Jamie Green: “I don’t purposely drive people into the gravel”

Jamie Green has responded to Martin Tomczyk’s claim that he forced the BMW driver into the gravel at the Hockenheim DTM season finale.

The pair made contact on the wet track on lap 22, with Tomczyk’s RMG prepared BMW sliding into the gravel at the Sachs Kurve after he attempted to pass Green’s Abt Audi on the outside of the corner.

Despite losing three positions as a result of the incident, Tomczyk was able to finish the race, albeit down in 19th.

Green ended the final race of his first season as an Audi driver in 13th.

Following the incident, an aggrieved Tomczyk told TouringCarTimes he felt Green had pushed him off, but the Briton countered the claims by responding: “At the end of the day, I don’t purposely drive people into the gravel.

“He [Tomczyk] tried to overtake on the outside of the Sachs corner in the wet which to be honest, is pretty optimistic.

“At that point, my tyres were pretty much done, which is why I was driving to the edge of the track; he was there, I was understeering and he ran out of road. It wasn’t like a hard contact or anything out of order.

“I think from his point of view, he should have known he wasn’t going to make it around the outside of that corner in the wet. I wouldn’t have done it.”

Green also described the conditions at the start as “dangerous” and admitted he eventually coasted down to the first corner due to a lack of visibility.

“I think the first lap was especially dangerous because there was so much spray, I couldn’t see a thing.

“I was literally rolling. I wasn’t on the throttle and I wasn’t on the brake. It was like “where’s the corner? Oh, here we are!””

“But when you have the biggest diffuser of any car and starts in the middle [of the car], the amount of spray it creates is quite big.

“When you have 15 of them in front of you, you can’t see a thing.”