"All the way through the session I had quite severe chattering through the first corner which is very fast and scary even without the bike chattering its brains out. Whatever adjustments we made didn't seem to make much odds to the chassis but there was not enough time in the session to make a big change to the bike so it had to wait until the afternoon. My fastest lap was a 1.39.4 which put me 16th.
"For the afternoon session the changes that had been made since the morning had made the bike only very slightly better. I was in and out of the pits quite a lot because we needed to sort the chassis out to go fast and I didn't see any point in riding around feeling not very happy with the set-up.
"I'd rather come in and out of the pits until we find a good set-up because I knew that a good feeling wasn't so far away and once I get the good feeling then I will really push the bike and I would rather crash feeling that I've crashed from pushing hard rather than crashed from a bad chassis set-up. We never really made much improvement to the bike from the morning session so only went 2 tenths faster and was again 16th.
"For Saturday my chassis mechanic had a brainstorm overnight and had some ideas for what we could do for Saturday morning. Within two laps I could feel an improvement. The chattering had not completely gone but was much better and now I was comfortable that we had a good set-up I could push 100% and feel like I'm not on the edge. At the end of the session I did a 1.38.4 without feeling completely on the limit and finished up in 11th.
"For final qualifying we decided to go a bit further with the changes on the chassis. Again there was a slight improvement. Also during the session I had to try a harder front tyre because if the temperature got a lot warmer for Sunday (which was forecast) I would need to know that I had a tyre that would last the race and not bring any extra problems.
