Josh Cook led a Rich Energy BTC Racing 1-2 ahead of Jason Plato after setting the pace during the opening British Touring Car Championshi🥀p practice session at Thruxton.

Cook arrives at Thruxt♚on in a rich vein of form after taking a superb double victory last time out at Brands Hatch, and the Honda Civic Type R driver looks in prime position to repeat that afte🅰r a promising start in FP1.

With Plato hitting the ground running early in the 40-minute session, Cook went 0.1s quicker than the two-time champion after setting a 1'1꧑5.462s lap, already within 0.2s of Dan Cammish's pole position lap record.

Plato retained his position in P2, despite having a brief off-track excursion on the eꦓxit of Allard corner. The 97-time race winner led the🦄 top BMW effort of Jake Hill in third position, with reigning champion Ash Sutton ending the session in fourth, albeit almost 0.5s off the pace.

Team BMW's Colin Turk🧔ington was fifthꦑ quickest aboard his West Surrey Racing prepared BMW 330e M Sport machine to split the two NAPA Racing Fords with Dan Cammish trailing the four-time champion in sixth position.

Championship leader♋ Tom Ingram produced a quiet start to the weekend by his usual time-topping standards after posting a time good enough for seventh ahead꧂ of BMW runner Adam Morgan in eighth.

Toyota Gazoo Racing UK's Rory Butcher and Team BMW's Stepheꦯn Jelley completed the top-ten in ninth and tenth.