Adam Morgan rises to the top in second practice

Team Vertu’s Adam Morgan topped the second British Touring Car Championship practice session at Silverstone, just under a tenth of a second ahead of the first practice pace-setter Daryl DeLeon.

Morgan put in a brace of quick laps five minutes from the end of the session to deny DeLeon a practice clean-sweep, emerging 0.07 seconds ahead of the BMW driver after posting a time which was four tenths quicker than the FP1 best, and over a second faster than the qualifying lap record.

DeLeon continued to lead the BMW charge in second, whilst Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton was third, two tenths of a second adrift.

Restart Racing’s Daniel Lloyd was the top independent driver in fourth, whilst Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill was fifth, getting into the top ten for the first time in the weekend.

WSR duo Aiden Moffat and Charles Rainford were sixth and seventh respectively, ensuring all four WSR cars featured inside the top ten.

Toyota’s Gordon Shedden headed up a trio of the Speedworks Motorsport-run cars to complete the top ten, ahead of Josh Cook, who is now also running the M-Sport TOCA engine, and Árón Taylor-Smith in tenth, the latter being just over half a second off the pace.

Team Vertu’s Senna Proctor was 11^th, whilst championship leader Tom Ingram was only 12^th, once again missing out on the top ten.

All four NAPA Racing UK cars failed to break into the top ten, with Daniel Rowbottom the best of the quartet in 14^th, despite a late black-flag for exceeding track limits, with his team-mates all directly behind. Ash Sutton was the slowest of the four in 17^th, 0.850 seconds off the pace.

Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley completed the fewest laps of any driver in the session and was only 19^th after being black-flagged 25 minutes into the session for exceeding track limits repeatedly.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 15:30 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	22	56.596	–
2	2		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	19	56.666	0.070
3	3		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	17	56.816	0.220
4	123		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	56.828	0.232
5	1		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	22	56.828	0.232
6	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	56.918	0.322
7	99		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	24	56.939	0.343
8	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	23	57.031	0.435
9	66		Josh COOK	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	57.063	0.467
10	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	26	57.123	0.527
11	18		Senna PROCTOR	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	19	57.175	0.579
12	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	23	57.178	0.582
13	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	23	57.224	0.628
14	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	21	57.236	0.640
15	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	23	57.253	0.657
16	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	23	57.284	0.688
17	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	23	57.446	0.850
18	19		Max BUXTON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	25	57.480	0.884
19	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	17	57.512	0.916
20	17		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	18	57.733	1.137
21	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	23	57.815	1.219
22	50		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	22	58.294	1.698