So there we are, ready for race 2
I need to recover points, after the crash
of race 1. Anyways, I must confess that I had
some big pain in the left cheek
and I didn't understand why until a friend of mine Nicola Melani
which made a video from the grandstands
showed me this clip. As you can see in the fall
the rear wheel hit me so hard
in left butt cheek,
that the airbag of the suit blew up...it was so hard
that it blew the airbag. Anyway, no problem
it's bearable and I can ride
now we have set the power to 3
hoping to fix the problem, but the big
difficulty now will be to
regain confidence with the bike,
getting back the feeling after a crash is not easy, it takes
some laps, the thing is that on one hand
I wanna do good, on the other hand
I cannot risk to lose more points
because crashing again would mean
that I will lose the championship
it's a big deal. I have to push
but without taking too much risks
Go, go. Good start!
Now I'm behind D'Ambrosio, again.
holy shit D'Ambrosio started so fast
he took one second in three corners, besides that
the lines in some corners almost dry so
he probably realised it and he's pushing
bye bye
D'Ambrosio is gone. I don't feel like pushing to catch him
it's better to guard this position
and collect as much points as I can
nothing, even with the power at 3 the bike still cuts
it wasn't the power
OMG what the hell
happened?
Holy shit -- I think
Giacomini totally forgot to brake
I mean, have you seen where he went?
I don't know if from the video you can
realise what happened but there I saw
my whole life passing by
if he hit me it would have been a disaster
we are at 130, I don't even have the
airbag working
ok, this was my lucky day
by the way, back to the race,
Anyway, D'Ambrosio became unreachable, I can't say anything
but just congratulations
on the other hand it's been 3 laps
that I pass in front of the pits and they are showing me that the rider
behind me is earning one second per lap
I don't feel like I can go one second faster
without risks, so I will wait for him to come and
I'll see what happens
that was Giacomini the one that was catching up
how did he manage not to crash into the grass?
how did he survive?
by the way, nothing!
look at how the bike keeps cutting on the straights
and what drives me crazy is that it's even dry
on the ground in that corner
how can it cut on dry?
2 laps to go, let's just keep this 3rd place
which is worth 16 points, better than 0
Look at how much it's raining,
what the hell is going on here?
and Giacomini even went to chase D'Ambrosio. he might pass him
Race is over, and Giacomini catched D'Ambrosio
I wonder who won of the two
it's so nice to communicate to D'Ambrosio with
these civilised and peaceful ways
so stupid! anyway,
this happened. I bring home
3rd place, which is worth some important points
but the 0 in race one is heavy
with the power at 3 the bike was much better, but
it still kept cutting on the straights,
so after the race we spent an entire day
wrecking our brains to the find the problem
and we discovered the problem
so as I said the traction control has settings that go from
1 to 9, one you have a very low TC
with 9 you have a very high TC. Actually, you don't
only have these 9 values,
but the telemetry operator with the PC can
also modify the way
that these 9 settings work
and there are some parameters that he can change, so
what happened? we worked with these 9 settings
on Saturday, using those
parameters the way we use them on dry
so it does not mean that the traction
at 9 was for dry. It means that the traction
at 9 is still for the wet, but
the parameters that say to the traction control
how to work were the ones we use on dry
and the bike was fine. On sunday however
the telemetrist,
changed those parameters by putting the ones
that should be used in rain. Which were the ones
he put on my bike
in the previous race in Franciacorta
and they worked like charm, so we had already tested them
the problem is that those parameters
that were working good in Franciacorta, here in Varano
did not work well. And we still don't know why
maybe it's related to the temperature, maybe to the grip
of the asphalt, in Franciacorta it was much more
colder, the asphalt had more grip
or maybe it's a year thing, here I am the only one riding an r1 2019
while the others have
2018 and 2017
so those parameters on their ECUs worked differently
the fact remains that those parameters on my bike
were too invasive
so invasive that the traction control
was working even on the straight
now on the chart I have
added another parameter which is the traction control, which is the blue line
0 means not working, 1 means
it's working, so as you can see when I am cornering
the traction control is working,
but as soon as I put the bike straight, and I accelerate
the traction control stops to work. And that is the telemetry
from the saturday where the bike was great
but if we take race 1
look at that, I go full throttle, bike straight and
the traction control keeps working
for the whole straight. Look at was a mess
the traction control is doing
working not working working not working
it's going crazy. if we take race 2
where I have put power at 3
it happens that sometimes it doesn't cut on the straight
while some others, it cuts. randomly
and the time when Giacomini passes me
look at that, on the whole straight it kept cutting
and you remember there when I was arriving at the
end of the straight on saturday at 189
now with the track almost dry
I was arriving at 181
unfortunately it went like this. this is all experience
that I take, I bring home
and I will study on for the next race
next race will be the 3rd round
and it will be the turning point
we will race in circuito tizio nuvolari
either I win or I can say goodbye to the championship
in cervesina I will be going
to risk everything