Cammish loses Honda seat

What is going on at Team Dynamics?

That was the question British Touring Car Championship fans were asking on Tuesday this week when the team announced a parting of the ways with Dan Cammish – third in the points in 2019 and 2020 – after one season of his existing two-year deal.

Amid speculation that Honda is no longer supporting the Dynamics-run Civic Type Rs, the team said that it will announce one driver on Friday of this week, with the other ‘confirmed over the coming weeks’. Cammish’s 2018-20 team-mate Matt Neal, whose family founded Dynamics, said in a statement: “Dan is a fantastic guy and has been a great driver for us! We wish him all the very best for the future and will very much be keeping in touch.”

Cammish found out last Friday that he had no place in the team for 2021. “It’s disappointing but that’s motor racing,” he told Autosport. “I need to dust myself off and look at my options for the future. The BTCC and Dynamics gave me a platform to raise my profile, give me a fanbase, and show how I can adapt from rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive.”

Cammish added that his chances of staying in the BTCC are “close to nil. By the time I got wind that something was changing, all the seats were taken, certainly at the teams that might be interested in me.” He said that he could bid to return to Porsches – a two-time Carrera Cup GB champion, he was fourth in the Supercup in 2017 before switching to the BTCC.

Neal, 54, has been looking into stepping down from BTCC driving for 2021 for some time. The series grapevine has long linked Dan Rowbottom, who contested the 2019 season in a Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes, with one seat, and now speculation is mounting that three-time BTCC champion Gordon Shedden could be in line for a headline-grabbing return in the other Civic.

Neal is known to have been lobbying over the winter to acquire a third TBL entrants’ licence, which could theoretically have left room for Cammish in the line-up, but that the required level of approval from teams in a vote put to them by series organiser TOCA was not forthcoming. Neal wrote on social media: “Devastated we couldn’t keep him [Cammish] on the grid. Thanks to the few individuals who blocked our attempts but real thanks to those who welcomed the competition and supported our efforts.”

Neal declined to comment to Autosport about his own prospects of driving or the speculated return of Shedden.