BTCC The Contenders: Dan Cammish

After an eventful year for the man from West Yorkshire, Cammish finished 2024 level on points with rival Colin Turkington while also maintaining a higher average finish than teammate Ash Sutton, 2025 looks to be another solid year for the 2018 Jack Sears Trophy winner.

After a six-year stint in karts from 2003 to 2008, Dan Cammish made the step up to cars in 2009 racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and ADAC Formel Masters Series. In the Formula Ford Championship, he would race in the Scholarship Class that season. His first race in the championship he would finish third overall at Oulton Park winning the race in the Scholarship class in the process. Throughout the rest of the season, he would impress winning sixteen out of the first eighteen races in the Scholarship class and only having a single finish off the class podium in the penultimate round at the Castle Combe Circuit where he retired. He would then go on to claim another class win in the final race in a season of pure dominance in the class.

His Overall Championship campaign was solid as well. Despite having not one a race overall that season, the young Cammish would claim three podiums and finish the season 6th in the standings despite missing the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit rounds in the latter part of the season.

While only competing in the final six races of the ADAC Formel Masters Championship, he would manage two fifth place finishes that season and another two eight place finishes to cap off an impressive first season of racing cars.

Heading into 2010, Cammish would remain in the British Formula Ford Championship initially racing with Kevin Mills Racing before switching to the JTR team for the rest of the season. He would take seven podiums that season with two wins claiming third in the standings by seasons end. Following another solid season in Formula Ford, the West Yorkshire driver would move to Formula Renault for 2012. He would initially try to compete in the Eurocup Formula Renault Championship but would be caught up in a massive crash that would see him suffer a broken pelvis. Despite this, he would go on to race in the Formula Renault UK series where he would go on to score four podiums that season to finish sixth in the drivers’ standings despite missing the opening six rounds.

2013 saw Cammish return to Formula Ford where he would be completely dominant. He would win all 24 races he competed in to win the title while taking 22 pole positions and 19 fastest laps in the process in one of the greatest single seasons from any driver in the series even deciding to skip the final six races after wrapping up the title.

Cammish would move to British GT for 2014 racing in the GT4 category for Team Parker Racing. He would also race two rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB championship with the team claiming a race win and both pole positions in the races he would compete in. This would set him up to race full time in the championship in 2015 where he would once more dominate a season of racing. Never finishing outside of the top two all season, across the sixteen races that season he would take eleven race victories that season with seven pole positions to add to his tally.

2016 would be on repeat for Cammish as he would take twelve wins in Carrera Cup GB finishing on the podium fourteen times while taking thirteen pole positions in the process. The dominance from Cammish in these two seasons was unprecedented and he continued to shine in 2017 as despite not taking the title that year he would still win half of the races that season missing out on the Snetterton rounds allowing his rivals to maximise and take advantage over him. He would finish the season in third place only a handful of points off of the top.

2018 would be a change for Cammish as he moved to the BTCC racing with Halfords Yuasa Racing in the Honda Civic alongside BTCC champion Matt Neal. After a rocky start he would get his foot down to take seven podiums throughout the year with two wins in the final three races of the season to cap off a solid first year in the category. He would also win the Jack Sears Trophy that season being nearly a hundred points clear of closest rival Chris Smiley. 2019 saw a significant improvement upon an already solod year. Through unmatched consistency, Dan Cammish would lead the standings heading into the final round taking two wins that season and fourteen podiums. However, two laps before the checkered flag where he would win the championship his brakes would fail, and he would be out of the race which gave Colin Turkington just enough points to clinch the title with sixth in one of the most dramatic ends to a championship in history.

2020 was another solid year for the West Yorkshireman as he would be within the championship hunt heading into the final race weekend being only 25 points behind Colin Turkington and future teammate Ash Sutton only 14 points ahead. Despite winning the opening race of the event and a third-place finish in the second, Sutton’s overall points haul from those two races and a sixth place gave him enough of a margin to win the title over both Cammish and Turkington. Cammish having to settle for another third place in the standings by seasons end.

After the season, Cammish made the switch back to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Series for 2021 where even though he wouldn’t have the same dominance from his first two championship winning seasons, he would claim twelve podiums and three wins to take the championship making him the only driver to claim three titles in the series.

The following year, Cammish made the switch back to the BTCC now driving for brand new NAPA Racing UK with the Ford outfit. His first season back saw him take another victory and four podiums in the series to finish eight in the championship. 2023 saw him have an even better performance. He would start the season with a win in the opening race and follow that up with another win later that day. He would win another round later that season at Croft and finish the season sixth in the standings despite missing the three rounds at Donighton Park.

Last season he would be in the fight for the title for most the season against Hill, Ingram, Turkington, Cook and teammate Sutton in a six-way title fight. Even though he was mathematically within a chance at the championship heading into the final three races at Brands Hatch, Cammish would ultimately fall out of contention by the end of the first race of the event. He would end the season tied on points with Turkington, but he had only a single win to Turkington’s five meaning he would have to settle for fifth place in the championship. Cammish was one of the most consistent drivers that season matching Ingram’s average finish even though he had less wins while also claiming nine podiums that season.

Heading into 2025 one of Dan’s strengths is his pure consistency. In every series he raced in he showed immediate and promising consistency and is certainly a good set of hands behind the wheel. He has also proven during his time in Porsche’s he can have outright dominant pace and with him being a championship contender on multiple occasions in the BTCC now, 2025 could be yet another good year for him.