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Saturday am - Just A Little More Time...

Having spent his off-season sat in a garage making car noises, Micky Doyle needs to wait a little longer to hit the track in his InTune Racing Honda Civic, which wasn't quite ready for free practice one.

Instead the little Scot was watching from the sidelines as final preparations with the car - including some work on the dash - were completed ahead of the second practice at 12.20 local time.

"We weren't quite ready for that session so we sat it out to get the car ready for session two," he said. "Just to be here is a bonus for as we did think we might not be ready in time and the engine only went in yesterday.

"The aim for session two is to have some trouble-free laps and keep it on track. This is a bit of a test for us, but we don't want to be last this weekend. I don't think we will be..."