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ROUND 8: KNOCHKHILL
ROUND 8: KNOCHKHILL

Scotland the Brave but beware of the wet stuff

e all know that when we go north Dan’s approach so far to the championship
of the border we’re going to get up to this point had been superb,
Wwet. The proof, just take a look at remember, he’s meant to be a rookie. I’ve
the Knockhill round of the BTCC last year. It had quite a few conversations with the
absolutely hoofed it down and caused all team, most of them with my mate in the
kinds of carnage. Brilliant! Marketing, Ben Durrell and we have
constantly agreed not only is Dan scaring
It is a short circuit but so much drama. the hell out of the rest of the field but he is
Three blind bends are certainly not for the so looking like a future multiple champion.
faint hearted and with the added rain, all
sorts can happen. There are short straight I was interested to hear from the team last
dashes and bends which normally see year after the Knockhill round. So, here is
touring cars on two wheels. Ex- Team that excerpt with the boys comments.
Dynamics Driver Gordon ‘Flash’ Shedden
once referred to his home, and favourite, A Honda driver has finished on the Dunlop
circuit as a Roller Coaster ride. He is not MSA British Touring Car Championship
wrong. podium at Knockhill every year since 2009,
and Dan Cammish kept that proud tradition
I think if there was a meeting that Matt going this weekend (25/26 August) with a
wanted to forget in 2018 it was this one with head-turning performance for Halfords
a DNF and two mediocre midway finishes, Yuasa Racing north of the border.
this one really killed his title challenge
hopes. Around an undulating, rollercoaster ride of a
circuit that historically favours rear wheel-
Dan on the other hand had a wail of a day. drive machinery, Cammish upset the
Just like the proverbial pig in the brown and formbook in qualifying by speeding to his
smelly stuff. He chalked up his first official maiden BTCC pole position behind the
pole position here and then went on to wheel of the new Civic Type R (FK8) –
chalk up a double podium by scoring two making him the best average qualifier of the
third positions. Considering this is meant to 2018 campaign to-date.
be a track that favours the RWD cars, Dan
took the rule and form book, ripped it up The heavens opened on race day, soaking
and rewrote his own. the picturesque Fife racetrack, but the
inclement conditions did not deter Honda’s
standout rookie, who leapt off the line into
the lead at the start of the curtain-raiser and
confidently held sway at the front of the field
throughout the opening 11 laps.

Although ultimately powerless to resist the
rear wheel-drive onslaught, Cammish clung
on valiantly to take the chequered flag third
– and top front wheel-drive competitor –
before replicating that result in race two
following a hard-fought battle. The
Yorkshireman was denied the opportunity to
make it a points-scoring hat-trick in race
three by mechanical issues, but could
nonetheless reflect upon a thoroughly
impressive weekend.

Hamstrung by having to carry 39kg of
success ballast in both qualifying and race
one, team-mate Matt Neal lined up a
frustrated 21st on the closely-contested
grid, before being removed from contention
at mid-distance by an errant rival. From
thereon in, his weekend became an
exercise in damage limitation, and the

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