Bruce,
I appreciate the confidence and faith you have in me, but this season is and will be a learning curve for our team. Our focus has been to get good quality sponsors on board, which we have done, and get wheel time. As far as our business plan is concerned, we are ahead of schedule, but I still want to roll with it methodically, in order to minimize mistakes on and off the course. With the new/old boat everyone knows it is the fastest, but everyone also knows that the fastest boat doesnt always win. I havent had the time to dial it in since aquiring it. After Chat, I have a month to get her going in the right direction. We have had just too many races this year and between the races and all of the sponsor appearances(well work too!!
), we really havent had time to sit still.
Frank, Dave, and Richard have put one hell of a team togetherand have worked hard from day one. It is an awesome boat and if they keep going in the direction that they are headed in, they will challenge the speed that we know my boat can do. This is their year. Frank has been talking retirement for the last couple of years and his goals this year were to do a clean sweep of all the titles and honors and I made him a promise at the beginning of the year that he was going to have to earn it, it wouldnt be handed to him as in years past. They have stepped up to the plate and have earned it. What a way for Frank to retire, on top.
Next year is our year, over the winter I will have some quality time to get the boat dialed in again, I am going to have Julie touch every part of that boat(shes my good luck charm), we are going to get going with the new "Throttle Up" propeller and there wont be anyone that will be able to touch us on or off the course.
We of course are going to give every race 110% as we have all year, but the thing I like the most is no one knows what we are bringing to Key West, including myself
You know better than most how I think and that I am always looking for ways to get more speed and performance out of any team or boat I have been with. Now its just time for me to show you and Frank how good of a student I was when I was with both of those teams. One month is a lot of time. Plus its also a benfit to have one of the best drivers in the business, Scott might be a rookie in experience, but he drives like he has been racing for 20 years.
Thanks again for your support and thanks to everyone out there that has made my first year of running a team a successful one and more importantly fun year.
Trent
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