the bike seems fine. The rider is okay
hello everybody
you thought the race season was over but
it's actually not over yet, because next weekend
I'm gonna race with the karts, in Varano and today
I'm going to ride my Yamaha R1
I'm here in Cremona
and you're probably wondering
why today, on October 26,
I'm riding here if the first race
will be in 6 months
the reason is that next year I'm gonna be
racing in a much higher level championship, so considering that
I will not be competitive yet
I would love to
you know.. not be that bad
so the goal is to ride as much
as I can during this winter
to improve, to get better
and be as much competitive as I can for next season
and today it's a wonderful day, 'cause there is
a lot of people around
and I am with my Yamaha r1, as usual
but
the only difference is that today
I'm gonna be riding with
Pirelli SC1 tires, and the reason why I'm using these
tires is that you know next year for sure I'm
not gonna use anymore street tires
but I'm gonna be using racing tires, so it's important
today that I start to get used to
slick tires, and with me today will be riding
Andrea Gilardoni, with his Yamaha r1
'cause today we have another
challenge, we are gonna be challenging here again in Cremona
like the first challenge we did at the beginning of the year
and apart from Atzoli, who today is gonna be coaching Gilardoni
we also have
this bike, you probably don't know
whose is this bike. This is the bike
of Ivano Magliano, my teammate who won the MotoEstate 1000
this year in the stock category
and someone special is gonna be testing
this bike today, hoping to be able to
race with it next season
and you're probably wondering why everybody already has
it's
leather suit on and I'm still casual
there is -- It's October 26, it's cold,
there's a lot of humidity, I'm gonna be riding for two days
I don't wanna crash in the first session
I mean if I was a pro rider, with the spare parts
full team, unlimited budget
I would be riding now, but considering
that I have
to deal with low budget, all those kind of stuff
I don't
wanna risk
it's useless
and you know this is the difference between amateurs and
someone who wants to be a pro rider
the amateur goes in and
has fun
while for me it's useless to go in and
consume
tires, fuel, engine
without a reason, and I thought it was
for you to see, to understand the difference
between these 2 approaches
I wanna go home
first session is always
a disaster. it seems like I
never ever ride a motorbike
by the way I have 3 huge problems, first of all I
slept 4 hrs, and I don't know why. I was so
sleepy yesterday, I
went to bed and I could not sleep at all. Shit happens. Second reason is that
at turn 4 there was some water on the ground
and I -- you don't see it
so as I went in
I lost the rear and I said OMG, okay. Slow down
it's dangerous, to ride like that
and the third thing,
new gloves
I did not remember how hard it is to ride with new gloves
you feel like you don't know what you are doing
you have totally different feelings from the used ones
so now I'll go back to the old ones
which are quiet hard, that's why I'm warming them up
with the tire.
Are you ok? Yeah yeah
which corner?
the second one
I wanted to exit wide and I peaked
a bit on the outside
and I didn't focus on the apex. The bike seems fine
the rider is ok
it's still wet, in turn 4,
it's not drying, it seems like the water comes from
the ground. It's wet. You lose the rear
if you accelerate too much there.
That's why I'm not doing 1.29
I'm joking
during lunch we took a look a the telemetry
to understand what was happening, because
I was fighting all the morning with the anti-wheeling
the bike was wheeling too much and I really couldn't control it
and I didn't know why
and the reason why was that in the previous races
where we were using the street tires
I asked them to decrease anti-wheeling
because it was too strong. The problem
is that the street tires have a different radius compared to
these tires, so now, the anti wheeling is too low
so we need to increase it a little bit, to help me while
exiting from the corners
the track dried, I woke up, I changed my gloves
and I improved my best lap, 1.30.0
for fifty tenths of a second I didn't
make 1.29. I'll do it. I mean it was
the first lap, a shitty lap with many mistakes
and then red flag because
two riders crashed. I hope they are fine
one of them was my friend Alberto.
by the way, I'm
happy because I reached immediately my
last time's limit and
I truly realised
how much more grip you have with slick tires compared to
street tires
it's obvious, but you must feel it
I felt how much you can brake into
the corner,
and how much you can accelerate
earlier, that's
a huge difference
that's pretty cool
this day was amazing, I'm
so happy about the result because
I almost went one second faster
that last time
last time I did 1.30.3 and
today I made 1.29.5
with used tires
what's incredible, is that if you watch the video of that lap
I was kind of going slow,
I was not pushing, the thing is I was just
doing the right things
in the right way, and it's incredible because
if you learn to do the right thing and you learn the technique
you can make very fast lap times
without risking that much
without being to the limit in every corner
which is what I was doing until
a few months ago, I was always pushing
trying to find the limit,
but doing the wrong things, and thus going slow
now that I stopped pushing like an idiot,
that I started doing the right things, I'm going faster
and this is driving me insane, that's crazy
now that I have quite learned
to do the right things, now I should try
to return - to go back
to push a little bit. The idea for tomorrow
is to brake a little bit later, corner a
little bit faster, and accelerate a little bit earlier
which is the key to going fast, of course.
And tomorrow I'll
try my best to improve.
the goal is 1.28
which would mean going 2.5 seconds
slower than a motogp rider
like Folger, and
it means a lot for me