Question: The main reason to make the decision to become a team owner?
SARAH FISHER: When you’re racing as a driver and when you have a big group of people in your family that has input and knows what they’re doing, you think about the way that you want to maybe move forward and some things that you would do differently. I married my crew chief, Andy O’Gara, and obviously our year last year with him being my chief mechanic went well because we went through with the wedding.
It’s something we’re very passionate about, and we started to talk to a bunch of people about all of our marketing partners and the people from the Speedway about the opportunities and would it be really ridiculous to do this or could we fully execute it? And it was very positive feedback, and everybody was behind it and so we went to start selling it. It wouldn’t have happened without Tony and our partnership with ResQ. That’s a very important partnership going forward to start up because it’s very difficult your first year to get rolling.
Question: Are you planning to expand to two- or maybe more car team?
SARAH FISHER: Expansion, I would love to be a two-car team. Man, that would be amazing, right? But right now we have to focus on our first car effort and make sure it’s a solid one, that we have solid results. We have solid expectations, so we need to meet those first. If there would be an opportunity at Indy to run a second car if it makes sense to our team financially, we’ll do so. We’re not afraid to branch out; we weren’t afraid to start here and go forward.
Question: Do you hope then to be full time next year, is it just sponsor-driven?
SARAH FISHER: That’s our plan right now. And some of what we’re looking at with Tony and going forward. He said there’s more exciting stuff we want to release here soon. So we would love to do that, and this isn’t just a start-up year that’s going to end at the end of the year. We’re a full-fledged team going forward. We have big plans for the future, and this is the start. This gives us the year to build on, gives us a year to sort out who’s running the team, who does what. Fortunately for myself as the driver/owner commitment goes, I don’t run the team on a day-to-day basis, that’s Johnny O, he takes care of all those things and decisions for me. So that makes the commitment to being a driver, you know, a hundred percent as it was before.
Question: How tough is it going to be at your first race at Indy, do you do a lot of testing at Indy or pretty much rely on your experience?
SARAH FISHER: No, we don’t have that slated right now. We have a lot of good plans in the works right now and have a lot of good people that are lined up to help us with Indy that, you know, it would be nice to get out at Kansas, but right now I don’t think it’s going to work for us. You know, I’d love to be there and love to have more time on the track, and with testing rules it’s not like we can just go off to Phoenix and have a good time out there getting ready. So we plan to do the best job that we can. We are as prepared as we ever have been as the group of people that we are that have worked together in the past. We know where we’ve started Indy before, and we know where we’re going to start Indy this year, and there’s a big difference.
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