

The circuit began on a very wet circuit following an isolated rain shower ahead of the session, meaning that times were some way off the fastest laps at the Scottish circuit.

Shedden, who also works at the circuit as Business Development Manager, posted the best lap half-way through the session, which stood as the benchmark of 55.032 seconds despite the sun breaking through towards the end of the 40-minutes.

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The session had been red-flagged around halfway through when Jade Edwards went off in her BTC Racing Honda and ended up in the barriers.

When track action resumed, no one was able to usurp Shedden at the top, with Smiley having also put his Hyundai in second before the halfway stage.

Colin Turkington was the leading Team BMW driver in third, just over two tenths off the pace, ahead of the top Infiniti of Scot Aiden Moffat in fourth.

Tom Oliphant’s BMW was fifth, ahead of Jake Hill’s MB Motorsport Ford Focus in sixth, BTC Racing’s Senna Proctor in seventh and championship leader Ash Sutton’s Infiniti in eighth.

The top ten was completed by BTC Racing’s Josh Cook and MB Motorsport’s Ollie Jackson.

A challenging session for Rory Butcher saw the Scot just 13th in his Toyota Corolla, the Speedworks driver having endured an alternator cable issue which meant he completed just 14 laps – fewer than any other driver.

Tom Ingram was also somewhat off the pace in his ballast-laden Hyundai, the Excelr8 driver being just 23rd and over a second off the best time in the mixed conditions.

Second practice is scheduled to get underway at 12:05 BST, followed by qualifying at 14:50 BST.

Session results

POS NO NAT DRIVER ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 52 Gordon SHEDDEN Halfords Racing with Cataclean Honda Civic Type-R 25 55.032
2 22 Chris SMILEY Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 20 55.057 0.025
3 2 Colin TURKINGTON Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 30 55.279 0.247
4 16 Aiden MOFFAT Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 22 55.389 0.357
5 15 Tom OLIPHANT Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 21 55.395 0.363
6 24 Jake HILL MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square Ford Focus ST 23 55.445 0.413
7 18 Senna PROCTOR BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 23 55.456 0.424
8 1 Ash SUTTON Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 23 55.478 0.446
9 66 Josh COOK BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 28 55.604 0.572
10 48 Ollie JACKSON MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square Ford Focus ST 27 55.647 0.615
11 12 Stephen JELLEY Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 28 55.663 0.631
12 20 Paul RIVETT Racing with Wera & Photon Group Ford Focus ST 25 55.727 0.695
13 6 Rory BUTCHER Toyota Gazoo Racing UK Toyota Corolla GR Sport 14 55.758 0.726
14 33 Adam MORGAN Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport 20 55.789 0.757
15 123 Daniel LLOYD Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra 20 55.794 0.762
16 23 Sam SMELT Toyota Gazoo Racing UK Toyota Corolla GR Sport 27 55.880 0.848
17 99 Jade EDWARDS PHSC with BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 25 55.925 0.893
18 11 Jason PLATO Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra 24 55.950 0.918
19 3 Tom CHILTON Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport 27 55.956 0.924
20 31 Jack GOFF Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct CUPRA Leon 22 55.959 0.927
21 4 Sam OSBORNE Racing with Wera & Photon Group Ford Focus ST 27 55.964 0.932
22 40 Árón TAYLOR-SMITH Team HARD. with HUB Financial Solutions CUPRA Leon 23 56.021 0.989
23 80 Tom INGRAM Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 24 56.057 1.025
24 41 Carl BOARDLEY Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 30 56.131 1.099
25 19 Jack MITCHELL Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct CUPRA Leon 29 56.358 1.326
26 32 Daniel ROWBOTTOM Halfords Racing with Cataclean Honda Civic Type-R 20 56.415 1.383
27 62 Rick PARFITT Jr EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 24 56.542 1.510
28 28 Nicolas HAMILTON ROKiT Racing with iQuoto Online Trading CUPRA Leon 25 56.622 1.590
29 96 Jack BUTEL EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 23 56.723 1.691
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