The team has been great too. We're relatively light on mechanics and staff, but I have my crew chief, Damon, from PKV last year, which is a big help because it's nice to keep some continuity and he's obviously very good at his job. I'm still getting to know the new engineering staff, which is a challenge in itself, but Dale has been great. It's a very different environment to PKV, so we'll see how we get on.
It was very frustrating at the end of last season, as I didn't know where I was going, or what I was doing until right at the very last minute and, to this day, I still don't have anything signed and sealed for the rest of the year. I'm hoping to be in Portland with them, but it's still not certain. Hopefully, we'll find out in the next couple of days.
With testing restricted in the new era of Champ Car, DCR didn't go to Portland with the majority of the field the other week and, to be honest, I think we will suffer, but you have to think positively and, maybe, we've found something on the rig test. We seem to be doing things a little later than the other teams - Team Australia and PKV did their rig testing a little earlier on and now they're putting that to good use - so we're having to play catch-up a little bit. But I have every faith in the guys that we will do our very best. It's a learning process for everyone involved so, hopefully, we can play catch-up.
