Tom Chilton tops second Donington Park practice

Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton topped the second British Touring Car Championship practice session at Donington Park, three tenths of a second ahead of NAPA Racing UK’s Ash Sutton.

Chilton pipped Sutton to the top time in the final minute of the session when he lapped the Grand Prix circuit in 1 minute 33.129 seconds, ending up a comfortable three tenths clear of the Ford driver.

Chilton, whose only win so far this season came on the Donington Park National configuration back in April, had earlier been eighth quickest in the first session of the day.

Championship leader Tom Ingram put his Hyundai in third, having earlier been second quickest in first practice, ahead of the leading BMW of Charles Rainford in fourth.

Restart Racing’s Daniel Lloyd continued to show strong pace, putting his Hyundai in fifth, the only other driver within four tenths of a second.

First practice pace-setter Daniel Rowbottom was sixth, ahead of the second Restart Racing Hyundai of Chris Smiley in seventh.

The top ten was completed by NAPA’s Dan Cammish, Toyota’s Árón Taylor-Smith and the Ford Focus of Sam Osborne, the latter ensuring all four NAPA Racing UK cars made it into the top ten.

Taylor-Smith was for the second session in a row comfortably the quickest Corolla driver, with the Irishman now running an M Sport TOCA engine instead of the Neil Brown Engineering unit run by the team earlier in the season.

Laser Tools Racing’s reigning champion Jake Hill was 13^th, as three of the four BMW drivers missed out on the top ten.

Series returnee Josh Cook, now back in a Toyota, was 19^th quickest, just under a second and a half off the pace.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 15:25 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	3		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	11	1:33.129	–
2	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	13	1:33.435	0.306
3	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	13	1:33.466	0.337
4	99		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	13	1:33.493	0.364
5	123		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	11	1:33.505	0.376
6	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	15	1:33.549	0.420
7	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	11	1:33.570	0.441
8	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	11	1:33.571	0.442
9	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	1:33.858	0.729
10	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	11	1:33.903	0.774
11	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	15	1:33.913	0.784
12	18		Senna PROCTOR	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	13	1:33.969	0.840
13	1		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	11	1:34.034	0.905
14	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	12	1:34.225	1.096
15	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	13	1:34.265	1.136
16	2		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	12	1:34.318	1.189
17	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	1:34.370	1.241
18	17		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	13	1:34.473	1.344
19	66		Josh COOK	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	1:34.584	1.455
20	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	11	1:35.410	2.281
21	19		Max BUXTON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	13	1:35.815	2.686
22	50		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	13	1:36.901	3.772