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Adam Morgan tops red flag interrupted opening practice at Donington Park

Adam Morgan finished quickest in the first free practice session at Donington Park in the British Touring Car Championship, with the session being stopped twice due to red flags.

Morgan, driving the Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport, ended the first session of the weekend just three thousands of a second quicker than early session pacesetter Senna Proctor with a time of 1 minute 09.840.

The leading times were all set in the middle of the 40 minute session, before firstly Jack Goff in the Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct CUPRA Leon stopped on the track at the Old Hairpin.

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With the session then getting back underway with eight minutes remaining, a second red flag was shown just a few moments later that effectively ended the session early and thus preventing any of the field to set potentially faster times.

As a result, this meant third quickest was another of the BTC Racing Honda’s in the form of Josh Cook, who ended FP1 0.110 behind pacesetter Morgan.

Fourth on Saturday morning was Rory Butcher – who won twice last time out at Silverstone – and he finished the session ahead of teammate Sam Smelt in the two Toyota GAZOO Racing UK Corollas.

Gordon Shedden ended the session sixth in the Halfords Racing with Cataclean Honda, with Chris Smiley finishing the first free practice session seventh and was the fastest of the quartet of Hyundai i30N’s in the field.

Championship leader Ash Sutton – who again comes into this weekend carrying maximum weight aboard the Laser Tools Racing Infiniti, finished FP1 eighth and ahead of title rival Tom Ingram.

Aaron Taylor-Smith was tenth quickest in another of the Team HARD. Cupras, with championship contender Jake Hill taking 11th fastest in the session.

The second Free Practice session of the weekend is set to get underway at 12:10 BST on Saturday.

Session results

POS NO NAT DRIVER ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 33 Adam MORGAN Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport 13 1:09.840
2 18 Senna PROCTOR BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 19 1:09.843 0.003
3 66 Josh COOK BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 17 1:09.939 0.099
4 6 Rory BUTCHER Toyota Gazoo Racing UK Toyota Corolla GR Sport 18 1:09.950 0.110
5 23 Sam SMELT Toyota Gazoo Racing UK Toyota Corolla GR Sport 19 1:10.085 0.245
6 52 Gordon SHEDDEN Halfords Racing with Cataclean Honda Civic Type-R 15 1:10.088 0.248
7 22 Chris SMILEY Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 15 1:10.122 0.282
8 1 Ashley SUTTON Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 20 1:10.184 0.344
9 80 Tom INGRAM Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 17 1:10.222 0.382
10 40 Árón TAYLOR-SMITH Team HARD. with HUB Financial Solutions CUPRA Leon 16 1:10.277 0.437
11 24 Jake HILL MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square Ford Focus ST 18 1:10.281 0.441
12 3 Tom CHILTON Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport BMW 330i M Sport 18 1:10.283 0.443
13 11 Jason PLATO Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra 14 1:10.335 0.495
14 16 Aiden MOFFAT Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 19 1:10.354 0.514
15 32 Daniel ROWBOTTOM Halfords Racing with Cataclean Honda Civic Type-R 15 1:10.389 0.549
16 12 Stephen JELLEY Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 20 1:10.514 0.674
17 2 Colin TURKINGTON Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 16 1:10.532 0.692
18 123 Daniel LLOYD Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra 13 1:10.602 0.762
19 48 Ollie JACKSON MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square Ford Focus ST 18 1:10.616 0.776
20 19 Jack MITCHELL Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct CUPRA Leon 18 1:10.672 0.832
21 44 Andy NEATE Racing with Wera & Photon Group Ford Focus ST 18 1:10.803 0.963
22 31 Jack GOFF Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct CUPRA Leon 14 1:10.820 0.980
23 15 Tom OLIPHANT Team BMW BMW 330i M Sport 18 1:10.823 0.983
24 4 Sam OSBORNE Racing with Wera & Photon Group Ford Focus ST 10 1:10.998 1.158
25 96 Jack BUTEL EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 15 1:11.271 1.431
26 28 Nicolas HAMILTON ROKiT Racing with iQuoto Online Trading CUPRA Leon 18 1:11.400 1.560
27 62 Rick PARFITT Jr EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com Hyundai i30 Fastback N 13 1:11.505 1.665
28 99 Jade EDWARDS PHSC with BTC Racing Honda Civic Type-R 17 1:11.852 2.012
29 41 Carl BOARDLEY Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 15 1:17.944 8.104
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