Soper, driving his badly battered BMW from the back of the field, managed to find his way past Cleland on the penultimate lap and was quickly followed by Harvey. Soper then let his teammate through into a championship winning position, giving Cleland no option but to fight back. A dive down the inside of Soper at Brooklands put the Cavalier onto two wheels and into the side of the BMW, but Cleland managed to pull it all together for the next corner. However, Soper had other ideas and as Cleland turned in to the corner the inevitable contact was made and both cars end up in the Silverstone barriers. The move by Soper handed the title to BMW and Tim Harvey, and left Cleland in no doubt that he had been deliberately pushed off the track. The general consensus was that neither driver was free from guilt, so the result stood. Only following his retirement from driving did Soper give any indication that Clelands view of the incident was not totally inaccurate and that he had been a victim of Soper's anger.

1993 was a bad year for Cleland as he could only manage a single victory and forth overall. The Dave Cooke built Cavaliers were beginning to show their age against the new competition in the series, and even the previous years cars in the hands of Dave Leslie and the private Ecurie Ecosse team had been consistently faster in qualifying and in the races.

The performance of the Ray Mallock built Ecurie Ecosse cars prompted Vauxhall to switch teams for 1994 with a view to improving on the previous years results. It was a learning year for the team, and Clelands relationship with team principle Mallock was often difficult. However, Cleland started the year with some good results, but this form dropped off half way through the season and he scored only forty-five points in the last ten rounds.