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Screen to Speed No.38: The Dream Team recaps Daytona, Future Events & Assetto Corsa EVO · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Welcome everyone to Neat Talks.
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Happy to see everybody.
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Welcome in.
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And, uh, we have Nina today and Esmeralda with us.
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Uh, so that's a special Neat Talks.
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Uh, first time we got two guests at the same time.
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Uh, they did Daytona 24.
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So welcome girls.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Hello.
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Uh, so let's start, uh, how was your Daytona 24?
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What kind of issues did you experience through this race?
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Let's, let's go.
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Uh, I think we can start with, uh, with Nina and then Esmeralda, uh, going
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to tell about her experience as well.
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Um, yeah, sure, so I did the qualifying, uh, which didn't go as well as I
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planned, but like, you know, we qualified P9 in class, which is alright.
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Um, but then, um, I dropped the start, and sadly had a spin, uh, at the start,
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completely like My own fault, but like, I didn't touch anyone, didn't touch
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the wall or whatever, so it was fine.
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I was just, um, down a couple of seconds off, like, the field.
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Um, but yeah, from then on, uh, we just kept it clean and, uh, maybe it was
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also a good thing that we weren't in the field because, like, there were,
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like, some, some issues up ahead that I saw and kind of that kind of stuff.
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So, in a 24 hour race, there's plenty of time to make up time, obviously.
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So, uh, We just, uh, completely went like, Hey, let's keep it safe, just,
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um, without incidents and everything.
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And, uh, yeah, it was pretty much without incidents for the first, I don't know,
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like two hours or something, just a couple of tracks, but nothing really.
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And then, um, I already like left the cockpit.
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And gave it over to Sarah, I believe, at first.
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And then, uh, it was like between Sarah and Esmeralda for a little bit.
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And, um, eventually I went to bed, but maybe Esmeralda can talk
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about her stint a bit more then.
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Uh, yeah, well, I have to be honest, I don't remember very well.
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So, um, but yeah.
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I, I took the car, um, from, I think, from my first stint, it was still without rain.
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Uh, stint went fine, no major issues, and then, um, in our
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next stint, It started to rain.
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Um, so that was, uh, interesting.
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Just a second.
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Um, sorry, I got a bit distracted there.
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No, it was, um, pretty difficult conditions.
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And, uh, Sarah Dove, uh, drives, uh, with a, what was it?
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G29, I think, which makes it difficult to drive in the rain.
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So I took over.
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Um, yeah.
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Is it your cat again?
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Sorry.
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It's fine.
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Um, so yeah, um, so I took over from Sarah and didn't really have any major issues.
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And then I think Bajska took over.
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Uh, yeah, that's like right around the time when, when I then went to bed.
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And, uh, obviously, as you mentioned, the first set of rain was very difficult.
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Very sporty rain and very, um, yeah, changing conditions.
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So the track was different, uh, every lap.
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Uh, but we fought our way.
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Our way back up to eighth place, if I remember correctly, and, uh,
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yeah, and then like with rain, it was like a bit all over the place,
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all teams had like different kind of like pit stops when people went
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on wets, maybe some people still was out and dries and everything, but.
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Yeah, we just kept the clean, the car clean for, um, a very long time.
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And then, uh, yeah, as you said, uh, in the night, uh, Bayezidan, uh,
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went in and I went to bed because my stint was very early in the night.
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I think it was like, uh, like 3 a.
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m.
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Roughly.
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Uh, so in the night, um, there were like some, like one or two incidents, I think,
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Esmeralda, um, which like lost a little bit of time, but, uh, yeah, it's fine.
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Yeah, Sarah got hit in the back.
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Oh, right.
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Yes.
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I, I don't know if it was a GTP or, yeah.
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Oh, SpongeBob.
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Yeah, it was a SpongeBob livery.
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Um.
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And I mean, yeah, it's just, uh, they just went a bit wide into, uh, the
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entry of the second horseshoe and then just, you know, on the wet track,
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very difficult conditions, locked the tires a little bit and just like rear
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ended us a bit, which wasn't too bad.
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I think it was like six minutes of repair, so.
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It was all right.
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And, uh, yeah.
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Then in the night we had, I think, one contact with the wall
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of like 15 minutes of repair.
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And I think Bayecki went off as well.
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I don't know if she had any, like, contact with that.
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Yeah, I think she went straight into a wall once.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And then, and then we had, uh, wait, I actually have like a
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small recap on the side here.
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Uh, we went back in, back a couple of positions.
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I don't remember.
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Oh yeah.
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We were up to sixth at first and went back to eighth because of that.
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Uh, and then when I got up, uh, it was like me and Beitske, uh, just.
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you know, swapping stints.
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And, uh, we went back down to sixth with, I don't know, I think like
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six hours to go or something when you and Sarah, uh, came back online.
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And, uh, yeah, from that, uh, just further, like trying to
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keep it clean and everything.
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And we managed to be in a very comfortable P4 in class.
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And, uh, with, like, a couple laps to the car behind and a
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couple laps to the car in front.
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So, it was a very, um, stable condition at that stage.
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And then we just, uh, yeah, did our own race and, uh, kept it
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out of the wall and everything.
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And that's also where we finished.
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So, P4.
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That's a great result.
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And, uh, yeah, I think also Esmeralda for you, it was like
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the highest SOF you ever drove in.
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Yeah, definitely.
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And, uh, you did very well for that.
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So, uh, yeah, your times were really good.
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You were pretty consistent and everything.
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And, uh, yeah, overall great team.
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Like, uh, I'm looking forward to the next time I get to drive with the
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three girls and, uh, it was great fun.
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Yeah.
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Um, you, you just said that you had some kind of like mixed,
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uh, conditions in the race.
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I think we, uh, we had the same, I'm not sure if, uh, conditions
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were the same in the all.
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Uh, but we also had, uh, kind of spotted rain and, uh, it just,
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you know, started and then ended again, uh, race with Olympus Sport.
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Uh, this time we been in a GTP car, Ferrari, and, you know, wind up a
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P5 and we actually didn't finish.
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So we, uh, we had like four or five hours.
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So the end of the race, and unfortunately we had to call in the car because,
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uh, one of the teammates, he just, uh, you know, braked and, uh, went
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straight to the wall, um, and just broke the whole front of the car.
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And yeah, unfortunately we're just like, okay, we, we're okay.
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We P5, uh, like out of 22 cars.
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So only like four, uh, GTPs survive in the split.
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That was crazy.
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That is crazy.
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Yes.
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Yeah, you know, definitely.
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That's the first Daytona for everybody in a racing where we had different
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conditions where we had rain first time.
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Um, would you like to have, uh, to, you know, to drive in the dry or like
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it was really interesting for you to drive in the rain and this mixed
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conditions and, um, How was it for you to, like, when you jump into the car
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and, uh, how was it to get used to, uh, the conditions and Nina and Esmeralda?
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I'll let you go first.
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Yeah, it's fine.
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Um, so when I jumped in for Sarah, I, like, I hadn't driven
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in the rain in that race yet, so I jumped in right in, in the rain.
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Um, but it actually went quite well.
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I was really comfortable with the car.
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So, I think I was really happy with how it went, because, you know, I'm,
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there's nothing in that first thing that could have gone better than it did.
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Um, unfortunately, in my second stint, um, as we already talked about, that
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we had some damage, I was on cold tires out in the rain, just got in
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the car, and, um, yeah, I, like, I completely misjudged the bus stop.
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Uh, which ended us in the wall.
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Uh, which was a shame, really.
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But after that, we picked up the pace again.
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And, yeah, it was, like, It was challenging, but I was also
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very comfortable, which was great for the circumstances.
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Uh, yeah, and then, um, when I got back in, also because, like, I drove
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the very first Sint, and, um, it was obviously dry at that stage, and then
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I was just, like, around and, like, sporting and that kind of stuff, but
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I didn't drive in the wet, uh, in the race until after I slept, and, um, so,
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yeah, I went out onto a track that had pretty st stable, but like medium rain.
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And, uh, then for my second nightstand, uh, it was starting to, like, the rain had
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stopped just when I got back in the car.
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And then quite quickly, there was like the dry line really forming up.
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And, um, I went out.
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Like already on slicks again, which was, uh, which was fine on the line.
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But, um, if you ever needed to like step off the line, then
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it was still very slippery.
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But yeah, we, we managed to just, you know, uh, keep it on
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track, keep it pointed straight.
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And, uh, it was very fun.
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So I really, really enjoyed driving these like changing conditions
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where you kind of have to like.
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Judge every, every lap a little bit, like how much grip you have
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and just not overdoing it, but still trying to be as fast as you can.
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And, uh, yeah, that was fun.
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It was also very rewarding because it was a drying track, so the conditions were
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getting better and better, and then it was just So rewarding to have like new
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fastest laps, like every couple of laps.
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And, um, it, it felt very rewarding driving in those conditions.
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That's great.
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Uh, also got questions to Esmeralda.
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Was it your first time in LMP2 car or you drove this car before this race?
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No, I've, I've, I've driven it before.
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Yeah, got plenty of experience in the LMP2.
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That's great.
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You know, I found it, uh, by myself that LMP2 is a lot easier
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to drive in rain conditions.
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Like it's really fun.
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Uh, if we're talking about GDP, it's really hard sometimes because you just.
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speed because you can, uh, gain boost.
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You're not breaking that hard with this car.
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Um, unfortunately I didn't try Daytona in rain conditions, uh, because, uh, my
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stint should be like in the morning the next day and, um, the ultimate, uh, who
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drove, uh, before me crashed the car.
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So unfortunately I didn't get into the car in wet conditions.
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Um, so.
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How is it for you to manage the traffic because traffic at Daytona was crazy
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sometimes, especially on the start of the race when everybody close and you know,
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GTP is reaching you and you're reaching in the same time actually the GT freeze.
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How did you manage to go through this?
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Nina, you should start because you started the race.
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Okay, yeah, exactly.
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Um, so, uh, since I was down by like five seconds to like the back of the
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LMPG field quite consistently, you know, I didn't really lose much time to
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them at the start, but like, obviously, because of my spin, I was back a bit.
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Um, and then, I was in this condition or like in this position where I, um, just
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caught up to the GT3 field for lapping them the first time and right at the same
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time the GTP field arrived to lap me.
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So I had You know, obviously because it's like the first few laps of the
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race, the GT3 field was still very tight together and I had to really try
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to navigate them and get through them.
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Um, but I also had to yield to the GTPs coming from behind all the time.
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So in a couple of situations, it was really tight and really
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difficult to find your place.
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And, um.
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Yeah, just to also predict where the other classes go and just make it very obvious
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with your car positioning and your kind of like language that you convey with how you
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position your car where you want to go to.
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You know, signal like the slower class that you want to overtake, but also
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simultaneously to the GDP that you see them that you leave them the space.
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And it was tricky and I did lose a bit of time in all of that traffic then.
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But, um, yeah, at the end it was fine because.
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Especially for like the first half of the race, it was just very much like,
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okay, just stay out of incidents, keep the car clean, a race is still going
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on for so many hours that like a bit of time here or there doesn't matter.
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It's just important to keep it out of the wall and everything.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Um, I think the main thing, uh, in like endurance races overall
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in that long races like Daytona 24, just to keep car on the track.
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And if you like, you know, better to lose a bit more time on the track
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with the traffic than end up with a crashing GT3 or something like this.
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So, yeah, I think I agree with you with this.
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And Esmeralda, how was it for you?
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How did you manage the traffic from your side?
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Um, so as Nina mentioned before, it was my first race in, like, this, uh, SOF.
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Um, so it was a lot easier than I was used to, um, because most of the time,
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uh, in lower SOF, it's just less clean.
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And they give you less space.
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Um, and also in like, I gave lots of space just to not come in contact
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with anyone, but I gave way too much than that was actually necessary.
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So, um, it takes a lot getting used to, cause the driving is way more
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clean than I'm, I am actually used to.
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And yeah, I, I still have loads to learn.
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Uh, so I'm taking every experience into the next race.
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And get better and better.
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It's also maybe a bit for context, like our, um, so F in the race
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of the LMP twos was I think 3.
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2 K or something.
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And, um, you like your eye reading is I think like at like 1500
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because you just don't do that.
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A lot of officials, you know, there's no shame in that.
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And, um, I absolutely know the feeling.
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Uh, but yeah, it's definitely that this like SF, you can really.
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trust the other cars around you to just hold their line.
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And it's fine if you just give, like, on your, I don't know, on your inside,
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to just have, like, I don't know, 1.
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2 cars of width, just giving them that for, like, a little bit of error,
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but, like, they will keep your line.
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But if you're not used to that, then you probably give, like, one and a half to
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two car widths of Space and in the inside, um, but you know, we were spotting for you
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and we're trying to just, um, yeah, uh, make sure that like, hey, um, you're fine.
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You can absolutely do it like that.
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But you can also like be a bit closer people.
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Uh, tend to keep their lines and you can trust them at that as well.
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Yeah, you know, that's actually really awesome that, uh, Esmeralda had this
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opportunity to drive with you because, uh, when you, you know, like starting,
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you're not doing a lot of officials, you're not doing, for example, a lot
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of, uh, endurances and you get into the team where it got, uh, uh, faster
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at people and who had, uh, who's got more experience, uh, you definitely,
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you know, just, you know, the jumping to the next step after such events.
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And I think there was a really good,
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those morale there.
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What do you think?
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How was it for you to to drive with like to gain experience from
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your teammates in this event?
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Yeah, well, we talked about it last time that you interviewed me, but I then it
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would be a dream for me to join this team.
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And then a couple of people made it happen.
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Um, I have to thank Nina for this as well, uh, because she, she heard it and
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she immediately contacted Ceci about it.
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Um, so yeah, it's for me, it was really a dream come true
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and they can learn me so much.
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Um, so it's, it's just overall a great opportunity for me to
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take steps in, in sim racing.
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And, uh, obviously I'm not there yet.
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I still have lots to learn.
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I have to get quicker and quicker, but I'm with the right people for that now.
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So, yeah, I'm looking forward to all the races that we can do together and.
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I was truly honored to be able to raise this with the three girls.
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That's really awesome.
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It's also, um, to add to that, maybe a little backstory, we were racing at the
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Sim Expo, you know, you were part of that.
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And then, um, that's where I met you for the first time and we
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got along great and everything.
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And then the race came on and, um, obviously I looked at like people before
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and saw like, okay, a 1500 I rating.
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That's.
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You know, not bad, but like, I don't know what to expect in here and there.
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Uh, but then you really, really surprised me with your lap times.
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You were really quick.
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You were up there with like, um, really like the fastest of us.
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And, um, that's when also like you mentioned that you would love
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to be part of your dream team.
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And I was like, yeah, well, you definitely have the pace.
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And I was like, yeah, well, you'd be a great addition.
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And you absolutely were, um, very happy to have you on the team for, uh, this race.
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Yeah, that's, uh, you know, a little bit tricky thing about iRacing.
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Yeah, when you're starting, you, you got like 1500, but you got a really good pace.
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And, uh, people just like, Oh, you're just 1.
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5k driver.
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Like, you're not going to drive fast.
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Yeah, and then you're driving fast.
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It's really cool.
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But I'm pretty sure that Esmeralda going to gain iRacing, like, with no time.
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Um, here's a really interesting question, um, in the chat.
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It's a From, uh, from viewers, uh, were there any drummers, uh,
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drummers, uh, in the pit lane?
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Uh, you know, I saw one GT3 in our race, just, uh, uh, teammates, uh,
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that was Matt Loveridge, uh, who's also in the, uh, Olympus team.
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And, uh, when he was out, I was, uh, watching his stream and, uh, his
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teammates, uh, they were going and, uh, you know, here's the last lap.
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Almost, uh, next to the pit lane, uh, the guy who's driving, and teammates, like,
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shout, Go to pit lane, go to pit lane, because you almost miss it, and they,
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they get the spitting in pits, but he got into pit lane, that was, that was really
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crazy, so, uh, did you have Any, uh, did you have any, uh, experience like this?
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Was it pit lane?
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Maybe, uh, especially in the wet conditions, maybe, I don't
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know, some people missed the, uh, their pit stall, or maybe you had
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some, uh, funny moments as well?
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Yeah, I mean, by our smiling, you probably can guess that yes, we did have something.
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Um, so when the first rain hit, uh, we stayed out on
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dry ice for, um, quite a bit.
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And, uh, but then it started raining, like, more.
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And, um, we were like, okay, um, the lap times are getting significantly
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slower, so, um, we have to pit for wet.
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And then Sarah was in the car at the time, and, um, we were just like, you know,
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okay, like, we have, uh, I don't know, we had, just had a couple laps left in our
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stint anyway, so we were like, okay, we just pit, like, two, three laps early.
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And then she went on to, like, the apron, and, um, like, you know,
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normal pit entry, and started turning left, and the car didn't do anything.
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Oh no.
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And then, you know, she, she held this, and she was in this, like, absolute
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aqua planning, and was absolutely dead center straight, the car did not
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move at all, and then she was like, oh, she's gonna miss pit entry, well,
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okay, then we just do another lap.
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Steered right, nothing happened.
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And then, and then it's just like, okay, well, we passed it, like, we
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have to like, go back onto like, um, we were like, we're like, the
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grass already starts at the tri oval.
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And then, um, kind of tried to make it on track, obviously, without
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spinning or hitting other cars and getting in the way and stuff.
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And we actually had another team, um, message us, like, hey, Um, you're
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sliding around, you should pit.
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And then we just like text a bet, like, yeah, we tried, like we just missed you.
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We a upon straight
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. Um, that was kind of funny.
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And then next lap, um, we just managed, it was just like you had like this
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really long straight and wide line where like the water was completely standing.
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Mm-hmm . Uh, so you had to really like positively cross.
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like that puddle to really get grip again and to be able to number one
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steer and number two slow down.
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And, uh, yeah, then later in the race, uh, I think it was like
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around like sunrise or something.
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Um, we also had one problem where, uh, we had a driver change
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and I think it was Bitescale.
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I don't remember exactly.
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But, um, When you do a driver swap, the pit limiter turns off.
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It's on before, but like, since you get out of the car, which stops the engine,
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and then you get back into the car, that deactivates the pit limiter, obviously,
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and she went out on her first stint, and, um, Suddenly thought to herself like,
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Hmm, that's a bit fast for pit lane.
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And then Ori was like, Oh, pit limiter and slow down.
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But like, we already got like the, um, the drive through penalty for that then.
24:03
Yeah, it happens.
24:04
It didn't lose us any positions or something.
24:06
That was, uh, during the time when we were already in P4 and just had
24:12
like a comfortable, yeah, comfortable gap to the cars in front and behind.
24:16
So it was fine.
24:17
It didn't matter in the end, but, uh, it was kind of funny that, uh,
24:22
We're just, uh, driving and then suddenly, oh, that's a bit fast.
24:27
And I think, I think that was it for a pit lane, because since we
24:30
had our echo planning at the start, um, we knew that, okay, pit entry
24:34
is difficult and just take it easy.
24:37
Make sure that you, you know, don't spin and that you slow down
24:40
enough and that kind of stuff.
24:41
Well, I mean, when, um, Bicycle.
24:44
tried to clear the penalty, I think, from cutting the track
24:48
because she slid onto the grass.
24:50
Uh, she, like, she drove one lap more and then tried to go for pit lane and
24:56
also failed to get into the pit lane.
24:59
Oh, that was when I was sleeping.
25:01
All right.
25:01
Yeah.
25:01
Yeah.
25:02
So she went straight as well.
25:06
I saw even, uh, like, in the top split, even people did that, so it was, uh,
25:11
certainly, um, we weren't the only team who had to struggle with pit entry.
25:16
No, and now I think of it, I, uh, like, you have, on pit
25:20
exit, you have the little turn.
25:23
Um, so I, I braked, uh, for the, that little turn, locked both front
25:30
wheels and just slid out of the, out of the pit lane onto the track.
25:37
So that got me a drive thru as well.
25:39
Yeah.
25:40
Yeah.
25:41
But that's it for pit lane incidents.
25:43
Overall, uh, Daytona pit enter is really tricky.
25:47
I remember how I did, uh, oval race here with next gen cars.
25:51
And I think we had really long race, like, um, I know, like
25:56
80 laps or something like this.
25:57
And we were going to, uh, to pit for a fuel, uh, with a pack of the cars.
26:02
So I had like, uh, two or three cars, uh, ahead of me.
26:05
We pitted together.
26:06
And, uh, one guy, he, uh, in the last moment from outside line, he felt
26:11
like, okay, I'm going to pit with you.
26:13
guys.
26:13
And, uh, you know, he just not in time.
26:15
He just crossing my line.
26:17
I looked up my front wheels and I just, uh, bowling the cars in front of
26:22
me and we all go into the grass, you know, and then spinning in the pizza.
26:27
Yeah.
26:27
Even in, uh, you know, in dry conditions, uh, Daytona is not really easy to Pete's.
26:32
And, uh, yeah, as people saying in chat also first up and did it twice.
26:36
I, I think I saw that he missed the BitLane on Daytona 24 at this time.
26:42
So if anything, we're just as good as F1 drivers.
26:45
Yes, that's true.
26:49
Um, stepping back a little bit from the main event, uh, how
26:54
was, uh, preparing for you?
26:56
So what did you do?
26:57
Uh, how you, uh, managed to create the setup, which is, uh, comfortable
27:01
for everybody in the team.
27:04
That's the question to both of you.
27:06
Yeah, so, uh, at first we just, uh, you know, obviously had like
27:11
some meetings before where like, okay, what is like the rough plan?
27:15
When is everyone available and here and there?
27:17
And because like we had the weather forecast as well.
27:21
And then, uh, uh, it was really nice because, uh, pretty much
27:25
everyone was available whenever it was the easiest planning I've
27:29
done ever for an endurance race.
27:31
And, um, Yeah, and then we just started, uh, doing some labs.
27:35
We looked at, like, we all have, like, the same conditions, kind of, roughly,
27:40
and then, uh, had, I think, four different setup shops, uh, like, setups from
27:45
different setup shops, and we're just, uh, trying all of them out, see, okay, um,
27:51
which one do we like best, which one is fast, and then we found one that everyone
27:56
was, like, already pretty comfortable with, and then Yeah, just, uh, changed,
28:02
like, some, some slight things on it.
28:04
Uh, we didn't change it a lot, but, uh, what did we change?
28:09
We changed, like, um, the diff a little bit, um, just for, you know,
28:13
it being more stable and secure.
28:17
And then also, like, I think the third spring and the heave spring,
28:21
uh, just for control in the bus stop, basically, because, uh, Again, we didn't
28:27
want to go for like absolute speed.
28:29
We wanted to go for consistency and definitely controllability.
28:34
And yeah, once we had that, then we just, uh, drove in different
28:39
conditions, um, made sure that the setup also works in the wet, for example,
28:44
which is obviously very important.
28:47
And uh, yeah, had a couple of very nice training sessions together.
28:50
It was nice.
28:51
And, uh, Yeah, try to get everyone's input and, uh, find
28:57
something that fits everyone.
28:59
That's awesome.
29:00
Maybe you can also, uh, add to that, Esmeralda, how it felt for you.
29:04
I don't know how much, how much like practice for endurance,
29:08
endurance events you had before.
29:10
Can't speak.
29:12
Uh, yeah, I mean,
29:16
it depends.
29:17
On Daytona, I had quite a lot of experience because I've
29:20
been doing the 24 hour event.
29:23
I think this is my fourth time doing it.
29:27
Um.
29:28
So, yeah, but obviously with the new tire update, the car is completely different.
29:34
Um, and then I practiced more for this one, I think.
29:40
Uh, because, you know, I wanted to be quick enough.
29:43
Um, and well, yeah, setup wise, I just left it to you guys.
29:48
Because, you know, I'm not that great with setups, I'll be completely
29:52
honest about that, I'm clueless.
29:54
Um, so yeah, I tried the different setups, and they all felt okay, this
30:00
one felt, for me, as the best one.
30:03
And thankfully for everyone, so yeah, it was, I mean, yeah.
30:08
Not too much to add, sorry.
30:11
Yeah, that's fine.
30:11
Also like, like I, for example, was I think the only one who preferred
30:16
a different setup initially.
30:18
But I also mainly drive the F4 usually, which is kind of
30:21
like happy on the rear axle.
30:23
So I'm, I'm really used to a car that is very like loose or like
30:29
oversteering that kind of thing.
30:31
And, um, but then it was also like, uh, okay, I'm fine with driving.
30:36
Different, like, driving style.
30:37
I had to change, like, my pedal input slightly for that to, uh, get back to
30:43
the pace, but, uh, it was definitely fine, and I was happy to, yeah, change my
30:49
little part for the team effort so that everyone's comfortable with the setup.
30:54
Yeah, also, you know, just, uh, let everybody choose the set
30:57
and decide what to do with it.
30:59
Uh, so just like guys, you just share a set with me.
31:02
I'm going to get used to it.
31:04
So I don't really care about setups because I usually drive, you know,
31:09
Porsche Cops series, for example, and I'm driving the open set where a car,
31:12
uh, more loose and I'm driving the.
31:14
Fix it said, uh, where a car a bit more in the series.
31:18
So just, uh, kind of adopt my driving to it.
31:20
And, um, it's usually for me, uh, really easy to drive and endurance is
31:25
because I'm like, I'm, I'm going to be okay with whatever said you're driving.
31:29
So, uh, because you know, some people just prefer a little bit more in the
31:33
Syria because it's a little bit more safe kind of, so if they feel okay with this,
31:39
I'm like, all right, let's go for it.
31:44
So, uh, what plans do you have with Dream Team, uh, for this year?
31:48
So maybe some more special events and, uh, so what, what
31:53
is your plans for the future?
31:58
Um, I don't know the exact, um, events by heart, uh, that you guys, uh, wanted to
32:04
do, especially like Sarah and Esmeralda.
32:06
Uh, Because, like, I have to, like, see a little bit how many, like, what
32:11
weekends I'm free next year, because I will probably spend, like, uh, some
32:16
weekends at the Nordschleife, uh, yeah, I'm gonna update on that, like, as soon
32:22
as that's more, like, ready and stuff, but, uh, I will probably spend, uh, quite
32:28
some weekends where I'm not available, also the, um, IVRA, Season, like,
32:34
continues in February, in about a month.
32:37
So, um, that's also when I have, like, my weekends, where I do, like,
32:43
race control, and where I'm just, like, occupied with other stuff.
32:47
So, uh, but there are a couple races.
32:50
That we definitely can do together and, um, for the others, especially if
32:56
it's like a shorter one, like a four hour or six hour, um, we don't need
33:01
like four drivers for that, you know, so it's absolutely fine if, um, Sarah
33:06
and Esmeralda do it, like, maybe just the two of them, or maybe also ByteSkid
33:10
can join them for, like, something.
33:12
It just depends, like, when we have time.
33:14
But Esmeralda, if you know exactly, like, what races you want to do.
33:18
Well, I know that.
33:20
The three of us all filled in Sebring,
33:25
so that's the first one that we're gonna do.
33:28
I don't think Bice will be there, but I'd have to confirm.
33:32
Um, so that's the first thing that we're gonna do as a team.
33:38
That will be Sebring, the 12 hours of Sebring.
33:41
And then I wouldn't know about the rest of the calendar.
33:44
I'm trying to get everyone to drive Spa, but I'm the only one that wants to.
33:54
Why don't you want to drive Spa, Nina?
33:58
Um, well, it's, it's more that I don't really enjoy GT3s that much.
34:04
That's more the thing.
34:05
Um, it's just, uh, I don't know, uh, the car in iRacing, I'm just not.
34:12
that well connected to the road in them.
34:15
Uh, it's hard to describe a little bit, but, um, for the limited
34:20
time that I've spent in ACC, for example, it just felt more natural
34:25
to me there, how the GT3s drive.
34:27
Um, but yeah, it's definitely something that, I can get used to.
34:31
So, uh, I'll just have to see again if, if I'm free that
34:36
weekend and that kind of stuff.
34:38
And, uh, maybe it's also just a nice challenge to drive something that I'm
34:43
not that comfortable with and just, you know, see how it goes and maybe
34:48
see that as like a little bit more of a, of a challenge to really like, um,
34:52
I don't think I'm that great in that car, but let's still try to be fast.
34:56
So.
34:57
Yeah, that maybe can be a good challenge for you.
35:00
Also, a funny thing that you just said about ACC and it's
35:05
a completely opposite for me.
35:06
So I just, I can't drive GT3s in ACC.
35:09
I'm really comfortable with them when they're racing.
35:13
So yeah, it's really funny.
35:16
So you said that you prefer more prototypes.
35:19
Yeah, GT3 is a little bit different.
35:21
I also, you know, prefer more Porsche Cup over the GT3s, but for SPA24, yeah,
35:27
I'll be happy to drive this event because it's, we got a new version of SPA also.
35:32
It's going to be really fun to drive here.
35:35
I think it's, it will be great.
35:37
Um, speaking about Sebring 12 hours, are you planning to use the LMP2 again?
35:41
Or maybe give it a try to GTP cars or something like this?
35:48
Well, for me, I love the LMP2.
35:50
It's my second favorite car in iRacing, the first one just being the F4, my baby.
35:56
And, um, I love the LMP2 as well, though.
35:59
Uh, but yeah, uh, GTP might be a thing.
36:02
The reason why we didn't go for that, um, this race was because you
36:06
have a lot more setup options and Also like in car settings, you know,
36:12
stuff that, um, you have to be aware of and have to know how to use it.
36:16
Like the whole hybrid system and then like the in car ABR, um, anti roll bar changes
36:22
that you can do and that kind of stuff.
36:24
Uh, so it's definitely cool and interesting.
36:27
Uh, it's just, uh, quite a bit more complex.
36:30
So, um, in my opinion, we just would need a bit more of preparation time.
36:37
And that's basically what it comes down to.
36:39
Uh, How much like preparing we have, uh, I wouldn't mind driving GTPs again,
36:45
as I said, like GT3, I'd rather not, and LMP2 is just something that I can
36:51
quite easily jump into and be reasonably quick with, uh, rather quickly.
36:57
Awesome.
36:57
Uh, Ms.
36:58
Muraldo, what do you think about this?
36:59
Would you like to drive GTPs?
37:02
Well, we considered the idea and I think Nina might have forgotten, but we talked
37:09
about it for like 10 seconds, I think.
37:11
And Sarah also agreed that we just do it in the LMP2, because the GTPs are,
37:16
at this time, it's just too much work.
37:19
Um, but I'm definitely interested in doing some events with the GTP, but
37:25
also I have maybe 10 labs in a GTP.
37:28
I own one, but Like, in, in iRacing, before you faint
37:33
behind me in real life, I want.
37:35
Um, but I, I have driven ten laps, maybe, so, I mean, I first have to
37:41
get a lot of practice in, and then see if it's really as fun as it sounds.
37:46
Yeah, I found it for myself.
37:48
So that was my second Daytona 24 with a GTP car.
37:52
First one I did was a TRS Esports and we did with BMW.
37:58
There was only one GTP this time and uh, Beams Audio was a little bit understeering
38:03
for me and we drove Ferrari this time.
38:06
It was a really good balanced car, so I really like it.
38:09
And in my opinion, it's, uh, you know, not that complicated as LMP1, uh, which,
38:16
which we had, uh, were, uh, before.
38:19
And I think you should give it a try.
38:22
If you're going to have, like, you know, more time for preparation, I think
38:26
you can handle this car pretty well if you're driving LMP2 in a nice way.
38:31
So they're really close with how you're driving them on the track.
38:37
So yeah, I think it's worth a try.
38:41
Yeah, definitely.
38:42
Like, trying, definitely.
38:44
One more thing I also just thought of in this conversation was, I do enjoy
38:49
Being in the middle class in endurance races or at least not the fastest or
38:53
the slowest because then you just have You have like cars to overtake of other
38:59
classes, but you also get this like hey you have faster cars approaching
39:03
you have to you know See how to deal with faster traffic, and I just enjoy
39:09
that that you have like you know both sides of the Yeah, that's interesting.
39:16
Um, because when you're in middle class, uh, yeah, you, you just let go of someone
39:21
and you're overtaking the GT3 class.
39:23
If you're in GT3 class, you just let go everybody all the time.
39:27
It's, it can be a little bit annoying sometimes.
39:30
In GTPs, you're just, uh, driving and praying like, uh, I hope I'm not going
39:35
to kill anyone like GD3 or LMP2, so yeah.
39:40
So yeah, as a faster class, it's always like, I hope they see me.
39:43
And then, um, obviously, like, you know, you expect the slower classes
39:48
to just keep their racing line.
39:50
And then, um, not to somehow like jump out of your way in the last second,
39:54
because That's when you also change your lane to overtake them and then two cars,
39:59
two cars going for the same piece of tarmac is usually not a good combination.
40:05
Yeah, you know, funny thing that a couple of times I almost crash
40:10
GT3s because in the last moment, so you just predicting that they will
40:13
go and follow their racing line.
40:16
And then last moment, they're like, Oh, I should let go of this GTP and they like
40:20
switching the line to the opposite side.
40:22
I'm like, Oh, no.
40:24
That was, uh, really, um, you know, really scary to crash the GT3 because
40:30
every time you, like, uh, crashing them, they're so angry because they're like,
40:35
oh, that's GTP again, that's prototypes.
40:39
Yeah, like I always like for, um, endurance races or like multi
40:44
class races, um, what I like to do is to, um, I don't know, often a
40:48
streamer or like somebody look at like a couple laps of other classes.
40:53
So I know, um, what like their normal laps look like.
40:58
And, um, also maybe where they are grip limited because maybe one, one of the
41:04
corner is very understeer for a GT3.
41:07
So, um, that way, if I'm in a faster class, I know that probably on the exit
41:12
of this, where they are understeer.
41:14
I shouldn't overtake on the outside, but I should rather just cut back
41:17
and overtake on the inside because they're grip limited anyway.
41:21
So, um, I try to just, uh, preactive, preactively, proactively, uh, try
41:28
to avoid like being in difficult situations for both of the cars.
41:33
That's really good advice.
41:35
I think for people who's thinking about endurance races.
41:38
Uh, so for myself, uh, what I did, I tried to drive in GT3s and then
41:44
in prototypes on the same track.
41:45
So you, uh, kind of see then, uh, where, where to expect, uh, LMPs
41:51
in coming, uh, being GT3 class.
41:53
And, uh, as a prototype, you like already know that you.
41:57
Can't overtake here, uh, because you're already so, uh, being in GT3, uh,
42:03
where LMP is, uh, incoming for you.
42:05
So, yeah, I think that's a good thing.
42:07
Also that you can watch maybe replay instead of jumping to the car.
42:11
Maybe you're going to need more time to adapt to race it.
42:16
Uh, so just.
42:17
Jump into replay and just see where, uh, people overtaken most of the
42:21
time and where, uh, as you said, GT3s, uh, have had, like, more
42:27
understeer or something like this.
42:28
And I think that's a good thing.
42:31
Um, so we got, uh, I said, of course, uh, Evo, which just, uh, came out to
42:38
early access and, uh, you just said that you tried it on SimRacing Xbox.
42:43
Can you give me some, uh, like emotions, which you had, uh, your feedback about it.
42:50
Do you like it?
42:51
That's a question to Nina and Esmeralda.
42:53
Not sure if Esmeralda, uh, tried it, uh, but yeah, I'm really curious about this.
43:01
Um, me or you?
43:05
I mean, you go first.
43:06
Uh, so yeah, we, like, first off, we both tried it, um, we, since we had, like, an
43:12
exhibitor pass for the CIM Expo, it was really nice because we could just, uh, on
43:18
the evening of, like, the second to last, uh, day, we just went over to the stand
43:23
that had AC Evo on, and we're like, hey, Nice We're working on this and that stand
43:28
and would it be possible tomorrow morning?
43:30
Um, because we had an hour before it officially opens.
43:34
Um, if maybe like tomorrow morning we can already try it before
43:38
people come in because obviously we were there for, like, to work.
43:42
So, uh, we didn't really get much time to walk around all of the stands.
43:47
And, uh, but yeah, it was nice because, uh, just before, like, it opened for
43:52
everyone, we just Um, could try it for a little and, uh, didn't have to
43:56
wait in line forever and, uh, yeah.
44:00
So, uh, I don't know how much has changed since then because, uh, since it came
44:04
out, I had Daytona to do and then, uh, also this week some other stuff.
44:08
So I haven't played it on my own rig, uh, yet.
44:12
But from what it felt like on the SimExpo, it was really a nice, uh, how do you say?
44:20
It's not as much like a sim.
44:23
As I racing, for example, but it's also way more advanced than
44:28
just like an arcade or something.
44:30
It's a it's a really good blend, in my opinion, of a realistic feeling car, but
44:34
also it's approachable for new people who.
44:38
Want to get into this but, um, want something that's just more
44:42
than, like, Forza or Gran Turismo.
44:46
Uh, to be fair, I haven't driven Gran Turismo, so, but like, from
44:50
what it looks like, it seems a bit more on the arcade side.
44:54
Uh, but yeah, uh, it felt nice.
44:56
It really felt, uh, like, the feedback that I was getting from the car felt,
45:01
uh, As I said, not entirely real, but definitely predictable, and kind of
45:07
like what I would expect from a car.
45:09
So Yeah, I think, um, when they bring out the full game and everything, uh,
45:14
it's probably gonna be, uh, a really nice game to just spend some time on.
45:20
Mm hmm.
45:21
So what about you, Esmeralda?
45:23
Well, it's, um, not too much to add, I think.
45:27
Um, so the last time I did a set of Corsair, it's been a
45:33
while, especially when I was at the Expo, it had been a while.
45:37
Um, so it feels very different compared to iRacing.
45:43
Um, for me personally, I prefer the way iRacing handles GT three.
45:50
Um, but I think it felt pretty good.
45:55
It's, it's just weird, like the, the thing, the car slides so much
46:00
and I'm trying to make sense of the feedback I was getting, but I
46:04
couldn't really make sense of it.
46:06
But I think that's just because for me, it's been so long since I did ACC, uh, and
46:11
I've completely gotten used to iRacing.
46:14
So, like, I don't have an opinion on it yet.
46:19
I don't know if I'm gonna get it because iRacing is my sole focus right now.
46:23
Um, but yeah, it's still an early access.
46:27
There's still a lot that can change and I've heard it was open world
46:30
as well, which sounds awesome.
46:32
But also, I think Nina is right, that it's a blend between arcade and sim racing.
46:38
Yeah, maybe.
46:39
Oh, sorry.
46:40
No, go ahead.
46:42
Um, maybe to add a little bit to it, again, it's, um, iRacing is usually
46:46
quite good on, like, race tires.
46:49
Uh, so, from the, um, like, from the little bit of, like, race cars that
46:55
I've driven in real life as well, um, That's how I always compare my stuff
47:01
to, like, when I drive iRacing, and that feels very natural, especially
47:04
in, like, formula cars or something.
47:06
Um, and Seta Corsa and also AC Evo, uh, I think what they do quite well is
47:13
simulate, like, street tires on a circuit, where, um, you just don't have this,
47:18
like, absolute, like, Peak performance of a tire or something, but you have a
47:23
tire that just, um, that's more like a street tire, you know, you have way more
47:28
of like a gradual loss of friction and like grip and race tires are usually you
47:34
have way more grip, but once the grip is gone, it's also like, uh, it's way.
47:40
you have way more or way less margin from grip to no grip, whereas street
47:46
tire is more like a bit more gradual from like peak grip to you're absolutely
47:51
like under steering or something.
47:53
Uh, what combo did you try?
47:55
Like car and trek?
47:56
Uh, do you try like different or there was the only one combo for everybody?
48:02
No, we tried, uh, or like, I tried some, I think it was a Porsche Cup
48:07
at, or Porsche GT three at Ola.
48:11
And uh, another one was like, I think it was like an alpine at.
48:17
Was it Brands Hatch or something?
48:19
I don't, I don't quite remember, uh, but definitely like
48:22
some Porsche at, uh, Imola.
48:24
Mm hmm.
48:26
Uh, what about I, I wouldn't know.
48:28
I, I can't remember.
48:30
Uh, I don't even know the track.
48:32
But I think it was, I don't think it was Imola.
48:38
I can't remember.
48:39
I've certainly driven Imola.
48:41
Like there were a couple of different, um, things to try.
48:44
I don't know if you tried like the same stuff as I do, because on the
48:48
Semiaxplorer it was like pre configured.
48:50
Like you had a choice of like three or four different combinations.
48:55
And then it was like Porsche Cup at Imola and the next one was like Alpine
49:01
in the wet at this and that track and then you had Oh, I don't know, BMW 1
49:05
Series at this and that or something.
49:07
So I drove in the wet.
49:09
I know that for sure.
49:10
I don't know exactly like the combinations anymore, but like
49:13
it was something like that.
49:15
You just had to pick one of the combinations.
49:18
And, uh, I tried two of those combinations.
49:20
I don't know if you Like switched over as well, but, uh, it's,
49:25
it's been a while since, so like, don't worry if you don't remember.
49:30
Yeah, so I tried it on Early Access, uh, like a couple of days ago on my own
49:34
rig, uh, with my, uh, Direct Drive T818.
49:38
It felt really good, so you saying that it's like, uh, something between
49:42
Arcade and Simulator, I would say that, like, For now, for me, it
49:46
feels like, uh, more like iRacing.
49:49
So, uh, it's really close with, uh, Helm Breakin So I decided to,
49:54
uh, go with Porsche Cup at Laguna Seca because I did it recently
49:57
in iRacing, not a long time ago.
50:00
And It felt really good, uh, in, in terms that we had some kind of, uh, so base
50:05
set up in AC Evo, uh, it felt, uh, almost the same as in a racing, uh, in terms
50:12
of, uh, how I'm breaking, uh, what, uh, force I'm implying to the brake pedal and,
50:18
uh, overall how car feels on the track.
50:20
It was great.
50:21
Uh, can't tell anything about street cars, so we tried a few
50:25
cars like Ford Escort and, uh.
50:28
I think Alfa Romeo Giulia, um, and I tried also BMW M2, which we got in a
50:35
racing, uh, in rookie class right now.
50:38
And it felt also really close to what we got in the racing.
50:42
And it was really cool to see that on low settings and graphics and
50:46
everything, uh, it looks decent.
50:49
So I think.
50:50
That, uh, AC Evo going to be a good entry point for, uh, some people,
50:56
uh, especially that it's, uh, you know, more open to everybody.
50:59
Like, uh, as you said, uh, here's, uh, some, uh, some cars with a
51:04
street tires and maybe some people, uh, can be interested in them, uh,
51:08
because they driving their own cars on the racing tracks and, uh, you
51:12
know, just would like to drive, uh, their cars in, in the seam as well.
51:18
And so yeah, I think that's going to be a great addition and for now just
51:22
feel like it's closer to our racing than to ACC, which is I'm happy with.
51:28
And, uh, yes, performance, not the best, uh, in terms of FPS, but I'm
51:33
pretty sure they're going to, um.
51:36
Like improve it after some time, uh, and it should be a really interesting,
51:41
um, addition to our sim racing world.
51:46
Yeah, it sounds like, oh, sorry.
51:49
It sounds like it changed quite a bit since that we tried it.
51:54
Um, so in that regard, obviously we, when was it?
51:59
I think October?
52:00
Yeah, it was like in October.
52:02
And, um, so like I think mid of October.
52:05
And also what I wanted to add, uh, keep in mind that we, at the SimExpo,
52:09
we just tried it with some rig that was set up like somehow, and we
52:14
didn't spend that much time on it.
52:16
And, um, and also when I, when I said it's like between Sim and Arcade.
52:21
Uh, to be fair, I'm comparing it to iRacing, which I find usually quite
52:26
realistic, and, like, Gran Turismo 7, uh, which is also, like, pretty realistic,
52:33
uh, but, you know, like, more on the arcade side, so it's definitely more
52:37
on the iRacing side, um, and, like, it's definitely nowhere in the terms
52:42
of, like, arcade, like, Need for Speed.
52:45
That's not what I meant when I said arcade, just to, like, clarify.
52:48
It's definitely Uh, close to a simulator and, um, yeah, from what we drove, um, I
52:54
bet they have improved a lot since then.
52:57
Yeah, so, uh, maybe I said, of course, uh, EO will be, uh, I said, of course,
53:01
which I'm going to drive and, uh, like with community, maybe if we're going
53:05
to have some kind of events here, um, like maybe championships, I'll
53:09
be, uh, happy to drive it because I really like it from the first try.
53:13
Uh, yes, it's, it's, uh, completely different as you said, uh, to trying,
53:17
uh, the new simulator on your own rig because you got your own settings.
53:21
Uh, like I'm aware that I have to turn off the, you know, all this effects like
53:26
spring on all the stuff, uh, they can be, uh, on, on events, uh, because just, uh,
53:32
I don't know, guys just, uh, set up, uh, like the, something base for everybody,
53:37
um, so yeah, just, uh, highly recommend to everybody to try it on their own rigs,
53:42
I think, uh, you're going to like it, and, uh, open world is really interesting
53:46
and, uh, not sure how it's, uh, going to be in the game, um, but, uh, I'm so
53:53
excited to see it, uh, in the future.
53:57
All right.
53:57
And, uh, we'd like to ask, uh, about what is your own plans, Nina and Esmeralda?
54:05
So outside of the Dream Team, what, what's your plans for 2025, like in a
54:10
racing or in other simulators as well?
54:15
Um, yeah, for me, it's, uh, I definitely want to do some, uh, events with Olympus
54:20
again, since, uh, I have, like, lately I really haven't, uh, driven a lot with
54:26
the team, uh, which I, you know, I want to spend time with them again, because
54:30
I'm also way more active again on the Discord, and, uh, I just miss driving
54:35
with the guys, and, uh, yeah, it's always, uh, And, uh, so like probably
54:43
the 24 hours of Nordschleife is something that I'm going to do with them again.
54:47
But I'll, I'll see how availability is and here and there.
54:51
And, uh, so who knows, maybe I'm also doing it with Dream Team.
54:56
It's certainly a race that I want to do.
54:58
And, uh, yeah, apart from that, there are just a couple of different, uh,
55:04
things on iRacing that I want to Uh, be part of like some events from other
55:10
organizations or companies that I want to just give a go and just see how well
55:14
I compare against people who do that.
55:17
And yeah, and also, uh, outside of like sim racing itself, as I said,
55:22
I'm probably going to spend a couple of weekends, uh, in the next season
55:26
at like a track in real life and, uh, not necessarily as driving, but.
55:32
We'll, we'll see.
55:33
We'll get to that one once that's there.
55:35
And, uh, yeah.
55:39
All right.
55:39
Uh, what about you, Esmeralda?
55:40
What's your plans in sim racing?
55:42
Maybe in your real life as well.
55:45
So what, what's your planning for 2025?
55:49
In real life, um, like racing related, I'm not planning anything at all.
55:55
Um, Yeah, my focus right now is on sim racing.
56:00
Um, and then yeah, I haven't figured out yet what exactly I'm going to do,
56:07
but we've got, um, buffers coming up, which I'm not sure if I'm going to,
56:13
but I might do it with my own team.
56:16
And then for all the special events that we're not doing with the dream
56:20
team, I might do it with my own team.
56:22
And then we've also got some other, uh, endurance races coming up.
56:28
that are not part of the special events that I might do with my own team.
56:31
And, yeah, it's not anything exciting, but, you know,
56:38
there are plans outside of the Dream Team.
56:41
Yeah, I hope you're going to enjoy some races with Dream Team.
56:44
Uh, from my side, I will do some events with Olympus Esports, uh, that
56:48
definitely will be, uh, special events like Sebring 12 Hours and, like, Spot 24.
56:54
Uh, some other events as well.
56:56
Um, And I think we're going to continue the championship in the EVRA club sport.
57:02
Um, so probably I'm going to do a couple of rounds in it.
57:05
I'm so excited about this to drive Porsche Cup once again.
57:10
Um, here's a, another one question from the chat.
57:13
It's really interesting, I think.
57:15
Um, so as we've been talking about AC Evo, uh, so people asking, uh, Where
57:21
can you place the ACC, like, uh, where it stands between iRacing and AC Evo,
57:28
uh, or, like, other simulators, uh, GT7?
57:32
So, for me, I think ACC is, uh, completely different, in my opinion,
57:36
uh, than iRacing, like, uh, it feels a bit Weird for me when I'm
57:40
trying to drive the GT3s in ACC.
57:43
I don't know why, uh, but I found it really hard to, you know, um, just
57:48
transfer my driving skills, my knowledge and everything from my racing to ACC.
57:54
So usually I'm struggling, uh, quite a lot with brakes, uh, compared to our racing.
57:58
You have to really push brakes hard and, you know, it took.
58:02
long time to get used to it.
58:05
So how is it for you, Nina?
58:07
How do you feel in ACC after racing?
58:12
Yeah, so like, I don't have that much experience in ACC.
58:16
I have like, 100 hours or something.
58:20
And like, 80 of them is like, What I spend, like, continuously,
58:25
like, really trying to get, like, good laps in here and there.
58:29
So, um, it's, it's very different how you have to use your pedals.
58:34
So, it's very difficult to, like, just simply switch between them.
58:40
I had to really, like, re learn, uh, how to use the brake, just as you said.
58:45
Uh, and then it took me, like, I don't know, probably like really like 10 or
58:51
20 hours to like properly figure it out.
58:54
And then I had the same issue going back to iRacing again.
58:56
So, uh, also like the feedback you get through the wheel is quite different,
59:00
because iRacing only gives you the forces that, um, you have like in a
59:05
real steering column, whereas, uh, ACC also gives you, I think, some chassis
59:10
feedback and that kind of thing.
59:12
Uh, You know, which is, it's just a bit of a different approach, uh, it's, um,
59:20
from what I felt, is that, uh, on ACC, I can understand way more what the tire
59:27
is doing, in terms of like slip angle, and also how the assist systems work,
59:32
so like, uh, traction control and ABS.
59:36
And then iRacing, uh, especially like GT3s, just feel a bit disconnected to me,
59:43
but I'm also, again, I'm not that good on GT3s anyway, uh, so, who am I to judge?
59:51
But, um, yeah, so, uh, it's, it's just a bit of a different approach, um.
1:00:01
Yeah, Esmerelda, what do you think about ACC?
1:00:04
If you tried it, I'm not really sure in this.
1:00:07
Oh no.
1:00:07
Yeah, I, I think 500 hours in a CC 'cause, um, mm-hmm.
1:00:12
I used to do the more female racers, uh, series.
1:00:17
Um,
1:00:21
I think it's really difficult to give feedback, uh, 'cause in a CC I'm
1:00:29
a lot slower than I am at iRacing.
1:00:31
Um, a lot's got to do with the braking, which I never really figured
1:00:36
out in a CCI, I dunno why it's just.
1:00:40
Um, because you know, I can definitely trailbrake and in iRacing it's all fine.
1:00:45
But in ACC it's the breaking zone where I lose out every single time.
1:00:50
And I've looked at telemetry.
1:00:52
A whole lot of times, but to, you know, get it right every
1:00:56
time, it's just so difficult.
1:00:59
Well, in iRacing, for me, it comes naturally.
1:01:02
Um, and then there's the sliding.
1:01:05
In ACC, I am sliding everywhere.
1:01:08
The rear is just wiggling the whole lap.
1:01:11
And, you know, I'm trying to go on onto the throttle as soon as I think
1:01:16
I can, but it's just every time it's too soon, and I go sliding again.
1:01:21
So.
1:01:22
I can definitely drive an ACC and I'm maybe reasonably quick or just slow.
1:01:31
I'm not really quick, at least.
1:01:33
So yeah, um, and where I put it between AC Evo and iRacing, it depends.
1:01:42
If, if what you said is all correct, then ACC is definitely at the bottom.
1:01:50
But as I tried ACEvo, it kind of felt the same as ACC with the sliding and stuff.
1:01:56
So, yeah.
1:01:59
With what you said, with the changes, then I'd probably say Gran Turismo 7, and then
1:02:05
ACC, and then AC Evo, and then iRacing.
1:02:09
And then iRacing would be the most realistic.
1:02:13
Yeah, as you said, I think I'm with you in this, so you said like,
1:02:17
driving and racing, um, just Coming naturally, uh, compared to ACC.
1:02:25
So ACC feels a bit weird for me.
1:02:27
It was breaking with everything.
1:02:29
So it's really hard.
1:02:32
Excuse me.
1:02:35
Um, so yeah, uh, girls, it was really fun to speak with you.
1:02:40
That's the first time we had any talks with two guests.
1:02:43
It was really fun.
1:02:44
Thank you so much for being here and I wish you good luck for 2025
1:02:48
with racing events, with everything.
1:02:50
And, uh, I hope it will be good for us, uh, less crashes, uh,
1:02:55
more podiums and, uh, fun racing.
1:02:58
Thank you so much.
1:03:00
Yeah, same to you.
1:03:01
Thank you.
1:03:02
Thank you for hosting.
1:03:03
Okay, guys, uh, thank you so much for watching.
1:03:06
Uh, we'll see you on next N8 Talks.
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1:03:09
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