Dan Cammish claims Snetterton pole

NAPA Racing UK’s Dan Cammish claimed pole position in qualifying for the British Touring Car Championship at Snetterton, posting a lap time which was almost eight tenths of a second below the lap record.

Having topped his group in Q1, Cammish went fourth fastest in Q2 before finding almost a second in the final Q3 session to beat Team Vertu’s Tom Ingram to pole position by just 0.030 seconds, despite having ten more seconds of TOCA Turbo Boost available around the 2.97-mile lap.

It is Cammish’s second pole position of the season after the Donington Park opener, and the eighth of his BTCC career.

Ingram was impressively fast throughout the session, despite the Hyundai driver having the second-least amount of boost available during qualifying. The 2022 champion was second to Ash Sutton in his group in Q1, before topping Q2 by just over a tenth and then narrowly missing out on pole in Q3.

NAPA’s Daniel Rowbottom was third quickest, making his second Q3 appearance of the season, ahead of an impressive performance from Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble, who was the leading independent driver.

Team Vertu’s Adam Morgan was sixth, whilst NAPA’s Ash Sutton failed to post a lap after bringing out the red flags in Q3 when his Ford stopped on circuit with an electrical issue which had been intermittently causing him strife in the session up to that stage.

Restart Racing’s Daniel Lloyd was seventh, missing out by around a tenth on getting into the ‘Quick Six’ part of the session, ahead of One Motorsport’s Josh Cook in eighth.

The top ten was completed by Team Vertu’s Tom Chilton and Toyota’s James Dorlin.

After their strong weekend last time out, only one WSR BMW driver made it into Q2 in the dry at Snetterton. Charles Rainford qualified in 11^th, just over a second off the Q2 pace, whilst Jake Hill failed to even get out of Q1 and will start Sunday’s opening race from 20^th on the grid.

Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley was 12^th in Q2, giving the Northern Irishman a sixth row start on Sunday.

WSR’s Daryl DeLeon will start from 13^th for race one, having been seventh in his Q1 group, ahead of stable-mate Aiden Moffat, who starts from 14^th.

Race one gets underway at 11:30 BST on Sunday.

‘Quick Six’ result

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	6	1:53.750	–
2	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	6	1:53.780	0.030
3	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	6	1:54.255	0.505
4	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	6	1:54.518	0.768
5	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	6	1:54.908	1.158
6	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	2	No time	N/A

Q2 result

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.174	–
2	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	4	1:54.308	0.134
3	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	4	1:54.466	0.292
4	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	5	1:54.610	0.436
5	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.642	0.468
6	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	5	1:54.672	0.498
7	123		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.769	0.595
8	66		Josh COOK	One Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	5	1:54.842	0.668
9	3		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.872	0.698
10	132		James DORLIN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	5	1:54.927	0.753
11	99		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	5	1:55.177	1.003
12	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:55.221	1.047

Q1 Group 2 results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	5	1:54.591	–
2	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.829	0.238
3	132		James DORLIN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	4	1:54.925	0.334
4	123		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.963	0.372
5	3		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:55.025	0.434
6	99		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	5	1:55.226	0.635
7	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	5	1:55.411	0.820
8	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	4	1:55.470	0.879
9	17		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	5	1:55.508	0.917
10	1		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	5	1:55.769	1.178
11	14		Ronan PEARSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	5	1:56.003	1.412
12	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	4	1:58.556	3.965

Q1 Group 1 results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	4	1:54.415	–
2	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:54.417	0.002
3	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	4	1:54.746	0.331
4	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	4	1:54.864	0.449
5	66		Josh COOK	One Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	4	1:54.999	0.584
6	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	5	1:55.348	0.933
7	2		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	5	1:55.494	1.079
8	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	5	1:55.499	1.084
9	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	5	1:55.544	1.129
10	93		Max HALL	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	4	1:55.865	1.450
11	12		Stephen JELLEY	One Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	4	1:55.907	1.492
12	50		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	4	1:58.281	3.866
13	54		Ryan BENSLEY	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	4	1:58.637	4.222