Chilton leads all-Ford front row

The Arena Motorsport driver lapped the circuit in 1m11.328s with 10 minutes of the session remaining, beating his team-mate Tom Onslow-Cole to the top spot by 0.081 seconds.

Honda's Gordon Shedden had set the early pace in a session that was red-flagged at the halfway point when Andy Neate spun his WSR BMW into the gravel at Redgate.

But when the action resumed Chilton wasted little time in going to the head of the timesheets in a time just over a tenth quicker than Shedden. He was followed over the line seconds later by Onslow-Cole, who was carrying 27kg of success ballast to Chilton's nine.

Despite a sprinkling of rain hitting the track, there was not enough moisture to affect qualifying and everyone spent the whole session on slick tyres.

Shedden shared the second row with championship leader Jason Plato, who was 0.2s off the pace in his Chevrolet.

Matt Neal (Honda) and Andrew Jordan (Eurotech Vauxhall) were next up while Paul O'Neill turned in another impressive performance to qualify seventh in his ageing Tech-Speed Honda.

Practice dramas forgotten, Rob Collard was the best of the BMW brigade in his WSR car while Tom Boardman's Special Tuning UK SEAT and Alex MacDowall's Chevrolet - the latter having its worst qualifying result since the season opener at Thruxton - completed the top 10.

Arthur Forster's session was cut short after 20 minutes due to a gearbox problem on his Forster BMW while Steven Kane's Motorbase version did not get out at all after the car failed to fire up following a post-practice gearbox change.

Pos  Driver           Car         Time       Gap
 1.  Tom Chilton      Ford        1m11.328s
 2.  Tom Onslow-Cole  Ford        1m11.409s  + 0.081s
 3.  Gordon Shedden   Honda       1m11.448s  + 0.120s
 4.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet   1m11.542s  + 0.214s
 5.  Matt Neal        Honda       1m11.604s  + 0.276s
 6.  Andrew Jordan    Vauxhall    1m11.717s  + 0.389s
 7.  Paul O'Neill     Honda       1m11.822s  + 0.494s
 8.  Rob Collard      BMW         1m11.834s  + 0.506s
 9.  Tom Boardman     SEAT        1m11.916s  + 0.588s
10.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet   1m11.919s  + 0.591s
11.  Mat Jackson      BMW         1m12.010s  + 0.682s
12.  James Nash       Vauxhall    1m12.298s  + 0.970s
13.  James Kaye       Honda       1m13.100s  + 1.772s
14.  Andy Neate       BMW         1m13.221s  + 1.893s
15.  Lea Wood         Honda       1m13.287s  + 1.959s
16.  John George      Honda       1m13.456s  + 2.128s
17.  Martin Johnson   Vauxhall    1m13.900s  + 2.572s
18.  David Pinkney    Vauxhall    1m13.927s  + 2.599s
19.  Shaun Hollamby   Volkswagen  1m14.208s  + 2.880s
20.  Arthur Forster   BMW         1m15.140s  + 3.812s
21.  Steven Kane      BMW