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Cammish leads Honda 1-2 in Silverstone free practice

Dan Cammish led Matt Neal in a Honda 1-2 in free practice for the British Touring Car Championship round at Silverstone.

Cammish, who is carrying 36kg of success ballast on his Team Dynamics-run Civic Type R, lapped the National Circuit 0.088 seconds quicker than the sister car of veteran Neal, who has moved up to 12kg of ballast following his double podium last time out at Thruxton.

As well as his 57.400s best, Cammish also recorded a 57.402s and a 57.407s during the same run of six flying laps in the second session, quicker than anyone else's best.

The Hondas look well poised in the corners, and the Neil Brown-powered machines also emerged top of the speed traps in both sessions.

Championship leader Ash Sutton, carrying the full 60kg of ballast on his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti, had a very strong free practice at Silverstone - something that has not always been the case this season.

Sutton headed the first session by 0.090s from the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Corolla of Tom Ingram, while the Hondas of Neal and Cammish were down in fifth and sixth, with Cammish having a quick spin at Becketts.

Sutton (below) almost matched his morning time early doors in the lunchtime session, before running round in tandem with team-mate Aiden Moffat in what appeared to be a slipstream rehearsal before qualifying.

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Cammish leads Honda 1-2 in Silverstone free practice

Ingram, who has won five races in the past four seasons at Silverstone - none of them reversed-grid counters - didn't quite improve on his morning time either, even though he leapt up to fourth in the second session on the final lap, behind Sutton.

The Toyota is carrying 48kg of ballast following its pair of Thruxton wins that vaulted Ingram up to third in the championship, and the Speedworks team was happy with progress.

Reverse-grid Thruxton winner Josh Cook made it three Hondas in the top five with his BTC Racing machine, while Tom Oliphant's best time, which put him third in the opening session, was good for sixth overall in the lead West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport on 30kg of ballast.

Oliphant and team-mate Colin Turkington, who is carrying 54kg of lead, embarked on a 13-lap run late in the second session in which they also appeared to be practising towing each other.

Adam Morgan improved in the second session to put his Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes A-Class seventh, although he followed that with a massive moment at Copse when he powered into the slide to get pointed back in the right direction, to the chagrin of his tyres.

Senna Proctor put in a good time while chasing Sutton on track that put him fourth in the morning, eighth overall in the leading Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30.

Stephen Jelley made a late improvement while on a 16-lap 'race' run to go ninth in Team Parker Racing's BMW 125i M Sport, while the top 10 was completed by the improving James Gornall at the wheel of his Trade Price Cars Audi S3.

Turkington ended up 11th overall, one spot ahead of another of the title contenders, Rory Butcher in his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus, which is on 42kg of ballast.

Silverstone BTCC FP1 result

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	Ash Sutton	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti	57.501s
2	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	0.090s
3	Tom Oliphant	WSR	BMW	0.157s
4	Senna Proctor	Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai	0.199s
5	Matt Neal	Team Dynamics	Honda	0.248s
6	Dan Cammish	Team Dynamics	Honda	0.260s
7	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.272s
8	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.308s
9	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti	0.335s
10	Rory Butcher	Motorbase Performance	Ford	0.397s
11	Chris Smiley	Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai	0.413s
12	Josh Cook	BTC Racing	Honda	0.470s
13	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	BMW	0.511s
14	Jake Hill	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.512s
15	Tom Onslow-Cole	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.610s
16	Michael Crees	BTC Racing	Honda	0.650s
17	Sam Osborne	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.709s
18	Ollie Jackson	Motorbase Performance	Ford	0.720s
19	Carl Boardley	Team Hard	BMW	0.724s
20	Tom Chilton	BTC Racing	Honda	0.752s
21	Bobby Thompson	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.803s
22	James Gornall	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.807s
23	Jack Goff	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.830s
24	Andy Neate	Motorbase Performance	Ford	0.962s
25	Jack Butel	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.981s
26	Jade Edwards	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	1.147s
27	Nicolas Hamilton	Team Hard	Volkswagen	1.448s

Silverstone BTCC FP2 result

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	Dan Cammish	Team Dynamics	Honda	57.400s
2	Matt Neal	Team Dynamics	Honda	0.088s
3	Ash Sutton	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti	0.158s
4	Tom Ingram	Speedworks Motorsport	Toyota	0.237s
5	Josh Cook	BTC Racing	Honda	0.257s
6	Adam Morgan	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.288s
7	Stephen Jelley	Team Parker Racing	BMW	0.311s
8	Tom Oliphant	WSR	BMW	0.329s
9	James Gornall	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.336s
10	Colin Turkington	WSR	BMW	0.341s
11	Rory Butcher	Motorbase Performance	Ford	0.372s
12	Sam Osborne	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.410s
13	Aiden Moffat	Laser Tools Racing	Infiniti	0.413s
14	Jake Hill	AmD Tuning	Honda	0.502s
15	Tom Chilton	BTC Racing	Honda	0.522s
16	Tom Onslow-Cole	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.544s
17	Senna Proctor	Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai	0.546s
18	Michael Crees	BTC Racing	Honda	0.554s
19	Ollie Jackson	Motorbase Performance	Ford	0.559s
20	Chris Smiley	Excelr8 Motorsport	Hyundai	0.602s
21	Jack Goff	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.611s
22	Jack Butel	Ciceley Motorsport	Mercedes	0.772s
23	Carl Boardley	Team Hard	BMW	0.772s
24	Bobby Thompson	Trade Price Cars Racing	Audi	0.899s
25	Nicolas Hamilton	Team Hard	Volkswagen	0.994s
26	Andy Neate	Motorbase Performance	Ford	1.013s
27	Jade Edwards	Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall	1.382s

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