And, secondly, I do feel that racing on street circuits and on oval circuits give us a bit of an edge as well. I think it makes a tremendous spectator sport from the aspect of whether it be corporate hospitality or whether it be entertaining sponsors or just the general public at large. I think Champ Car has proven, particularly with these three-day festivals, it is actually a fan-friendly series, and I think that's incredibly important. Because the day you forget the fans is the day you start to degrade your own business.
Q:
No comparison to Formula One?
PS:
No comparison, and that's something Minardi tried to strive for, and which is bringing it back to the people. And I think Champ Car has certainly already achieved that and that's certainly one of the things that attracted me to Champ Car.
Q:
The two of you sort of alluded to this in your previous comments but, as two guys who kind of share a similar background in having been sort of the leading lights, the leading forces in a couple of
F1 teams that, to steal a line from Paul, punched above their weight, I wonder if that sort of make-up in both of your characters is something that kind of helped this relationship gel quickly.
PS:
I knew I was going to get that one first. Look, there is certainly some certain synergies there. Keith [and I] actually joked about this, because Keith left F1 the year I came into it. You know, they call F1 the 'Piranha Club' and, certainly, it doesn't take prisoners - comparisons like 'it's a baptism of fire', etc, they have all been used over the years. But it is a tough, no-holds-barred business - and it is business, unfortunately.
