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BTCC Silverstone: Cammish leads Honda 1-2 in free practice

Dan Cammish led Matt Neal in a Honda 1-2 in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship round at Silverstone

Cammish, who is carrying 36kg of success ballast on his Team Dynamics-run Civic Type R, lapped the National Circuit 0.088 seconds quicker than the sister car of veteran Neal, who has moved up to 12kg of ballast following his double podium last time out at Thruxton.

As well as his 57.400s best, Cammish also recorded a 57.402s and a 57.407s during the same run of six flying laps in the second session, quicker than anyone else's best.

The Hondas look well poised in the corners, and the Neil Brown-powered machines also emerged top of the speed traps in both sessions.

Championship leader Ash Sutton, carrying the full 60kg of ballast on his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti, had a very strong free practice at Silverstone - something that has not always been the case this season.

Sutton headed the first session by 0.090s from the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Corolla of Tom Ingram, while the Hondas of Neal and Cammish were down in fifth and sixth, with Cammish having a quick spin at Becketts.

Sutton (below) almost matched his morning time early doors in the lunchtime session, before running round in tandem with team-mate Aiden Moffat in what appeared to be a slipstream rehearsal before qualifying.

Ingram, who has won five races in the past four seasons at Silverstone - none of them reversed-grid counters - didn't quite improve on his morning time either, even though he leapt up to fourth in the second session on the final lap, behind Sutton.

The Toyota is carrying 48kg of ballast following its pair of Thruxton wins that vaulted Ingram up to third in the championship, and the Speedworks team was happy with progress.

Reverse-grid Thruxton winner Josh Cook made it three Hondas in the top five with his BTC Racing machine, while Tom Oliphant's best time, which put him third in the opening session, was good for sixth overall in the lead West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport on 30kg of ballast.

Oliphant and team-mate Colin Turkington, who is carrying 54kg of lead, embarked on a 13-lap run late in the second session in which they also appeared to be practising towing each other.

Adam Morgan improved in the second session to put his Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes A-Class seventh, although he followed that with a massive moment at Copse when he powered into the slide to get pointed back in the right direction, to the chagrin of his tyres.

Senna Proctor put in a good time while chasing Sutton on track that put him fourth in the morning, eighth overall in the leading Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30.

Stephen Jelley made a late improvement while on a 16-lap 'race' run to go ninth in Team Parker Racing's BMW 125i M Sport, while the top 10 was completed by the improving James Gornall at the wheel of his Trade Price Cars Audi S3.

Turkington ended up 11th overall, one spot ahead of another of the title contenders, Rory Butcher in his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus, which is on 42kg of ballast.

Silverstone BTCC FP1 result

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Ash Sutton Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 57.501s
2 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 0.090s
3 Tom Oliphant WSR BMW 0.157s
4 Senna Proctor Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 0.199s
5 Matt Neal Team Dynamics Honda 0.248s
6 Dan Cammish Team Dynamics Honda 0.260s
7 Adam Morgan Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 0.272s
8 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 0.308s
9 Aiden Moffat Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 0.335s
10 Rory Butcher Motorbase Performance Ford 0.397s
11 Chris Smiley Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 0.413s
12 Josh Cook BTC Racing Honda 0.470s
13 Stephen Jelley Team Parker Racing BMW 0.511s
14 Jake Hill AmD Tuning Honda 0.512s
15 Tom Onslow-Cole Team Hard Volkswagen 0.610s
16 Michael Crees BTC Racing Honda 0.650s
17 Sam Osborne AmD Tuning Honda 0.709s
18 Ollie Jackson Motorbase Performance Ford 0.720s
19 Carl Boardley Team Hard BMW 0.724s
20 Tom Chilton BTC Racing Honda 0.752s
21 Bobby Thompson Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 0.803s
22 James Gornall Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 0.807s
23 Jack Goff Team Hard Volkswagen 0.830s
24 Andy Neate Motorbase Performance Ford 0.962s
25 Jack Butel Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 0.981s
26 Jade Edwards Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall 1.147s
27 Nicolas Hamilton Team Hard Volkswagen 1.448s

Silverstone BTCC FP2 result

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Dan Cammish Team Dynamics Honda 57.400s
2 Matt Neal Team Dynamics Honda 0.088s
3 Ash Sutton Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 0.158s
4 Tom Ingram Speedworks Motorsport Toyota 0.237s
5 Josh Cook BTC Racing Honda 0.257s
6 Adam Morgan Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 0.288s
7 Stephen Jelley Team Parker Racing BMW 0.311s
8 Tom Oliphant WSR BMW 0.329s
9 James Gornall Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 0.336s
10 Colin Turkington WSR BMW 0.341s
11 Rory Butcher Motorbase Performance Ford 0.372s
12 Sam Osborne AmD Tuning Honda 0.410s
13 Aiden Moffat Laser Tools Racing Infiniti 0.413s
14 Jake Hill AmD Tuning Honda 0.502s
15 Tom Chilton BTC Racing Honda 0.522s
16 Tom Onslow-Cole Team Hard Volkswagen 0.544s
17 Senna Proctor Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 0.546s
18 Michael Crees BTC Racing Honda 0.554s
19 Ollie Jackson Motorbase Performance Ford 0.559s
20 Chris Smiley Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai 0.602s
21 Jack Goff Team Hard Volkswagen 0.611s
22 Jack Butel Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes 0.772s
23 Carl Boardley Team Hard BMW 0.772s
24 Bobby Thompson Trade Price Cars Racing Audi 0.899s
25 Nicolas Hamilton Team Hard Volkswagen 0.994s
26 Andy Neate Motorbase Performance Ford 1.013s
27 Jade Edwards Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall 1.382s

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