Dan Cammish takes unassailable Jack Sears Trophy lead

Dan Cammish has wrapped up the first title of the BTCC season after securing an unassailable lead in the Jack Sears Trophy during the penultimate weekend of the season at Silverstone.

The Honda driver battled hard on track in Northamptonshire to secure a brace of top ten finishes, with the result of the final race being enough to secure the JST crown after closest rival Chris Smiley failed to score.

Cammish will now go into the season finale at Brands Hatch seeking to secure a top ten championship finish having slipped behind Sam Tordoff over the course of the weekend.

“It’s terrific to seal the Jack Sears Trophy in my rookie BTCC season,” he said. “The drivers that have won the title in previous years have gone on to achieve great things so I hope this will be the first of many big BTCC trophies with my name on!

“As for the event overall, it was a tough day at the office but with plenty of positives to take away. I don’t think we did very much wrong this weekend but the small margins of the BTCC around a circuit with only four corners worked against us at the crucial moments.

“Nonetheless, when we get the Civic Type-R into its sweet spot as we did in race three then it shows how competitive we can be, which only makes me more determined to prove it at the final round.”