Colin Turkington heads BMW 1-2 in Brands Hatch qualifying

Colin Turkington scored the 28^th pole position of his British Touring Car Championship career in qualifying around the Brands Hatch Indy circuit, heading BMW team-mate Adam Morgan by 0.050 seconds.

Having topped his group in the first part of qualifying, Turkington was then fourth fastest in Q2, in which only the top six drivers progress to the final stage of qualifying.

There, the Northern Irishman produced a lap three minutes from the end which was just three tenths of a second shy of the lap record, topping the session and claiming pole with his effort of 47.875 seconds.

Morgan was second, qualifying on the front row of the grid for the first time since he took pole at Rockingham in August 2018, ending up just half a tenth from pole.

Dan Cammish was the quickest of the NAPA Racing UK quartet, putting his Ford Focus in third, ahead of an impressive lap by team-mate and reigning champion Ashley Sutton in fourth.

Sutton made it into the final part of qualifying despite having little hybrid allocation due to entering the meeting second overall in the drivers’ standings.

Josh Cook continued to be the best of the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota quartet, putting his LKQ-backed Corolla in fifth, with Daniel Rowbottom making it three out of four NAPA cars in the ‘Quick Six’ session in sixth.

Toyota’s Andrew Watson narrowly missed out on progressing beyond Q2 and was seventh, the Northern Irishman being set to share the fourth row of the grid on Sunday with EXCELR8 Motorsport’s leading driver Tom Ingram.

Ingram was two tenths off the pace in Q2, but not disappointed with his efforts, given his lack of hybrid boost in the session by virtue of leading the drivers’ standings.

EXCELR8’s Ronan Pearson and team-mate Tom Chilton completed the top ten, ahead of Toyota’s Rob Huff in 11^th and Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill in 12^th.

Hill had struggled for pace throughout the session, continually posting times which were only good enough for 12^th.

Despite topping first practice, both Power Maxed Racing drivers missed out on getting beyond Q1, with Mikey Doble in 13^th and Árón Taylor-Smith just 14^th in their Vauxhall Astras.

Speedworks’ Aiden Moffat was 15^th, having been bumped out of his group by stablemate Andrew Watson’s late improvement.

Race one is scheduled to get underway at 11:50 BST on Sunday.

‘Quick Six’ results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	11	47.875	–
2	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	11	47.925	0.050
3	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	11	47.941	0.066
4	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	9	48.041	0.166
5	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	9	48.085	0.210
6	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	9	48.208	0.333

Q2 results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	5	47.956	–
2	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	12	48.030	0.074
3	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	9	48.045	0.089
4	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	12	48.071	0.115
5	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	10	48.084	0.128
6	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	10	48.093	0.137
7	11		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	10	48.142	0.186
8	80		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	10	48.163	0.207
9	14		Ronan PEARSON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	9	48.197	0.241
10	3		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	9	48.203	0.247
11	12		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	10	48.214	0.258
12	24		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	12	48.276	0.320

Q1 Group 2 results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	11	48.070	–
2	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	8	48.154	0.084
3	11		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	10	48.189	0.119
4	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	11	48.241	0.171
5	24		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	11	48.250	0.180
6	80		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	10	48.340	0.270
7	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	10	48.370	0.300
8	222		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	10	48.638	0.568
9	29		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	10	48.794	0.724
10	22		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	10	49.249	1.179

Q1 Group 1 results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	12	48.102	–
2	12		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	10	48.124	0.022
3	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	10	48.142	0.040
4	14		Ronan PEARSON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	10	48.156	0.054
5	3		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	9	48.192	0.090
6	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	11	48.210	0.108
7	88		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	10	48.285	0.183
8	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	10	48.286	0.184
9	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	10	48.667	0.565
10	18		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	10	49.053	0.951