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you are the world champion
that's nice it's very nice to see the
number one on the car i mean um you
don't know how many times you have the
opportunity to do so even back in the
day when i was in go conning always when
you had the number one it always is a
little bit more special than any other
number
whatever i missed
well i was racing on all my similars at
home quite a bit but the adrenaline in
it from one kind of speed the cornering
and all these kind of things it's really
something special you misread the
competition but it's always nice to have
a bit of a break
it's crazy to think that we are back
already time flying so yeah i'm really
looking forward to it and and
cannot wait to drive
feed the people
make them happy
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i don't know i always uh
i'm initially not excited but then the
closer i get to race weekend and the
more the more you you know you get
really into it and then i'm really
excited and especially for me to
saturday and sunday then
you're ready to go hi i'm yuri vips i'm
a rebel junior driver and we're here for
bahrain testing
this year it's really my role has ramped
up quite a lot i've done most of the
development on this year's car it's
quite rewarding work because you know if
you see you see the car sort of
progressing as well through the months
and it's definitely quite different to
previous years and uh yeah just working
out exactly how to set it up how to
drive it it's quite cool on the limit
but everyone else is doing it
i already knew a lot about you yeah
yeah yeah really you know
you know the
shipping with the engineers yeah yeah
yeah
they've been telling you how much i spin
in the sim and stuff
the lunatic in the sim
so at the moment it's just sort of
watching and observing and yeah i mean
if the opportunity ever comes which all
of us junior drivers hope it does then
i just want to be as ready as i can so i
sit in an old debrief talk to max and
check out whenever they're out of the
car what do they think and i'm pretty up
to date of what what they've felt and
they've been pretty pretty happy so fast
we've spent some time together this week
at testing but can you remember the
first time you met me that's a good one
if you can't remember it's fine i can
tell it was um i won an f3 race in
silverstone and i came to the awning
after i was just chatting with helmets
yeah of course that's where they were
yeah yeah and i remember you came to me
after you like oh yeah like good
defending mate well done on the victory
i was like
i was so shocked
it's the first uh first time the car
rolled out on the filming day in
silverstone it was like you know it was
really cool to see because i've driven
this car so much in the simulator but
i've actually never seen how it looks
it's very different to drive the
previous year so
they've had a big challenge with that
trying to sort of adapt to it but i
think they've had it quite well it's
completely different how you set it up
in previous years
just because you generate now most of
the downfalls from the floor so it's
such a predominant factor of
you know uh how to get the most out of
that without compromising sort of the
rest of the balance too much so also
really exciting with the new cars it's
been really enjoyable to drive to honest
you know the team has worked so hard
over the weekend they've done a
tremendous job some serious tremendously
i think the team is
it's a are the best shape ever you know
even much better than last year
yeah he's not 4 10 faster because he's a
little bit wider than the others in turn
4 no
actually i heard some good feedback from
from the drivers as well that you can
follow closer so
yeah i think it's going to be quite cool
not bad
yeah a very successful test for us um
we're looking very good on the lap times
as well but
i don't want to hype everything up too
much so far because everyone's
sandbagging a bit and we don't know
who's sandbagging more than the other so
hopefully uh hopefully have a successful
weekend but yeah see you guys soon
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i know that i will be here until 28th so
yeah let's try to make the most of it i
i don't think the the relationship
changes because it was already very good
it's just nice that we know that we can
work together for a longer time and just
have a nice time together
i think we have a really good atmosphere
within all the engineers all the team
and always some stability and with
drivers always helps
did you try performance on on the final
day or no a bit in the morning a bit
more and it didn't look in the morning
no we're not flat out and you were not
because
it's hard to figure out
the track what was in the morning to the
afternoon
i feel like there's more cameras this
year yeah they're everywhere even more
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thank you
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i just want to be even better i i always
say to myself i always want to try and
be better every single year
i i want to definitely operate at a
higher level than entry throughout the
season that's my main character
you are going through to the inside
in the middle of the straight i'm in the
middle of the track
and then you know when you get closer to
the braking there are like big bumps
right i go even more to the right and
then back and the long run was good
though
yeah much i'm stuck
no just uh for me i just keep my friend
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it's been like two years we don't see
the fans
yeah
two years it's
emotional
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looking
those are your shoes
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there is no history to go from this is
just completely new for the team so
basically the design processes you're
not involved with it's all about when
the car gets to the track you start to
bring in what you think can be done
better and that's what we're working on
now i think it's gonna be about
developing the car you know and giving
good as as good as feedback as possible
to the team try to really work hard in
that regard because the car drives a bit
different but then you adapt your
driving style too it will just be as
fast as you can be
it's so new and so different that
initially as a driver you don't really
have a lot of input
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i'm looking into his eyes while i'm
doing it
thank you
it's a bit of a different style
especially the low speed minion speed is
a bit slower the car is a lot a lot more
heavier it's a bit of a depth adaptation
required
driving side changes almost every race
you can because you have to adapt to the
situation and that's exactly like what
you're doing now
every track is a little bit different i
think in in barcelona the tires are
holding on quite well but here the
atomic is very rough normally it's quite
warm in comparison so it's always quite
hard on the tires so i do
still expect quite a few bits
either just a lot heavier about four
kilos the rear and about three kilos
heavy at the front
so it obviously puts a bit more of a
strain on your roll and just general
body the wheels themselves take a lot
longer to build up
there's a standardized will now between
between all the teams and there's a lot
more components built into e12 for
monitoring for the faa etc so
the time it takes to actually build one
will has gone up massively
five minutes to potentially
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there will be some cars really fast and
qualifying some others a lot faster in
the race so
yeah still
still a lot of unknowns at the moment
well two paces q3 or in general
qualifying for everyone and then again
race space can be different to
qualifying base so first race we can
give us an indication but
uh it's all about how the cars are gonna
evolve throughout the season as well
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i didn't seem to have that group in the
last uh probably
but nevertheless it's alright
i think it was uh was quite a decent
qualifying i mean of course you always
hope for more but in qualifying to to
really put it on paul it's all about
details and i think in q3 we just
couldn't really
put the lab together like i wanted to
progressively we were making good
progress unfortunately yeah come q3 we
were not able to take another gear it's
a it's still a formula one car when you
when you push it on the limit and then
it was uh it was still fun you know to
to go out there in q3 and try it try
your very best yeah i think we've got a
long race ahead of us
where anything can happen and we're
looking forward to it plan for tomorrow
is of course to move up on the spot
because that's what we like to do we
like to win in this team and uh i have
good hope that we have a good race car
so hopefully we can show that tomorrow
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even if there is more focus or scrutiny
or whatever just like i always did focus
on myself because i'm i think the most
critical towards myself anyway i learned
that from a very young age to be like
that so i will always be like that
at the end of the day the the better
relationship you have the better
performance you have on on the track and
um i could really see that from when i
just joined the team not really knowing
each other you have to find each other
you have to understand each other and
you have to try and
you know without even saying anything as
soon as you look at each other or the
way
you you act you should feel that
direction we have to go into and over
time of course that became really really
strong and i think really that
made me also a better driver faster
driver by just you know having that
relationship with gpe but because not
only gp you know also the guys around
that you know performance engineer you
know there's so many engineers involved
in my side of the carriage as well you
know that when you bring them all
together
that's when you you can have a strong
performance
because of course you know gp is on the
radio and you hear him a lot and he's a
big influence of my performance but
there are more guys involved who at the
end is they're functioning other little
things which can give you half a 10 to
10 and i mean that's a lot
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so
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after winning the championship for me
it's been um
i think a bit more enjoyable in general
i just tried to enjoy more from what's
around instead of just having that
single-minded focus on winning winning
winning wanting to win and that doesn't
mean of course
i go into a race different i still want
to win and stuff but yeah i'm just
really happy because that checklist also
by my side and you know you can really
talk about a lot of different kind of
things what we want from the car
it's trying to have a bit more of a
connection with everyone within the team
and have a good time it's busy times for
everyone
oh
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uh reflection is completely gone box and
pickup
box
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i can't stay close to it
it's really impossible to race like this
with these brakes
increase your lifted coast a little bit
more place
i'm very breaking
do not hit these ties hard max box and
pick and play please max i'm expecting
leclaire to pit as well
what was the gap
too big for them
yeah it's more more difficult to steer
with speed
max from what we can see the situation
is stable
wait what's going on with the battery
what do you want me to do
there's not a lot we can do we can try
to make it into the pillow
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unbelievable
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it was a very frustrating way for us
though uh both the the symptoms on both
cars for the failure look pretty
identical so brutal for us to be
in a position of scoring potentially 30
points to then uh come away with uh you
know zero points from potentially you
know podium for max and then a podium
for checker what happened at the end is
of course very frustrating but also
before that um quite a few issues so you
think okay with all these things i've
had today second would be a good result
and then suddenly yeah i had to retire
i lost the engine and
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yeah i just locked the rears completely
and there was nothing i could do
consolation we'll take is that you know
we had a competitive car today we were
fighting you know with charles there's
some great racing between him and max
you know czecho was managed to pass the
mercedes he was racing hard against
carlos signs um
and you know it's a long season ahead of
us
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i think it's just we are a real team and
that's what you want
when we have the opportunity to help we
are going to help doesn't matter which
way around it is so that's that's
amazing and not many teams have that
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you