Reigning champion Tom Ingram leads the times in Donington Park practice

Reigning British Touring Car Champion Tom Ingram topped the times in the sole practice session of the weekend at Donington Park, two tenths of a second ahead of Speedworks’ Josh Cook.

Team Vertu’s Ingram went to the top of the times just over ten minutes from the end of the session, with the Hyundai driver putting in two quick laps at the end to take the top time, demoting the Toyota of Cook to second.

Plato Racing duo Daniel Rowbottom and Adam Morgan were an impressive third and fourth respectively in their brand-new Mercedes A35s, 0.234 seconds and 0.312 seconds off the top time respectively.

Both Plato Racing drivers remained near the top of the times in the more significant final 15 minutes of the session, when drivers were able to significantly up their pace after much of the first half of the session saw drivers coming into and out of the pitlane to make adjustments to their cars.

Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton was fifth fastest, whilst the leading NAPA Racing UK driver was Dan Cammish in sixth, just under half a second off the pace.

Aiden Moffat was the leading Power Maxed Racing driver in one of the team’s new Audi A3 cars, ahead of the second NAPA Ford of Ash Sutton in eighth.

The top ten was completed by WSR’s Charles Rainford and Power Maxed’s Mikey Doble, the former having topped the times early on due to the rear-wheel driver BMWs advantages in getting tyres up to temperature quicker.

Laser Tools Racing’s Gordon Shedden was 11^th as the second-best Toyota driver, whilst team-mate Árón Taylor-Smith was 16^th, just under nine tenths off the pace in a session in which the top 17 drivers were covered by less than a second.

The sole rookie in the field, NAPA’s Lewis Selby, was 15^th quickest.

Qualifying gets underway at 14:00 BST and will be quickly followed by the first-ever qualifying race at 15:05 BST, just ten minutes after the end of the qualifying session.

Free Practice results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	80		Tom INGRAM	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	1:07.842	–
2	66		Josh COOK	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	1:08.048	0.206
3	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	16	1:08.076	0.234
4	33		Adam MORGAN	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	19	1:08.154	0.312
5	3		Tom CHILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	1:08.241	0.399
6	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	19	1:08.288	0.446
7	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	21	1:08.319	0.477
8	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	21	1:08.413	0.571
9	99		Charles RAINFORD	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	16	1:08.427	0.585
10	88		Mikey DOBLE	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	16	1:08.451	0.609
11	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	22	1:08.598	0.756
12	2		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	21	1:08.657	0.815
13	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	23	1:08.699	0.857
14	17		Dexter PATTERSON	Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	17	1:08.712	0.870
15	15		Lewis SELBY	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	25	1:08.723	0.881
16	50		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	20	1:08.734	0.892
17	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	22	1:08.821	0.979
18	132		James DORLIN	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	21	1:08.852	1.010
19	11		Ricky COLLARD	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	25	1:09.187	1.345
20	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	25	1:09.204	1.362
21	19		Max BUXTON	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	1:10.472	2.630