Thanks for the support Tommy. I think it's pretty clear that there is a bit of an 'A team' and a 'B team' at the top of the league, with the likes of myself, Bill, Keith, JJ etc decidedly in the B team!

- able to beat each other on any given day but not (yet!) at the level of those in front. But I'm sure whoever makes it into the NC team will fight for each and every point that they can get.
I feel I am slowly getting stronger. I've just tried NCQ1 again despite feeling tired after doing NCQ4 and was able to better my previous time. It's not quite 3 races in 3 hours which will be required for the NC though!