Cammish gets Snetterton BTCC pole

Dan Cammish secured his second pole position of the British Touring Car Championship season, beating Tom Ingram to top spot at Snetterton.

The NAPA Racing UK driver set a best time of 1m 5370s after the final part of qualifying resumed after a red flag following an electrical issue for Cammish’s teammate, championship leader Ash Sutton.

Ingram only narrowly missed out on pole, lapping 0.030s adrift of Cammish in his Excelr8 Motorsport-run Team Vertu Hyundai i30 Fastback N Performance, while Daniel Rowbottom put his own NAPA Ford Focus ST third with a lap a further 0.475 back.

Mikey Doble was a fine fourth in his Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, with Team Vertu’s Adam Morgan fifth after he locked up on his only fast lap attempt in Q3.

Sutton made it through to the final part of qualifying before his electric issues brought an early end to his day – they were problems that had been present since practice earlier in the day, but despite them causing a brief scare at the start of Q2, he was able to go second-fastest in that session behind Ingram to make it to the pole position shootout.

Restart Racing’s Daniel Lloyd was the first of the drivers who didn't advance from Q2, ahead of One Motorsport’s Josh Cook – who went quickest in the final four minutes of the 10 minute session but had that time removed due to a track limits breach – Tom Chilton, James Dorlin, Charles Rainford, and Chris Smiley.

While Rainford made it to Q2, the rest of the West Surrey Racing BMW runners all fell in Q1.

Darryl DeLeon just missed out on a top six spot in the first group, along with the Toyotas of Gordon Shedden, Aron Taylor Smith, Max Hall, Stephen Jelley, Nick Halstead and Ryan Bensely, making his debut in place of Michael Crees who’s handed his Hyundai over to his long-time backer to allow him to make his BTCC bow at his home circuit.

In the second Q1 group, reigning champion Jake Hill could only manage the 10th-fastest time. A lock-up at Brundle early in the season sent him off the track at Nelson, while a personal best first sector on his next lap was undone in the subsequent sector.

His teammate Aiden Moffat, Sam Osborne in the fourth NAPA Ford, Dexter Patterson, Ronan Pearson, and Nic Hamilton were the other drivers who failed to advance from the second Q1 group.

Behind the final six of Cammish, Ingram, Rowbottom, Doble, Morgan, and Sutton, Lloyd will start the first of three races on Sunday from seventh, ahead of Cook, Chilton, and Dorlin. Rainford will start 11th, ahead of Smiley, DeLeon, Moffat, Shedden, and Osborne, with Taylor-Smith, Patterson, Hall, Hill, Jelley, Pearson, Halstead, Hamilton, and Bensley completing the field.

All three races at Snetterton will be broadcast live on RACER Network on Sunday May 25 at 6:30AM ET, 9:20 AM ET, and 12 PM ET.

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