Brands Hatch BTCC: Turkington edges out Priaulx in second practice

The new Team BMR driver was at the bottom of the timing screens for most of the session as track conditions improved throughout, before vaulting up the order late on.

A series of improvements in his Volkswagen CC culminated in the first sub-49 second lap of the weekend so far, a 48.940s.

Three-time World Touring Car champion Priaulx's encouraging start to his return continued as he ended up just 0.066s shy of Turkington and at the sharp end of a very closely matched group of drivers.

Aron Smith and Jason Plato completed a promising session for the BMR outfit in third and fourth, with Smith 0.08s slower than Turkington and Plato just 0.05s further back.

Priaulx's WSR BMW team-mate Sam Tordoff was two tenths from top spot in fifth ahead of Adam Morgan, who was only one-thousandth quicker than MG's Jack Goff.

The Hondas of Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal, sandwiched by Rob Austin's Audi, completed the top 10, while just half a second covered the top 13 runners.

Andrew Jordan was at the tail end of that group, but it was a much more productive session for the 2013 champion, who completed 29 laps as he recovers from a turbo failure in FP1.

All 27 cars appeared, with first practice absentee Andy Wilmot completing 10 laps in his Proton, although the Power Maxed Racing Chevrolet Cruze of Josh Cook failed to set a time.

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