Motorbase Performance's Sam Tordoff has clinched his first British Touring Car Champio𓂃nship pole position of the 2018 season ahead of Team BMW's Ricky Collard at Silverstone.

The Ford Focus RS driver has endured a torrid run of luck for much of the season but has emerged from the penultimate qualifying session of 2018 with his firs꧒t pole position since Croft 2015.

Tordoff's qualifying performance also went against the practic🔜e formbook after the Motorbase Performance driver admitted in struggling with the set-up of his Ford during the two 40-minute se🔥ssions.

However, Tordoff subsequently catapulted his Focus to the top of the qualifying timesheets after producing♎ the quickest lap of the weekend with a 5✃8.323s effort.

Amazingly, in just his third BTCC qualifying session, Team BMW's Collard joins Tordoff on the front row after coming within j꧑ust 0.018s of sec💖uring pole position himself.

Keen to capitalise on his first win of 2018 last time out at Knockhill, Tom Chilton qualified his Motorbase-run Ford Focus RS in third position ahead of WIX Racing's Jack Goff i𓆉n fourth.

BMW Pirtek Racing's Andrew Jordan will start tomorrow's opening race from fifth, despite leading the early order in the 30-minute shootout. The 2013 champion set a 58.480s lap early in the session, but was unable to im🌳prove on his effort later in the running.

Honda'🐽s Matt Neal joins Jordan on the third row in sixth, while Matt Simpson and Aiden Moffat make up the fourth row in seventh and𓆏 eighth.

Adam Morgan was ninth fast🌌est for Mac Tools Racing, while Brett Smith completed the top💃-ten order in tenth.

With ballast playing a 🦄significant role during today's qualifyi𓃲ng shootout, all three of the top championship candidates struggled further down the field.

Nevertheless, Colin Turkington will defend his 43-point championship lead directly ahead of his main rival Tom Ingram after the top two title candidate’s qualified nose-to-tail i♏n 18th and 19th.