Gordon Shedden was once again the fastest driver in the second practice session for the British Touring Car Championship at Knockhill.
Although unable to improve on his time set in the first session, the Scot was still 0.136 seconds quicker than Tom Chilton, who again finished second. Overall the session was a much more closely-fought affair, with 10 drivers being within a second of Shedden.
The strong performance of the NGTC cars continued in second practice – this time it was Frank Wrathall as the best driver in his Dynojet Toyota Avensis, setting the third fastest time towards the end of the session.
Mat Jackson had been in second for much of the session but he was unable to improve his time on a track that was getting faster as the session went on and the Airwaves driver finished the session fourth, just ahead of Matt Neal.
Star of the first session Daniel Welch continued his strong from in second practice, putting the NGTC Proton Gen-2 sixth overall in the times. He had been improving his times rapidly towards the end of the session.
With Welch moving up to sixth, Tom Onslow-Cole dropped to seventh having set a quick time earlier in the session but being unable to improve in the closing minutes.
James Nash finished in eighth, despite an off early in the session, with Rob Collard in ninth and Andrew Jordan tenth.
Jason Plato had an improved second practice session but could still only manage 11th overall, less than a tenth ahead of his Chevrolet team-mate.
Qualifying takes place this afternoon (Saturday) at 1505 GMT.
Top times from FP2:
1. Gordon Shedden – 58.111
2. Tom Chilton – +0.136
3. Frank Wrathall – +0.167
4. Mat Jackson – +0.170
5. Matt Neal – +0.227
6. Daniel Welch – +0.488
7. Tom Onslow-Cole – +0.507
8. James Nash – +0.675
9. Rob Collard – +0.722
10. Andrew Jordan – +0.971