SEAT continue to dominate testing

As he had done on Tuesday, it was Jason Plato heading the time sheets in his diesel-powered Leon TDI with a time under the official lap record.

Plato's lap of 1:11.730 was some three tenths of a second faster than his pace of 24 hours earlier, and 0.458 seconds ahead of his teammate Darren Turner.

Adam Jones made it a SEAT 1-2-3 during the morning running, but the Team Air Cool driver slipped to fifth in the overall times late in the day. The reason was the emergence of Colin Turkington and Andrew Jordan, who went third and fourth in a Team RAC BMW and a Eurotech-John Guest Honda respectively.

Jordan's teammate and father Mike was the biggest improver of the day, finding 1.2 seconds on his Tuesday times to go sixth, while Mat Jackson gained around half a second to go seventh for BMW Dealer UK.

Jackson led a train of four BMWs as Stephen Jelley's Team RAC machine in ninth split the Motorbase cars of Rob Collard and Steven Kane.

There were no works Vauxhalls or Team Halfords Hondas on track, but 15 cars were still present.

The Arkas Racing Vauxhall Astras of Martyn Bell and Erkut Kizilirmak, John George's TH Motorsport Honda Integra and Michael Doyle's In-Tune Racing Honda Civic - all of whom missed the first day of running - all got in some useful laps.