That’s the best my bike has felt on qualifiers for a while, with the least amount of chatter, and it felt pretty good today. I didn’t get the final section of my best lap perfectly right and I wish I could have got through there a little bit quicker. So it wasn’t a stellar day finishing back in seventh in both sessions but overall I’ve felt better than I have in the last few races and the Michelin tyres seem to be working well too. Also there aren’t any long straights around this circuit so I’m not losing out a whole lot top speed wise. My team came up with a few ideas which we tried today and that helped me get a better feeling – so the key thing will be selecting the right race tyre. I’ll try to get an awesome start and fight like a dog tomorrow – it’s pretty simple really. Back there on the third row it could get ugly in Turn One because it’s really tight here. And the weather tomorrow could go either way so we’ll see what we get. I’m definitely looking forward to this race.
