
Ingram whizzed his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N around the Leicestershire parkland venue in 1m08.792s during the early-morning 40-minute session.
That was just below the qualifying lap record despite the 70kg increase in base weight of the cars due to the implementation of the new hybrid systems, and put him on top of the times by a massive 0.368 seconds.