Ash Sutton takes Silverstone BTCC pole position in Triple Eight MG
Triple Eight Racing MG driver Ash Sutton took the second pole position of his British Touring Car Championship career ahead of Sunday's Silverstone round

Sutton's MG was fastest when the session was red flagged with just four minutes remaining because of Mark Howard's off at Copse Corner.
He had posted the day's fastest lap on a 58.321s, which put him in front of the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis of Tom Ingram, with team-mate Josh Cook third and Andrew Jordan's Motorbase Performance Ford Focus fourth.
The timing is reset with five minutes on the clock after a red flag, which prompted a last minute flurry of attempts to improve when the session restarted.
With the circuit busy as drivers gambled on improving their lap times in the dying moments, none of the main players were able to make progress
Sutton said: "I went back out at the end to see if we needed to go for a time but everyone was tripping over each other. The car was magic though and I think it will be even better in the race, so I am very confident."
Behind Jordan, the third row was shared by Adam Morgan's Ciceley Racing Mercedes-Benz A-Class and Rob Austin's Handy Motorsport Toyota Avensis.
Matt Neal used slipstreaming with his team-mate Gordon Shedden to take seventh in his Honda Civic Type-R, saddled with 66kg of ballast.
Shedden, with 57kg, was 10th, behind Hunter Abbott's Power Maxed Racing Chevrolet Cruze and Aron Smith's Team BKR VW CC.
Championship leader Sam Tordoff hauled his 75kg of success ballast to 17th place in his WSR BMW 125i M Sport while his team-mate Rob Collard, also in the hunt for the title, had his fastest lap deleted for a track limits infringement and could only manage 25th.
Both of the WSR men had visited the gravel at Luffield corner earlier on in the session after a small collision between the two.
Motorbase Performance Ford Focus driver Mat Jackson, who is fourth in the standings, was a lowly 21st.
Warren Scott was fastest of the factory Subaru Levorg GTs in 13th place, with Colin Turkington and Jason Plato sharing row eight.
QUALIFYING RESULTS:
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 58.321s | - |
2 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 58.324s | 0.003s |
3 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 58.467s | 0.146s |
4 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 58.481s | 0.160s |
5 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 58.537s | 0.216s |
6 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 58.598s | 0.277s |
7 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 58.671s | 0.350s |
8 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 58.709s | 0.388s |
9 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 58.724s | 0.403s |
10 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 58.780s | 0.459s |
11 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 58.857s | 0.536s |
12 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 58.876s | 0.555s |
13 | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | 58.883s | 0.562s |
14 | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 58.960s | 0.639s |
15 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 58.997s | 0.676s |
16 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 59.007s | 0.686s |
17 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 59.014s | 0.693s |
18 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 59.040s | 0.719s |
19 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 59.055s | 0.734s |
20 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 59.080s | 0.759s |
21 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 59.149s | 0.828s |
22 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 59.236s | 0.915s |
23 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 59.339s | 1.018s |
24 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 59.368s | 1.047s |
25 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 59.380s | 1.059s |
26 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 59.428s | 1.107s |
27 | Tony Gilham | Team Hard | Toyota | 59.530s | 1.209s |
28 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 59.717s | 1.396s |
29 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 59.914s | 1.593s |
30 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 1m00.615s | 2.294s |
31 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m10.976s | 12.655s |

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