Cammish emerged on high after a race-long battle with Jake Hill in moist circumstances, and managed to work his Motorbase Efficiency Ford Focus ST previous the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill on the nineteenth of what grew to become 21 laps of racing.
Hill had emerged comparatively unscathed from contact with the front-row-sitting Motorbase Fords off the grid in the beginning of the race.
Whereas poleman Dan Rowbottom made a sluggish getaway, team-mate Ash Sutton was additionally susceptible to the fast-starting rear-wheel-drive BMW of Hill.
Hill was pincered between them, and slight contact with Rowbottom deflected him into Sutton, who was compelled onto the grass on the strategy to the primary nook.
Colin Turkington snuck by means of to briefly make it a 1-2 for the WSR BMW group, however had the Fords of Rowbottom and Cammish gnashing at his rear bumper into the {Old} Hairpin and ran huge, dropping into the midfield.
The protection automotive emerged on the finish of the opening lap as a result of Tom Chilton being parked off the monitor at Schwantz Curve, and Sutton, who was nonetheless operating within the main bunch, dived for the pits and retirement following his off.
Chilton managed to get going once more so the protection automotive interval was solely transient, and on the restart Hill led Cammish and the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of reigning champion Tom Ingram.
Jake Hill, Laser Instruments Racing with MB Motorsport BMW 330e M Sport
Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Images
The main trio ran shut all through, by way of one other security automotive to retrieve Nick Halstead’s Hyundai from the {Old} Hairpin gravel, however Hill was clearly struggling for grip and was holding up Cammish and Ingram.
Remarkably, this enabled Andrew Watson, who had chiselled his well past Rowbottom at half-distance for fourth, to latch onto the main group on his BTCC debut on the wheel of a Energy Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra.
In doing so, Watson was the primary to make use of up his allocation of hybrid, however nonetheless spent the ultimate laps climbing all around the rear of Ingram.
Forward of them, Cammish bought a cutback after Hill had defended into Redgate, the duo operating aspect by aspect on the Craner Curves earlier than the Ford moved in entrance on the {Old} Hairpin.
Cammish scampered to victory by 2.114 seconds, whereas Hill simply fended off Ingram, who was the one one of many main quartet to have any hybrid enhance left on the ultimate lap and drew alongside the BMW on the run to the end line.
“I at all times again myself on a wet day,” mentioned Cammish. “It was troublesome on the primary lap – all of us checked up on the {Old} Hairpin and there’s not so much you are able to do about it, however fortunately I used to be OK.
“It was an important race by Jake – there’s not many rear-wheel-drive drivers who might preserve it going like that in these circumstances.”
Hill added: “On the finish my rear tyres had been so gone it was unreal – an excellent job I had a load of follow in a Capri final week [at the Goodwood Members Meeting]!”
Behind Watson and Rowbottom, Ricky Collard labored his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla previous the very muddy WSR BMW of Adam Morgan with just a few laps remaining to take a powerful sixth place.
George Gamble did an excellent job from mid-grid to make it two Speedworks Toyotas within the high eight, whereas Josh Cook starred after slipping off the highway at Redgate following the primary restart by charging his One Motorsport Honda Civic Sort R up the order from twenty third to ninth.
Aron Taylor-Smith (PMR Vauxhall) took the ultimate spot within the high 10 forward of Rory Butcher and Turkington, after Dan Lloyd (Group Onerous Cupra) and debutant Ronan Pearson (Excelr8 Hyundai) each ran off the highway whereas within the main 10 positions.
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