Barry Green Q&A

"The protest decision, signed by Brian Barnhart, clearly states that it is appealable. Since that day I have spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars, not only trying to prove to the IRL but to prove it to myself. I always said I would not go into a meeting unless I was sure that I was right in first place. I guess you could just say that I am very disappointed in Tony George and the IRL. I believe Tony lost his way here. Our argument is: When racing ceased, who was in front? Our argument is that the rulebook says when the yellow flag or the yellow wall light is displayed is when the racing ceases. All of a sudden I find out today that racing ceases when they call for the yellow. I'm sorry, but that is very different to what is in the rulebook."



"I imagine a lot of teams will want that. I think the rulebook needs clarifying going forward. What rules are we racing under? That's where my real concern and my real disappointment comes in."



"We did it two ways - first through video frame count with a standard time code. We synchronized the time codes between the blimp and the Turn Three camera. The blimp was almost a straight-down shot, so you eliminated a lot of the angles. To back all that up, we started with Helio's car and those two cameras and zeroed them, ran them through, zeroed them and ran them back again. We did the same with Paul's. We got the exact same answer from the six different ways. We also zeroed it at the start-finish, so we eliminated any possible question. We know the exact position of these race cars when the light came on - exact."




"No. I'm not sure how to read into what I heard this morning. But forgetting this morning, the only thing out there that cannot be independently verified is Penske's Pi data. And the man who started Pi has said that this system is not a device to determine races. It is built for us. It is too user-friendly and it cannot be independently verified. The only evidence you can say Penske produced is they say where their yellow light came on and where he lifted off (at the entry to Turn Three). We are saying that mathematically that is wrong. If you watch the video, you can see that he does not stop racing until he is out of Turn Three."



"I had to do the right thing. This is not my style, but on behalf of all my guys and their families I had to at least argue my point. The more I looked into it, the clearer the picture was. I'm very disappointed and exactly what we do from here I don't know. I still have to go through a lot of that stuff and talk to my attorneys and advisors. But I do know that we presented an excellent argument and I still feel we won. I have to feel sorry for Mr. Penske, really, because I think this race is not going to sit well with him. It cannot after what he saw what we had."



"I'm not sure whether that matters. I'm just going to go away and gather my thoughts, because I was really confident. It's not going to make too much difference in how we go racing in the future. When this team is down, look out, because that's when we're at our best."



"All of my business is based on sponsorship. All my future plans are based on sponsorship. I've been with my sponsors a long time, and I to be honest I feel quite foolish in front of my sponsors right now because I think we had a very strong case and I guess I'm going to have some explaining to do. I race where my sponsors want me to race, so at the end of the day, it will come down to where I can raise money and where they want to race. All I can say is I have some tremendous partners and at the moment they are supporting me in CART. I only hope this doesn't hurt open wheel motor racing in this country. It's going through some tough times right now, especially with the business economy the way it is. There are a lot of teams out there who are going to have to work hard to come up with sponsors in the future, and I hope this doesn't affect them."