The Yorkshireman made probably the most of being gifted the reversed-grid pole place, and led from lights to flag in moist situations on the wheel of his Motorbase Efficiency Ford Focus ST.
It wasn’t simple for him early on – Tom Ingram speared down the within of Colin Turkington into the Outdated Hairpin on the opening lap and, as soon as an early safety-car interval had ended, he utilized stress to Cammish.
There was one other security automotive shortly afterwards, however inside a few laps Cammish was capable of eke out a small hole to Ingram’s Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N.
With 9 laps remaining the margin was over one second, and Cammish took the chequered flag three.044 seconds to the nice.
“Unbelievable,” stated Cammish. “After qualifying I believed issues may come again to me within the races, and so they did. The automotive carried out brilliantly.
“Qualifying wants just a little little bit of tweaking, however I knew we’d be a rocketship on Sunday – and we have been.”
Begin motion, Dan Cammish, NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus ST leads
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Life was removed from simple for Ingram, who felt that his automotive was missing the tempo it loved earlier.
At first he needed to defend from Turkington, and as this duo battled so Ash Sutton and Jake Hill – from 15th and 16th respectively on the grid – started to shut in, and with just a few laps remaining the quartet was collectively.
Sutton’s Motorbase Ford dived right into a chink of sunshine inside Turkington’s West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport at McLeans on the 19th lap of 21.
Turkington tried to cling on and so they ran abreast via Coppice, however the finish outcome was team-mate Jake Hill managing to assert the within line and fourth place on the chicane.
Sutton went on the assault on Ingram – a last-ditch lunge into the chicane on the ultimate lap resulted in touch that despatched Ingram throughout the gravel entice, though the reigning champion reached the end line in second place, whereas Sutton simply pipped Hill.
Dan Rowbottom ran in fifth place early on in his Motorbase Ford, however his bid to go Bobby Thompson’s Workforce Arduous Cupra Leon resulted in catastrophe when Thompson tried to battle again at McLeans, and make contact with despatched Rowbottom skating via the gravel.
Thompson completed a distant sixth, with Stephen Jelley (WSR BMW) subsequent up from Tom Chilton (Excelr8 Hyundai), Josh Cook (One Motorsport Honda Civic Sort R) and the recovering Rowbottom.
The primary security automotive was triggered when Nick Halstead’s Hyundai wanted retrieving from the gravel at Redgate, and the second by the top results of an incident on the restart.
Contact on the chicane between the WSR BMW of Adam Morgan and Motorbase Ford of Sam Osborne despatched Morgan spinning to the again, whereas Osborne parked with broken suspension on the strategy to Redgate.
BTCC Donington Park – Race three outcomes (21 laps)
