Pips for Top Final BTCC testing at Donington Park Cook Pips Sutton

Josh Cook A four-time champion went to the top of just 0.003 seconds from Aish Sutton, a four-time champion in the last day of the official pre-season test for the 2025 British Touring Car Championship campaign.

West Conscience has returned to a motorsport after a season’s subtracical to pilot a Honda Civic Type R, and has earned the rights to kill a weeks going to a week and a half interlude before the early race weekend in the same circuit.

Cook’s screen-topping performance on the day of BTCC’s launch means that all three days have been led by drivers of independent teams led by the official east-seasons testing, after the headline efforts Max hall And Mickey dobal In two days in Croft in early April.

Unlike Croft, where the qualifying lap record was thanked for the removal of the hybrid for lightening cars to the tune of 55 kg, the 2023 Donington Standard of 1M07.570 of Sutton was relatively untrue until the last 20 minutes of the Standard of 1M07.570s.

It was Sutton itself, an alliance racing-run was riding on the NAP Ford Focus Saint, which was earlier to go under its old mark, was set on medium-shovel Goodyer tires with 1M07.508s.

A few minutes later, Cook climbed one run on a soft rubber, closing laps in 1M07.438s and 1M07.447s.

Sutton emerged again, but still on medium tires, to squeeze with 1m07.441s between two best attempts of cook.

Although Cook had the advantage of a tires on satton, the interesting aspect is that in the lap before his two fastest attempts, he was burnt through the other area – in which most of the circuit from the cranger curves was reduced straight downward – half -faster than someone else, included himself, managed in the day.

In three regions combined the theoretical best, Cook would be far from the ground and at 1m06.895s.

“The car looks good,” said Cook. “We made a lot of changes during the day and made some good progress. We just need to assess what to do and what did not work and make sure we return somewhere in the right ballpark next week.

“We know that it is going to be very close, it always happens, and hopefully we are going into the mixture on the front.”

Like Sutton, their alliance Ford Team-Mate Dan cammish In addition, medium tires were used on a late attempt, during which it was connected with the third, though the leading pair 0.2S.

The fourth fastest, on soft rubber, was an encouraging performance from Chris Smiley The new-Bild Hyundai I30 N is restarting racing for its first season with machinery-and its second in BTCC only.

Mark’s ‘Producer’ Team EXCELR8 Motorsport ended 1-2 in the morning session in the hands of Hyundais 2022 Champion Tom Ingram And Adam morganNeither improved in the afternoon, although the earlier time of Ingram finished fifth in total in the day.

After this, the coalition in the hands of Ever-Emproving was the third of Forbes. Sam OsborneWho gave Ingram the fifth fastest time in the afternoon session on a soft tire.

The fastest time of Ingram was set on medium tires-he came out late for a run on the soft, on which he completed the distance of half-day.

Another excelr8 was directed by Hyundai Tom chilton Lead Speedworks Motorsport-Rain Toyota Gaju Racing Corolla GR Sport to seventh position from GR Sports Gordon shedsBoth on medium tires.

The morning of Morgan on Softs placed him ninth on the day, along with dobble – on Soft – completed the overall top 10 in his power max racing Vaxhall Estra.

West Surrey Racing had no headline time from BMW’s squadron, with the reign champion Jake Hill Squiking in the top 20 only at the end of the day and no team of the team is in the leading 15, in which the squad is focusing for a long time for its 3-series machinery throughout the day.

There were only two red-flying stops, one when Aran Taylor-SmithSpeedworks Toyota required recover from the old hairpin gravel during the morning, and one when Nick Hamilton’s United Nations-limited motorcysters went into smooth in the afternoon, although both continued the test.

Out of the 24 cars recorded for the series, just one did not appear – Excelr8 Hyundai will campaign for the first half of the crease season Senna Proctor acquisition. Both drivers were in appearance.