Aleshin: I’m here, but I have some gray hair

Aleshin

After his first practice session in the car, AR1 spoke with Mikhail Aleshin regarding his delay getting back into the US after racing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

“Yes, because you never know what will be the next human factor that will stamp your visa. You’re Russian and you need a visa on your passport to go anywhere. So this time I learned that I needed to go through the routine visa stamp thing. It was supposed it was to be stamped in two days, but it took a week. Unfortunately, there was nothing we could do here. I’m sorry that I wasn’t here yesterday. Sorry for my team. But I’m happy to be racing with this team in this series in this country."

"Again, all those bureaucratic things pisses me off. You know, I’m here to race. I’m a race driver and so why will it take so long every time? We missed preseason testing in 2016; and we almost missed this race. Not sure how much more I could take?"

"Yeah. Praise God, I won’t have any problems now in getting into Canada for the Toronto race."

"But I’m here. I think I got some gray hair. If you see it, I don’t. I hope not, but I think so. Got gray hair because I was so nervous."