The Yorkshireman made essentially the most of being gifted the reversed-grid pole place, and led from lights to flag in moist circumstances 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 {Old} 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 automobile shortly afterwards, however inside a few laps Cammish was in a position to 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 3.044 seconds to the great.
“Improbable,” mentioned Cammish. “After qualifying I assumed issues would possibly come again to me within the races, they usually did. The automobile carried out brilliantly.
“Qualifying wants a bit little bit of tweaking, however I knew we’d be a rocketship on Sunday – and we had been.”
Begin motion, Dan Cammish, NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus ST leads
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Images
Life was removed from simple for Ingram, who felt that his automobile 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 fifteenth and sixteenth respectively on the grid – started to shut in, and with a number of 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 nineteenth lap of 21.
Turkington tried to cling on they usually ran abreast by way of Coppice, however the finish end result was team-mate Jake Hill managing to say 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 involved that despatched Ingram throughout the gravel lure, 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 cross Bobby Thompson’s Workforce Arduous Cupra Leon led to catastrophe when Thompson tried to battle again at McLeans, and call despatched Rowbottom skating by way of 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 Kind R) and the recovering Rowbottom.
The primary security automobile was triggered when Nick Halstead’s Hyundai wanted retrieving from the gravel at Redgate, and the second by the tip 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 method to Redgate.
BTCC Donington Park – Race 3 outcomes (21 laps)