Gordon Shedden furious with Adam Morgan for Snetterton Race 2 contact
Team Dynamics driver Gordon Shedden was upset with Ciceley Racing’s Adam Morgan following Race 2 at Snetterton, accusing the 27-year-old of contact three times in the same race, which saw the former champion drop down the order to tenth position.
Shedden had been running in third position in the Honda Civic Type R, before Adam Morgan’s Mercedes-Benz A-Class made contact at the Wilson hairpin, punting Shedden into a slide. Shedden managed to control it and hold on to second, but at Agostini one lap later Morgan and Shedden came together again, with the Honda driver dropping to seventh, and eventually fell down to tenth by the finish with handling problems.
“He drilled me when the red flags were out at the first start, then he drilled me at the hairpin at Turn 2 and caused chaos, didn’t get past me, then drilled me at Turn 4 at the following lap and maybe lose six places and just screwed my race,” said Shedden to TouringCarTimes. “The thing’s bent to hell, it doesn’t drive straight, it doesn’t stop straight – I was a sitting duck. I don’t know what he’s got going on, but for somebody of his experience, it’s just poor, really poor.”
Shedden would turn it around in Race 3 despite starting from tenth on the grid to take his second win of the season, and moved up to fourth in the drivers’ standings in the process.
Morgan was called to the stewards and following their investigation, he was given a verbal warning for the incident.
“Shedden will say I punted him off but the way I look at it, there was a gap there,” said Morgan to TouringCarTimes. “I put my nose down into the gap, I got nerfed onto the grass and I couldn’t stop.”
Responding to Shedden’s criticism of his style, Morgan added: “That’s not me, that’s not how I drive. I’ve only been called to the (race stewards’) bus twice in the last three years.”
“I’ve had a bit of a slapped wrist and a telling off, but I don’t think I’m the only person ever to hit someone off. It’s one of those things.”
