Hill whisked his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport across the quick Scottish circuit 0.169 seconds faster than the closest opposition through the barely much less moist second session.
The Kentishman, who lies fourth within the championship, accomplished two laps faster than the perfect set by anyone else, with the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of reigning champion Tom Ingram his closest challenger.
Third quickest was the One Motorsport Honda Civic Sort R of Josh {Cook}, who spent a lot of the opening session on the high of the instances.
{Cook} then triggered the primary of three pink flags in FP1 when he calmly nudged the tyre wall on the hairpin and though he did get again on monitor following the restart, his quickest time was eclipsed by the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla of Ricky Collard to the tune of 0.069s. Hill ended up third in FP1.
Instances have been roughly a second faster in FP2, and it was Dan Cammish who completed the session in fourth spot within the quickest of the Motorbase Efficiency-run Ford Focus STs, which this weekend are sporting a tartan model of their NAPA Racing livery to lift consciousness for Jackie Stewart’s Race Towards Dementia charity.
Cammish narrowly edged out team-mate and championship chief Ash Sutton, who survived a spin on the hairpin through the first session.
Present BTCC championship chief Ash Sutton
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Subsequent up have been two of the Energy Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astras, with Andrew Watson on type on his first Knockhill outing in 9 years to pip team-mate Aron Taylor-Smith.
Collard adopted his quickest time in FP1 with eighth within the subsequent session.
Rounding out the highest 10 have been the 2 quickest of the 4 Scots within the area, with rookie Ronan Pearson (Excelr8 Hyundai) in ninth place forward of the Speedworks Toyota of Rory Butcher.
Of the opposite title contenders, Colin Turkington was his regular quiet self in free apply and completed up fifteenth in his WSR BMW.
The second of the pink flags throughout FP1 was to retrieve the Speedworks Toyota of George Gamble – the 2022 Knockhill winner failed to seem within the later session as a result of an oil-pressure downside.
The catalyst for the third and remaining stoppage was once more a One Motorsport Honda off on the hairpin, this time the machine of Jade Edwards.
Excelr8 Hyundai driver Nick Halstead did not get in any apply in any respect as a result of a gearbox change.
Native teenager Dexter Patterson was compelled to sit down out FP1 in his Group Arduous Cupra as a result of breaching the BTCC sporting laws by collaborating in a Scottish Legends spherical at Knockhill a few weeks in the past.
Patterson’s new team-mate Rob Huff was twenty first in each classes, and the 2012 World Touring Automobile champion continues to be but to drive the Cupra Leon in dry situations.