Donington Park BTCC: Jack Goff leads practice in Eurotech Honda
Eurotech Racing Honda Civic Type R driver Jack Goff set the fastest time over the two British Touring Car Championship free practice sessions at Donington Park
The 26-year-old was one of five drivers who set a sub-1m10s lap. He clocked the best time shortly before the end of the second 40-minute period.
"I am very happy with that," said Goff.
"I am particularly happy now that I have seen the time - I misheard the radio message and I thought it was 0.4s off, which I was perplexed about. Then when I came in I saw the actual time and I was relieved!
"There is still work to be done on the car and I have faith in the boys at Eurotech.
"We will go even better in qualifying, so I am very optimistic."
Just 0.007s adrift of Goff's time was the Team Hard VW CC of Jake Hill, which had also been third fastest in the morning session to cap a competitive start for the Kent racer.
Tom Ingram placed third in his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis, despite the 66kg of success ballast he was carrying on the car as he is in second place in the points.
Matt Neal placed fourth with a 1m09.916s lap in his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R.
The last driver in the sub-1m10s bracket was Rob Austin in the Handy Motorsport Toyota Avensis. Austin, who recorded a 1m09.978s lap, had also topped the morning's running.
Championship leader Gordon Shedden was seventh in the second Dynamics Honda with a 1m10.212s lap.
The leading factory BMW was double champion Colin Turkington, in 15th place in the 125i M Sport.
James Cole was the fastest of the works Subaru Levorg GT cars, placing his Team BMR machine in 19th place.
Tom Chilton was the top factory blessed, Power Maxed Racing-run Vauxhall Astra in 20th position.
Brands Hatch polesitter Jeff Smith was 13th. He left the session immediately to get a helicopter to Oulton Park, where he is qualifying for Bank Holiday Monday's race in the Mini Challenge.
The Mini session finishes at 3pm and he will then fly back to Donington to tackle BTCC qualifying - which starts 40 minutes later.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 1m10.113s | - | 21 |
2 | Jack Goff | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m10.144s | 0.031s | 16 |
3 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m10.237s | 0.124s | 21 |
4 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m10.275s | 0.162s | 21 |
5 | Colin Turkington | WSR | BMW | 1m10.325s | 0.212s | 23 |
6 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m10.491s | 0.378s | 20 |
7 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.573s | 0.460s | 19 |
8 | Chris Smiley | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 1m10.576s | 0.463s | 21 |
9 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.640s | 0.527s | 24 |
10 | Ash Sutton | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m10.705s | 0.592s | 18 |
11 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m10.784s | 0.671s | 21 |
12 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m10.818s | 0.705s | 18 |
13 | Tom Chilton | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 1m10.823s | 0.710s | 18 |
14 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m10.842s | 0.729s | 23 |
15 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase | Ford | 1m10.890s | 0.777s | 21 |
16 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.950s | 0.837s | 21 |
17 | Andrew Jordan | WSR | BMW | 1m10.953s | 0.840s | 23 |
18 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m11.161s | 1.048s | 17 |
19 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m11.178s | 1.065s | 14 |
20 | Josh Cook | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m11.279s | 1.166s | 19 |
21 | Daniel Lloyd | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m11.334s | 1.221s | 17 |
22 | Ant Whorton-Eales | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m11.428s | 1.315s | 23 |
23 | Will Burns | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m11.469s | 1.356s | 14 |
24 | Josh Price | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.592s | 1.479s | 22 |
25 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.595s | 1.482s | 17 |
26 | Stephen Jelley | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m11.610s | 1.497s | 19 |
27 | Martin Depper | Motorbase | Ford | 1m11.633s | 1.520s | 22 |
28 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.813s | 1.700s | 17 |
29 | Luke Davenport | Motorbase | Ford | 1m12.047s | 1.934s | 17 |
30 | Dave Newsham | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 1m12.695s | 2.582s | 13 |
31 | Matt Simpson | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m13.811s | 3.698s | 18 |
32 | Senna Proctor | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | - | - | 3 |
PRACTICE TWO TIMES:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jack Goff | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m09.876s | - | 20 |
2 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m09.883s | 0.007s | 23 |
3 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m09.891s | 0.015s | 25 |
4 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m09.916s | 0.040s | 20 |
5 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 1m09.978s | 0.102s | 21 |
6 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m10.111s | 0.235s | 23 |
7 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m10.212s | 0.336s | 22 |
8 | Chris Smiley | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 1m10.219s | 0.343s | 22 |
9 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.253s | 0.377s | 21 |
10 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m10.254s | 0.378s | 19 |
11 | Daniel Lloyd | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.399s | 0.523s | 21 |
12 | Dave Newsham | BTC Racing | Chevrolet | 1m10.491s | 0.615s | 21 |
13 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m10.513s | 0.637s | 21 |
14 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.519s | 0.643s | 19 |
15 | Colin Turkington | WSR | BMW | 1m10.585s | 0.709s | 21 |
16 | Andrew Jordan | WSR | BMW | 1m10.624s | 0.748s | 20 |
17 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m10.628s | 0.752s | 15 |
18 | Josh Cook | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m10.659s | 0.783s | 23 |
19 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m10.672s | 0.796s | 24 |
20 | Tom Chilton | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 1m10.706s | 0.830s | 20 |
21 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.716s | 0.840s | 18 |
22 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase | Ford | 1m10.742s | 0.866s | 21 |
23 | Senna Proctor | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 1m10.783s | 0.907s | 20 |
24 | Matt Simpson | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m10.854s | 0.978s | 14 |
25 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m10.913s | 1.037s | 18 |
26 | Will Burns | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 1m10.934s | 1.058s | 23 |
27 | Ant Whorton-Eales | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m10.987s | 1.111s | 20 |
28 | Stephen Jelley | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m10.997s | 1.121s | 18 |
29 | Ash Sutton | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.099s | 1.223s | 11 |
30 | Josh Price | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.384s | 1.508s | 18 |
31 | Martin Depper | Motorbase | Ford | 1m11.442s | 1.566s | 23 |
32 | Luke Davenport | Motorbase | Ford | 1m11.552s | 1.676s | 15 |
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