Sadly, my best time in this morning’s qualifying didn’t manage to match my best lap from Friday’s free practice – leaving me 2 seconds adrift of team-mate Paul Moraviec. A damp track lead to grip issues and there were a couple of yellow flags, but otherwise the weather was perfect.

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Championship title-chaser Rick Styrin suffered an accelerator pedal failure in the first lap and was forced to start Race 1 from the very back of the grid. More on that later…