"Elephant in the room is that at the end of the season, and to be more precise, November 8th, my contract for Cat Devil Racing will be terminated and I will embark on a new journey with Cherokee Motorsports in 2017. I am going to be extremely vocal on the fact that I do not see eye to eye with
Clayton Hardy and how his team operates in the slightest. At Cat Devil Racing, all of us contribute and earn results as a team, and there is a very family like atmosphere. We look out for each other, and I personally feel like an environment like that is where racing should be. It should be fun to participate in each weekend, and I feel that there are a couple of teams that cannot understand what fun means. I was very looking forward to working with
Jerome and
Kaylee next year and teaching both of them and
Nii Aryeetey some of the things I have learned under short notice this year. Audi came to me after Belle Isle and asked if there was any chance of me racing in an Audi powered car next year. In which case, I said that I had a contract with CDR and it lasted until the end of next year. Audi proceeded to buy out the second year of my contract and asked me to find a seat in an Audi team next year. I had a lot of say to where I wanted to go if I wasn't staying in CDR. The problem is that I didn't have a lot of options. So we began to talk with Ecurie Ecosse, and that seemed reasonable until comments were made about Sony and some of its properties. I personally am not fond of Sony. Nothing wrong with them, I just don't care for the company or its products. But Sony is a massive invester in CDR and that understandably brought those talks to a halt. And because everyone else had literally ditched Audi for other engines, I was stuck having to join up with this moron from Kentucky who probably has as much business sense as a decaying defective nuclear missile. It gets fun because while I have signed all of my sponsors to contracts, they support me, not that team until I sign a contract with them, which I'm delaying for as long as possible in the hope that someone else picks me up before November 8th rolls around. Now, I'm certainly not going to look over the fact that the team is probably one of the strongest underdog teams in the series. However, I am not looking for an assist for a team championship. This isn't basketball or football or rugby. Ii want a series championship, and this is a plain and simple truth; if you race for Black Rose Racing or Cherokee Motorsports, you will never win a championship on your own merit. They both simply can't support champion quality drivers. So, to my extended family at Cat Devil Racing, if I'm not spewing engine smoke I'll make lapping me as easy as possible."
