British Touring Championship points leader Colin Turkington leads title rival Dan Cammish after topp💫ing the timesheets dur♛ing a greasy first practice at Brands Hatch.

With the 2019 BTCC drivers' championship battle set to be decided during this weekend's Brands Hatch season finale, it was the defe♋nding three-time champion and current points leader Turkington who set the gauntlet during FP1 after beating his closest title challenger by 0.030s during a truncated opening session.

Just 17-points cover t🌠he top-three runners heading into tomorrow's opening race, with 67 still left to play over the course of the weekend.

Greasy track conditions resulted in two red-flag periods with the Team BMW driver's best lap proviܫng to be almost 12-seconds off last year's pole time set by Brett Smith.

While the top-two champi🐬onship contenders assumed the top-two practice order, Subaru's Ashley Sutton set the third fastest time aboard his BMR Levorg, ahead of Aiden Moffat, who continues to impress 💎in his new Infiniti Q50 in fourth.

Team Parker Racing's Stephen Jelley was fifth fastest ahead of Matt Simpson and title contender Andrew Jorda⭕n in s🎐ixth and seventh.

Going into this weekend still mathematically in championship contention, Tom Ingram ended th🌠e opening session in eighth, while Tom Chilton and Senna Proctor completed the top-ten order in ninth and tentꩲh.

Elsewhere, BTC Racing's Josh Cook, who sits fourth in the drivers' sta🐻ndings 34-points back from Turkington, followed BTCC veterans Jason Plato and Matt 𝓡Neal, 13th in the FP1 timesheets.

Just 0.922s covered the top-15 ord☂er around the iconic Grand Prix layout of the Kent circuit.