We would like to thank everyone for their patience in waiting for us to show our car, it was a long process with Molson because they wanted exactly the right look. As you can see we signed Molson Canadian as our lead sponsor, they have a long and proud history of being Canadian which we thought would fit this first venture into motorsports very well. We will now accept questions from the media.
Toronto Star: Canadian based motorsports teams have a tendency to not fare very well in international series, how do you plan to overcome this?
Standard Motorsports: Well there's even a little less going for us when you look a little deeper because we are also a driver owned team. We have not, however, made the mistake of attempting to hire all Canadian team members. That tends to be the downfall of most Canadian teams, they think that being exclusively from one country helps the team. We have only hired the best available to us, barring only those who would require a translator. The key to success is to do your very best with what's available to you, not necessarily with only what you like.
DurhamRegiondotcom: Your team owner and driver lives very near Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, how important is it to win that race?
SM: That race is on level pegging with the Indianapolis 500 for importance for everyone working on this team. We have been furiously working to ensure our road and street course program will be among the best in the series. There is another Canadian track on the schedule, Trois Rivieres, which is somewhat near to some more relatives of our driver so with those 2 tracks coming one after another it's a very important 4 week stretch for us with the Indy 500 kicking it off.
Indianapolis Star: Speaking of your driver, how do you think he will fare in an open wheel series?
SM: It's tough to say, he hasn't had heaping amounts of experience in such a volatile handling car. He has experience in the GTPlanet Endurance Series, but only in the GT4 class. Even though he likes a loose car we have the full intent of making the car understeer to begin, especially on ovals, so we don't end up with a ton of DNF's and crashed cars.
Toronto Star: You had said earlier this week that your team is looking to change manufacturers for 2017, have you got anything you're allowed to tell us at the moment?
SM: Nothing has really changed in terms of negotiations, except we've decided to stop pursuing the factory team idea. We're still talking to Nissan and getting a feel for what they're willing to do in terms of support and the number of engines they'll be able to handle putting out. Honda have somewhat cunningly pointed out that the other Canadian driver in the series, Aaron van der Linden, currently drives for them and suggested we talk with him. They said they would still provide all the promised engines for the '17 Indy 500 if we were to form a team together after 2016 has ended. We haven't yet talked to Aaron about this since Honda only told us this morning, so we'll see what that brings us.
Indianapolis Star: Could we get your thoughts as to what races you think would be added to the 2017 super-schedule?
SM: It is very tough to say, there's a lot already on the 2016 schedule so unless Toronto ups their game on the quality of their course there isn't a whole lot that could be added in terms of what Indycar has previously raced on. We know Michigan is coming, maybe Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, other than that all I can really see happening is double headers being made out of the rest of some of the current races.
Thank you very much for being here, we appreciate the acknowledgement, and hope to make something special out of the coming season.
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AMERICA!!!!!!!!
