Hi Yardbarkers,
I had a very special birthday at the track, doing what I love to do the most - racing cars. The team surprised me with a cake. I enjoyed it very much. Then Steve Luczo surprised me last night at dinner with an autographed jersey from my favorite athlete - Lance Armstrong.
Hi Yardbarkers,
Today has been a really good day for me, other than qualifying, it's been great. It's my birthday and the team got me a cake. It's a special day being able to do what you love the most on your birthday. I love racing cars and I feel very fortunate to be doing it with a great group of people. I do wish we would've been faster in qualifying, I expected us to be, but I do think we have a much better racecar than qualifying. I hope to prove that tomorrow night.
It's been a long day of waiting. It's been a very unfortunate
situation, but the weather has played tricks on the track. It's rained
like 5 days in a row so water is leaking onto the track which makes it
impossible to drive. When it comes leaking through the track they call
it weepers and that's what's happening in Kentucky. I shot some video
of it this afternoon for you to see. The track has been working really
hard to soak up the water, but it's a tough job, especially with all
the rain they've gotten this week. When we have downtime like this I
have to kill time so I've been watching YouTube, surfing the internet,
talking with my engineers about next week's race and shooting videos.
Hi Yardbarkers,
I'm really disappointed about today's race. We had such a good car, but unfortunately got hit from behind going into the first turn at the start of the race. I don't know exactly what happened. Mario Moraes pinched me in
the chicane just before the start and I had to lift to avoid hitting
him and that gave Paul Tracy a run on me at the start. I was on the outside
going into turn one and gave plenty of room and then someone hit me
from behind, Mike Conway I think. I don't know what caused that behind me
but it spun me and bent my right rear suspension. It was really a shame
because once the team fixed the suspension the car was great. We were
definitely one of the fastest cars on the track, but there's nothing
you can do about it. The important thing for me is that I learned a lot here. I passed a lot of cars, my engineers say I made the most passes in the race and it's important for me as a rookie to gain that kind of experience. As a team we just need to keep our heads up because we did
a lot of great things here in Edmonton, it's just too bad the results don't show it.
Hi again from Edmonton,
We have been spending some time with the guys in the Royal Air Force here in Edmonton. They will be doing a flyover today in their F-18s. Yesterday me and a few of the guys from the team got to pay a visit and sit in the plans. It was so cool, but now I want to fly in one! I wanted to share a couple photos we took.
