Team Dynamics Honda's Gordon Shedden will go into British Touring Car Championship qualifying for Sunday's opening race as the driver to beat after topp🌄ing second practice ahea🅺d of Josh Cook at Thruxton.

T🌞he three-ti𒀰me champion posted his best lap late in the session to move ahead of the benchmark which was set by BTC Racing's Josh Cook at the time.

Shedden was the only driver to dip under the 1🌊'16m barrier after setting a 1'15.896s, marginally slower than Tom Ingram's quickest lap set during the morni༒ng running.

Thruxton ace Cook retained his position with the second fastest t𝄹ime, while Jake Hill was once again the top BMW runner with the third fastest time in FP2.

Daniel Rowbottom confirmed the Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type-Rs pace by setting the fo♉urth fastest time 🅘ahead of championship leader Colin Turkington in fifth.

EXCELR8 Motorsport's Tom Chilton ended FP2 as the fastest Hyundai runner in sixth position, ahead of another impressive practice performance from Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall's Ash Hand in seꦺventh.

Following an engine change between practice 🀅sessions, two-time champion Jason Plato enjoyed a far bett🐬er run of it during FP2 to set the eighth fastest time aboard his BTC Racing Honda.

Plato was followed by defending champion Ash Sutton and BMW driver George Gamble in ninth🍬 and tenth.