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Chilton fastest in Oulton practice

Tom Chilton did his now usual job of setting the fastest time in practice for the latest round of the British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park

The Arena Ford driver went quickest in both the morning and afternoon, his pace-setting time coming in 1m27.658s in the latter session.

Honda's Gordon Shedden was Chilton's closest challenger. He set the second-fastest time in each of the sessions and was 0.025s slower than his rival both times.

Jason Plato was a disappointing eighth quickest in the morning, but set-up changes on his Chevrolet allowed him to move up to third during the afternoon.

WSR's Rob Collard was the best of the BMW drivers in fourth overall while Mat Jackson was next up in his Motorbase-run machine. Both were over half a second off the pace.

Alex MacDowall was sixth quickest in the second of the Chevrolets, but had gone faster than his team-mate Plato in the morning.

Tom Onslow-Cole (Arena Ford), Matt Neal (Honda) and James Nash (Triple 8 Vauxhall) were next up.

Paul O'Neill completed the top 10. This was despite the Tech-Speed Honda driver losing a wheel on the climb out of the Island hairpin early in the morning running.

Andrew Jordan was only 12th quickest in his Eurotech Vauxhall after suffering with an engine issue in both sessions. He stopped for good midway through the second session to give the team as much time as possible to change the unit in time for qualifying.

Pos  Driver           Car         Time       Gap
 1.  Tom Chilton      Ford        1m27.658s
 2.  Gordon Shedden   Honda       1m27.683s  + 0.025s
 3.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet   1m27.993s  + 0.275s
 4.  Rob Collard      BMW         1m28.120s  + 0.462s
 5.  Mat Jackson      BMW         1m28.136s  + 0.478s
 6.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet   1m28.223s  + 0.565s
 7.  Tom Onslow-Cole  Ford        1m28.286s  + 0.628s
 8.  Matt Neal        Honda       1m28.292s  + 0.636s
 9.  James Nash       Vauxhall    1m28.455s  + 0.797s
10.  Paul O'Neill     Honda       1m28.553s  + 0.895s
11.  Andy Neate       BMW         1m28.686s  + 1.028s
12.  Tom Boardman     SEAT        1m28.825s  + 1.167s
13.  Andrew Jordan    Vauxhall    1m28.865s  + 1.207s
14.  Steven Kane      BMW         1m29.116s  + 1.458s
15.  David Pinkney    Vauxhall    1m29.305s  + 1.647s
16.  John George      Honda       1m29.331s  + 1.673s
17.  Matt Hamilton    Honda       1m29.437s  + 1.779s
18.  Martin Depper    BMW         1m30.080s  + 2.422s
19.  Arthur Forster   BMW         1m30.139s  + 2.481s
20.  Lea Wood         Honda       1m30.147s  + 2.489s
21.  Shaun Hollamby   Volkswagen  1m31.037s  + 3.379s
22.  Martin Johnson   Vauxhall    1m32.140s  + 4.482s

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