Jake Hill quickest in red-flagged second practice at Thruxton

Jake Hill topped the times in the final practice session for the British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton, which saw a late red flag cause an early end to proceedings.

The first true fast lap went to NAPA Racing UK’s Dan Cammish ten minutes into the session, which was quickly bettered by team-mate Ashley Sutton on the next lap.

Sutton then held the top time for just over ten minutes, before Hill put his BMW on top of the times, initially with an effort of 1 minute 15.795 seconds before the MB Motorsport driver went slightly quicker the next time around, lowering the benchmark to a 1:15.722.

That effort ended up being three tenths of a second slower than the pace in the morning session set by BTC Racing’s Josh Cook, but it gave Hill enough of an advantage to end the 40-minute session 0.174 seconds clear of Sutton.

Cook was third quickest as the leading Honda, two tenths back, ahead of the Team Dynamics Civic of Daniel Rowbottom in fourth.

It was Daniel Lloyd’s turn to be the top Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai driver this time around as he put in a lap good enough for fifth, ahead of Cammish in sixth.

Gordon Shedden broke into the top ten for the first time with the seventh best lap, the only other driver within half a second of the pace.

Team BMW’s Colin Turkington was eighth, with the top ten being completed by BTC’s Jason Plato and Excelr8’s Tom Chilton.

Championship leader Tom Ingram, without any hybrid boost for the qualifying session later in the day, was only 13^th quickest, just under a second off the pace.

Bobby Thompson was the only one of Team HARD’s CUPRA drivers to break the top twenty, with the series’ most recent podium finisher down in 16^th.

Power Maxed Racing’s Michael Crees missed the earlier practice session with an electrical issue but was able to post the 18^th fastest time in the afternoon.

It was a difficult session for the Toyotas, with Rory Butcher only in 20^th having had a huge spin, whilst Ricky Collard was 24^th, almost two seconds off the pace.

The session was cut short when Aiden Moffat’s Infiniti spun and stopped by the track.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 15:20 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	24		Jake HILL	ROKiT MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	19	1:15.722	–
2	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:15.896	0.174
3	66		Josh COOK	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	16	1:15.949	0.227
4	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type R	15	1:15.969	0.247
5	123		Daniel LLOYD	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	17	1:16.083	0.361
6	9		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	15	1:16.099	0.377
7	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type R	14	1:16.198	0.476
8	50		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	18	1:16.294	0.572
9	11		Jason PLATO	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	10	1:16.354	0.632
10	3		Tom CHILTON	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	1:16.363	0.641
11	12		Stephen JELLEY	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	19	1:16.468	0.746
12	99		Jade EDWARDS	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	17	1:16.667	0.945
13	80		Tom INGRAM	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	18	1:16.686	0.964
14	77		Sam OSBORNE	Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan	Ford Focus ST	19	1:16.704	0.982
15	48		Ollie JACKSON	Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan	Ford Focus ST	18	1:16.720	0.998
16	19		Bobby THOMPSON	Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero	CUPRA Leon	16	1:16.779	1.057
17	97		Ash HAND	CarStore Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	16	1:16.805	1.083
18	777		Michael CREES	CarStore Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	17	1:16.837	1.115
19	33		Adam MORGAN	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	12	1:16.938	1.216
20	6		Rory BUTCHER	Toyota GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	1:16.977	1.255
21	42		George GAMBLE	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	16	1:17.004	1.282
22	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing	CUPRA Leon	17	1:17.056	1.334
23	16		Aiden MOFFAT	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	16	1:17.097	1.375
24	21		Ricky COLLARD	Toyota GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	15	1:17.631	1.909
25	96		Jack BUTEL	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	18	1:17.958	2.236
26	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing	CUPRA Leon	21	1:18.017	2.295
27	17		Dexter PATTERSON	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	21	1:18.024	2.302
28	20		Will POWELL	Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero	CUPRA Leon	20	1:18.492	2.770
29	62		Rick PARFITT JR	Uptonsteel with Euro Car Parts Racing	Infiniti Q50	18	1:19.081	3.359