Q: How do you feel moving to Dale Coyne Racing?
JUSTIN WILSON: I’m looking forward to the new season. We’ve not officially signed a contract yet, but I’m looking forward to getting out there and showing what I can do. It’s a long, hard road ahead. We’ve got lots to learn, new engineer for me. It’s just a lot of things to work on, whereas a lot of the others teams are further ahead. It’s just the way it is, and we’ll keep our heads down, keep working on it and get faster. Hopefully on the road courses we can get close to the front, and we’ll see where that takes us. The best thing about Dale Coyne Racing is Dale’s a racer. He understands it all, and that’s a big asset in this kind of racing.
Q: How did the opportunity come about?
JUSTIN WILSON: (Dale) called me about 10 days ago. We chatted on and off prior to that, and he called me up and said he wanted to move ahead, so that’s when we progressed things. I went over to the workshop and got fitted for the car, and here we are.
Q: How is the process of securing a ride?
JUSTIN WILSON: There’s a lot of uncertainty. The whole offseason was a bit of a lot of ups and downs, times when you think, ‘O.K., we’re set and ready to go,’ and then it was all off. That happened a few times. It’s just how it is. You can’t get too excited until you’re in the car.
Q: Is it a bit frustrating, given your success in Champ Car and winning a race in the IndyCar Series last year to have to be out looking for a new ride?
JUSTIN WILSON: I thought we made a progress last year. We got a win at Detroit, we were getting stronger at all of the other tracks. It was a such a learning year. I thought the stuff we were doing that year, the stuff we would be doing in the offseason we should be right at the front and challenging for wins every weekend come this season. Obviously, we don’t have that opportunity now. Before that, we finished in the top three in Champ Car the last three years – if you look back on it, you think well we’ve been hard done to, but it’s just how it is. If you live in the past, you won’t go forward. So, we’ve got to start with a fresh sheet of paper. That’s what we did yesterday. We’re starting completely fresh, and just working it out for ourselves and moving forward.
Q: Assuming you race for Dale Coyne Racing, where do you set your goals and expectations for 2009?
JUSTIN WILSON: It’s just to keep progressing. It’s going to be a tough year, but hopefully we can get stronger and be competitive on the road circuits. On the ovals, it will be just like last year where we slowly got better and better. I’d like to get a couple more top-five finishes. You just never know. If we can take another victory, that would be a fantastic result for us. Right now it’s just keep our heads down, keep progressing, and if we do that we’ll be happy.
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