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Silverstone BTCC: Jason Plato quickest in damp opening practice

Jason Plato topped the first British Touring Car free practice session at Silverstone on Saturday morning

In damp conditions, Plato's works MG6 set an early benchmark of 1m04.819s, which stood as the fastest throughout the session.

Mat Jackson's NGTC Ford Focus was second for much of the session, only briefly being usurped by Frank Wrathall's Dynojet Toyota Avensis, which ended up third.

Aron Smith (S2000 Focus) made it two Motorbase Fords in the top four, ahead of the two WSR BMWs of Rob Collard and Tom Onslow-Cole.

With dry conditions expected for the rest of the weekend, some runners elected to complete only a handful of laps.

These included Independent Trophy leader Andrew Jordan, who nevertheless ended up seventh in his Eurotech-run NGTC Honda Civic.

Championship leader Gordon Shedden also failed to make a big push in the works Civic and ended up 14th.

BTCC returnee Chris Stockton was 20th in Thorney Motorsport's Vauxhall Insignia.

Pos  Driver           Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Jason Plato      MG                 1m04.819s
 2.  Mat Jackson      Motorbase Ford     1m05.035s  + 0.216s
 3.  Frank Wrathall   Dynojet Toyota     1m05.182s  + 0.363s
 4.  Aron Smith       Motorbase Ford     1m05.656s  + 0.837s
 5.  Rob Collard      WSR BMW            1m05.733s  + 0.914s
 6.  Tom Onslow-Cole  WSR BMW            1m05.777s  + 0.958s
 7.  Andrew Jordan    Eurotech Honda     1m05.804s  + 0.985s
 8.  Matt Neal        Honda              1m05.858s  + 1.039s
 9.  Rob Austin       Austin Audi        1m05.988s  + 1.169s
10.  Adam Morgan      Speedworks Toyota  1m06.017s  + 1.198s
11.  Will Bratt       Austin Audi        1m06.122s  + 1.303s
12.  Lea Wood         Wood Vauxhall      1m06.264s  + 1.445s
13.  Howard Fuller    Gilham Honda       1m06.303s  + 1.484s
14.  Gordon Shedden   Honda              1m06.330s  + 1.511s
15.  Liam Griffin     Motorbase Ford     1m06.457s  + 1.638s
16.  Chris James      ES Vauxhall        1m06.553s  + 1.734s
17.  Tony Hughes      Speedworks Toyota  1m06.663s  + 1.844s
18.  Jeff Smith       Eurotech Honda     1m06.677s  + 1.858s
19.  Daniel Welch     Welch Proton       1m06.709s  + 1.890s
20.  Chris Stockton   Thorney Vauxhall   1m06.970s  + 2.151s
21.  Ollie Jackson    AmD Volkswagen     1m07.020s  + 2.201s
22.  Nick Foster      WSR BMW            1m07.212s  + 2.393s
23.  Andy Neate       MG                 1m08.412s  + 3.593s
24.  Dave Newsham     ES Vauxhall        1m12.930s  + 8.111s

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