Dan Cammish secures lights-to-flag victory in Oulton Park race one

Dan Cammish scored a lights-to-flag victory in the opening British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Oulton Park, managing enough of an advantage over Toyota’s Josh Cook to claim his first win of the season.

Cammish, who earned pole position with victory in Saturday afternoon’s qualifying race, was never headed during the 16-lap sprint, although the NAPA Racing UK driver was only ever around a second ahead of his chasing rivals.

At the start, Cammish made a good launch to fend off Cook into the first corner, as behind him Ash Sutton tried to take Cook for second.

Cook and Sutton made contact at Cascades as they went side-by-side, which sent the latter into a slide that dropped him to seventh and allowed Team VERTU’s Tom Ingram to slide into third.

A lap later, Sutton reclaimed one position by making a late dive inside Power Maxed Racing’s Mikey Doble for sixth at Old Hall Corner, before the race was briefly neutralised for a lap to clear up debris left on the run to Lodge corner when NAPA’s Lewis Selby was turned around in contact with Dexter Patterson and hit the barriers.

After the resumption of racing on lap five, Sutton tried to make further progress by going around the outside of Plato Racing’s Adam Morgan at the chicane, but slight contact resulted in Sutton cutting across the grass and he fell behind Power Maxed’s Aiden Moffat and Doble.

At the front, Cook lacked the power to get close to Cammish, despite having more TOCA Turbo Boost [TTB] than the leader, and had to settle for second, as Cammish scored the 17^th win of his BTCC career.

Ingram completed the podium in third, crucially reducing his points deficit to Sutton by six points, with the margin now at 52 points.

Laser Tools Racing’s Árón Taylor Smith was fourth after a relatively quiet race which saw the Toyota driver only move up when Sutton had his early-race moment.

Power Maxed duo Moffat and Doble held on to fifth and sixth respectively, whilst Sutton had to settle for seventh.

Team VERTU’s Tom Chilton overtook Restart Racing’s Chris Smiley for eighth four laps from the end, with Smiley and WSR’s Daryl De Leon completing the top ten.

Plato Racing’s Morgan had been running in fifth before an engine sensor issue on the run to Lodge corner required him to pit into retirement.

Race two is scheduled to get underway at 14:55 BST.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	27	M		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	16	23:42.703	1:24.583	1
2	66	M		Josh COOK	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	0.715	1:24.776	2
3	80	M		Tom INGRAM	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	1.173	1:24.977	4
4	50	I		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	6.631	1:25.056	5
5	16	I		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	16	10.687	1:25.222	9
6	88	I		Mikey DOBLE	LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	16	12.012	1:25.019	6
7	116	M		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	16	12.195	1:25.261	3
8	3	M		Tom CHILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	12.460	1:25.475	11
9	22	I		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	13.907	1:25.326	10
10	2	I		Daryl DE LEON	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	16	13.916	1:25.471	15
11	17	I		Dexter PATTERSON	Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing	Audi A3 Saloon	16	16.068	1:25.176	8
12	52	I		Gordon SHEDDEN	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	16.542	1:25.433	20
13	77	M		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	16	16.883	1:25.774	18
14	11	M		Ricky COLLARD	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	20.855	1:26.108	12
15	99	I		Charles RAINFORD	WSR	BMW 330i M Sport	16	21.796	1:26.104	13
16	32	M		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	16	23.808	1:26.366	16
17	132	I		James DORLIN	Restart Racing	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	29.172	1:26.526	17
18	19	M		Max BUXTON	Speedworks Corolla Racing	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	16	29.831	1:26.071	21
19	28	M		Nicolas HAMILTON	Team VERTU	Hyundai i30 Fastback N	16	38.722	1:26.648	19
R	33	M		Adam MORGAN	Cataclean Plato Racing	Mercedes A35 Saloon	9	DNF	1:24.906	7
R	15	M		Lewis SELBY	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus Titanium	4	DNF	1:38.779	14