Nash on top in second practice

Nash's Triple 8 Engineering Vauxhall Vectra made a late push to record 1m10.659s, almost two tenths faster than Andrew Jordan's practice one-topping effort.

The Arena Motorsport Ford Focus of Tom Chilton led the way for much of the session with a 1m10.707s set early on. He fitted new Dunlop rubber to respond to Nash's time, but was thwarted when Chris James went off at the Old Hairpin and brought out the yellow flags as the session drew to a close.

Behind Nash and Chilton was Tom Boardman's Special Tuning Racing SEAT Leon, just ahead of Jordan's Eurotech Racing Vectra.

The Honda Racing Civics of Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal were next, Neal completing a long run in which he lapped consistently within a second of his best.

The top normally aspirated runner, again Alex MacDowall's RML-run Chevrolet Cruze, was three quarters of a second off the leaders, while his team-mate, championship leader Jason Plato, was 11th.

Top NGTC car was again the Dynojet Toyota Avensis of Frank Wrathall, which improved to 1m13.400s, 2.7 seconds slower than Nash, in 19th.

Pos  Driver           Team/Car              Time       Gap
 1.  James Nash       Triple 8 Vauxhall     1m10.659s
 2.  Tom Chilton      Arena Ford            1m10.707s  + 0.048s
 3.  Tom Boardman     Special Tuning SEAT   1m10.729s  + 0.070s
 4.  Andrew Jordan    Eurotech Vauxhall     1m10.845s  + 0.186s
 5.  Gordon Shedden   Honda                 1m10.918s  + 0.259s
 6.  Matt Neal        Honda                 1m11.181s  + 0.522s
 7.  Mat Jackson      Motorbase Ford        1m11.202s  + 0.543s
 8.  Alex MacDowall   Chevrolet             1m11.424s  + 0.765s
 9.  Tony Gilham      Triple 8 Vauxhall     1m11.546s  + 0.887s
10.  Jeff Smith       Eurotech Vauxhall     1m11.653s  + 0.994s
11.  Rob Collard      WSR BMW               1m11.735s  + 1.076s
12.  Jason Plato      Chevrolet             1m11.805s  + 1.146s
13.  Liam Griffin     Motorbase Ford        1m11.878s  + 1.219s
14.  Andy Neate       Arena Ford            1m12.061s  + 1.402s
15.  Paul O'Neill     Tech-Speed Chevrolet  1m12.179s  + 1.520s
16.  Nick Foster      WSR BMW               1m12.402s  + 1.743s
17.  Tom Onslow-Cole  AmD Volkswagen        1m12.591s  + 1.932s
18.  Dave Newsham     Geoff Steel BMW       1m12.770s  + 2.111s
19.  Frank Wrathall   Dynojet Toyota        1m13.400s  + 2.741s
20.  John George      Tech-Speed Chevrolet  1m13.431s  + 2.772s
21.  Chris James      ES Chevrolet          1m13.835s  + 3.176s
22.  Rob Austin       Austin Audi           1m15.230s  + 4.571s
23.  Tony Hughes      Speedworks Toyota     1m15.663s  + 5.004s