Today I'm gonna test the griip g1. Oh, yeah. It's not easy to maneuver this car
Hello everybody
as you can see I am surrounded by wonderful race cars because today I met
Adria International Raceway circuit in order to make some tests today
I'm gonna test the griip g1 because I'm gonna have a race at the end of September and tomorrow I will test
The formula predators and you may be wondering why I'm making two tests in two days with two different cars
I'm gonna explain it to you soon because now I'm gonna go inside for the first session
Okay guys first Session here in Adria, I started the track on the simulator but you know live it may be something different
Oops, okay, I spoon. It's not easy to maneuver this car
I did not remember how hard this car is to drive especially for the neck
the worst part is here because there are some bumps and you
really can't hold the steering because of the bumps
Whoa, unfortunately, I don't know why I'm not I'm not able to change the display here. And so I don't know
What was my best lap we will check it now in the pit lane.
I can't make the dashboard work. I don't know why I I don't see my lap times. Oh, it's this one
Well, what was my best lap? one point fifteen point two, so it's a good lap?
But you said it's a good time. What is the best time?
Okay now I want to know
Okay, guys, as you probably saw during the session I had a problem with the toe
So this led to the steering wheel not to be straight on the straight. So the steering wheel was
Like this so now the guys are working on fixing the toe. So how do they do that?
First of all, they lift the car using this
Then once the car is lifted they put these under the car
so--
It's much easier
to work on it because the car is higher and the wheel don't touch the ground which is important for the toe and
After that, you lock the steering wheel with those two things that I don't know how to call in English after that
they put two poles one in the rear and one in the front which are connected by a
very thin wire I don't know if you can see it
but after that he checks that the rectangle and he makes some little
Adjustments to the pole in order for the rectangle to be a proper rectangle now once the rectangle is correct
We can now check the toe using this tool
That tool allows him to measure the distance
from the front part of the wheel to the wire and from the rear part to the wheel to the wire this way he can
measure the angle
That the tire has which is the toe, once measured he can determine if one of the two wheels had a wrong toe and in this
case he can fix it
Did two good laps, but I made a mistake in the last corner in both of them
My bad
Why is it so good?it's awesome to drive here. The only problem is the neck
Which I never trained so now
It's devastated, by the way. I thought I went faster, but I did almost the same lap time as this previous session
Even if I did everything better
So maybe the track was lower which doesn't make sense because there was nobody driving
It doesn't make sense, but I don't know
I felt I was doing better. But I was going the same lap time by the way
This is a very different track comparing to Tazio Nuvolari the last race because you don't really use the downforce here
I mean
There are no fast corner all the corner are start and stop
You have to brake, turn and accelerate. So you have to be good at driving the car using trail braking in order to
Let the car turn and be fast and accelerating, so I think that's how you're supposed to drive this car
But it's quite different from the other track, I mean, this is what I think maybe I'm totally wrong
but after these two sessions
This is the feeling that I had so now I'm going for the last session for today and then tomorrow morning
I will have one more session
I'm gonna show you some paddock life now to show you what happens in the box after the day
So here you have my car. They checked everything changed the oil and all those stuff here is another car
There is another car. There you have drivers talking about the day
There you have guys listening to the music, two other mechanics chilling out. The day is over and that's it
And here you can see my corner. I know I know
It's always a mess
but today was a busy day. I didn't have time to arrange it to put stuff in order. Yeah, ok
I will reorder everything later, by the way
This last session was Tokyo Drift as you saw from the video because it was always under-steering over-steering under-steering over-steering
I really had no grip maybe the tires are gone, but I can go a lot faster for sure
I just need to understand how so this is the goal of this day. The goal is to
Improve my driving to make kilometres. We don't have the engineer here
It's just mechanics and car in order to let me practice with it
So no need for new tires or engineer
but later
I will try to call the engineer and ask
What I can change in the setup because during all the sessions I always felt like I had the brake balance all in the rear
Like in the rain ok
So I kept moving
the balance to the front and every time I I was breaking I felt the rear locking and never the front locking and when I
Came back to the pit lane
We checked the brake balance and we saw that usually you go from
60 to 62 percent in the front and I was 65% So even if it was all in the front
I kept locking the rear so I don't know why, I really don't know why so I hope I can
Call the engineer later and try to find a solution for the setup for tomorrow to see if we can improve something by the way
This is the best moment of the day the temperature is
Perfect. This is one of those moments where you just want to be able to stop time and enjoy it
I got a beer and then and all the evening looking at the video to understand how to improve the driving and then tomorrow
The last session in the morning
THURSDAY
Good morning! this morning we will make the last session on the griIp
with the old tires. I'm not expecting the good lap times. But yesterday I spoke with the with the engineer and
We had like a half an hour phone call and I explained to him all my problems
You know Tom the engineer from Germany and he suggested to soften the rear
suspensions and
To soften by one point the anti-roll bar. So this is what we did
the thing is that we don't know if the problem that I had yesterday were caused by the worn-out tires or
by a set up issue
So it doesn't make sense to make big modifications now
Because if it was just a problem of tires when I will put new tires, this setup won't be okay
So the thing is now I would have to go in
I will check how the car feels if it feels better after these modifications and we'll see how it goes for this last session
So the test is over this morning I could not improve my lap time my best lap was 1.16.0 so
horrible, but really I don't wanna say it was because of the tires, but I
really had no grip so
These tires really came to an end
I mean
The only way we can have an answer is wait at the race weekend where I will have new tires and see how it goes
By the way, my best lap was 1.15.4 yesterday and the best lap of
the championship leader was 1.14.6 with used tires this morning he put new tires and made
1.13.2 this means that new tires are very faster here, especially because this is a very start and stop racetrack
so you really need traction and if you don't have traction use a lot of time so
That's it. We will find out in the race weekend and
Which will be 28th and 29th September and you wanna know? I will race with both
Griip and predators and that's why here today I test both cars
So now I leave you with the best lap of the two days, which is the lap from yesterday
Enjoy it and see you in the next video where I will test the formula predators