Triple Eight drivers criticize Boardman’s restart

Triple Eight drivers James Nash and Aron Smith are critical of the restart made by Tom Boardman in the third race.
“What can I say? The incident that ruined both mine and Aron’s third race is on camera and the facts self-evident. I know that if a similar incident happened on an indoor go-kart track the culprit pulling the stunt would be immediately shown the black flag and disqualified,” said Nash.

Boardman, who claimed his first ever BTCC victory in the third race, slowed down ahead of the safety car restart, resulting in a traffic jam behind. Smith ran in to the back of Nash at high speed and was forced to retire on the spot.

“He just took off on the final straight and then suddenly slammed on the brakes. I had nowhere to go. I have no idea what he thought he was doing,” said Smith.

While the weekend proved to be tough for Nash, he still managed to close the points gap in the independents championship to leading driver Mat Jackson who had an even worse weekend with three retirements.

“We have though to take the positives. The car ran well and we bagged good points, particularly in the first race. My main rival for the Independent’s award Mat Jackson fared worse than me today and so we managed to pull back his lead in the championship to just 5 points. Rockingham in two week’s time is next up and with better luck we should go well there,” said Nash.