Tom Chilton doubles up in Silverstone practice

Tom Chilton kept EXCELR8 Motorsport on top of the times by going fastest in the second British Touring Car Championship practice session at Silverstone, just under two tenths of a second ahead of BMW’s Adam Morgan.

Under brighter skies at the Northamptonshire circuit, Chilton went two tenths quicker than earlier in the day, and below the qualifying lap record, to put in a time of 57.205 seconds.

Chilton went fastest just over five minutes into the session and held the top time for just under 15 minutes before BMW’s Morgan took over at the top.

Three minutes before the chequered flag flew, Chilton snatched back the top time, completing a perfect start to the weekend for the Hyundai racer.

Morgan was 0.186 seconds back, with team-mate Colin Turkington in third, a further half a tenth adrift.

Turkington, however, was one of seven drivers who received a black flag for exceeding track limits in the session, bringing the Northern Irishman’s session to an early finish four minutes before the end.

Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble took fourth, pipping Speedworks Motorsport’s Josh Cook in the final minutes.

Andrew Watson was once again the leading factory-backed Toyota in sixth, ahead of EXCELR8’s Tom Ingram in seventh, the title challenger being just over four tenths off the pace of his team-mate.

Toyota’s Rob Huff was eighth, with the top ten being completed by EXCELR8’s Dan Zelos and Power Maxed Racing’s Árón Taylor-Smith, the latter duo having both been shown the black flag, with Taylor-Smith one of the first to see his session come to an early end.

Having been an impressive second in first practice, championship leader Jake Hill could only manage 11^th this time around.

Once again none of the NAPA Racing UK Fords made it into the top ten; Ash Sutton was the best Focus racer in 12^th, some six tenths off the pace.

Qualifying is scheduled to begin at 15:35 BST and will be streamed live via YouTube.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	3		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	22	57.205	–
2	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	24	57.391	0.186
3	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	24	57.428	0.223
4	88		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	24	57.507	0.302
5	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	22	57.555	0.350
6	11		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	21	57.587	0.382
7	80		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	26	57.623	0.418
8	12		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	24	57.701	0.496
9	45		Dan ZELOS	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	24	57.747	0.542
10	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	17	57.761	0.556
11	24		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	30	57.820	0.615
12	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	24	57.850	0.645
13	18		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	17	57.862	0.657
14	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	21	57.963	0.758
15	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	22	58.117	0.912
16	222		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	17	58.155	0.950
17	22		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	26	58.190	0.985
18	29		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	20	58.291	1.086
19	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	21	58.338	1.133
20	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	0	No time	N/A