The good news is my family's here. We're all together. Friends, as well. They say the tough times are when you find real friends. I've been very fortunate to see a lot of people responding, being supportive. You guys that know me, obviously I love racing. That's what I love to do. I guess unfortunately when you go through that in life, it's just to make sure that you strong enough. The only thing in my mind right now is to get these things over and back to the race car.

Q:
Tim, would you describe what convinced you to pick Will out of the various drivers that are available.

TC:
If I had to say one thing that Roger and I, after we sat down with Will, and obviously we watched from afar, but really never got a chance to know him too well, but the sense of determination that he has. You can look at a lot of these guys and you can say this went well, this didn't go well, that type of thing. But at the end of the day, the sense of determination that both of us felt when we sat down and talked to him about where he's planning to go with his career, how he plans to get there, the things that are important to him, when we added all those things up, he obviously was the guy that we felt was the best for us.

Q:
If Helio gets cleared in time for the 500, would you go with a third car then and provide him with one, too?

TC:
There's nothing more than I'd want to do than come back to Indy next year and run him at the 500. Why wouldn't you want to? I think it's very important to realise that I think, at that point in time, those answers are going to be a lot more obvious than they are now.

I think right now we just have to, again, take this thing a day at a time. We're not going to make any commitments other than we're going to stand behind Helio, and in the meantime we're going to get ourselves prepared as we can be to go win races this year.

Q:
Tim, what kind of a contract does Will have? If Helio is back by the middle of April, will he get to run any races or just kind of play it by ear? Is he going to be maybe the test guy if Helio is back?

TC:
It's pretty simple: If Helio is ready to go at St Pete, he's in a situation where he's ready to go for the rest of the year, the #3 car is his.

Q:
Then, if Will could go somewhere else and get another ride, he'd be released?

TC:
At that point in time, we'll decide. We'll decide what makes sense for all of us. I know that this isn't anything new to Will or to Helio or anybody else. I think everybody sitting up here understands exactly what the game plan is. We want to make sure that we're as up front as possible. Our plan, like we said before, is the easy thing to do in this situation might be to say, 2010, Helio, we'll talk about it then, just get on with 2009. But we didn't feel like that was the right thing to do. The guy has been with us for nine years. He's done a great job. He's won a lot of races. He's great for the sport.

For us, we need to do everything we can to stand behind him. If he's ready to go in St Pete, then he's still our guy. If he's not ready to go in St Pete, then obviously Will's going to be ready to go in St Pete. Anything after that really is a matter of how everything plays out day to day then.

Q:
Tim, can you tell us about the duration of the contract with Will. Is it just for 2009? Are there options?

TC:
You know us, we never talk about duration, we never talk about specifics.

Q:
This is a little unusual case. Any specifics regarding that?

TC:
I think the best way to put it is Will's committed to us, we're committed to him. He knows if Helio is back in the car, we'll sit down and talk about it at that point in time. We'll do the best we can for both of us. The specifics of it are exactly that.

Q:
You're not going to run Helio at the first test? He will not participate?

TC:
He's going to stay focused on what he's doing until he's done doing all that. Once he gives me the call and says, 'Hey, here's the story,' then we're going to do everything we can to get him back in the race car, provided it's before St Pete. At that point in time we just have to sit and see where are we in the season, what's the situation, what's going on. We'll be a lot smarter at that point in time than really making comments now that three or four months from now may or may not make sense.

Q:
Will, this is a different type of circumstance as a driver. How did you weigh your options without a specific guarantee?

WP: