BTCC: Cammish takes first win of the season at Oulton Park race one

Dan Cammish would take first win of the season with victory at Oulton Park in race on of the day.

Cammish would start from pole ahead of Josh Cook and championship leader Ash Sutton. Tom Ingram would start fourth ahead of Aron Taylor-Smith and Mikey Doble ahead of the opening race of the day.

Cammish would get a great start while a brief bit of contact between Sutton and Cook behind into the first corner. Sutton would gain the advantage by the exit before more contact with Cook again sent him into a slide and falling down a few places. Sutton would manage to get passed Aiden Moffat quickly but would now have an uphill battle with only one lap of boost and tyres which have already been damaged partially.

Sutton would not be deterred by this though, pushing up into sixth place passing Doble in the Audi and set his sights on Adam Morgan who made it into the top five on the opening lap. The Power Maxed Audi’s would have a massive slide in sync at Druids Corner with Dexter Patterson losing out on a few places before Lewis Selby would attempt a move. However, he would get on the grass and lose traction sending him off into the barrier. Selby would get going again but a Safety car would have to be deployed for the debris that was sent over the circuit.

The race would get back underway a lap later with Cammish having to defend from the chasing Cook before Ingram would make his presence felt behind in third. Further behind, Sutton would be fighting with Morgan before being sent off the circuit at Hislop chicane, forcing him to have to give up the place when he rejoined, which would lead to both Doble and Moffat managing to force their way by, dropping the NAPA driver back down to eighth place.

Cook would get an opportunity to make an attack on Cammish on the run into turn one with the extra boost for the Toyota, but a harsh defence from the leading Ford would mean he would maintain the place on lap eight. Meanwhile, Moffat would find his way up to the top five place passing Morgan. However, an issue for Morgan with his car would force him to drop out the race after significantly dropping pace and having to peel into the pits.

Cammish would begin to extend his race lead in the latter part of the race, forcing Cook to have to focus more on defending second place from Ingram who had spent the whole race sat in his mirrors, Cook would be forced to use more laps of boost in defence as he tries to maintain the position over Ingram.

The battle for eighth place on lap thirteen would heat up with Chris Smiley being dropped to tenth behind Tom Chilton and Daryl De Leon after the Restart Racing Hyundai was held up by Chilton into the hairpin, trying to find a way passed, opening the door for De Leon to move around the outside to take ninth. Sutton would try and make a move passed Doble at Hislop on the penultimate lap but to no avail ending up having to settle behind for seventh.

Out front, it would be Cammish would who took his first win of the season from Cook and Ingram. Taylor-Smith would finish fourth ahead of Moffat and Doble while Sutton finished down in seventh. Chilton would finish eighth ahead of Smiley and De Leon who lost out on the last lap of the race dropping him to tenth.