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Andrew Jordan fastest in Brands Hatch British Touring Car practice as new-for-2012 cars fly

Andrew Jordan topped the second free practice session at Brands Hatch as the new British Touring Cars showed their pace for the first time

As in the morning session, Rob Austin's revised NGTC Audi was rapid early on, but this time he was soon pushed back by the Honda Civics.

Reigning champion Matt Neal briefly topped the times in his works version before Jordan took the private Eurotech-run example round in 48.790s.

Jason Plato also made an early run, recording 49.097s in the new works MG6, which was initially good enough for third. He ended up fifth, after being usurped by rear-wheel-drive frontrunners Tom Onslow-Cole (WSR BMW) and Austin late on.

Jordan also pushed hard in the last 10 minutes, receiving a black-and-white warning flag for going over the track limits, eventually lowering his best to 48.639s. That is around 0.4s down on Neal's 2011 pole time in the old Civic.

Mat Jackson's Motorbase Ford Focus was fifth, just ahead of inexperienced team-mate Aron Smith, while Eurotech's Jeff Smith put a third example of the new Civic inside the top eight.

Rob Collard and Nick Foster made it three WSR BMWs in the top 10, both within a second of Jordan.

Gordon Shedden's woes continued, a persistent electrical problem keeping his Honda in the pits for most of the session.

Pos  Driver           Team/Car           Time     Gap
 1.  Andrew Jordan    Eurotech Honda     48.639s
 2.  Matt Neal        Dynamics Honda     48.912s  + 0.273s
 3.  Tom Onslow-Cole  WSR BMW            48.935s  + 0.296s
 4.  Rob Austin       Austin Audi        49.046s  + 0.407s
 5.  Jason Plato      Triple 8 MG        49.097s  + 0.458s
 6.  Mat Jackson      Motorbase Ford     49.153s  + 0.514s
 7.  Aron Smith       Motorbase Ford     49.308s  + 0.669s
 8.  Jeff Smith       Eurotech Honda     49.319s  + 0.680s
 9.  Rob Collard      WSR BMW            49.371s  + 0.732s
10.  Nick Foster      WSR BMW            49.444s  + 0.805s
11.  Frank Wrathall   Dynojet Toyota     49.482s  + 0.843s
12.  Daniel Welch     Welch Proton       49.628s  + 0.989s
13.  Ollie Jackson    AmD Volkswagen     49.630s  + 0.991s
14.  Liam Griffin     Motorbase Ford     49.654s  + 1.015s
15.  Adam Morgan      Speedworks Toyota  49.720s  + 1.081s
16.  Dave Newsham     ES Vauxhall        49.970s  + 1.331s
17.  Chris James      ES Vauxhall        50.169s  + 1.530s
18.  Lea Wood         Wood Vauxhall      50.314s  + 1.675s
19.  Andy Neate       Triple 8 MG        50.381s  + 1.742s
20.  Tony Gilham      Gilham Honda       50.841s  + 2.202s
21.  Tony Hughes      Speedworks Toyota  52.181s  + 3.542s
22.  Gordon Shedden   Dynamics Honda     55.944s  + 7.305s

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