The Hyundai of Tom Ingram has been in flying form on the opening day of the 2024 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship, as the 2022 champion topped both practice sessions at Donington Park earlier today (27 April).
The Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS star set a 1:08.110s in the opening session, before becoming the only driver to dip into the 1:07s bracket in FP2.
As was the case in FP1, Ingram was followed home on the timesheets by the NAPA Racing UK duo of Dan Rowbottom and Dan Cammish, with the Team BMW car of Colin Turkington in fourth.
Mikey Doble was the highest placed Independents' driver in fifth for Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing, whilst Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport's Jake Hill was sixth.
Adam Morgan (Team BMW) and Rob Huff (TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK) were next in order, ahead of another encouraging run from Aiden Moffat (LKQ Euro Car Parts with Synetiq).
Reigning champion Ash Sutton (NAPA Racing UK) rounded out the top ten.
Qualifying for Round 1 of the 2024 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship takes place at 1525 and will be streamed LIVE on the ITVSport YouTube channel.
The new 'Quick Six' Qualifying format will make its debut, which will see the field initially split into two groups for a pair of ten-minute qualifying sessions, with the fastest six from each group progressing to the second segment, which also lasts for 10 minutes. The top six from this group will then fight out the ‘Quick Six’ for places 1-6 on the grid for tomorrow's opener.
Free Practice 2 - Donington Park - Results
P/ | No/ | Name/ | Entry/ | Laps/ | Time/ | Gap/ | On/ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 80 | Tom INGRAM | Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS | 14 | 01:07.979 | 14 | |
2 | 32 | Daniel ROWBOTTOM | NAPA Racing UK | 20 | 01:08.255 | 0.276 | 19 |
3 | 27 | Dan CAMMISH | NAPA Racing UK | 18 | 01:08.455 | 0.476 | 17 |
4 | 20 | Colin TURKINGTON | Team BMW | 15 | 01:08.543 | 0.564 | 15 |
5 | 88 | Mikey DOBLE | Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing | 16 | 01:08.642 | 0.663 | 14 |
6 | 24 | Jake HILL | Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport | 20 | 01:08.743 | 0.764 | 6 |
7 | 33 | Adam MORGAN | Team BMW | 13 | 01:08.861 | 0.882 | 8 |
8 | 12 | Rob HUFF | TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK | 20 | 01:08.919 | 0.94 | 19 |
9 | 16 | Aiden MOFFAT | LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ | 17 | 01:08.927 | 0.948 | 14 |
10 | 1 | Ashley SUTTON | NAPA Racing UK | 19 | 01:08.969 | 0.99 | 18 |
11 | 11 | Andrew WATSON | TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK | 14 | 01:08.978 | 0.999 | 14 |
12 | 66 | Josh COOK | LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ | 15 | 01:09.002 | 1.023 | 13 |
13 | 14 | Ronan PEARSON | Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS | 13 | 01:09.071 | 1.092 | 8 |
14 | 18 | Daryl DELEON | Duckhams Racing With Bartercard | 14 | 01:09.346 | 1.367 | 12 |
15 | 40 | Árón TAYLOR-SMITH | Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing | 9 | 01:09.714 | 1.735 | 6 |
16 | 222 | Chris SMILEY | Restart Racing | 15 | 01:09.811 | 1.832 | 13 |
17 | 77 | Sam OSBORNE | NAPA Racing UK | 18 | 01:09.974 | 1.995 | 18 |
18 | 29 | Scott SUMPTON | Restart Racing | 15 | 01:10.007 | 2.028 | 15 |
19 | 22 | Nick HALSTEAD | Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS | 15 | 01:10.348 | 2.369 | 9 |
20 | 3 | Tom CHILTON | Team BRISTOL STREET MOTORS | 1 | 0 |