Andrew Jordan tops Donington Park British Touring Car test

The Eurotech Racing driver took his Honda Civic around the track in 1m10.358s around 90 minutes into the four-hour session, knocking Jason Plato off the top spot.

Jordan was using the new Dunlop option tyre that comes into force this year, to make his mark.

Plato's time was just 0.071 seconds shy of the reigning independents' champion's, and was also inside his pole position mark of 2012 at the same circuit.

Champion Gordon Shedden found four tenths of a second late in the session to go third for Honda, while Adam Morgan saved his best until the final few minutes to take fourth in his Ciceley Toyota.

Speedworks driver Dave Newsham made it two Toyotas in the top five while Matt Neal rounded out the top six for Honda.

A total of 23 drivers set times during the day with series returnee Colin Turkington winding up 10th fastest - and 1.3s off the pace - in WSR's brand-new BMW 125i.

Turkington missed over an hour of running at the start of the session. The fastest of the runners in the Jack Sears Trophy for S2000 machinery was Motorbase Ford driver Liam Griffin.

He was 18th and 2.5s slower than Jordan. Griffin brought out the red flags after crashing at the exit of the Old Hairpin. Rob Austin also caused a stoppage after getting his Audi beached in the gravel at the same corner.

Ollie Jackson damaged the undertray of his Toyota after bouncing over the grass at the Craner Curves. A stoppage was required to remove debris from the circuit.

Donington Park test times:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                    Time       Gap
 1.  Andrew Jordan        Eurotech Honda              1m10.358s
 2.  Jason Plato          MG                          1m10.429s  + 0.071s
 3.  Gordon Shedden       Honda                       1m10.460s  + 0.102s
 4.  Adam Morgan          Ciceley Toyota              1m10.748s  + 0.390s
 5.  Dave Newsham         Speedworks Toyota           1m10.921s  + 0.563s
 6.  Matt Neal            Honda                       1m10.972s  + 0.614s
 7.  Sam Tordoff          MG                          1m11.124s  + 0.766s
 8.  Aron Smith           Motorbase Ford              1m11.258s  + 0.900s
 9.  Frank Wrathall       Dynojet Toyota              1m11.592s  + 1.234s
10.  Colin Turkington     WSR BMW                     1m11.621s  + 1.263s
11.  Daniel Welch         Welch Proton                1m11.792s  + 1.434s
12.  Rob Austin           Austin Audi                 1m11.892s  + 1.471s
13.  Will Bratt           Austin Audi                 1m11.995s  + 1.637s
14.  Mat Jackson          Motorbase Ford              1m12.044s  + 1.686s
15.  Jeff Smith           Eurotech Honda              1m12.084s  + 1.762s
16.  Rob Collard          WSR BMW                     1m12.164s  + 1.806s
17.  Nick Foster          WSR BMW                     1m12.337s  + 1.979s
18.  Liam Griffin         Motorbase Ford*             1m12.892s  + 2.534s
19.  James Kaye           AmD Volkswagen*             1m13.030s  + 2.672s
20.  Ollie Jackson        Speedworks Toyota           1m13.080s  + 2.722s
21.  Joe Girling          Tech-Speed/Finesse Chevy*   1m14.884s  + 4.526s
22.  Warren Scott         BMR SEAT*                   1m14.913s  + 4.555s
23.  David Nye            Welch Ford*                 1m15.245s  + 2.085s

*Jack Sears Trophy competitor.