Croft BTCC: Daniel Lloyd leads practice in Eurotech Honda
Eurotech Racing's Daniel Lloyd emerged as the pacesetter after the two free practice sessions for Sunday's fifth meeting of the British Touring Car Championship season at Croft
At the circuit where he made his debut in the series back in 2010, Lloyd left it late in second practice to put his Honda Civic Type-R to the top of the times with a best lap of 1m24.511s - almost a second quicker than he had managed in the opening 40-minute session earlier in the day.
"We put some new tyres on and it was a good run," he said.
"We spent most of the session working on race set-up but I knew the car would be quick and there is still more to come for qualifying. It's a good start."
Lloyds's lap in the closing minutes of the session prevented Speedworks Motorsport's Tom Ingram from heading practice for the third successive meeting, with his Toyota having spent a large part of the session comfortably clear at the front.
Ingram would ultimately end up just 0.009s adrift, with the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus of Andrew Jordan only 0.004s further back in third after the current Independents' points leader was able to vault up the times on his final flying lap.
Despite carrying maximum ballast as championship leader, Sam Tordoff was quickest of the rear-wheel drive cars in his WSR BMW 125i M Sport, albeit three-tenths of a second off the pace in fourth place, with the Team BMR Subaru Levorgs maintaining the improved pace shown at Oulton Park by filling out the next three spots.
In something of a surprise, it was team boss Warren Scott who was quickest of the Subarus thanks to his final timed lap, which placed him just ahead of team-mates Jason Plato and Colin Turkington.
Rob Austin, Hunter Abbott and Jack Goff rounded out the top 10.
Aiden Moffat had led the earlier, slower, session in his Mercedes, followed by Jordan and Tordoff.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m25.038s | - | 18 |
2 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m25.064s | 0.026s | 16 |
3 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 1m25.141s | 0.103s | 16 |
4 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m25.151s | 0.113s | 23 |
5 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m25.183s | 0.145s | 17 |
6 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m25.192s | 0.154s | 17 |
7 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m25.334s | 0.296s | 16 |
8 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m25.401s | 0.363s | 18 |
9 | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m25.469s | 0.431s | 17 |
10 | Daniel Lloyd | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m25.495s | 0.457s | 15 |
11 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m25.528s | 0.490s | 18 |
12 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m25.535s | 0.497s | 15 |
13 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m25.751s | 0.713s | 14 |
14 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m25.764s | 0.726s | 17 |
15 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 1m25.810s | 0.772s | 15 |
16 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m25.840s | 0.802s | 16 |
17 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 1m25.844s | 0.806s | 18 |
18 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m25.941s | 0.903s | 13 |
19 | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m25.980s | 0.942s | 20 |
20 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m26.003s | 0.965s | 9 |
21 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m26.132s | 1.094s | 14 |
22 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m26.217s | 1.179s | 18 |
23 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m26.609s | 1.571s | 18 |
24 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m26.628s | 1.590s | 19 |
25 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 1m27.183s | 2.145s | 10 |
26 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m27.269s | 2.231s | 17 |
27 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 1m27.284s | 2.246s | 18 |
28 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m27.385s | 2.347s | 14 |
29 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m27.735s | 2.697s | 17 |
30 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m28.457s | 3.419s | 18 |
31 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m28.783s | 3.745s | 17 |
32 | Chris Smiley | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m28.880s | 3.842s | 8 |
PRACTICE TWO TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Daniel Lloyd | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m24.511s | - | 16 |
2 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m24.520s | 0.009s | 17 |
3 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m24.524s | 0.013s | 13 |
4 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 1m24.853s | 0.342s | 17 |
5 | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m24.890s | 0.379s | 19 |
6 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m24.918s | 0.407s | 15 |
7 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m24.933s | 0.422s | 17 |
8 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 1m24.939s | 0.428s | 19 |
9 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m24.949s | 0.438s | 19 |
10 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 1m25.018s | 0.507s | 18 |
11 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m25.021s | 0.510s | 16 |
12 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m25.022s | 0.511s | 15 |
13 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m25.095s | 0.584s | 13 |
14 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m25.135s | 0.624s | 13 |
15 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m25.155s | 0.644s | 14 |
16 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m25.260s | 0.749s | 21 |
17 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m25.308s | 0.797s | 15 |
18 | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m25.360s | 0.849s | 16 |
19 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m25.363s | 0.852s | 18 |
20 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m25.440s | 0.929s | 21 |
21 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m25.470s | 0.959s | 17 |
22 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m25.488s | 0.977s | 15 |
23 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m25.526s | 1.015s | 16 |
24 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m25.651s | 1.140s | 14 |
25 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m25.761s | 1.250s | 15 |
26 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 1m25.918s | 1.407s | 16 |
27 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m26.006s | 1.495s | 18 |
28 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m26.077s | 1.566s | 17 |
29 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 1m26.196s | 1.685s | 23 |
30 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m26.637s | 2.126s | 20 |
31 | Chris Smiley | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m26.700s | 2.189s | 19 |
32 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m28.749s | 4.238s | 15 |
Be part of the Autosport community
Join the conversationShare Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
Top Comments