It's been very disruptive not knowing, through this six-week break, whether or not I am going to be in the car for Portland. It's a big distraction the way everything works. With Kevin Kalkhoven giving me these opportunities and also having a management contract with me, it's very difficult to put any pressure on to find out what I am doing. I don't think it's my place because I'm very grateful for the chance to be here. So it's a complicated situation, but one that I am very lucky to be in. It's just been difficult trying to get everything sorted out, get everything confirmed, and I'm living a life of uncertainty. It's been the same since the end of last season and it's frustrating. Hopefully, though, it will all be over by this weekend and I can just focus on what I am supposed to be focusing on, which is being a race car driver.
With the Champ Car season not starting until April, and testing being limited to just three group outings in the months leading up to that, I was able to take the opportunity to do some other things I have wanted to do racing-wise.
The
Daytona 24 Hours was a lot of fun to do. The team did it as a one-off event and I did it because I know Paul Dallenbach. Paul, Wally Dallenbach, George Robinson and myself raced the #84 Daytona Prototype, which was a completely different experience but, like I said, a lot of fun. The cars are a lot slower than the Champ Car because they're a lot heavier, but they're more 'chuckable'. Everything happens in slower motion, so you can get big slides in them and you get to overtake a lot of other cars, so you learn a lot from it. There are so many talented drivers that do that race, and it's one of those that I wanted to say that I had done. Now I want to say that I have won it, so it's definitely one that I want to do again.
