Silverstone BTCC: Mat Jackson dominates practice in Motorbase Ford

The Rockingham race winner topped both sessions on Saturday, as the new EcoBoost-powered Focus starred on the short national circuit layout.

Jackson's best time of the day so far came in practice two, in which he posted a 58.557s lap and then aborted an even quicker lap.

His effort was still good enough for top spot, edging out MG's Jack Goff by just 0.053s.

Colin Turkington was the leading Team BMR Volkswagen CC in third, just ahead of the BTCC's newest podium finishers Josh Cook and Tom Ingram - with all three drivers within a couple of tenths of Jackson's benchmarks.

Jackson had edged Cook's Power Maxed Racing Chevrolet Cruze by just 0.067s in the opening session, in which Goff also looked strong in the Triple Eight-run MG having gone fourth.

Maximum ballast does not look to have hindered championship leader Gordon Shedden's Honda too badly, with the Scot sixth in the opening session and seventh later on.

His nearest rival, Team BMR's Jason Plato, was outside the top 10 and more than three tenths off the pace complaining about the balance on both occasions as he went 16th and 11th.

Plato's team boss Warren Scott posted his most competitive showing with the third-best time in first practice, but crashed heavily at Copse at the end of the session and missed the second after going to hospital for checks.

PRACTICE ONE TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mat Jackson	Motorbase	Ford	58.952s	-	18
2	Josh Cook	Power Maxed	Chevrolet	59.019s	0.067s	23
3	Warren Scott	Team BMR	Volkswagen	59.024s	0.072s	22
4	Jack Goff	MG	MG	59.058s	0.106s	24
5	Dave Newsham	Power Maxed	Chevrolet	59.072s	0.120s	28
6	Gordon Shedden	Honda	Honda	59.084s	0.132s	21
7	Colin Turkington	Team BMR	Volkswagen	59.128s	0.176s	22
8	Andrew Jordan	MG	MG	59.142s	0.190s	22
9	Andy Priaulx	WSR	BMW	59.185s	0.233s	18
10	Aron Taylor-Smith	Team BMR	Volkswagen	59.188s	0.236s	25
11	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Racing	Mercedes	59.372s	0.420s	24
12	Matt Neal	Honda	Honda	59.389s	0.437s	21
13	Sam Tordoff	WSR	BMW	59.452s	0.500s	25
14	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	59.467s	0.515s	18
15	Jason Plato	Team BMR	Volkswagen	59.472s	0.520s	16
16	Martin Depper	Eurotech	Honda	59.480s	0.528s	22
17	Mike Bushell	AmD	Ford	59.532s	0.580s	23
18	Hunter Abbott	Rob Austin Racing	Audi	59.540s	0.588s	21
19	Aiden Moffat	Aiden Moffat Racing	Mercedes	59.760s	0.808s	22
20	Rob Collard	WSR	BMW	59.767s	0.815s	22
21	James Cole	Motorbase	Ford	59.967s	1.015s	21
22	Jeff Smith	Eurotech	Honda	59.988s	1.036s	17
23	Daniel Welch	Welch Motorsport	Proton	1m00.034s	1.082s	22
24	Rob Austin	Rob Austin Racing	Audi	1m00.130s	1.178s	18
25	Tony Gilham	Team Hard	Toyota	1m00.404s	1.452s	19
26	Simon Belcher	Handy Motorsport	Toyota	1m00.499s	1.547s	26
27	Stewart Lines	Houseman Racing	Toyota	1m00.568s	1.616s	22
28	Derek Palmer Jr.	Infiniti	Infiniti	1m00.742s	1.790s	21
29	Alex Martin	Team Parker	Ford	1m00.863s	1.911s	20
30	Nicolas Hamilton	AmD	Audi	1m05.446s	6.494s	8

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mat Jackson	Motorbase	Ford	58.557s	-	26
2	Jack Goff	MG	MG	58.610s	0.053s	26
3	Colin Turkington	Team BMR	Volkswagen	58.677s	0.120s	24
4	Josh Cook	Power Maxed	Chevrolet	58.704s	0.147s	26
5	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	58.755s	0.198s	24
6	Aron Taylor-Smith	Team BMR	Volkswagen	58.782s	0.225s	28
7	Gordon Shedden	Honda	Honda	58.786s	0.229s	29
8	Andrew Jordan	MG	MG	58.812s	0.255s	22
9	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Racing	Mercedes	58.870s	0.313s	22
10	Rob Austin	Rob Austin Racing	Audi	58.875s	0.318s	28
11	Jason Plato	Team BMR	Volkswagen	58.897s	0.340s	26
12	Matt Neal	Honda	Honda	58.920s	0.363s	26
13	Sam Tordoff	WSR	BMW	58.940s	0.383s	26
14	Hunter Abbott	Rob Austin Racing	Audi	58.971s	0.414s	30
15	Andy Priaulx	WSR	BMW	58.988s	0.431s	26
16	James Cole	Motorbase	Ford	59.047s	0.490s	29
17	Rob Collard	WSR	BMW	59.080s	0.523s	27
18	Dave Newsham	Power Maxed	Chevrolet	59.087s	0.530s	21
19	Mike Bushell	AmD	Ford	59.153s	0.596s	27
20	Jeff Smith	Eurotech	Honda	59.172s	0.615s	25
21	Aiden Moffat	Aiden Moffat Racing	Mercedes	59.176s	0.619s	30
22	Martin Depper	Eurotech	Honda	59.348s	0.791s	28
23	Tony Gilham	Team Hard	Toyota	59.431s	0.874s	20
24	Alex Martin	Team Parker	Ford	1m00.021s	1.464s	25
25	Derek Palmer Jr.	Infiniti	Infiniti	1m00.146s	1.589s	29
26	Simon Belcher	Handy Motorsport	Toyota	1m00.190s	1.633s	29
27	Nicolas Hamilton	AmD	Audi	1m00.315s	1.758s	30
28	Stewart Lines	Houseman Racing	Toyota	1m00.510s	1.953s	30
29	Daniel Welch	Welch Motorsport	Proton	1m00.688s	2.131s	8