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Brands Hatch BTCC: Turkington on pole as Jordan crashes
Colin Turkington moved a step closer to the 2019 British Touring Car Championship title with pole at Brands Hatch as title rival Andrew Jordan crashed out of the session.
Matt Kew
Edited: Oct 12, 2019, 3:29 PM
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The defending champion posted a 1m40.752s lap in the rain-hit session, which was dominated by rear-wheel-drive runners, to end up 0.316s clear of Ash Sutton.
As the weather deteriorated after practice, the entire 30-minute qualifying shootout was run on wet tyres, with Matt Simpson losing control on the out-lap and taking to the grass at Surtees.
Turkington was the first competitor to set a representative flying lap, posting a 1m41.681s ahead of his WSR teammates Tom Oliphant and Jordan.
BMW 330i M Sport driver Turkington then found a further 0.6s on his next flier to pull 1.182s clear of then closest rival Matt Neal in the Honda Civic Type R.
But Sutton, known for his prowess in the wet, halved that margin with his next effort but again Turkington responded emphatically to carve out another 0.9s from his previous lap to set his eventual pole time.
As conditions grew worse, few drivers improved before Jordan – now 18 points adrift in the title race – caused a red flag.
The 2013 champion braked too late on the Grand Prix layout and careered across the gravel and into the tyre wall at Hawthorns.
For causing the stoppage, he was unable to take part in the remaining five minutes of the session and had his second lap time erased.
However, his next quickest effort was good enough for third behind Sutton – with no drivers gaining in the final part of qualifying.
Turkington chose to sit out the final 90 seconds, but duly scored his 20th BTCC pole position and bagged a bonus point, as his teammate Tom Oliphant was fourth fastest.
Rory Butcher was the top front-wheel-drive competitor in fifth, some 0.885 off the pace.
Jake Hill, who spun early on at Surtees, was sixth ahead of Chris Smiley and his BTC Racing stablemate and outside title contender Josh Cook.
Mike Bushell and Infiniti Q50 driver Aidan Moffat rounded out the top 10 ahead of Adam Morgan.
Second in the points Dan Cammish suffered a nightmare session, with both Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type Rs lacking pace.
He was 12th at the red flag and then had two huge slides on his out-lap as the session resumed.
For his flying lap he got stuck behind Jason Plato and then lost the rear into Hawthorns and skidded across the grass – in turn taking the pressure off Turkington for race one – as he failed to improve.
Cla Driver Car / Engine Time Delay 1 Colin Turkington BMW 1'40.752 2 Ash Sutton Subaru 1'41.068 0.316 3 Andrew Jordan BMW 1'41.520 0.768 4 Tom Oliphant BMW 1'41.626 0.874 5 Rory Butcher Honda 1'41.637 0.885 6 Jake Hill Audi 1'41.913 1.161 7 Chris Smiley Honda 1'42.084 1.332 8 Josh Cook Honda 1'42.151 1.399 9 Mike Bushell Honda 1'42.157 1.405 10 Aiden Moffat Infiniti 1'42.166 1.414 11 Adam Morgan Mercedes 1'42.169 1.417 12 Dan Cammish Honda 1'42.215 1.463 13 Matt Neal Honda 1'42.240 1.488 14 Michael Caine Ford 1'42.405 1.653 15 Senna Proctor Subaru 1'42.427 1.675 16 Jason Plato Vauxhall 1'42.444 1.692 17 Tom Ingram Toyota 1'42.482 1.730 18 Bobby Thompson Volkswagen 1'42.655 1.903 19 Tom Chilton Ford 1'42.834 2.082 20 Ollie Jackson Ford 1'43.027 2.275 21 Mark Blundell Audi 1'43.359 2.607 22 Jack Goff Volkswagen 1'43.366 2.614 23 Rob Smith MG 1'43.746 2.994 24 Stephen Jelley BMW 1'43.781 3.029 25 Rob Collard Vauxhall 1'43.627 2.875 26 Carl Boardley Volkswagen 1'43.967 3.215 27 Daniel Rowbottom Mercedes 1'44.027 3.275 28 Michael Crees Volkswagen 1'44.574 3.822 29 Sam Osborne MG 1'45.516 4.764 30 Matt Simpson Honda -
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