Plato fuming after Onslow-Cole incident

Jason Plato scored two wins during the British Touring Car Championship race at Knockhill. But the third race ended in tears after an incident with Vauxhall-driver Tom Onslow-Cole, which left the SEAT-driver fuming.
“I have to give Tom the benefit of the doubt until I see the tape, but if it was vaguely anywhere near on purpose, then it was f*****g bang out of order,” said Plato to Crash.net.

Plato was faster than Onslow-Cole but had a hard time to get past. When the opportunity finally came the two went side by side after the hairpin, only to moments later bang in to each other.

“I was stuck behind Tom Onslow-Cole once the race got going and he was driving massively defensively, which I don’t have an issue with at all as we all do what we are told to do as paid drivers. He was never going to let me past but if you drive that way, you have to understand that if you leave a gap, I’m going to have a go.”

“He left a little gap at the hairpin, I came in late and there was a little door clash but he would have known that if I got inside on the exit, I was gone as we are quicker up the straights. That is what happened, I started to accelerate and left him room as there was no need to squeeze him and then I had the biggest hit on the left rear corner – so much so that I’ve just found out that it has snapped the damper in half and bent the shell; so it wasn’t a little rub.”

Onslow-Cole on the other hand was of another opinion:

“It was one of those things really. He gave me a little tap on the way in to get past which was a bit of a forceful move and I was pushed out into the gravel.

“Unfortunately, rejoining the circuit we had a bit of contact. I’m sorry that it happened, there was no malice or anything like that involved. You don’t do that kind of thing fighting for tenth position.”