On a damp-but-drying track, Huff had soft slick tyres fitted to his Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing GB Corolla GR Sport, but so did the sister LKQ Toyotas of Aiden Moffat, who was on the front row of the reversed grid, and Josh Cook, who lined up seventh.
The only drivers to go for wet-weather rubber were Jake Hill, winner of the first two races of the day in his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, and Andrew Watson in the other Speedworks Toyota – both would have been forced to run the hard slick anyway, a tough proposition on the slippery circuit.
