You know, that was all I had. It wasn't like I was letting him pull away from me. I was going as hard as I could go. I wasn't saving fuel the whole race. I went as hard as I could. That's just as fast as the car would go. So it's something we need to analyse, look at. These things we're creeping up on we need to figure out in the next test and figure out for Mexico.
Q:
Newman/Haas has not won here in many years. What did Carl Haas and Paul Newman say to you?
SB:
I think we were pretty happy to bring the Long Beach trophy back home. It's been 19 years - a long wait. There's not so many races on the tour we didn't win for such a long time. I'm sure they were delighted to win that event.
Q:
Your thoughts on the elimination of the pit windows?
PT:
No problems today. I mean, it could have been... things could have gotten dicey I think for maybe Sebastien. He was in the pits when it went yellow. Thirty seconds earlier, it could have been race over for him. You know, this is what they've decided on, this is the way it's going to be. We just have to work with it.
SB:
When I saw the car stopped on the racetrack, I was like "here we go". Exactly what we were expecting. But for some reason, they've been smart and they waited slightly to allow me probably to get in the pit. Just gave us a shot to stay in the race. We've got to be pretty thankful for that.
Q:
Can you tell us about your thoughts on having the alternate tyres?
PT:
I think it's great. I think it's great for the sport. It's not much different in other series where they have a choice between hard or soft. That's all it is. It's a hard-compound tyre and it's a soft-compound tyre. Everybody's going to use the softer compound in qualifying. I think it just adds another dimension to the race.
