(RacingWire) - Darren Law, from the boarding gate in Phoenix...
My world is very, very busy! Between all the races I've got going over the course of this month and the Bondurant School, where I'm working as COO, it's nonstop every day.
We had the Lime Rock Rolex Series race last weekend, with the No. 5 Action Express Daytona Prototype. The race was reasonable, but we were planning our pit strategy for a yellow and the race ran green almost the whole way through. So we got off on pit sequence and fell back a bit because of that, and we ended up fifth.We have the Watkins Glen six-hour race this week, again in the Action Express prototype. We're looking forward to it. We've always run well there; we've been on the podium there in this race in the past. We're going to have three drivers - Burt Frisselle will join us for this race - so that should be good. We've got momentum: the car's been fast and we've been on the podium a couple of times already this year.
As soon as that ends, I fly straight to Le Mans the next day. After having gone to Le Mans for a few years, I've got a system down. After the six-hour race, I'm going to try to stay up all the way until my flight Sunday afternoon. If I can do it, it will put me on the right sleep schedule and then I'll definitely sleep the whole way over. That's my plan, we'll see if it works.
At Le Mans, we're running in a new class in the GT division [LM GTE Am]. It will be myself, Seth Neiman and Spencer Pumpelly in the No. 81 Flying Lizard Porsche. Flying Lizard is taking two cars this year and they've done what we call art cars, where they've got a wild and cool paint job. I think our chances are really, really good there. It's going to be an exciting weekend and it should be a lot of fun.
After Le Mans, I'm actually going to take a little time off! It will be my only vacation time this year. I'm going to spend a week in Italy with my family. We're going to Venice and Rome, see all the sights. As soon as that trip ends, I go straight to Road America. That will be the first time the Rolex Series is at Elkhart Lake, so again I'll be back with the Action Express Daytona Prototype.
It's a crazy month - four races in five weekends! I'll report back and let you know how it's going.
