Snetterton BTCC: Andrew Jordan fastest in free practice

Jordan set a 1m56.543s on his final flying lap in FP2 on Saturday to best Turkington by 0.020s, with Plato the same distance back from his team-mate.

The Team BMR VW CCs look in ominous form at Snetterton, with Plato and Aron Smith controlling proceedings early in the second session before a red flag was thrown to allow the Montreal barriers to be repaired following a crash for Aiden Moffat.

The Scot has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks after showing signs of concussion.

When the session resumed, Plato took top spot from Smith before Jordan's late improvement.

Turkington set the fastest first sector of anyone on his own final effort, but fell two-hundredths short of the Triple Eight man.

Smith wound up fourth ahead of WSR's Andy Priaulx, with Jack Goff sixth in the second MG.

Priaulx beat Plato and Honda's Matt Neal to top spot in the morning session, the three-time world champion's 1m56.648s enough to beat both his rivals by less than a tenth.

Honda had a much more sedate second session, with Neal 10th and championship leader Gordon Shedden 12th with his 75kg of success ballast.

After topping the Dunlop tyre test, Motorbase's first race weekend since it confirmed its return to the series started in quieter fashion with Mat Jackson 6th and 16th in the two sessions and James Cole 24th both times.

Team Parker Racing has brought 2003 Porsche Carrera Cup GB champion Barry Horne in at the last minute after regular driver Alex Martin was forced to miss the meeting due to the birth of his first child. Horne ended FP2 26th of the 27 drivers to set a time.

Welch Motorsport is absent, while Support our Paras Racing is down to one Infiniti Q50 for Derek Palmer Jr, who was 22nd.

FP1 RESULTS

FP2 RESULTS