I told Monster the other day, I'm a racer's racer. This is what I truly love to do.
But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
People have seen now I am a racer, and I have big intentions in the sport, and I am prepared to get my shoulders out if I need to.
I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.
We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.
Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.
It is not that I lost my biggest passion - it is still racing.
If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn't a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.
I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.
I didn't go to school that much! I was racing go karts and testing nearly every day, so school wasn't the first priority.
Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.
