That's right. No question it's a little bit strange to be in this situation. One thing I have to say, Roger and Tim, they back me up all the way. It's pretty good to have friends like that, first of all, and a good organization behind you like that, as well.

Again, unfortunately you guys know me, I like to talk a lot, I would love to talk more about my case, but unfortunately I'm not. March 2nd is the date that we're going to be talking about it.

My life, it's definitely about racing. The way I end up with Team Penske is also a very difficult spot. But I feel very confident the whole thing is going to be over. I can't wait for this thing to be over, for me to be back in the race car, do what I love most, which is racing.

Q:
Tim, when did you decide you had to bring Will on? The trial begins 2 March. Did you feel there was not going to be enough time there, if he's exonerated, to get him ready to go?

TC:
Well, we looked at it very methodically. We didn't feel we really had to make a decision at any certain point in time. Again, it comes down to preparation. The longer you go, the more you know. The more you know, usually the better decisions you make.

Along that line, obviously when we looked at it, the best thing for us was to be in a situation where maybe this thing could happen at the end of 2009, and we could go through 2009 and do everything as planned. When it became obvious that there really wasn't anything different, other than this March 2nd date, at that point in time we felt, even if everything's over at that point in time, everything's good, he has to be able to focus on what he needs to do. The race he needs to win is the race he's going to be in March. That's more important to him than anything we've got going on.

We felt like the only way for him to focus on all those things, and for us as an organization to be prepared in the right way, is to find the best available guy there. Obviously, we've chosen Will as that guy. I thought back to some other years. If we'd have been in this situation in other years, we wouldn't have been I guess as fortunate to bring someone on board that can compete at the high level that we're going to obviously expect.

I think it's been a process where we needed to decide. We hoped to make a decision before the holidays, but there were a lot of guys out there that had very good credentials.

If you asked me any one thing that separated Will from any of them, it's very difficult to say. It's one of those things where you look at it and, you know, you say you need to make sure that we as an organization can go out and test and we can go out and do all the things we normally do, let him remain focused. There really wasn't any definite timeline. It's always been something we've kind of taken day to day.

Q:
Helio, can you kind of describe emotionally what you've gone through these last two or three months, what it's been like playing out scenarios in your head?

HC: