How Porsche rejection inspired a BTCC leading light

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Marcus Simmons

Apr 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

Much has been made of the achievements of four-time BTCC champion Colin Turkington - and justifiably so. But Honda man Dan Cammish came within four miles of beating the BMW star to the 2019 title in only his second season in tin-tops

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"I'm very much a fully fledged touring car driver now. I'm no longer a GT driver pretending to be a touring car driver!"

The words belong to Dan Cammish. His graduation from Porsche specialist to the British Touring Car Championship in 2018 in a plum seat with official Honda squad Team Dynamics wasn't without its growing pains, but to come just a lap and a half short of winning the 2019 title - his second year in the BTCC - pretty much showed that he's arrived.

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Marcus Simmons is the Deputy Editor of Autosport magazine. As a child he was a regular on the chalk banks of Thruxton – hence his unhealthy obsession with 1970s Formula 2 and F3 – before he became an MSA timekeeper at the age of 17. At 19, his reporting debut for Motoring News arguably overshadowed Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal as the sporting moment of June 1986, and he joined the staff in 1990 after graduating from his degree course in Plymouth. A parallel Formula First career – which was as incident-packed as his childhood exploits in show-jumping and hunter trials – finished when he wrote off his car and put himself in hospital in 1991.

Marcus moved to Autosport in the summer of 1996. Since then he has had two stints as a freelancer and a brief spell as editor of Motor Sport magazine, during which the revered green cover was revived, before he rejoined Autosport in 2008. He lives in Teddington with his wife (who, gratifyingly, grew up within earshot of Castle Combe), daughter, stepson, dog, cat and guitars, and additionally has an adult daughter and stepson.