Matt Neal finished the second and final practice session of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship on top in his Honda Racing Honda Civic.

Matt Neal set his time of 1:18.154 early on in the session and in the process took the fastest time of the weekend so far beating Chilton’s time by 0.4s which was set in the morning’s session. Neal currently lies 2nd in the championship carrying +35kgs of success ballast but that didn’t seem to slow the two-time champion down.

Chilton continued his pace from the morning finishing the afternoon session with the second fastest time of the day, also beating his earlier time and finishing 0.1s shy of the time set by Matt Neal.

Jeff Smith set the early pace but was unable to better his time of 1:18.303 which was good enough for 3rd fastest, 0.2s ahead of the time of his team-mate Andrew Jordan with 2010 BTCC Champion, Jason Plato, splitting the two in 4th in the fastest of the S2000 spec machines.

Shedden, Boardman and Neate came home in 6th, 7th and 8th fastest with Tom Onslow-Cole in 9th. AmD Milltek Racing.com were up against it in this session after missing the driver side window as the session started. A quick replacement was in order and Tom managed to get out on track just 10 minutes into the session and set his fastest time on his first flying lap.

The top ten was rounded off with James Nash. The current championship leader was clearly running race runs in the session and was consistently setting times in the 1:20′s with his best time of his 19 laps being a 1:19.370. Nash has been carrying the maximum success ballast weight of +45kgs which he will have to carry into qualifying and then the first race of the day tomorrow.

We had the one red flag period in the session after Frank Wrathall pulled of the circuit following a front suspension failure after he was beginning to improve his lap times. Wrathall eventually ended the session in 17th.

Rob Austin completed his first laps of the weekend but that was only good enough for the 21st fastest lap time and nearly 7s off the pace in the NGTC Audi.

Qualifying gets underway at 1510 today with live coverage of qualifying available on ITV.com.

Photo Credit: Steve Kilvington

James Mappin is the editor-in-chief covering the British Touring Car Championship. You can contact him at james@btcccrazy.co.uk, on twitter @BTCCCrazy or on his personal twitter account @jamesmappin.