The first couple of races were pretty good for me, the first race in Las Vegas in particular. Sixth place, just by staying out of trouble, was good and, again, in Long Beach, where we had really didn't have that good a car up until the race, we did alright. My engineers pulled something out of nowhere and we finished tenth - although that was actually a bit disappointing because we just couldn't pass people because of the nature of the track.
By contrast, Houston was a complete disaster for us - probably the worst race I have had in a long, long time. We were staying out of trouble and I think I was up to ninth in a car that, honestly, was quite difficult to keep off the walls. We found out what the issues were after the event, but we didn't know at the time, so the team was doing a great job keeping it together and we were looking just to finish the race. Unfortunately, that didn't happen because I had a coming together with Neel Jani, and that was really disappointing, as it took us out of seventh in the championship and dropped us out of the top ten.
But, looking forward, we have had this gap and the team has been testing on a rig and my team-mate, Bruno Junqueira, went a did a little local test to see if we could learn anything. Hopefully, we can start moving forward as we have a long run of races coming up.
Bruno's great, very similar to Oriol Servia who, last year, proved to be the best team-mate I have ever had. He was really helpful, very experienced and very talented, and Bruno's very similar in a lot of ways, although obviously I don't know him as well as I know Oriol. But, so far so good. He's from the same mould - very talented, very experienced and, most importantly, very helpful, so you can't really ask for any more.
