Andrew Jordan tops Donington Park British Touring Car test
Andrew Jordan set the pace in the British Touring Car Championship's official pre-season test at Donington Park on Thursday
The Eurotech Racing driver took his Honda Civic around the track in 1m10.358s around 90 minutes into the four-hour session, knocking Jason Plato off the top spot.
Jordan was using the new Dunlop option tyre that comes into force this year, to make his mark.
Plato's time was just 0.071 seconds shy of the reigning independents' champion's, and was also inside his pole position mark of 2012 at the same circuit.
Champion Gordon Shedden found four tenths of a second late in the session to go third for Honda, while Adam Morgan saved his best until the final few minutes to take fourth in his Ciceley Toyota.
Speedworks driver Dave Newsham made it two Toyotas in the top five while Matt Neal rounded out the top six for Honda.
A total of 23 drivers set times during the day with series returnee Colin Turkington winding up 10th fastest - and 1.3s off the pace - in WSR's brand-new BMW 125i.
Turkington missed over an hour of running at the start of the session. The fastest of the runners in the Jack Sears Trophy for S2000 machinery was Motorbase Ford driver Liam Griffin.
He was 18th and 2.5s slower than Jordan. Griffin brought out the red flags after crashing at the exit of the Old Hairpin. Rob Austin also caused a stoppage after getting his Audi beached in the gravel at the same corner.
Ollie Jackson damaged the undertray of his Toyota after bouncing over the grass at the Craner Curves. A stoppage was required to remove debris from the circuit.
Donington Park test times: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Andrew Jordan Eurotech Honda 1m10.358s 2. Jason Plato MG 1m10.429s + 0.071s 3. Gordon Shedden Honda 1m10.460s + 0.102s 4. Adam Morgan Ciceley Toyota 1m10.748s + 0.390s 5. Dave Newsham Speedworks Toyota 1m10.921s + 0.563s 6. Matt Neal Honda 1m10.972s + 0.614s 7. Sam Tordoff MG 1m11.124s + 0.766s 8. Aron Smith Motorbase Ford 1m11.258s + 0.900s 9. Frank Wrathall Dynojet Toyota 1m11.592s + 1.234s 10. Colin Turkington WSR BMW 1m11.621s + 1.263s 11. Daniel Welch Welch Proton 1m11.792s + 1.434s 12. Rob Austin Austin Audi 1m11.892s + 1.471s 13. Will Bratt Austin Audi 1m11.995s + 1.637s 14. Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 1m12.044s + 1.686s 15. Jeff Smith Eurotech Honda 1m12.084s + 1.762s 16. Rob Collard WSR BMW 1m12.164s + 1.806s 17. Nick Foster WSR BMW 1m12.337s + 1.979s 18. Liam Griffin Motorbase Ford* 1m12.892s + 2.534s 19. James Kaye AmD Volkswagen* 1m13.030s + 2.672s 20. Ollie Jackson Speedworks Toyota 1m13.080s + 2.722s 21. Joe Girling Tech-Speed/Finesse Chevy* 1m14.884s + 4.526s 22. Warren Scott BMR SEAT* 1m14.913s + 4.555s 23. David Nye Welch Ford* 1m15.245s + 2.085s *Jack Sears Trophy competitor.
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