From the press room it wasn't clear to see what the problem was, but it soon became apparent that three wheels on the car rather than four had seen the demise of the Arkas Racing with Sunshine.co.uk man.
"What can I say?" he said after the session. "You need a bit of luck sometimes and these things happen from time to time. Its all part of life but if you look at Brands Hatch last year, I didn't have a good qualifying session and then I didn't get caught up in the accident that happened at the start, so it might not be all bad."
Erkut ended up in 21st on the timesheets which put him just behind team-mate Martyn Bell who had been forced into an engine change after the second free practice session.
"I'm happy with how it went," he said. "My fastest lap got messed up by Stuart Oliver, but he was going for a lap himself so I don't have a problem with it. The guys did a brilliant job to change the engine as quickly as they did between the sessions so I have to pay tribute to them."
Saturday pm Double duty for Shedden?
After the season opener at
Brands Hatch, Gordon Shedden headed home to Scotland where he then got the chance to join GT team Scuderia Ecosse for a day of running at
Knockhill.
The Team Halfords man joined regular drivers Fabio Babini and Jamie Davis for the test in the
Ferrari 430 and admits he would love the chance to race the car.
It would be great to dovetail by BTCC campaign with something in the Ferrari if there wasn't a clash with the touring cars, he said. With the team being based in Edinburgh, [team boss] Stewart Roden has been promising me a drive in his car for something like three or four years so it was time to cash it in!
Saturday pm Don't use the oval...
Fans who attended the British GT finale at Rockingham last season would have seen a number of cars take a trip round the Rockingham oval after out-braking themselves into Deene the corner where the field drops down off the oval onto the infield section of the circuit.
