No animosity after Nykjaer and Kristoffersson incident

Michel Nykjaer and Johan Kristoffersson made contact at the first corner at the start of the first race at Knutstorp, with Kristoffersson taking damage and dropping to fourth, but neither driver was too angry about the incident after the race.

Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden’s Michel Nykjaer started from pole position and had the inside line going into the first right-hand corner, whilst Kristoffersson had a really fast start in the Team Biogas.se Volkswagen Scirocco and had almost cleared the Dane before the first corner, but not quite.

“I was coming down to the first corner, but the VW was very fast on the straight and he was almost past me, but I was still inside,” said Nykjaer to TouringCarTimes. “He had a good chance to go round and be P1, but he just closed the door a little too early and we just had the slightest contact on the tyres.”

Johan Kristoffersson dropped to fourth after the incident, and held that position throughout the remainder of the race, fighting off IPS Team Biogas driver Johan Stureson as the top three broke away.

“It was tight and I thought I was completely around but I wasn’t. A big hand to Michel that he could take the chance and he made it,” said a disappointed Kristoffersson to TouringCarTimes.

“(After the contact there was) damage on my car, so the car was almost undriveable after the first corner. It was really understeering after that.”

The Championship battle hots up ahead of the second race, with Kristoffersson now just five points ahead of Rickard Rydell and seven ahead of Nykjaer, but the Dane is reflective heading into race two.

“It’s good, but now it’s the same story, Rickard starts P1 for race two, Kristoffersson second and now I’m P3,” said Nykjaer.