Turkington and Jason Plato were both flying the flag for Team BMR from the outset, both sitting within the top four for the first twenty minutes of the thirty minute session, before Plato slipped down the order after a flurry of late lap times.

After three meetings of development, Team BMR arrived at Oulton Park hopeful of improved results, and things were looking good in FP2 with both Turkington and Plato in the top ten.

The work clearly paid off as Turkington stormed to the top of the time sheets early, posting a 1m26.264s, a time which would not be beaten.

For a while it seemed like Tom Ingram, who had been stuck in the pits for the first ten minutes with a brake issue, would take second, just 0.051s behind the Subaru’s time.

But the Toyota Avensis was demoted to third with a lightning fast time from Daniel Lloyd in the Honda Civic Type-R.

Sam Tordoff’s West Surrey Racing BMW took fourth ahead of reigning champion Gordon Shedden in the Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type-R. The top five were all separated by less than a tenth of a second.

Plato had to settle for sixth at the end of the session, just beating MG’s Ashley Sutton, with championship leader Matt Neal in eighth.

Aron Smith, who had enjoyed strong pace in practice, took ninth in the Team BKR Volkswagen CC, while Josh Cook rounded out the top ten in his Triple Eight Racing MG.

It was a session to forget for Motorbase Performance, with Andrew Jordan and Mat Jackson only able to get their Ford Focuses to 12th and 25th respectively, while Thruxton star Adam Morgan could only manage 27th in the Ciceley Racing Mercedes.

Results - Top 10:

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap 1 Colin Turkington Colin Turkington Subaru 1'26.264 2 Daniel Lloyd Daniel Lloyd Honda 0.019 3 Sam Tordoff Sam Tordoff BMW 0.051 4 Tom Ingram Tom Ingram Toyota 0.078 5 Gordon Shedden Gordon Shedden Honda 0.079 6 Jason Plato Jason Plato Subaru 0.102 7 Ash Sutton Ash Sutton MG 0.175 8 Matt Neal Matt Neal Honda 0.226 9 Aron Smith Aron Smith Volkswagen 0.229 10 Josh Cook Josh Cook MG 0.379

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