There has been a lot of uncertainty at the time. I knew you were kind of disappointed about the fact you weren't going to be in a car. Could you talk a little bit about the fact, after sitting and watching for a few weeks, you now get the chance to race again.
Paul Tracy:
Well, for sure, it's been a frustrating year, but it's also given me the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my family, which has been something that's been difficult to do over the last 20 years of my racing career, as my whole focus of my everyday life was always around what we had to do with the race car.
But, you know, we went to Long Beach. It was my final race for Champ Car and my final race for Gerry Forsythe. And, at that point, really all the options for me to do something with an IRL team or a transitional team to the IRL, there was nothing on the table at that point.
So I really just had to sit and wait for the right opportunity and had conversations with Derrick throughout that time since April until now. We've been working. He's been working diligently trying to put together a programme for this year and possibly moving on towards next year.
This deal has really come about with the help of Tony and a great new sponsor on board. And Derrick and I want to be competitive. And that was one of the most important things to me was I just don't want to be another car in a 27-car field. I want to have an opportunity to compete well, to be where I'm accustomed to running.
And I think the opportunity to run with Tony's equipment, I've seen his shop now and his equipment there, and how his cars have been running this year.
And, with Derrick's preparation, he's fielded championship contending cars the last two or three years with Will Power, and the opportunity to work with this new sponsor and bring a sponsor into the sport, I think, is a great opportunity. So, for me, it's all kind of just really happened. We've been working on this for quite a long time, but it all seemed to go into fast forward in the last about 60 hours or so. So it's been a bit of a rush.
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