Tom Ingram paces second practice at Brands Hatch

Tom Ingram put his Excelr8 Motorsport at the top of the times in the second British Touring Car Championship practice session at Brands Hatch, almost four tenths of a second clear of Team HARD’s Bobby Thompson.

Ingram almost ended up with the top time of the morning’s first session before being usurped by Dan Cammish at the last second.

But this time around, with track temperatures much warmer than earlier in the day, the Hyundai driver was untroubled, first rising to the top of the times eight minutes into the session.

After other drivers went quicker, Ingram then put himself back at the top for good after 25 minutes, and he cemented the top spot with another improvement three minutes from the end with a lap of 1 minute 30.213 seconds, over a second quicker than in first practice.

An impressive late improvement from Thompson saw him put his CUPRA in second, albeit 0.397 seconds slower than Ingram.

Dan Lloyd ended up in third, the Excelr8 driver also making a late gain, ahead of Team BMW’s Colin Turkington in fourth.

First-practice pace-setter Cammish put his NAPA Racing UK Ford in fifth, just under half a second off the pace, with BTC Racing’s Jason Plato a mere 0.003 seconds behind in sixth after taking to the track much more in the more valuable second practice.

Ciceley Motorsport’s George Gamble was again the second-fastest 3 Series driver in seventh, ahead of the top Team Dynamic Honda of Daniel Rowbottom in eighth.

The top ten was completed by title contenders Jake Hill (MB Motorsport) and Ash Sutton (NAPA Racing UK), the latter rising 11 places on his last effort at the end of the session.

Josh Cook, who like BTC team-mate Plato had elected to complete minimal running in the cool first session, was 11^th fastest, ahead of the second Team BMW car of Stephen Jelley in 12^th.

The Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyotas weren’t quite as quick this time around, with Ricky Collard leading team-mate Rory Butcher in 13^th and 14^th respectively.

Ciceley Motorsport’s Adam Morgan had an early left-rear puncture at Paddock Hill Bend and the Lancashire racer ended the session in 20^th as the slowest of the BMW drivers.

Gordon Shedden completed just four laps before electronic issues with his car’s hybrid system meant he returned to the pits, leaving him down in 21^st.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 15:40 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	80		Tom INGRAM	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	18	1:30.213	–
2	19		Bobby THOMPSON	Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero	CUPRA Leon	19	1:30.610	0.397
3	123		Daniel LLOYD	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	17	1:30.630	0.417
4	50		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	19	1:30.643	0.430
5	9		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	18	1:30.686	0.473
6	11		Jason PLATO	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	19	1:30.689	0.476
7	42		George GAMBLE	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	18	1:30.714	0.501
8	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type R	19	1:30.718	0.505
9	24		Jake HILL	ROKiT MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	18	1:30.738	0.525
10	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	20	1:30.753	0.540
11	66		Josh COOK	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	19	1:30.761	0.548
12	12		Stephen JELLEY	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	21	1:30.828	0.615
13	21		Ricky COLLARD	Toyota GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	1:30.900	0.687
14	6		Rory BUTCHER	Toyota GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	17	1:30.911	0.698
15	3		Tom CHILTON	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	17	1:30.955	0.742
16	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing	CUPRA Leon	15	1:30.987	0.774
17	48		Ollie JACKSON	Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan	Ford Focus ST	20	1:31.024	0.811
18	777		Michael CREES	CarStore Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	18	1:31.153	0.940
19	17		Dexter PATTERSON	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	20	1:31.209	0.996
20	33		Adam MORGAN	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	18	1:31.373	1.160
21	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type R	4	1:31.497	1.284
22	96		Jack BUTEL	Bristol Street Motors with EXCELR8 TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	19	1:31.675	1.462
23	99		Jade EDWARDS	Rich Energy BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type R	15	1:31.863	1.650
24	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Yazoo with Safuu.com Racing	CUPRA Leon	18	1:31.887	1.674
25	16		Aiden MOFFAT	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	15	1:31.950	1.737
26	41		CarL BOARDLEY	Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero	CUPRA Leon	17	1:32.102	1.889
27	97		Ash HAND	CarStore Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	10	1:32.260	2.047
28	77		Sam OSBORNE	Apec Racing with Beavis Morgan	Ford Focus ST	15	1:32.496	2.283
29	62		Rick PARFITT JR	Uptonsteel with Euro Car Parts Racing	Infiniti Q50	14	1:33.197	2.984