Hanafin grabs win as King and Cammish collide
Lorcan Hanafin took victory as the drama ratcheted up in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, with the much-hyped rivalry between Dan Cammish and Harry King resulting in a collision on the second lap.
Cammish snatched pole in his Redline car from Team Parker man King and led the first lap, before King tried to dive down the inside at Paddock Hill Bend. Contact was made, spinning Cammish, while King stayed second behind new leader Kiern Jewiss.
Jewiss slid wide at Graham Hill Bend on the fifth lap, with King and Hanafin moving ahead. Hanafin never gave up and, when King braked too late at Druids halfway through the race, the JTR driver went for the inside line. As King moved to defend, contact was made and he spun backwards into the barriers, before returning to the pits to retire. That left Hanafin to a comfortable win from Jewiss and Will Martin. Cammish spun again when he collided with Josh Caygill, before recovering to 10th.
An astonishing start from King in the partially reversed-grid race lifted him from 12th to sixth in one lap, as Jamie Orton led. King broke into the top three when he shouldered his way inside Lewis Plato at Surtees, and took second from Orton with eight laps remaining. But he couldn’t catch Martin, who’d taken the lead off Orton with a clean move at Druids on lap 14 of 34.
Hanafin was third, but a track-limits penalty promoted Cammish – apologetic to Orton for a clash at Surtees that sent the early leader off – onto the podium.