Troubled day for Shedden, as boost issue ruins weekend

Gordon Shedden had a terrible second round to the season, after a technical infringement saw him disqualified from race one, and drops to seventh in the standings.

The Honda Racing Team driver had originally finished race one in third place, losing one spot to the Pirtek Racing Vauxhall of Andrew Jordan from his starting position, but was disqualified when it was found the car’s boost had reached 1.88 bar, 0.08 over the maximum during the race.

“Yeah, it was an overboost, funnily enough when I was off throttle, ” said Shedden

“It was at the bottom of the Craner Curves so it’s been for a millisecond, but it has been above the maximum of 1.8 bar, and they’ve taken action on that.”

“Nightmare for me, but rules are rules.”

Shedden finished sixth in race two after a charge from the back, but was involved in the incident which saw Liam Griffin and Jason Plato’s cars wrecked on the opening lap.

The Honda had tapped the back of Griffin’s Motorbase Ford going into the Craner Curves, which had spun the errant Focus into Plato’s Chevrolet, with both cars taking heavy damage.

TOCA awarded Shedden a two-point endorsement on his racing licence but no time penalty, keeping his sixth place, which would be his only points finish of the weekend after retiring on lap eight with damage in the final race of the day.

Shedden drops from fourth to seventh in the standings, but will go to Thruxton in two weeks with no penalty ballast, whereas his team-mate will carry 36kg.