Tom Ingram and Workforce Vertu Hyundai lead the early pecking order after topping the opening British Touring Automotive Championship follow session of the weekend at Croft.
Ingram set a searing tempo through the 40-minute session as he bids to seek out factors chief Ash Sutton following the summer season break. The Hyundai i30N driver’s finest lap (1m20.514s) ended up over 0.5s under Tom Chilton’s current pole-position report from final season.
Such was the tempo of the Hyundais, all however one of many five-strong i30N contingent made the top-ten order, with Adam Morgan inserting additional down the sphere in nineteenth.
Having led many of the enterprise finish of the session, Proctor trailed his staff mate by simply over 0.1s in second, forward of the championship main NAPA Racing Ford Focus ST of Ash Sutton in third.
Energy Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble was the one different driver to dip under the 1m21 barrier in fourth, whereas little over 0.1s separated Dan Lloyd, Dan Cammish and Chris Smiley in fifth, sixth and seventh.
Final 12 months’s Croft pole-setter Chilton was eighth quickest, with Toyota Gazzoo Racing UK duo James Dorlin and Aron Taylor-Smith rounding out the top-ten in ninth and tenth.
Elsewhere, West Surrey Racing BMW’s struggles look to be displaying no signal of abating as defending champion Jake Hill was the quickest of the three Sequence runners in thirteenth.
