Do you remember from the previous video how we did the qualifying?
So that was 9 a.m. Now it's 11 a.m. And this is the situation
It got worse, the rain didn't stop but intensified and the conditions are now
Devastating literally a downpour is coming down
I didn't even exit the pitlane that I am already totally wet and freezing and the track
Just after the in lap seems impractical
Anyway, I start sixth and after the qualifying we modified the setup
We lifted the car
And in these first corners, the car seems to have more grip even if there's more water on the ground
But the gap from the others in qualifying was really too high I mean today
No big dreams, but you know in these conditions
Anything can happen it will be 14 laps of
Survival, it will not win the fastest but he who will take the car to the finish
Okay race will start behind the safety car
I don't know for how many laps but this is the wisest choice because look at how much water we have in the ground
We literally see nothing and the problem is that it's still raining. It's gonna get worse
That's crazy on every straight I must clean my visor with the hand because otherwise I cannot see the track
This is crazy as soon as you just touch the throttle the car drifts, yeah, you can't drive like that
Look at that I was going at 50 km/h
Straight no throttle, no gas and I had aquaplaning and here we're supposed to be at
160 180 they will not be safe at all. No one's gonna pass through it
Okay cars spinning behind the safety car this
Literally proves you how undriveable it is today
We can't race like that
No-- red flag
The race is cancelled
I'm sad because you know going on track making four laps behind the safety car getting totally wet
Getting that flu and then we don't race
it's annoying but
Really it was impossible to race
totally impossible
It was
Really really really undriveable. I have never ever seen anything like that before I
Mean, I think I saw it only once it was during a motorcycle race three years ago in 2016 in Mugello
But I mean, I saw it from outside not from inside. It was really undriveable
even if I wanted to race
Those were not safe conditions on the straight with no gas. No brake. You were losing the car and
By the way
I'm a little bit angry because even if the was more water on track
I had more grip, more traction and that's because after the qualifying we increase the height
That reduced the aquaplaning and you know, I'm angry because I
Don't need to be angry because I can't do anything about it. But if just I had more experience
To see the conditions before the qualifying and tell the mechanics to raise the car
it will remove much better considering that I was slow on the straight because I couldn't
accelerate
That's it. That's what I learned from today. By the way
Now we don't know if the race is
Canceled or delayed because it's still raining and the track it's getting more and more and more wet. So
We just have to wait. I am
Completely wet and I am in freezing. You can't imagine how horrible it is to be like this
Okay. Meanwhile, we're here in the truck trying to get things dry. I have the racing suit here with this kind of dryer
which
shoots hot hair but
Let's see water everywhere my shoes
I'm trying to get behind like this and this was the shirt that I had under everything as you can see
It's dry only in the back because I was sitting you see here in the back is dry. But all the rest is completely
wet
Ok, it's 2 o'clock. It's still raining like hell it doesn't seem to stop
So all the races have been canceled for today
The season is over. It ends here. I don't know what to say
Let's just forget this whole season
Are you kidding me?
What does that mean? I mean it was raining like hell until
15 minutes ago. We had the water here and now
The rainbow came out, blue sky Sun really? I have no words
So the situation now is that they cancelled race one with the griip
they cancelled race 2 with the formula predator so you won't see it on the channel and now
They have rescheduled race 2 with Griips and we're gonna race they're trying -- they're not actually trying to dry the track
but they're trying to clean it to remove some water in order to avoid aquaplaning and
Be able to race so so let's wear the wetsuit, Once again, go back into the car and let's do this race
Okay, let's go race two as well we'll start behind the safety car for safety reasons
I don't know for how many laps but at least in this way we can take confidence with these conditions
As you probably saw-- a couple drivers will not start
I don't know if they had problems or they already left the track
So this means that I will start in the same position, but I'm actually fifth
Unfortunately the GoPro on my helmet blew up. So we're gonna use the TV cam
Okay good to go there's much less water on the ground so it's safe to race and this mean we can start the race
Anyway after just two corners, I don't have to pace to follow the cars in front of me the car is too nervous
I really can't handle it. I still did not understand how to drive it, the problem
Is that behind me Cosimo Papi started so fast, so now he wants to pass me
I must try everything. I have to defend my position
Pressing, he is pressing, I am to the limit. I don't know how to go faster. Really
Damn he passed me but look at that. He accelerated in the inside full traction. Boom
He's gone while I accelerated on the ideal line
No traction at all 50 metres drifting, and I lost like one second. That's crazy
There are some parts of the track where you have zero grip, this is driving me crazy, by the way
I try to follow Cosimo. I'll try to copy his pace and maybe we can catch the others
Nope
I Can't drive any faster than that. This is the problem as soon as I start to push
I lose control of the car and either I make a mistake or I go wide like this corner and I
Didn't figure out how to drive it so
Six laps to go, behind me, they are gone, in front of me They're gone. So let's just take the car to the finish
After race 2 I am even more confused I can't understand how under the same conditions
I was so fast with the predator and had total control over the car while I was so slow with the griip without any
Control, it felt like I never drove a race car and I really I literally had no idea what I was doing
By the way with this totally crazy weekend made of highs and lows and tons of plot twists my car racing season
2019 ends
here
it was a very useful season about the experience where I learned so many things about driving and
Management as well and I learned so many things about what not to do in next season
but I would definitely lable this season as
disaster so now I'm already thinking about
2020 what will I do?
Will I be racing with the cars again, or I will focus only on motorcycles?
Will I race with griip and predator or only with one of them or will I race in another series?
I still don't know so I'm gonna find out soon and you my friends are gonna find it out with me soon
What's a hundred percent sure, is that racing is life is not over