During driving the Q4 flat-out on the track yesterday I was driving along the main straight at Sandown - when I noticed that the steering wheel was no longer pointing straight ahead yet the car was still driving straight, and seem quite well behaved. (Apart from a 'clunk' under heavy breaking...)

The steering wheel is splined to the column - so i can't have just slipped - but the fact is that is you line up the steering wheel the way it was - its now about 30 degrees 'out' when the wheels are pointing straight ahead???

Anyway I took off the front wheels to check everything - all seems ok.. no bent tie rods -

what could have caused this? Can the whole steering rack move sideways in its mounting?

jimn~