I AM writing this week’s column as vice champion in the British Formula 3 Cup.

Sadly, I missed out on the championship by a slither.

However, congratulations to the champion, Alex Craven.

I went out to the Abu Dhabi GP, returning back this week, following a last-minute deal to race in GP3.

It was so last-minute, I had no chance to do proper simulator work to learn the track.

The GP3 car is massively different from last year.

It has over 150bhp more, and more grip, but the Pirelli tyres are not as good.

I learnt a lot that weekend, not getting the results I would have liked and getting held up in the races – believe me, the track is hard to overtake on.

However, the positives to take out of it are that I was only one-tenth of a second off Red Bull junior driver Carlos Sainz Junior in the last race, and ended up second-fastest in the final stages of the race.

SO what happens now? Well, I need to start to work hard and closely with the people around me to come up with the investment and funding for 2014.

Sounds easy, but trust me it’s not. There are many options for 2014.

I do not have to stay in single-seater racing, but my desire is F1.

If you move out of single-seater racing and move across to sports cars or touring car racing, it can be much harder to then come back into single-seaters, and be very fast.

However, the transition to sports cars/touring cars is seen to be much easier when you come from single-seaters.

Why is that? Well, in single-seaters, you are usually travelling much faster that a touring car/GT, and a single-seater has much more grip, so higher cornering speed.

When you jump into a GT car from a single-seater, many drivers find it easier to adapt to the car having less grip and power.

So taking this into account, I would ideally like to stay in single-seaters, but it is all going to be dictated of course by budget.