Gordon Shedden has been confirmed as Dan Cammish’s alternative within the Group Dynamics squad on this yr’s British Touring Automotive Championship (BTCC), leaving the Honda crew to search out one additional driver earlier than the season begins.
Shedden, a 48-race winner within the tin prime collection and the champion in 2012, 2015 and 2016, beforehand left Dynamics on the finish of the 2017 season to pursue his World Touring Automotive ambitions.
Racing with the Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Group, Shedden hasn’t loved the identical stage of success as he skilled in his BTCC profession, ending thirteenth and twenty sixth general in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
The Shedden/Cammish swap is a welcome bit of fine information for the BTCC, welcoming again one among its star drivers and somebody who’s prone to compete on the sharp finish of the grid.
Cammish’s plans stay unclear. In an announcement launched by the crew, Cammish held out the potential of returning sooner or later, saying: “While it is actually disappointing for me, I’ve to thank Dynamics for his or her religion in bringing me into the championship three years in the past.
“If it weren’t for them, I in all probability wouldn’t have gotten my ‘massive break’ within the BTCC and managed to do what I’ve accomplished. We now have parted on distinctive phrases and I shall be protecting involved going ahead. You by no means know what the long run will carry.”
Group Dynamics supervisor James Rodgers confirmed that the crew needed to maintain Cammish however that it wasn’t attainable to achieve an settlement. “We now have tried very exhausting to maintain Dan as a part of the crew for 2021, however it wasn’t to be, and we have needed to half methods,” he mentioned.
In his three years with Group Dynamics, Cammish raced alongside BTCC stalwart Matt Neal and received eight races.
The 31-year-old Yorkshireman got here closest to the title in 2019, just for brake failure on the remaining spherical at Manufacturers Hatch to rob him of the championship inside a lap-and-a-half of the flag, handing it to Colin Turkington. He completed third that yr, backed up with one other third place in 2020.
All of it leaves one of many BTCC’s prime squads with one seat to fill solely two months away from the beginning of the season. Neal, the son of Group Dynamics founder Steve Neal and a number of race-winner over three many years of competing within the BTCC, was rumoured to be retiring on the finish of 2020. Whether or not he’ll determine to hold on in 2021, to fill the second seat, stays to be seen.
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