Dan Cammish leads BTCC practice in Honda 1-2 at Thruxton

To replace Rockingham on the BTCC calendar, this weekend's round will be the first of two meetings at Thruxton this season.

Cammish topped last month's test at the venue and then led the way in the second practice session, having set a 1min15.589sec time in the FK8 Civic.

Rory Butcher, who took his maiden win earlier this year at Brands Hatch, lapped 0.069s shy in the older FK2 car - the AmD Tuning driver finished the earlier test second.

The returning Andrew Jordan, who had to miss races two and three at Donington Park in the wake of a hefty accident, was third, ahead of WSR team-mate Colin Turkington.

With the other BMW 330i M Sport of Tom Oliphant in eighth, the remainder of the top 10 was dominated by front-wheel-drive cars, which the circuit has traditionally favoured.

Morgan was fifth ahead of FK2 Civic driver Matt Simpson and Jake Hill was seventh in his Audi S3, only 0.003s shy.

Two-time Thruxton winner Jason Plato was ninth in the Vauxhall Astra, and Chris Smiley rounded out the top 10 for BTC Racing in the newer FK8 Civic.

Plato's team-mate Rob Collard was 13th, and faces no further action after the Donington Park incident with Jordan was confirmed as a racing incident.

Josh Cook, in the same generation car as Cammish, was a subdued 14th ahead of Butcher's stablemate Sam Tordoff.

Tom Ingram, who scored the first win for the new-for-2019 Toyota Corolla in the final race at Donginton Park, could only manage 17th, behind 2017 BTCC champion Ashley Sutton's Subaru Levorg.

But Sutton had topped the opening practice session, when the track surface was greasy. He ended the run 0.071s clear of Jordan.

Across the two practice runs, ex-Formula 1 driver Mark Blundell was the only person to cause a red flag.

While sitting third in the times, he pitted his Audi S3 for a new set of slicks but lost the car on the exit of Goodwood corner on the new rubber and he span backwards in to the tyre wall.

A lengthy recovery meant seven minutes of the session were lost, but Blundell was back out an ended up 24th.

FP1 result

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Ash Sutton	BMR Racing	Subaru	1m16.531s	16
2	Andrew Jordan	WSR	BMW	0.071s	14
3	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.286s	12
4	Jake Hill	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.367s	18
5	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.372s	13
6	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	BMW	0.439s	11
7	Rory Butcher	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.474s	19
8	Sam Tordoff	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.682s	18
9	Senna Proctor	BMR Racing	Subaru	0.692s	16
10	Rob Collard	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.841s	12
11	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes	0.884s	10
12	Jack Goff	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.996s	14
13	Daniel Rowbottom	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	1.063s	17
14	Matt Simpson	Simpson Racing	Honda	1.805s	14
15	Bobby Thompson	Team Hard	Volkswagen	1.824s	14
16	Tom Oliphant	WSR	BMW	1.852s	14
17	Ollie Jackson	Motorbase Performance	Ford	1.986s	12
18	Rob Smith	Excelr8 Motorsport	MG	2.238s	16
19	Carl Boardley	Team Hard	Volkswagen	2.963s	14
20	Michael Crees	Team Hard	Volkswagen	3.264s	16
21	Jason Plato	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	3.492s	9
22	Nicolas Hamilton	Motorbase Performance	Ford	5.190s	13
23	Tom Chilton	Motorbase Performance	Ford	5.441s	11
24	Mark Blundell	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	10.503s	10
25	Sam Osborne	Excelr8 Motorsport	MG	11.723s	9
26	Matt Neal	Team Dynamics	Honda	-	6
27	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	-	9
28	Dan Cammish	Team Dynamics	Honda	-	5
29	Josh Cook	BTC Racing	Honda	-	5
30	Chris Smiley	BTC Racing	Honda	-	2

FP2 result

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Dan Cammish	Team Dynamics	Honda	1m15.589s	16
2	Rory Butcher	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.069s	15
3	Andrew Jordan	WSR	BMW	0.277s	21
4	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.425s	19
5	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.437s	7
6	Matt Simpson	Simpson Racing	Honda	0.469s	23
7	Jake Hill	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.472s	18
8	Tom Oliphant	WSR	BMW	0.489s	20
9	Jason Plato	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.497s	19
10	Matt Neal	Team Dynamics	Honda	0.640s	18
11	Chris Smiley	BTC Racing	Honda	0.658s	19
12	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Mercedes	0.661s	17
13	Rob Collard	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	0.729s	21
14	Josh Cook	BTC Racing	Honda	0.742s	16
15	Sam Tordoff	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.750s	18
16	Ash Sutton	BMR Racing	Subaru	0.765s	21
17	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	0.809s	12
18	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	BMW	0.914s	16
19	Senna Proctor	BMR Racing	Subaru	1.068s	21
20	Jack Goff	Team Hard	Volkswagen	1.269s	17
21	Daniel Rowbottom	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	1.424s	22
22	Bobby Thompson	Team Hard	Volkswagen	1.691s	17
23	Tom Chilton	Motorbase Performance	Ford	1.793s	14
24	Ollie Jackson	Motorbase Performance	Ford	1.919s	17
25	Nicolas Hamilton	Motorbase Performance	Ford	2.265s	18
26	Rob Smith	Excelr8 Motorsport	MG	2.282s	17
27	Mark Blundell	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	2.690s	18
28	Carl Boardley	Team Hard	Volkswagen	3.117s	14
29	Michael Crees	Team Hard	Volkswagen	3.501s	19
30	Sam Osborne	Excelr8 Motorsport	MG	4.219s	20