Winning his first British Touring Car Championship title was always going to take something special from Gordon Shedden, and the Fifer's job got even tougher when he qualified seventh for today's opening race in the triple-header finale.
"I've known all along that getting over the finish line was never going to be straightforward," the 33-year-old from Dalgety Bay said. "So, really, this isn't much of a surprise."
With the top 13 cars covered by less than a second, Shedden's best time of 1min 32.223sec left him 0.608sec off the pole time set by Tom Onslow-Cole in his BMW.
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