No action on Yann Ehrlacher and Gordon Shedden clash

The stewards have confirmed no action will be taken against either Münnich Honda’s Yann Ehrlacher of Team WRT Audi driver Gordon Shedden following their coming together on lap eight in Race 1 at Suzuka.

Ehrlacher had dropped down the order after starting seventh in his Honda Civic TCR, and was battling with Shedden’s Audi when the two came together at 130R, with Ehrlacher’s car ending up in the gravel trap and retiring from the race.

“I was following him for a couple of laps and came out of Spoon and moved to the inside,” Shedden said to TouringCarTimes.

“We’re quite fast in the slipstream of the Honda, and I was alongside on the straight line into 130R and I’m just hoping I can compromise his line a little bit, and then he turns right while I’m there and that’s puts me on the grass, and gives him a bit of a tank slapper and off he goes.

“It could have been a massive one for us both, as it’s fast on the way into there, but I had nowhere to go and can’t disappear.”

Ehrlacher admitted he didn’t blame Shedden for the incident, and the stewards concluded that no action was required.