Tom Ingram on top in second Thruxton practice

EXCELR8 Motorsport’s Tom Ingram ended up as the fastest driver in the final British Touring Car Championship practice session at Thruxton, two tenths of a second ahead of NAPA Racing UK’s Daniel Rowbottom.

Ingram pipped Rowbottom to the quickest lap in the dying seconds of the session, lapping the 2.35-mile circuit in 1 minute 15.436 seconds.

Until that point Rowbottom, who last year scored one of his only two BTCC wins at the Hampshire circuit, had been quickest on a 1:15.667, ending up 0.231 seconds behind Ingram.

Reigning champion Ash Sutton was third fastest, finding nine tenths of a second from his FP1 pace despite a lack of hybrid deployment due to leading the drivers’ standings.

Árön Taylor-Smith continued Power Maxed Racing’s encouraging early weekend pace in fourth, just under three tenths from the top, ahead of Team BMW’s Adam Morgan in fifth.

FP1 pace-setter Jake Hill was sixth quickest this time around in his Laser Tools Racing BMW, ahead of Andrew Watson in seventh, who was once again the leading Toyota driver.

The top ten was completed by the second Power Maxed car of Mikey Doble, NAPA Racing’s Dan Cammish and EXCELR8’s Tom Chilton.

Thruxton win record holder Josh Cook was only 13^th fastest in his Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota, the same place as in first practice, despite finding almost a second in pace.

The session saw a brief red flag period after 23 minutes of the 35-minutes total due to the tyre stack at the chicane needing to be repositioned, after several drivers knocked it and in doing so received track limits warnings.

Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 15:25 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	100		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	16	1:15.436	–
2	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:15.667	0.231
3	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:15.677	0.241
4	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	14	1:15.725	0.289
5	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	19	1:15.811	0.375
6	24		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	17	1:15.919	0.483
7	11		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	17	1:16.024	0.588
8	88		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	16	1:16.169	0.733
9	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	17	1:16.173	0.737
10	3		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	16	1:16.191	0.755
11	12		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	18	1:16.333	0.897
12	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	16	1:16.360	0.924
13	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	12	1:16.380	0.944
14	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	17	1:16.776	1.340
15	14		Ronan PEARSON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	1:16.902	1.466
16	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	17	1:17.093	1.657
17	222		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	15	1:17.258	1.822
18	18		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	16	1:17.545	2.109
19	29		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	16	1:18.246	2.810
20	22		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	19	1:19.231	3.795