Collard vs Huff

[steve21]

I would like the forums views on the above incident that happened in race 2. Being a neutrel in the sport I thought That Huffy was well out of line doing what he did but to then be interviewed and try to blame collard for the incident i thought was very below the belt. Is it just me looking at it from the point of view that every incident this year 9 out ten times there has been a Seat involved in it or was it a fifty fifty incident? Let me know what you think.

[Toto]

Bizarrely, if you read the story on the news section on this site, Collard reckons Huffy was trying to blame Plato for it all!

I think Huff had every right to use Plato to make a gap for him. He got up alongside Collard without problem and looked as if he'd pulled off an opportunistic move but then just came drifting across at him through the corner. That was his error. He should have given Collard room to race on the outside. We saw Turkington do it with another driver in the first race at Cascades. Huff's fast, no doubt about it, and isn't scared if getting stuck in with the bigger names, but he's a little too aggressive at times and that's what's letting him down.

[Alan]

I haven't seem any footage but from what I gathered at the circuit this is really just the case of two drivers who don't want to give up.

This sort of thing is going to happen, and while Mr Collard seems to think the works teams are getting at him (as he did last year) he would do well to look back through Matt Neils history in the BTCC - good independants get hit by works cars, sorry but if you are in there fighting with them you are going to get hit by them!!

Sometimes this sort of move works, sometimes it doesn't!

As for SEAT being involved in most of the incidents - sorry, but that is just wrong and a rather distorted view of events so far this year. Yes they have been involved but certainly no more than many of the other drivers and teams.

[Tim.Lad]

Its quit clear what happened on the replays

Plato made a great move down the inside on collard and huff followed through huff has his nose in front of collard and collard turned in hitting the side of huff, huffs car became unstable and got a slide on witch took them both wide and into the tire wall.... racing incident imo, I donÃ*t want to blame anyone but I think huff played a fair moveÖ

[Les]

50:50 move as Tim Harvey said.
Never thought Huffy's car would be out for the third race and then I saw them working on it. Very good team they have there.

[JLD]

Got to agree about the amazing job that Seat did on Huff's car. It looked too bad for a 'quick fix', but those guys obviously can work miracles.

[Kelvin]

These guys have to realise that to be in with a chance of winning a race, they first must finish it!!

[bramble]

It looked to me like the curbing unsettled the rear of Huff's car which resulted in the contact...

[Les]

one thing suprised me from watching the re-make of the car.
One bloke was wiring up the door - no idea what the cable was for and putting on the inside fascia. I would have thought a door is a door regardless of whose car it is for so why not carry it about already made up?

And Jason's engine change - was that a record? An hour?

[SaxoTowny]

Huff thought that jp was slowing him down sum what but wasn'y blaming jp for the incident! me being a fan of the seats will say that it was collards fault as there was a gap to go for there!!! defo agree bout the seat team but they did cum from etcc so they have alot of experience!!! just wish they would sort the breaks then we can see jp regain the championship!!!

[Thinlizzy101]

I think, like the Reid-Neal incident at Silverstone that it was 50:50, but if anyone was in the wrong it was Collard. Huff already had his nose past the front of Collard, then he turned in onto Huff and they went off

[psq43]

50 50 on this one, both at fault, both could have avaoided it, one by waiting for a better, less risky chance and the other by reading the possible (and eventual) outcome and letting up to have a crack later on!