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Well Dan, that's the qualifying race uh done at Snetterton which was uh I think a feisty affair in the first couple of uh laps, wasn't it? Yeah it seemed it. I got a great start off the line and ultimately we didn't qualify as well as we'd hoped. I don't know what's happened there. Uh it's unusual. Uh I don't remember a time when I've qualified slower than I've practiced. I I'll be honest, I think that's that's so rare for us. Um years, years and years and years have passed since I've done that. So that's disappointing. Quite a lot as well, by quite a chunk we were slower. So not sure if the track changed, but you anyway, climbed up P5, got a great launch, um, which got shut down by Ingram, um, which we'll have a bit of a chat about because it's a bit of a hot topic at the moment. They've changed the rule for this weekend. I got a much better start, and I'm driving into a gap with more momentum than he's got, and um ultimately he shut it down, but it was a bit late in the end. I was already kind of a pad I I almost span him into the pit wall. I did turn him, and then I've got a brake and lift, and I lose a place. So it's a funny one really. Um you know it's not really on the I don't believe it's on the car behind that should have to brake to avoid that. You know, it's I'm allowed to drive into a gap uh and try and overtake you if I've got a better start. If we're going down that route, we might as well say, well, if you get a better start then in front, you've just you've got a whole station, and that's not gonna happen. So yeah, and and that was it, you know, so ultimately lost the place to wash at the start for after having having a break down the down the straight, and then I thought we were sensible, if not spectacular. Uh managed to get back past uh Chiltern when we were chatting just about what happened. You know, managed to do a nice little bump draft manoeuvre and push Ash nicely through the gap. Like I said, if anyone else, my teammate, I would have chosen different. You know, I would have chose to probably push Tom and use that to put myself in a better position, but I can't push a highundai with my teammates side by side with them. So uh we pushed Ash nicely through the gap. Uh and we had a strong race. Not sure we're quite as quick as we need to be in certain parts of the track, but we're clearly quick in some parts of the track, which is telling. So we'll go away tonight and do some homework. Um we're right in the mix, by I would say, um, and we can score a lot of points, and I'm sure we can pick up a podium at some point tomorrow if we put our heads right and get it in a good place. So, yeah, it's it's a sensible, sensible qualifying P4 that puts it at the right end for tomorrow's first race. Very good session, Done. Thank you.