Dan Cammish heads the pack in damp opening Brands Hatch practice

NAPA Racing UK’s Dan Cammish topped the times in the opening British Touring Car Championship practice session of the weekend at Brands Hatch, two tenths of a second clear of anyone else.

The session took place on a damp and drying circuit – the Indy layout was mostly dry, whilst the Grand Prix loop remained damp following overnight rain and the wooded shady nature of the area making the circuit take longer to dry.

It took some time for meaningful times to appear, as well. A red flag interruption unrelated to the on-track action early on caused a ten-minute delay, with all cars making it back to the pits to continue in the session.

Un-Limited Motorsport’s Dexter Patterson held the top time early on, but the CUPRA racer was quickly surpassed by others.

In the end it was Cammish who laid down the marker, lapping in 1 minute 30.510 seconds – some 1.263 seconds slower than the qualifying lap record post by team-mate Ash Sutton last year.

WSR’s Daryl DeLeon was second quickest, 0.223 seconds adrift after a late improvement, ahead of stable-mate Charles Rainford in third.

Sutton was fourth fastest, 0.356 seconds slower than Cammish, whilst team-mate Daniel Rowbottom was fifth, just over half a second off the pace.

Toyota’s Gordon Shedden made a late improvement to go sixth, ahead of Laser Tools Racing’s Jake Hill in seventh.

The top ten was completed by the Team Vertu trio of Adam Morgan, Tom Chilton and Senna Proctor – although championship leader Tom Ingram was conspicuously missing from the top places.

In the end, Ingram only completed one flying lap, at the very end of the session, ending the session in 13^th, 1.122 seconds off the pace.

Second practice gets underway at 12:05 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	14	1:30.510	–
2	2		Daryl DELEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	16	1:30.733	0.223
3	99		Charles RAINFORD	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	17	1:30.756	0.246
4	116		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:30.866	0.356
5	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	18	1:31.022	0.512
6	52		Gordon SHEDDEN	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	1:31.048	0.538
7	1		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330i M Sport	16	1:31.217	0.707
8	33		Adam MORGAN	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	1:31.318	0.808
9	3		Tom CHILTON	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	12	1:31.321	0.811
10	18		Senna PROCTOR	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	13	1:31.329	0.819
11	22		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	17	1:31.547	1.037
12	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	19	1:31.626	1.116
13	80		Tom INGRAM	Team Vertu	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	13	1:31.632	1.122
14	123		Daniel LLOYD	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	1:31.829	1.319
15	17		Dexter PATTERSON	ROKiT Racing with Un-Limited Motorsport	CUPRA Leon	15	1:31.956	1.446
16	88		Mikey DOBLE	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	15	1:32.119	1.609
17	66		Josh COOK	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	11	1:32.589	2.079
18	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts Racing with WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	9	1:33.187	2.677
19	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:34.739	4.229
20	28		Nicolas HAMILTON	Powder Monkey Brewing Co with Esidock	CUPRA Leon	16	1:35.089	4.579
21	19		Max BUXTON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK with IAA	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	17	1:36.240	5.730
22	50		Nick HALSTEAD	Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing	CUPRA Leon	2	17:24.622	15:54.112