SHEFFIELD star Lewis Kerr blasted he wasn’t “dangerous” after a pit gate scrap with Michael Palm Toft.
The gritty Tigers racer had heated verbals with the Dane following a fiesty Heat 14 during their Premiership KO Cup clash at Owlerton Stadium on Thursday night.
Kerr, 33, then produced a leaping wrestling move, jumping on King's Lynn ace Palm Toft and had to be pulled apart as they brawled on the track.
He said: “I’m like that. I’m absolutely fine but I do have a switch. I do lose it.
“I’ve watched the replay. I shut the door on him, but what else are you going to do?
“I shut the door, I’m not going to wave him through. It wasn’t a dangerous move. He was never going to go for it, he wasn’t in the dirt line all night, he was never going to go for a gap like that anyway.
“In the race before he was quite hard on me. He just didn’t like that I passed him in the first place. Then I shut the door on him.
“He wasn’t happy and had a couple of words with me as the race finished and rode off. He said something I didn’t hear it and he rode off really quickly. Then he said it again. I heard the tone of what he said. Then obviously I jumped on him at the pit gate and it all kicked off!
“We had a chat after, we never really agreed with each other. We didn’t have a scrap but at least we talked. We didn’t shake hands.”
The normally happy-go-lucky Kerr admits that the ruck with Palm Toft had been brewing following a row two years ago.
He added: “I had a disagreement with him a couple of years ago when we were in the Play-Offs with Redcar and he rode round and pretended he was injured at Edinburgh and got three points. Then the next night rode in the Grand Final for Peterborough and got 14 or 15 points and it really annoyed me.
“I wanted to get to that Championship final. So we had an argument at Peterborough about that. We’ve not seen eye to eye since then, it’s been brewing for a couple of years.”
Kerr has started the season on-fire at reserve for the Yorkshire club and feels they are motivated after their Grand Final heartbreak last autumn.
He continued: “We were pretty dominant. As much as people keep slating King’s Lynn, I think we are very strong.
“People have put us down as favourites. That doesn’t mean much in April but we have started on a mission. So far so good, three out of three wins.
“I think we have extra motivation. I think everyone is still upset over losing the Grand Final last season in the manner that we did.
“We’ve had such a short winter, it doesn’t feel like we’ve stopped in some ways. The heartbreak is still fresh in our minds.”
Words by Holeshot Media.