Shedden scores for Honda at Snetterton
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Shedden scores for Honda at Snetterton
Gordon Shedden scored a victory for the Honda Racing Team at Snetterton in Norfolk on Sunday as he and team-mate Matt Neal continued their charge for the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
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Shedden scores for Honda at Snetterton
Gordon Shedden scored a victory for the Honda Racing Team at Snetterton in Norfolk on Sunday as he and team-mate Matt Neal continued their charge for the 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
The flying Scotsman made a stunning start to the third race of the weekend to launch from the second row of the grid and into the lead when a rival ran off the road on the second lap of the race. Shedden was able to pull away from the rest of the field to his triumph, which he added to a fourth and an eighth place earlier in the meeting.
“I am delighted to walk away with a win,” said ‘Flash’ Gordon. “When you consider how tough the British Touring Car Championship is and how competitive it is, any win is great. This was a circuit that played to the strengths of the other cars in the championship with the long, long straights and so to be able to stand on top of the podium on a track when we weren’t expected to perform is a bonus. I am third in the standings and I am right in the mix but we can’t afford any slip ups if we are going to stay in the hunt for the crown.”
Shedden’s team-mate Neal was ruled out of the opening race with a puncture while he was running in the top seven and managed to fight back to tenth in race two before using the reversed grid to score a podium in race three.
“We were on the back foot right from the start of the meeting,” said Neal, who is now second in the title standings. “We didn’t have the pace of the turbocharged cars in the championship – which I think need to be pegged back by the series officials to give us all a level playing field for all the different types of car – and I was also carrying 45 kilogrammes of success ballast into the meeting. To be able to salvage a third place was a bonus, but the rules need to change to give us all a chance. The Honda Racing Team has got some tweaks up its sleeve ahead of Silverstone in two weeks time but I am not sure it is going to be enough to keep up with the turbocharged cars.
“We have tracks that will suit us coming up in the rest of the schedule and we just need to make sure we maximise our scores when we can to keep the title fight on track,” he added.
The next round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is at Silverstone on August 21/22.
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“I am delighted to walk away with a win,” said ‘Flash’ Gordon. “When you consider how tough the British Touring Car Championship is and how competitive it is, any win is great. This was a circuit that played to the strengths of the other cars in the championship with the long, long straights and so to be able to stand on top of the podium on a track when we weren’t expected to perform is a bonus. I am third in the standings and I am right in the mix but we can’t afford any slip ups if we are going to stay in the hunt for the crown.”
Shedden’s team-mate Neal was ruled out of the opening race with a puncture while he was running in the top seven and managed to fight back to tenth in race two before using the reversed grid to score a podium in race three.
“We were on the back foot right from the start of the meeting,” said Neal, who is now second in the title standings. “We didn’t have the pace of the turbocharged cars in the championship – which I think need to be pegged back by the series officials to give us all a level playing field for all the different types of car – and I was also carrying 45 kilogrammes of success ballast into the meeting. To be able to salvage a third place was a bonus, but the rules need to change to give us all a chance. The Honda Racing Team has got some tweaks up its sleeve ahead of Silverstone in two weeks time but I am not sure it is going to be enough to keep up with the turbocharged cars.
“We have tracks that will suit us coming up in the rest of the schedule and we just need to make sure we maximise our scores when we can to keep the title fight on track,” he added.
The next round of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is at Silverstone on August 21/22.
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