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Neal quickest at Snetterton test

Matt Neal set the pace as several British Touring Car Championship teams took part in an unofficial test session at Snetterton on Tuesday

Many of the teams were running on the new '300' layout that will be used for August's BTCC round for the first time, and they had to wait longer than anticipated to take to the track as dense fog caused the morning session to be delayed for an hour.

Once the on-track action did commence, it was Mat Jackson who set the pace in his Motorbase Ford, although his 1m59.233s lap that was the best of the morning, was not good enough to keep him on top during the afternoon as times reduced by around half a second.

Honda driver Neal, who completed over 60 laps during the day, went to the top of the timesheets during the early afternoon with a lap of 1m58.761s, with Jackson also improving to leave himself just 0.257 seconds off the pace by the end of the day.

Tom Chilton featured near the bottom of the times during the morning, but made significant gains later on to wind up third quickest in Arena's new-spec Ford Focus while Paul O'Neill continued testing of Tech-Speed's ex-works Chevrolet Cruze in fourth place.

Andrew Jordan's Eurotech Vauxhall, the WSR BMWs of Rob Collard and Nick Foster and Liam Griffin's Motorbase Ford were next up while Jeff Smith, who only ran in the afternoon, was the slowest of the runners in his Eurotech machine.

A number of teams were not present at Snetterton, including Chevrolet, which ran Jason Plato to last year's drivers' title.

Pos  Driver         Team/Car              Time       Gap
 1.  Matt Neal      Honda                 1m58.761s
 2.  Mat Jackson    Motorbase Ford        1m59.018s  + 0.257s
 3.  Tom Chilton    Arena Ford            1m59.082s  + 0.321s
 4.  Paul O'Neill   Tech-Speed Chevrolet  1m59.391s  + 0.630s
 5.  Andrew Jordan  Eurotech Vauxhall     1m59.402s  + 0.641s
 6.  Rob Collard    WSR BMW               1m59.532s  + 0.771s
 7.  Nick Foster    WSR BMW               1m59.880s  + 1.119s
 8.  Liam Griffin   Motorbase Ford        2m01.186s  + 2.425s
 9.  Jeff Smith     Eurotech Vauxhall     2m01.739s  + 2.978s

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