Adam Law (66) leads the junior rotax max class around the Track. (Picture by Alex Digard, 0611489)

COLIN LAINE has insisted he was not to blame for the shunt that threw the senior libre championship final into confusion at the Track on Sunday.

Young Ayrton Hockaday was the main benefactor from the mass coming-together midway through the final when his father, Dave, was leading the 20-lap race. Laine was subsequently black-flagged, but insists he was not to blame and that the penalty has since been rescinded by the Guernsey Kart & Motor Club.

‘I was totally the innocent party,’ said Laine. ‘It ruined my race being called in.’ Laine admits he was involved in the shunt, but says he was pushed from behind as the top end of the field were virtually bumper to bumper lap after lap.

From his viewpoint the declared result leaves him three points adrift of joint leaders Dave Hockaday and Matt Corson with the August and September meetings to come. Corson was another who did not have the best of days.

After the big spin-off he was given seventh place in the final, having earlier collected a second, third and fourth. But at least he had the consolation of equalling the senior libre lap record with a slick 19.37sec. in the first heat.