This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.
To be completely honest, I am obsessed with Formula 1 so in the off-season I would like to have just a few more races to still race in F1.
I'm just a race car driver.
I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.
Ever since I was 7 years old, Formula 1 has been my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true.
I'm loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.
I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.
Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.
I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.
Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.
James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
When I was very little, my dad had his own go kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined and riding through the paddock on my bicycle.
It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.
I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.
I'm sure everyone has a cool story behind how they got into Formula One, but, for me, Perth, you know, not only in Australia is it detached, but it's detached from the whole world.
There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1. My goal was to get on to the starting grid and that didn't look achievable.
I think Formula One is extremely difficult, obviously, and it's the best drivers in the world so it's not easy to jump in and be on your top level immediately.
I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.
I think if you're a race car driver you want to succeed and be the best in your realm of racing.
We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.
For me I'm a NASCAR driver, and I want to be able to win NASCAR championships.
Mansell can see him in his earphone.
