It's like, okay, yeah, they've obviously done well where they have been. I had seen Robert at a couple races before. He's a close friend of James Hinchcliffe - who drove for us last year. Robert had been around our team a little bit before. They've done a few races with us, with the Champ Car Atlantic Series. I was able to watch a couple races there at the end. With John, I had not been able to see him, had never met him before. It was just get the information you could.
We went and did the first test with the two of them. It's amazing. I mean, that's the thing, age really doesn't come into this, doesn't play a big factor at all. The experience that they have doesn't go along with the age level at all. These kids are experienced race car drivers. We've got two young professional drivers. We haven't seen anything at all out of either one of them to believe anything other than that. They've both been doing a wonderful job with the team.
Q:
Robert, both of you on this call have exhibited a maturity that a lot of youngsters, like you are, don't. You're handling yourselves well on the calls. Have you taken some media training? Is this an influence from
Red Bull that helps prepare you to meet and talk to the media? What kind of preparations have you gone through?
RW:
For me, I haven't really done that much media training. I know the only real media training I've actually done is in the form of BMW Championships, they have this programme that's called the Education and Coaching Programme. It's for a scholarship driver like I was, both years at
BMW, it's free. For anyone else, I think it's like $3000. Anyway, what it does, it gives you a training programme, gives you how to find sponsorship, teaches you a little bit of media, like the baseline stuff. Then also just driver coaches throughout the whole weekend, everything that you need to be a better driver.
