Dan Cammish heads NAPA 1-2 in wet Donington practice

DAN Cammish led NAPA Racing UK team-mate Daniel Rowbottom in a wet opening British Touring Car Championship practice session at Donington Park.

NAPA were at the top of the timesheets throughout the 35-minute session, with Rowbottom and Cammish trading top times early on, before team-mate Ash Sutton briefly appeared at the top of the timesheets after 15 minutes.

However, Cammish went quickest of all five minutes later, lapping the Grand Prix circuit in 1 minute 41.679 seconds, just under a tenth of a second ahead of Rowbottom.

Championship leader Tom Ingram was third fastest in the leading EXCELR8 Motorsport Hyundai, having been there much of the session, the 2022 champion improving to a time which was just over half a second off Cammish within the final ten minutes.

Sutton ended up in fourth, seven tenths off his team-mates, ahead of Power Maxed Racing’s Árón Taylor-Smith in fifth, the Irishman completing the joint fewest number of laps in the session due to multiple trips to the pitlane.

Josh Cook was the best of the Toyota quartet in sixth, just over a second off the pace, ahead of EXCELR8’s Tom Chilton in seventh.

Toyota’s Andrew Watson was eighth, with the top ten completed by Power Maxed’s Mikey Doble and BMW’s Colin Turkington.

The session was red-flagged for around four minutes not long after it had got underway, when Toyota’s Rob Huff went off at the Old Hairpin. The Speedworks driver ended up down in 16^th, almost two seconds off the pace.

Rookie Dan Zelos was 18^th fastest on his first outing in the BTCC, lapping in 1:44.211, some 2.5 seconds off the pace in tricky conditions to acclimatise with his new machinery.

Second practice gets underway at 12:15 BST followed by qualifying at 15:05 BST.

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	27		Dan CAMMISH	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	15	1:41.679	–
2	32		Daniel ROWBOTTOM	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	16	1:41.757	0.078
3	80		Tom INGRAM	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	13	1:42.187	0.508
4	1		Ashley SUTTON	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	14	1:42.388	0.709
5	40		Árón TAYLOR-SMITH	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	11	1:42.506	0.827
6	66		Josh COOK	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	13	1:42.739	1.060
7	3		Tom CHILTON	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	11	1:42.765	1.086
8	11		Andrew WATSON	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	12	1:42.804	1.125
9	88		Mikey DOBLE	Evans Halshaw Power Maxed Racing	Vauxhall Astra	13	1:42.856	1.177
10	20		Colin TURKINGTON	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	13	1:42.869	1.190
11	77		Sam OSBORNE	NAPA Racing UK	Ford Focus ST	15	1:43.151	1.472
12	24		Jake HILL	Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport	BMW 330e M Sport	10	1:43.192	1.513
13	33		Adam MORGAN	Team BMW	BMW 330e M Sport	13	1:43.243	1.564
14	222		Chris SMILEY	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	13	1:43.351	1.672
15	16		Aiden MOFFAT	LKQ Euro Car Parts with SYNETIQ	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	14	1:43.461	1.782
16	12		Rob HUFF	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing UK	Toyota Corolla GR Sport	13	1:43.598	1.919
17	18		Daryl DELEON	Duckhams Racing with Bartercard	CUPRA Leon	13	1:43.606	1.927
18	45		Dan ZELOS	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	1:44.211	2.532
19	22		Nick HALSTEAD	BRISTOL STREET MOTORS	Hyundai i30 N Fastback	14	1:45.004	3.325
20	29		Scott SUMPTON	Restart Racing	CUPRA Leon	14	1:45.306	3.627