BTCC Brands Hatch: Cammish wins as Turkington earns third title
Honda Civic racer Dan Cammish took his second victory of the weekend at Brands Hatch as WSR BMW's Colin Turkington claimed his third British Touring Car Championship title
Cammish blasted away from pole position and was never headed as he led home team-mate Matt Neal in the second one-two of the day for the Team Dynamics cars.
Cammish said: "That was very tough with full [ballast] weight - so I put my foot down as hard as I could at the start and got a bit of a gap.
"Then the team was telling me that Matt was coming under pressure behind me and asked me if I had anything in hand.
"I thought I had but when I pushed, it wasn't really there so it was hard work.
"But I am thrilled to make it back-to-back wins."
Jack Goff had run in second place initially in his Eurotech Racing Honda Civic until it retired with an engine problem, which promoted Neal.
He still had to work hard for second place as he was under severe pressure from the WSR BMW 125i M Sport of Andrew Jordan.
Over the final few laps, championship challenger Tom Ingram (Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis), who had flown through the order in his ballast-free machine having started in 14th.
Fourth place was not going to be enough for Ingram as Turkington was running in 11th place, which was enough for him to claim the crown.
Then, on lap 13, Turkington and the Honda Civic of Dan Lloyd made contact at the top of Paddock Hill Bend and that forced Turkington's WSR BMW through the gravel and outside the top 20.
Ingram still needed to improve on fourth to stay in the title hunt and pushed Jordan hard to unseat him, and there was even brief contact between the pair going through Surtees with two laps to go.
However, it wasn't enough to complete the move and he finished fourth.
That handed the crown to Turkington, to add to his 2009 and 2014 victories, all three being in BMWs.
Turkington said: "I really thought it was all over when I was going through the gravel.
"In my head, I was already planning what my strategy would be going in to race three because I thought I would have to fight some more. It was a real roller coaster."
Moffat finished fifth from Tom Chilton's Motorbase Performance Ford Focus, Senna Proctor's Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra and outgoing champion Ash Sutton in his Team BMR Subaru Levorg.
Josh Cook, who finished 10th in his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, has been drawn on pole for the reversed grid race three.
Race result
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dan Cammish | Team Dynamics | Honda | 17 | 27m52.493s |
2 | Matt Neal | Team Dynamics | Honda | 17 | 0.595s |
3 | Andrew Jordan | WSR | BMW | 17 | 0.781s |
4 | Tom Ingram | Speedworks | Toyota | 17 | 1.323s |
5 | Aiden Moffat | Laser Tools Racing | Mercedes | 17 | 2.984s |
6 | Tom Chilton | Motorbase | Ford | 17 | 3.166s |
7 | Senna Proctor | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 17 | 3.425s |
8 | Ash Sutton | Team BMR | Subaru | 17 | 5.938s |
9 | Rob Austin | HMS Racing | Alfa Romeo | 17 | 7.091s |
10 | Josh Cook | Power Maxed Racing | Vauxhall | 17 | 13.356s |
11 | Brett Smith | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 17 | 16.918s |
12 | Chris Smiley | BTC Norlin | Honda | 17 | 17.049s |
13 | Daniel Lloyd | BTC Norlin | Honda | 17 | 17.509s |
14 | Sam Tordoff | Motorbase | Ford | 17 | 18.553s |
15 | Ollie Jackson | AmD Tuning | Audi | 17 | 18.765s |
16 | James Cole | Motorbase | Ford | 17 | 19.443s |
17 | Jason Plato | Team BMR | Subaru | 17 | 20.434s |
18 | Ricky Collard | WSR | BMW | 17 | 20.845s |
19 | Sam Smelt | AmD Tuning | Audi | 17 | 20.957s |
20 | Mike Bushell | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 17 | 23.381s |
21 | Josh Caygill | AmD Tuning | MG | 17 | 29.817s |
22 | Colin Turkington | WSR | BMW | 17 | 37.033s |
- | Adam Morgan | Ciceley Motorsport | Mercedes | 14 | Retirement |
- | Tom Oliphant | Ciceley Motorsport | Mercedes | 13 | Retirement |
- | Ollie Pidgley | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 9 | Retirement |
- | Jack Goff | Eurotech Racing | Honda | 5 | Retirement |
- | Stephen Jelley | Team Parker Racing | BMW | 4 | Retirement |
- | Matt Simpson | Simpson Racing | Honda | 2 | Retirement |
- | Rory Butcher | AmD Tuning | MG | 2 | Retirement |
- | Ethan Hammerton | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 2 | Retirement |
- | Bobby Thompson | Team Hard | Volkswagen | 0 | Retirement |
Drivers' standings
Pos | Driver | Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Colin Turkington | 304 |
2 | Tom Ingram | 281 |
3 | Tom Chilton | 253 |
4 | Andrew Jordan | 240 |
5 | Ash Sutton | 235 |
6 | Josh Cook | 228 |
7 | Jack Goff | 228 |
8 | Adam Morgan | 227 |
9 | Matt Neal | 223 |
10 | Dan Cammish | 218 |
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