"I'm not sure what caused it, but I might have buzzed the engine when I went into the gravel in qualifying while I was trying to slow the car down by dropping through the gears. The team said the telemetry doesn't show that, but that's what I think."
Saturday lunch Kane canes them
Steven Kane showed no prisoners in his first BTCC start, showing former champ
Matt Neal he wasn't going to let reputations get in the way of the fight for points in his debut season.
"We drove our own race but I had a fast car," he said. "I didn't want to go out there and do anything stupid so the aim was to get to the finish and get some points.
"We changed a lot from testing and it was a bit of a gamble but it worked. We are on the pace despite being 30 kilos heavier than the other BMWs (due to the sequential gearbox) so I'm a happy man."
Sunday lunch It was my line
The conditions may have worked against
Mat Jackson in race one, but his cause wasn't helped when he was held up by traffic while trying to lap back-markers.
On one occasion, he made contact with Alan Taylor's Honda Integra although it wasn't the first time the Robertshaw man had endured an incident at Graham Hill...
"I had a great start and made up five places in the first two laps," he said, "then it all went a bit crap! The car got out of shape at Graham Hill Bend and I collected Martyn Bell then later in the race Mat Jackson came up behind me. He was quicker than me and wanted the racing line, but I was on the racing line and left him room on the inside. It was a little ungentlemanly for him to hit me but there you go."
At least Jackson was able to continue after his coming together with the Integra the same couldn't be said for Bell's Astra which was forced out after just two laps.
"I was cautious at the start, but then Alan went off and collected me as he came back on, he said. It was just unlucky really and a bit of a shame as we had decent race pace sorted."
Sunday am Time for a change?
In World Touring Cars, fast laps set under yellow flag conditions don't count in practice and qualifying but that wasn't the case in yesterday's qualifying session.
