Cammish gets his bumper in front as rivals trip up

Dan Cammish lost last year’s British Touring Car Championship crown in the final five miles of the season. The way things are going in 2020, it could be seven thousandths of a second that prove decisive in his favour when the points are added up.

Cold weather arrived in the BTCC last weekend at Silverstone, theoretically disadvantageous to success-ballast-carrying rear-wheel-drive machinery, and, with October events at Croft and Snetterton and the November finale at Silverstone to come, we’re unlikely to be basking in anything over 10C until the 2021 campaign kicks off. So front-driven cars such as Cammish’s Honda, quicker at getting the heat into their driven axles, are likely to come into their element. At Silverstone, he took a win, a second and a plucky reversed-grid fourth to end as comfortably the day’s top points scorer and, going into those shortening autumn days, he’s just 17 points adrift of table-topper Ash Sutton, 13 behind Colin Turkington.

But it was a freak occurrence on Cammish’s route to that win that could prove decisive. He had led the opening four laps from pole, but the Team Dynamics-run Civic Type R didn’t look comfortable. That’s because right behind was its nemesis from Thruxton the previous weekend: the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla of the ever-feisty Tom Ingram. The safety car boards appeared on the fifth