“The session went pretty well and fourth is definitely my best qualifying position for a while so I’ve got to be happy with that. It felt good to be fastest this morning too, although I didn’t really improve a lot this afternoon and I’d have liked to have gone a little bit quicker. Also I only improved by two tenths on my second qualifying tyre and you’ve got to do more than that to get on the front row.

Regardless, this has been the closest we’ve been for a while and I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s race. With a decent start I can at least get in there at the front, see what I’ve been missing and learn some stuff from the boys. So far every race this season they’ve just disappeared after the first corner and I haven’t really learned much, but hopefully tomorrow I can go to school and stick right with them.”