But there are not really that many I haven't driven on. I was very fortunate to be able to do a full season in Atlantics last year, and Houston will be new to everybody. It's going to be a very exciting race and I'm really looking forward to that one. Really, it's just Milwaukee, Mexico City and the Australian race, so I think I'll be on Kevin's computer simulator doing laps and just trying to learning the tracks so they will be no surprise when I get there.
Q:
Katherine, I would like to pursue the line that Kevin mentioned about this year being a relatively convenient year, I suppose, for lack of a better term, for you to go into Champ Car because the technology and the development of the car is pretty well a known entity versus spending another year in Atlantic this year and then going into Champ Car next year when, not only would the team be facing a steep learning curve with you, but also with the car. I wonder if you could kind of talk your way through that process and your thoughts on the fact that this year kind of works better in terms of the technology and the development of the car being a known entity?
KL:
Well, good question. I feel much more comfortable doing it this way around. I feel I have 100 per cent faith in the team. Both my mechanics and engineers have been so helpful. They have helped me through this whole experience, they have guided me through it because they know everything on that car. They have worked with it for years now and they are fully aware of every idiosyncrasy that it may have. So that has helped me to be able to focus on my driving, trying to improve myself, trying to learn about the car and learn about why this happens, why that happens, why you change this and you get this result. So I think it's been a massive help to do it this year.
I think everybody has a rookie year. Very few people go into their rookie year and set the word alight. It's a learning process. I think, for me to go into 2007 and try and learn how to engineer a car as well as worry about driving big cars - because it's a big difference from a 240‑horsepower Atlantic to a 750‑horsepower Champ Car - is a really good thing. It's really beneficial for me to be able to get one thing done at a time and get that done properly.
