In the previous episode
ready to do the 24hr race
after just two hours we broke the alternator
again
this means we're gonna use another 30 minutes
to fix the car. The lights are still off and
I'm gonna go in 15 minutes. Oh shit
I can't see anything
That's so annoying! I can hear him very well
but he doesn't hear me. What the hell-- no
there is the screen rotation -- come on!
24 hrs of Adria
wow. I really have no words to describe to you how wonderful
it is to make a 24hrs race
it's incredible, you have to imagine the most beautiful things
that you can imagine in motorsport
and put them all together in one single race.
You're not alone. You're a team. Fighting, racing
for one goal and when you go in
just you, the car, the night and all
the most beautiful feelings you can imagine
it's love at first sight.
first time you try something like this, you don't wanna go back
now we are 15th, I don't know
how many laps from the first, but we already spent
the mandatory 60 minutes. We still have 30 minutes
to
spend
and you can't say anything now
we must wait for the end of the race. really. now anything
can happen, now. anything
I'm helping Marco
ok Pantano is going too fast
I was doing 1.53 which was the
time that the engineers told me, and he's doing 1.50
1.49, too fast
so
we made this, 'cause we had an issue
with the radio, it's not working, so we told him to save fuel
and to make 1.53
as reference lap time
ok there was a safety car, so he saved fuel
and now he can push, so
he can go back to make 1.50
and I didn't have the S and the H so
I used the 5 upside down
and a B with some tape
it's "push"
the last one you have? The last?
20 minutes to go. What happened?
ok now it's like 11.30pm
and it feels like 5am,
17 hrs to go, no 16
by the way, this is the room where we all stay, with the team
and we have there Lorenzo
who is keeping track of all the lap times
and the pace and everything,
there, on that paper, and then we have
her, who is --
there are the other team members
and there we have the chief
who is sleeping
it's almost midnight, I should go back in
at around 4.30am, another two hrs
so now
I'm going inside the car, turn it on,
warm air, and try to sleep a couple of hours
guys we have morbidelli now inside
who is going 7 seconds per lap
faster than the other ones
this is insane
we are 5th, and now we are gonna pass 2 more
this means that we are on podium
from last to third
this is what I meant when I said the endurances are impossible to predict
until the end, and this is what I meant when
I said that the night is fundamental
one crazy night where everything happened
failures, lights going off, fog, ice,
drivers on the phone, drivers singing
overtakes, defences, record laps,
and now thanks to the talent of the F1 driver
and to our teamwork, we are fighting for the podium
while the sun is rising we are entering
in the last 8 hours, which will be crucial
we will put new brakes, and it will be time to push, now more than ever
we must give our best, now more than ever
we will fight for the victory