Onslow-Cole continues to lead the way.

Tom Onslow-Cole continued to be the man to beat after setting the pace during the second free practice ahead of the latest rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park.

At a circuit where he has always run well in the past, the VX Racing man improved on his pace from the opening session to set a quickest time of 1min 12.104secs which saw him little more than a tenth of a second clear of Jason Plato. With Darren Turner third in the second Leon TDi, the set-up gamble that the SEAT Sport UK team planned to use for the third meeting of the year seemingly working around the sweeping East Midlands circuit.

With the Vectra also performing strongly, Matt Neal was fourth quickest and in a closely fought session, there was barely a second covering the double champion down to 16th place ...