We've improved some things over the winter to increase our efforts this year. Our bodies are better, engines are getting where they need to be, and overall infrastructure is growing. Our goal is to get into all 20 races we enter, and really become more competitive this year.

We're nearly ready for the new season, and we're looking forward to the test at Las Vegas. With refreshed bodies and engines for the cars, an experienced driver and a team with focused enthusiasm, we expect 2006 to be our best yet.

I am pleased with the progress of our team today. Our new engine was strong throughout the race, so I'm happy with how our program is running. Our pit crew also performed well and we didn't lose any time in the pits. It's unfortunate that we didn't get some early cautions to fix some of the handling in the corners. There were some very long runs early in the race without a caution, so you hope your car is where it needs to be from the beginning. Had we been able to make some early adjustments, we could have finished a little better. It's all part of the growth process.

The EPA is prepared to act, but we do have to have a pretty complete understanding of the risk and the exposures.

The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first understand what the composition of hair cells are and how they develop. We believe that a molecular understanding of the function of hair cells is needed to ultimately prevent hearing loss, and stimulate the regeneration of hair cells in mammals.

All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.