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Dan Cammish was looking forward to last Sunday’s opening races in the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park, his anticipation paradoxically heightened by a relative struggle on Saturday. The sister Ford Focus STs of Dan Rowbottom and Ash Sutton were ballistically, head-scratchingly quick; everyone in the paddock admitted that they couldn’t get close to those NAPA Racing-liveried, Motorbase Performance-run machines. And that included team-mate Cammish.
“I’m not disappointed to be fifth,” mused Cammish in the aftermath of qualifying. “Somehow we’ve engineered a car that’s the complete opposite of last year’s – I used to look forward to Saturdays and dread Sundays! But now we just need to understand how to switch the tyres back on. My team-mates are fast on laps one and two, whereas I’m on lap 10 and the car’s still at its peak – the tyre comes off and it still looks good.” The inference was that he knew he had a car that would be good over a race distance, whereas his team-mates may fall back…
Then Cammish opened his hotel-room curtains on Sunday morning and saw that the dismal British spring was unleashing its worst. “I’m not lying – it was a bit of a surprise when I saw the rain this morning,” related the Berkshire-domiciled Yorkshireman. And then the traditional Donington traffic access raised the stress levels: “I was passing people with my hazards flashing just to get into the track!” But by the evening he was celebrating two race wins
