I love the fight scenes in Jackie Chan movies. I think they are great because he uses anything within arms reach in the fight. He will grab the dinner plates off the table to smash over the bad guy’s head or the art sculpture to take the same guy’s knees out. I talk about this because that’s where I’m at in my pursuit for stability in the F1 H2O World Championship—I am grabbing dinner plates and art sculptures and anything that I can to gain control of my future and the future of my team.

I have busted a few myths along the way, the first being that American drivers could not compete anymore. We have been ultra competitive with a legitimate chance to win two of the four races we’ve entered.

Another myth was that American drivers did not carry the same media cache they once did. We busted this one with the overwhelming amount of coverage my team and I have received partly because we ran good and partly because we are the crazy Americans who were unpredictable and seemingly out of control.

Still, with all of this, we are struggling to survive. Our partners have been great but we need more budget to compete long term. Our positives that I mentioned are also our hindrances because we are not part of the inner circle—we are outsiders trying to take our piece of the pie, by force.

So in the spirit of Jackie Chan, we have re-rigged the boat that I race in the U.S. and made the necessary changes to race it in the final two rounds overseas. We do not know for a fact that we will be able to win, but we believe that we can.

It will be the first time in nearly a decade that a boat from America will compete in F1 abroad. We believe that this will be the art sculpture that is within our reach and will take their knees out. One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that the more we can control the better, and this is another step in that direction.

Our partners at Peters and May shipped the boat to the UAE for us. It is on the ocean somewhere between here and there now. I am planning to approach these races with a reckless abandon and a smile that no one will be able to wipe off my face.

My goal at the start of this year was to get through this first season, and with these two races I will have accomplished that. After the tragedies of the last few weeks in motorsports, it reminds me to enjoy every lap because you never know when it will be your last.

The last thing that I’d like to share is a quote by Chip and Dan Heath: "We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we will get better and we will succeed in the end.”