MG's Josh Cook sets Donington Park BTCC practice pace
Triple Eight MG6 driver Josh Cook topped both British Touring Car Championship free practice sessions at Donington Park
The Bath racer put in two laps at the end of the second 40-minute period that would have put him top of the pile. His final benchmark was a 1m10.129s tour.
Cook, who led at Donington Park last season during only his second event in the BTCC, said: "I really enjoy this circuit and the MG has been really well balanced throughout all of the practice so far.
"This bodes well ahead of qualifying this afternoon."
Cook was 0.198 seconds clear of WSR BMW 125i M Sport ace Sam Tordoff, another to leave it to the very end of the two sessions to show his hand.
Brands Hatch race winner Tom Ingram was third in the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis having topped the timesheets for much of the second period. His laptime was 1m10.377s.
Behind Aiden Moffat, factory Honda driver Gordon Shedden, carrying 66kg of success ballast into the meeting, recorded a best time that put him fifth at the end of session two in his Civic Type R.
Points leader Matt Neal, loaded with 75kg, put his Honda Civic Type R in 17th place.
The factory Subarus were 19th (Colin Turkington), 21st (Jason Plato), 23rd (James Cole) and 29th (Warren Scott).
Scott caused the second session to be interrupted midway through when he spun his Levorg model onto the grass at the exit of the Old Hairpin.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.985s | - | 14 |
2 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m11.030s | 0.045s | 15 |
3 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m11.431s | 0.446s | 17 |
4 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m11.454s | 0.469s | 16 |
5 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.581s | 0.596s | 14 |
6 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m11.668s | 0.683s | 17 |
7 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m11.703s | 0.718s | 17 |
8 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m11.793s | 0.808s | 18 |
9 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m11.814s | 0.829s | 14 |
10 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m11.901s | 0.916s | 11 |
11 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m12.046s | 1.061s | 18 |
12 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m12.190s | 1.205s | 17 |
13 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m12.261s | 1.276s | 11 |
14 | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m12.312s | 1.327s | 12 |
15 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m12.530s | 1.545s | 17 |
16 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m12.536s | 1.551s | 8 |
17 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m12.553s | 1.568s | 15 |
18 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 1m12.579s | 1.594s | 14 |
19 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m12.683s | 1.698s | 15 |
20 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 1m12.780s | 1.795s | 12 |
21 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 1m12.900s | 1.915s | 10 |
22 | Chris Smiley | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m13.211s | 2.226s | 14 |
23 | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m13.236s | 2.251s | 16 |
24 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m13.447s | 2.462s | 14 |
25 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m13.606s | 2.621s | 16 |
26 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 1m13.863s | 2.878s | 16 |
27 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m16.318s | 5.333s | 13 |
28 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m17.275s | 6.290s | 9 |
29 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m17.686s | 6.701s | 15 |
30 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m20.534s | 9.549s | 12 |
31 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | - | - | 4 |
PRACTICE TWO TIMES
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Josh Cook | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.129s | - | 19 |
2 | Sam Tordoff | WSR | BMW | 1m10.327s | 0.198s | 16 |
3 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks Motorsport | Toyota | 1m10.377s | 0.248s | 19 |
4 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.455s | 0.326s | 18 |
5 | Gordon Shedden | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m10.485s | 0.356s | 16 |
6 | Mat Jackson | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m10.511s | 0.382s | 19 |
7 | Ash Sutton | Triple Eight/MG | MG | 1m10.557s | 0.428s | 17 |
8 | Jeff Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m10.611s | 0.482s | 17 |
9 | Aron Taylor-Smith | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m10.638s | 0.509s | 15 |
10 | Rob Collard | WSR | BMW | 1m10.643s | 0.514s | 19 |
11 | Jack Goff | WSR | BMW | 1m10.701s | 0.572s | 18 |
12 | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Racing | Mercedes | 1m10.762s | 0.633s | 13 |
13 | Andrew Jordan | Motorbase Performance | Ford | 1m10.805s | 0.676s | 18 |
14 | Jake Hill | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m10.825s | 0.696s | 15 |
15 | Rob Austin | Handy Motorsport | Toyota | 1m10.984s | 0.855s | 17 |
16 | Hunter Abbott | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m11.033s | 0.904s | 17 |
17 | Matt Neal | Dynamics/Honda | Honda | 1m11.191s | 1.062s | 16 |
18 | Martin Depper | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 1m11.295s | 1.166s | 14 |
19 | Colin Turkington | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.298s | 1.169s | 16 |
20 | Chris Smiley | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m11.565s | 1.436s | 11 |
21 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.671s | 1.542s | 12 |
22 | Michael Epps | Team Hard | Toyota | 1m11.673s | 1.544s | 14 |
23 | James Cole | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m11.769s | 1.640s | 21 |
24 | Matt Simpson | Speedworks Motorsport | Honda | 1m11.790s | 1.661s | 17 |
25 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 1m11.890s | 1.761s | 16 |
26 | Daniel Welch | Welch Motorsport | Proton | 1m11.915s | 1.786s | 14 |
27 | Alex Martin | Team Parker Racing | Ford | 1m12.325s | 2.196s | 7 |
28 | Mark Howard | Team BKR | Volkswagen | 1m13.035s | 2.906s | 14 |
29 | Warren Scott | Team BMR | Subaru | 1m13.201s | 3.072s | 9 |
30 | Stewart Lines | Maximum Motorsport | Ford | 1m13.754s | 3.625s | 16 |
31 | Kelvin Fletcher | Power Maxed Racing | Chevrolet | 1m18.747s | 8.618s | 11 |
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