BTCC Silverstone: Tom Ingram fastest in practice

Ingram jumped to the top of the times with less than two minutes of the second 40-minute session remaining, and improved again next time around to record a best lap of 58.967s in his Toyota Avensis.

That put him 0.167 seconds clear of the Eurotech Honda Civic Type R of Jack Goff, who finished second, in the only representative practice session after FP1 was held on a damp but drying surface.

Jake Hill was third fastest in his Team Hard Volkswagen CC, just 0.011s behind Goff, while the leading WSR BMW 125i M Sport of Rob Collard and Aiden Moffat (Laser Tools Racing Mercedes A-Class) completed the top five.

MG driver Josh Cook, who will be allowed to compete this weekend despite being at the centre of ongoing appeal process against a race ban, was sixth ahead of the Handy Motorsport Toyota Avensis of Rob Austin.

Andrew Jordan and Colin Turkington finished the session eighth and 10th respectively, sandwiching the Team BMR Subaru Levorg of Jason Plato.

Plato had earlier topped the morning's damp first practice session with a fastest time of 1m05.739s set right at the end of FP1.

The BTCC veteran's late effort sealed a BMR 1-2 in the session, with Plato displacing the sister Subaru of championship leader Ash Sutton - who was 23rd in the afternoon session - at the top of the pile.

Laptimes were, however, close to seven seconds slower than the fastest recorded in the second session despite a dry line emerging.

Mike Epps was third fastest in his Team Hard Volkswagen CC ahead of Senna Proctor and Brett Smith.

Smith was the fastest of the Hondas in the session, narrowly beating works driver Matt Neal, but went off at Becketts in FP2 and finished that session in 16th.

Championship hopeful Turkington slowed with an electrical issue and returned to the pits in the early part of first practice, but he was able to return to the track and completed 19 laps on his way to the 10th fastest time.

Rob Huff, who is returning to the BTCC for the first time in almost 13 years this weekend, was 25th in both sessions in his PMR Vauxhall Astra.

FP1 times

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Jason Plato	Team BMR	Subaru	1m05.739s	22
2	Ash Sutton	Team BMR	Subaru	0.250s	23
3	Michael Epps	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.264s	24
4	Senna Proctor	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.286s	21
5	Brett Smith	Eurotech Racing	Honda	0.321s	26
6	Matt Neal	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.359s	19
7	Rob Collard	WSR	BMW	0.399s	29
8	Jack Goff	Eurotech Racing	Honda	0.407s	22
9	James Cole	Team BMR	Subaru	0.444s	22
10	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.479s	19
11	Josh Cook	Triple Eight/MG	MG	0.487s	29
12	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	0.510s	21
13	Rob Austin	Handy Motorsport	Toyota	0.529s	15
14	Dave Newsham	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	0.555s	21
15	Andrew Jordan	WSR	BMW	0.566s	21
16	Stewart Lines	Maximum Motorsport	Ford	0.641s	21
17	Rory Butcher	Motorbase	Ford	0.698s	25
18	Mat Jackson	Motorbase	Ford	0.712s	23
19	Gordon Shedden	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.796s	18
20	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Racing	Mercedes	0.820s	28
21	Martin Depper	Motorbase	Ford	0.880s	23
22	Matt Simpson	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.919s	16
23	Chris Smiley	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	0.933s	25
24	Jake Hill	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.939s	24
25	Rob Huff	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.954s	22
26	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes	1.081s	27
27	Ollie Jackson	AmD Tuning	Audi	1.189s	21
28	Will Burns	Team Hard	Volkswagen	1.248s	26
29	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	Ford	1.254s	22
30	Ant Whorton-Eales	AmD Tuning	Audi	1.269s	6
31	Aron Taylor-Smith	Triple Eight/MG	MG	1.388s	23
32	Josh Price	Team BMR	Subaru	1.963s	19

FP2 times

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	58.967s	25
2	Jack Goff	Eurotech Racing	Honda	0.167s	25
3	Jake Hill	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.178s	26
4	Rob Collard	WSR	BMW	0.198s	24
5	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes	0.220s	31
6	Josh Cook	Triple Eight/MG	MG	0.293s	25
7	Rob Austin	Handy Motorsport	Toyota	0.295s	22
8	Andrew Jordan	WSR	BMW	0.405s	25
9	Jason Plato	Team BMR	Subaru	0.406s	22
10	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.410s	22
11	Michael Epps	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.440s	27
12	Matt Simpson	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.458s	22
13	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Racing	Mercedes	0.498s	22
14	Ant Whorton-Eales	AmD Tuning	Audi	0.504s	23
15	Chris Smiley	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	0.510s	27
16	Brett Smith	Eurotech Racing	Honda	0.517s	9
17	Dave Newsham	BTC Racing	Chevrolet	0.598s	27
18	Matt Neal	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.599s	25
19	Josh Price	Team BMR	Subaru	0.608s	26
20	Aron Taylor-Smith	Triple Eight/MG	MG	0.697s	27
21	Senna Proctor	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.707s	23
22	Gordon Shedden	Dynamics/Honda	Honda	0.720s	24
23	Ash Sutton	Team BMR	Subaru	0.721s	23
24	James Cole	Team BMR	Subaru	0.813s	24
25	Rob Huff	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.853s	24
26	Will Burns	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.941s	25
27	Mat Jackson	Motorbase	Ford	1.044s	21
28	Ollie Jackson	AmD Tuning	Audi	1.065s	17
29	Rory Butcher	Motorbase	Ford	1.089s	20
30	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	Ford	1.091s	27
31	Stewart Lines	Maximum Motorsport	Ford	1.184s	26
32	Martin Depper	Motorbase	Ford	1.352s	24