Gordon Shedden heads the times in second practice

Team Dynamics’ Gordon Shedden put in the fastest lap of the day so far in the second British Touring Car Championship practice session at Thruxton, two tenths of a second faster than Team BMW’s Tom Oliphant.

Shedden’s team-mate Daniel Rowbottom was the first driver to break into the 1 minute 15 second times in the session, putting in a lap of 1:15.918 after just over 15 minutes had elapsed.

The Honda driver was quickly usurped by BMW’s Oliphant, with a time of 1:15.762, before Shedden went fastest of all with just ten minutes to go with his lap of 1:15.537.

The times were just a tenth of a second faster than the earlier practice session, as the Hampshire circuit basked under partially sunny skies.

Oliphant ultimately held second with his best lap, ahead of the Ciceley Motorsport BMW of Adam Morgan in third, the Lancashire ace improving on his FP1 performance.

Toyota’s Rory Butcher also improved on his earlier performance to end the session in fourth, just under four tenths off the pace, ahead of Rowbottom in fifth, the Honda driver failing to improve on the time which sent him to the top in the first third of the session.

BTC Racing’s Senna Proctor was sixth, ahead of Excelr8 Motorsport’s Tom Ingram in seventh, MB Motorsport’s Jake Hill in eighth, Laser Tools Racing’s Ash Sutton in ninth and BTC Racing’s morning pace-setter Josh Cook in tenth.

After crashing out of first practice and bringing proceedings to an end in first practice, Team BMW’s Stephen Jelley joined the session later after his West Surrey Racing mechanics finished off repairing his car.

Jelley was ultimately 19^th fastest, over a second off the pace after completing just 12 laps. Nevertheless he was ahead of team-mate Colin Turkington who took part in the whole 45-minutes of running, the Northern Irishman just 20^th quickest.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 14:45 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	16	1:15.537	–
2	15		Tom OLIPHANT	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	21	1:15.762	0.225
3	33		Adam MORGAN	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	20	1:15.895	0.358
4	6		Rory BUTCHER	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	1:15.908	0.371
5	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Halfords Racing with Cataclean	Honda Civic Type-R	15	1:15.918	0.381
6	18		Senna PROCTOR	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	13	1:16.066	0.529
7	80		Tom INGRAM	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	20	1:16.147	0.610
8	24		Jake HILL	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	20	1:16.206	0.669
9	1		Ashley SUTTON	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	19	1:16.237	0.700
10	66		Josh COOK	BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	16	1:16.310	0.773
11	31		Jack GOFF	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	22	1:16.374	0.837
12	22		Chris SMILEY	Ginsters EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	19	1:16.414	0.877
13	99		Jade EDWARDS	PHSC with BTC Racing	Honda Civic Type-R	21	1:16.491	0.954
14	3		Tom CHILTON	Car Gods with Ciceley Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	22	1:16.607	1.070
15	123		Daniel LLOYD	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	21	1:16.678	1.141
16	11		Jason PLATO	Adrian Flux with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	17	1:16.770	1.233
17	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Team HARD. with HUB Financial Solutions	CUPRA Leon	21	1:16.800	1.263
18	16		Aiden MOFFAT	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	20	1:16.809	1.272
19	12		Stephen JELLEY	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	12	1:16.827	1.290
20	2		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330i M Sport	20	1:16.912	1.375
21	4		Sam OSBORNE	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	20	1:16.995	1.458
22	48		Ollie JACKSON	MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square	Ford Focus ST	20	1:17.081	1.544
23	23		Sam SMELT	Toyota Gazoo Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	22	1:17.102	1.565
24	19		Jack MITCHELL	Team HARD. with Autobrite Direct	CUPRA Leon	24	1:17.142	1.605
25	96		Jack BUTEL	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	19	1:17.454	1.917
26	41		Carl BOARDLEY	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti Q50	22	1:17.506	1.969
27	62		Rick PARFITT Jr	EXCELR8 with TradePriceCars.com	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	20	1:18.028	2.491
28	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	ROKiT Racing with iQuoto Online Trading	CUPRA Leon	16	1:18.418	2.881
29	20		Paul RIVETT	Racing with Wera & Photon Group	Ford Focus ST	7	1:30.975	15.438