After the announcement that I would be returning to Panoz, I have some pretty interesting questions thrown at me. What happened there? I never thought you would return to...? Aren't Aston Martin racing this year? and others besides.

I could write down now all of the events that brought this about, and tell you all about how it all happened, but I won't. To be honest, there's no need to say anything as I look forward to a new challenge - winning the GT2 title for Multimatic Team Panoz.

The next question I can hear you about to ask is 'Multimatic'?

You might not be aware, but Multimatic is now running the Panoz racing programme - and I could not be more pleased, even though I enjoyed my team at the 'factory' team. I have worked with Multimatic before, both through Dynamic suspensions, a company they own and which worked with Panoz just before I left, and with the race team, as we won the Daytona 24 Hours together in the first year of the Daytona Prototype class in 2003, driving the Multimatic-Ford DP.

The team tested at Sebring the other day and, even though I wasn't there, I hear that the car proved quick and reliable. Scott Maxwell was at the wheel of the quickest GT2 car at the test, and he is my team-mate, so that can't be bad. Scott was one of my team-mates in that Daytona win, so we have tasted success before. I get to drive the Panoz at the end of February at Road Atlanta - my home away from home - and, hopefully, we can be just as successful there too.

It's also nice to be back in the ALMS. I can't wait to return, as I have missed competing in the championship full-time. I have started 49 times, and have ten wins, 27 top threes and 38 top fives, so I know the ALMS pretty well...!

The series has grown bigger and bigger every year, and this year looks better than ever. I finished second overall in the Prototype class in the first year, 1999, and again in the GTS class in 2003. There has always been that sense of unfinished business, so go one better this year and a title will feel really good. The schedule for the year looks really good, with some new additions in Salt Lake City and Houston. Check out the full schedule CLICK HERE.

Despite moving back to Panoz and Multimatic, I still have a good relationship with Prodrive, who ran the Aston Martin programme last year, and I am sure we will do things together in the future.

To answer one final question, no, I haven't done a deal for Le Mans as yet, as I am hoping to do this in a prototype. If I can't achieve that, then I will do it in the Panoz.

All the best,

DB