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In a word ' average ' is how Clearwater Racing's Matt Griffin described last nights qualifying session. The team spoke about who would start the car in relation to where they qualified. "W e spoke about different scenarios before qualifying, if we qualify in the top six I’m (Matt) going to start the race, if we qualify outside of the top 6 Weng is going to start the race… I think some sort of divine forces were in action that decided that Weng should start the race! " said

We sat down with Clearwater Racing’s Matt Griffin after Quali 1 to chat about the first 2 sessions of the week and his hopes for the final qualifying sessions, and of course the race! During practice there were struggles with over steer and a general lack of pace which had been carried through from test day, this may have been in part due to the engine: “ When we reviewed the data we saw the previous engine was quite high on mileage, when turbo engines get high on mileage