Porsche Carrera Cup GB: Cammish vs King – who will be victorious?

It was announced yesterday (13 March) that Dan Cammish would be returning to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB championship.

Having been twice been a third-place finisher in the BTCC, the Leeds-born racer succumbed to a shock departure from Team Dynamics, his seat being filled by Gordon ‘Flash’ Shedden.

As a consequence of the ground-breaking news, finding Cammish back behind the wheel of a 911, a fierce rivalry between himself and superstar Harry King has been born, and will be a key battle in 2021’s motorsport scene.

It is important to note that the 31-year-old made his name in the Carrera Cup prior to his BTCC success, having won the championship twice in 2015 and 2016 with his current squad Team Redline Racing.

Across three full years in the series, the Yorkshireman tallied a mightily impressive 32 wins in only 47 races – statistics matched by a certain rising star in British motorsport.

20-year-old King dominated the 2020 Carrera Cup GB season, winning 12 of the 16 races he entered; two punctures at Thruxton lowered the yield due to the excessive speed at which he was driving.

Only once was King knocked off pole in qualifying, this being by a mere 0.002 seconds. His exploits won him last year’s Autosport National Driver of the year, an award frequently saturated by BTCC champions such as Ash Sutton and Colin Turkington.

It is little wonder why he is Porsche’s current Junior driver, an accolade that secures complete funding from the manufacturer as well as being their go-to for promotional gigs.

The freshly conjured question on everyone’s lips is who will be 2021’s victor – Cammish or King?

Of course, there are other competitors in the field of note, such as former champion Josh Webster. However, it is hard to look beyond the raw talent that the two protagonists hold.

Cammish is a wise-head compared to King, with many years’ worth of driving over the young racer. If the battle was to go down to the wire, the Yorkshireman’s wealth of experience would surely favour him.

On the contrary, King has now won back-to-back championships in varying rear-wheel-drive machines – a Ginetta GT4 in 2019, and, obviously, a Porsche 911 in 2020. Cammish’s switch of drivetrains might take a bit of time to adjust to, time in which King could have opened up a significant points deficit.

Personally, I can’t overlook King’s natural talent. This isn’t to dull Cammish’s evident ability behind the wheel of a racing car, but rarely does a teen steal the show from the rest of the pack as the Porsche Junior did last year.

It is unknown what King’s joint venture is this year, as he is set to announce what is expected to be a place in the Porsche Supercup. This could very well overlap his two racing series, but I still commit to my prediction – King will reign supreme.