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Screen to Speed No.3: Nina Hahn’s Racing Journey and the VCO x Infinity Race · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by INIT Esports.
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  In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals,
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  racetracks, we explore the passion, Dedication and innovation that
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  So buckle up, Screen to Speed starts now.
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  Hello
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  everyone, and hello.
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  Welcome to the third episode of Elite Talks.
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  And today we have a special guest joining us, Nina Han.
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  Hi, Nina.
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  Hi, how are you doing today?
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  How are you doing today?
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  Yeah, I'm doing quite well.
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  Fine.
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  Um, it's very nice to have you here today again, because yeah, yesterday
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  Nina was in the Uh stream to speed dream team practication and now she is the
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  guest star for the init talks episode 3 Hello, by the way, hello jamie.
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  Hello sharon.
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  It's very nice to have you here today.
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  Hi How are you doing guys?
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  Happy almost weekend.
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  Happy almost weekend.
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  It's almost the weekend
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  So nina, so what are you up to lately?
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  Um, yeah, I mean, uh, in terms of racing, there has been quite some things.
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  Uh, I guess, like, if you start all the way back by the Winter Cup, um, I
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  did, I did win, uh, the Screen 2 Speed Winter Cup, which was, uh, amazing.
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  And really close fight was really, really cool.
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  And then, um, I had the Women's Day Invitational again with Screen 2 Speed,
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  uh, which was also quite successful.
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  We'll talk about it later and then also like last week I
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  went to the, um, to England.
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  To be part in a, um, what's it called?
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  Like a competition, uh, from Formula Woman.
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  Right.
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  And yeah, I managed to get into the finals there as well, so.
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  Oh, nice.
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  We'll talk more about the Formula Woman championship later.
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  But first, before, before we get into this kind of question about the winner
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  mentality as the title of this dream.
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  So could you tell us a bit about your story?
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  How, how did you get into sim racing and motor sports?
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  Yeah, I mean, I think we touched on that yesterday already.
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  Um, and I guess I'll give the rough rundown again.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh, when I was thinking about it, I really think my base motivation
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  about like all racing and cars started with the movie Cars.
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  Mhm.
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  Uh, from, um, I don't know what year that was released, but
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  like, I was reasonably young.
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  I was really very small back then, when we had the cars.
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  Yeah, that really made me go, um, oh, cars are cool.
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  Mhm.
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  And, um, Yeah, and then I, I went karting here and there, like, I say
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  here and there, it was like two or three times, I feel like, and I did
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  quite well, especially for my age and not being into racing or something,
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  but my, my parents aren't into cars and no one really, my family is, and
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  so it kind of never really bothered me.
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  Yeah.
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  lived up to, um, like a hobby.
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  Yeah.
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  So I kind of forgot about it until I, um, drove with a, with a neighbor who
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  was driving me to a friend's place.
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  And his car was just like all like, um, kind of like, kind of like a small rally
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  car with like a roll cage and a four point harness and he sent it through a
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  roundabout when he was driving me and that really like reignited this like
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  passion i was like oh cars are still cool and it's really fun to drive fast
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  and then i then i kind of started like um Like racing games again, like when
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  I was younger, I did like a couple of Need for Speed titles, but didn't really
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  like, you know, it didn't really catch on, and then I was like, I don't know,
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  16, 17 at that point, where, um, yeah, I was just really enjoying it again,
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  and, uh, started with, I think, a set of Corsa and Project Cars, a Dirt Rally, and
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  those kind of games, more like casual, and then after a while, Um, yeah, I got
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  onto, I racing with like proper wheels and pedals and now having like a full rig.
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  And I racing is my main r full setup simulator full.
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  Yeah, a full setup.
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  And soon you will get your, um, sim rig from Bel, I think.
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  Also, yes.
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  So you can't wait to see your home and you're like the only one driving it.
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  So good luck and have fun.
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  Yeah, I mean, I can't, I can't wait for that.
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  And maybe there will be some social media, um, stuff attached to this.
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  Yes, please.
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  Um, we'll, I don't know how much I can say and how much is like fixed.
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  Right, right.
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  It's gonna be cool.
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  It's gonna be cool.
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  Like, it's going to be like, very cool, very nice.
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  And especially because you earn it, like, you win it.
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  Because I watch, I watch your race in the International Women's Day.
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  And I saw it like, for a long time, you were like, in B6, something like that.
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  Like, going into the final portion.
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  And then I was like, wait, Nina, Nina won?
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  Nina won the race?
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  I was like, she was in six or something all the time.
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  And how?
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  Yeah, like, Could you tell me a bit about the story behind it?
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  Yeah, of course.
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  I was, um, running, like, P3 or P4 for, like, a long part of, like, the race.
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  And then, um, I had, like, a slightly different strategy to the others, though.
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  So, um, towards the end, I was running in 6th and 7th, I believe.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And I was really like, um, on, like on the radio with my team boss who was
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  like, you know, watching over me and like giving me call outs and everything.
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  Right.
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  Uh.
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  I was telling him, Oh, I don't know.
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  It's, I guess the strategy didn't work as we planned and there's no
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  way we're going to get a caution in the last two laps or something.
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  But then we did get another caution and like, I think some
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  people pitted and everything.
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  I just stayed out.
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  And, um, also, um, I got a bit lucky, but that's also part of it.
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  With Athena getting a time penalty.
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  But yeah, I was in a prime position at the end, and then just, um, restarted
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  the race, kept the lead, and, uh, yeah, crossed the finish line first.
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  Yeah, I was like, wow, is that caution flag a miracle for you?
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  Yeah, I mean, it kind of like, um, in Ovals, you always have the risk of like
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  a late caution, but, um, it, it really, like, it came out at the perfect moment
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  for me, and I'm really happy that our strategy did work, uh, as intended.
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  Right.
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  That was like one of the reasons why we went with that strategy.
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  So we would be at the green white checker, we would be in the prime spot.
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  And that's exactly what happened.
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  And, um, yeah, it's still a huge thanks to Charles for, uh,
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  helping me with all of that.
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  Thank you for helping Nina with the strategy and stuff.
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  Because yeah, I feel like in OVAL, sometimes you have to take
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  the risk, like gamble your luck.
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  Waiting for the helping that there will be like another quotient and
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  you took that and it gives you a win Like congratulations for that.
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  So I was like dina is the back to back winner From winter cup straight
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  to the international women's day.
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  So, um Will you join the screen to speed another screen to speed if we
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  are having it like probably in summer?
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  Like another season cup.
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  Yeah.
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  Another season.
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  Yeah.
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  Will you join?
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  Like if I, if I have the time, uh, definitely I'll have to see.
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  How like some real life stuff pans out, but I think I would have to time
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  again I would definitely want to join because especially the Winter Cup was
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  like so much fun because it was over these couple of weeks and I was fighting
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  with Bianca in there quite a bit It was like the battle between you and
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  Bianca all the time, like the close.
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  Yeah, we were always very close and I was never like leading the
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  championship until like the very last race when I like won the whole cup.
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  Um, so like, yeah, we were always very close.
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  We had some great fighting and everything.
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  Yeah.
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  So to come out on top was also like, Really, really cool, and, uh, was
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  like some tricky math, um, connected to it during the last race, and I
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  didn't know exactly where I had to finish, where she had to finish, so I
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  just, like, gave it my best, and won by one single point at the end of it.
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  So, yeah, it was exciting.
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  That is like a really close championship battle between you and Bianca.
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  Like, yeah, I think for, I think as far as I saw, it's always like,
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  Bianca always like won the race.
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  Not like always, but I think like, she won the race, like the, in few rounds, right?
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  So, yeah.
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  Yeah, like, we, um, both of us had like a lot of wins.
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  Uh, we weren't the only ones winning, but, um, I, I think, if I recall correctly,
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  Uh, if I hadn't, in the last race, if I hadn't got the fastest lap point, then
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  it would have been decided on, I think, the, most amounts of fourth place finishes
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  because we had equal sets of wins, equal second place, equal third places.
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  And I believe I had one more fourth place.
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  It was like really, really close racing.
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  Really, really close.
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  Yep.
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  Oh my God.
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  I think if I were you, back in the Winter Cup, I was so, like, stressed
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  out with the points and stuff.
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  Because, back in the day when I was, like, winning a championship,
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  it was, like, a pretty big gap between me and the second place.
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  Even though that I finished last on my final race, I still win it
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  because I've already collected the points from the previous round.
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  But for you, this whole championship is all about battling, battling, close
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  battle, close battle, close for win.
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  Wow.
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  Do you ever like get stressed out about that?
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  Like, you know, like you want to win, but yeah.
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  I mean, obviously, um, I was always like looking at the points.
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  I always wanted to go for the win, obviously.
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  But, um, In the second to last round, so we always had like two
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  races per round, right, per weekend.
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  So, um, in the, uh, second, second last, uh, round, yeah, in the third to last
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  race, um, I did end up in like a lap one crash and, um, was really like pretty,
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  pretty much at the back of the field.
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  So, um, yeah.
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  And I really thought, oh, that's it, um, Bianca's gonna get it now.
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  Uh, but with, like, the, the way that the points worked and everything, it
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  wasn't impossible, but it was, like, quite difficult to still win it.
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  And then, um, On the last round, on these two races, I just
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  like, had the perfect weekend.
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  I won both races.
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  I think, I'm not sure if I got the fastest lap on the first race, but
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  I did get it on the second lap, on the second race and everything.
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  So, um, it was exactly what I needed.
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  And, yeah, I was giving my all and I was really happy that it worked out that way.
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  So the fastest lap, the fastest lap points really helps you with that.
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  So even though that you're not always winning as long as you're in the
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  finishing in the podium, but then you score the fastest lap in every round,
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  the point will quite help you to be on top of the standings, I guess.
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  Yeah, definitely.
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  Like the points are like the fastest lap points are also part of it.
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  And I didn't get it every time.
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  Every race, like Bianca also had it a couple of times.
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  I think Sarah Dove also had it, uh, one or two times.
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  So, um, yeah, it was really cool.
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  And every, every single point counts, and that's what helped me.
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  Oh, anyway.
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  Hello, Sophie and Yvonne.
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  Hi, how are you doing?
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  And happy almost weekend chat.
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  Happy almost weekend.
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  So we are having a talk with Nina right now.
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  So Nina, so Nina and I are talking about the winter cup.
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  So the screen to speed winter cup, because all this time I see from the
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  clips from the broadcast, but I haven't really heard about the competition
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  itself inside the, in the, in the winter cup, if you know what I mean.
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  So But then, I think in the Winter Cup, the first round, you, you start based
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  from where you qualified in the race.
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  But on the second one, it's like a reverse grid kind of thing, right?
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  I think?
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  Uh, yes, it was, uh, always like, um, we had like a qualifying and then we had
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  the reverse grid for the second race.
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  Yeah, the reverse one.
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  Didn't make it interesting.
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  Um, Although it, it was like sometimes a bit stressful to weave, uh,
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  through the, like, uh, slower cars.
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  Mm hmm.
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  Right.
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  Especially when, when you're still fighting, um, because usually, Mm hmm.
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  Bianca and me, we were, like, quite far up front in the race finish.
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  Mm hmm.
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  And then for the next race, we would be like together again, but at the back.
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  So we kind of like, we're fighting each other, but also trying to get like, to
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  lose like as little time as possible to, you know, overtake other people on track.
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  And on some tracks that was easier, on some tracks like Laguna Seca, I
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  remember that was really difficult.
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  And yeah, it's, um, it gave a new challenge to it.
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  It's, I don't know if I prefer it to like, uh, some other version.
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  Um, Yeah, because it was a bit tricky and sometimes, I don't know, I also didn't
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  want to, like, ruin anyone else's race, obviously, because they're also racing
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  and if I come through just because I'm faster, I didn't want to, like, hit
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  anyone, I didn't want to spin anyone out, obviously, because they're in their own
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  race and I don't want to ruin anything for them, so it was tricky sometimes.
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  Right.
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  So running, like, the reverse grid, the gameplay and the strategy is, like,
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  totally different than starting in front.
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  Like, yeah, in a reverse grid, you want to make overtake as fast as you
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  can, but you want to make it safe.
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  And then you have to, um, how do you say, like, you have to face other
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  drivers with different pace than you, so Like, you have to predict also, right?
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  Like, okay, how is this driver gonna do if I do this, if I do that?
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  So, I assume that the reverse grid can be hard.
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  Like, can be, like, really hard.
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  Because if you start in front, you know, like, for example, like, you'll
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  be battling with Bianca all the time.
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  And then, like, you'll be pulling off the gap with the car speed.
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  Behind you at some point, like you're running fast.
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  Both of you, you're battling you, you go in front, but in the, in the
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  reverse grid, you'll be like, okay, I'll start like from the very, very back.
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  And then like, you have to deal with the T1 carnage most of the time.
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  Cause the, the first lap can be like crazy for some people.
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  Like, yeah, that's how I see.
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  Um, yes, but we had, I think a total of eight races.
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  And there was only like one race out of them that had like a, sort of like a
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  bigger incident in the first, um, lap.
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  So, I think the driving standards were pretty good.
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  So, um, of course we had like a bit of like a pace difference here and there.
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  But I think the racing standards themselves were quite, quite good.
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  And that also helped, um, because I do have like some experience in like
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  the multi class races or something.
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  Mm hmm.
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  Right.
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  So, um.
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  I kind of, like, was thinking about, okay, if I have a card that is,
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  like, significantly slower than me, then I kind of would just, like,
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  approach it like a multi class.
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  Ah, right.
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  If I'm just, like, a little bit faster or something, then I would just, like,
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  try to battle for a position as normal.
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  And it makes for different overtakes, kind of.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, the way you like trying to overtake someone, it, it can be different because
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  especially in winter cup, like we have so many drivers coming from different
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  background, different experience.
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  So it makes the competition.
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  It's like, More complex sometimes because you have to deal with a very experienced
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  and I'm not saying like, uh, the other one is not good or not, not having experience,
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  but it can be different because, because of things, you know, like this and that.
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  And also like, maybe there are some people who get used to different seem
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  and something like that, you know?
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  So for me.
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  I don't know, for me sometimes starting from the back and try to get the wind
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  in front can be like really really hard than starting in front and running
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  away from from the back behind you.
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  It made some, for some great racing.
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  Yeah, it is obvious.
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  I want to join the Winter Cup too.
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  I wish I joined.
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  Yeah, so like, obviously if you're, if you're already in front, um, then you
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  kind of have like a different type of race where you don't have to, if you, if
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  you have the pace, let's say, then you can just focus on like running away and
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  just not get overtaken by second place.
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  But like when you start from the back, then you kind of have to,
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  yeah, you're going to lose some time in the, in the start just because
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  you have cars in front and you need to overtake if you are faster.
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  Right.
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  So It makes for different types of races, I'd say.
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  Yeah, and the different types.
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  But which one do you prefer more?
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  Starting in front or starting from the back?
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  Like last to first challenge?
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  Uh, it depends on the level of competition, I would say.
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  If, if there are drivers that are, um, like, really, really, like,
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  good and, like, above my level or something, I would technically want
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  to start, like, a bit further ahead.
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  I would.
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  Because I think my race craft in terms of defending and keeping
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  a position is quite good.
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  But like, um, for like the pure fun of it, obviously if I, if I am one of the faster
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  cars in the field, it's obviously fun to have this challenge of overtaking people.
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  And, um, yeah, just, um, trying to like, um, Trying different things to like,
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  really overtake, see what works, what doesn't, where you have to like, go for
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  a move and then realize, ah, okay, it doesn't quite work, and, um, then you
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  kind of have to use a bit more tactics, which is a lot of fun, but, um, yeah,
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  it's, it's just gonna slow you down, so, obviously, the further you go.
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  Part ahead, um, the better.
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  The better, right.
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  Because when you're battling someone, both of you like, technically
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  losing time because you're battling.
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  So, there's like some, something that you have to, what do you say, like
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  you have to compromise, I must say, like when you're battling someone.
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  At least for me, I don't want to keep the battle for a long time because I'll, I'll
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  be losing time and, I feel like at some point, someone behind me will eventually
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  catch up if I keep on battling, like, trying, trying to make overtake, but not
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  sure about it, so, you know, like, I'm losing time, and the gap to the car behind
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  me is getting closer and closer, so I was like, okay, enough playing, let's go.
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  I'll be like that.
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  Yeah, um, it depends, I guess, again.
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  Like, if you, if you're just really far ahead and, um, I don't know.
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  For example, with Bianca in the Winter Cup.
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  Sometimes we found ourselves in a race where we were either like
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  us two or maybe like a third or fourth car in the mix as well.
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  But we were kind of like running away from like the rest of the pack.
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  And then, then you can start like battling a little and really like,
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  especially towards the end of the race, really start to try to be in
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  the optimum position for the finish.
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  Yeah.
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  But, um, if you either have, like, still, like, um, a leader in front that has
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  build, build up a gap to, like, second place and go in third, then it would make
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  sense to not battle too much, um, because then you both can just, like, catch up to
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  the car in front, and then you can make it, like, a three way battle instead of
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  making the two way battle, and as soon as you're, uh, eventually manage to get
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  ahead, then P1 is just like so far ahead that you're never going to catch up.
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  Uh, same goes to like if you're, um, two cars fighting in the front, and position
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  three and four for example are with a bit of a gap behind, but you don't want to
• 22:06
  start to fight too early so they don't like start mixing in until the finish.
• 22:12
  you kind of want to have enough of a gap to when you start fighting and you both
• 22:15
  lose a bit of time that you kind of can both keep their position and not not lose
• 22:22
  more than you could gain right right right so even battling someone you have to have
• 22:28
  a strategy you must have a strategy and like you have to think like if i battling
• 22:33
  this guy or whoever if we battle And then like, you will see like, okay, we, we
• 22:40
  made it like, okay, we made the overtake, but then the gap to the car in front
• 22:43
  of you is already like 17, 20 seconds.
• 22:46
  And I don't know, for me, if I see the gap above 10 seconds, it's quite impossible,
• 22:51
  especially if the race is about to end, like, nah, not gonna make it.
• 22:57
  Yeah.
• 22:58
  I mean, again, uh, it kind of depends on how long your race is.
• 23:03
  If it's a 20 minute race, then that kind of gap is.
• 23:07
  quite hard to close without the other person making a mistake.
• 23:10
  But if you're doing endurance races or something, and there's still an hour to go
• 23:15
  out of 24 hours or something, for example, that gap might seem quite big, especially
• 23:20
  if it's been like, the same over for the last three hours or something.
• 23:25
  But a lot of stuff can happen within one hour.
• 23:28
  So, um, just never give up.
• 23:31
  I mean, obviously don't go for stupid moves.
• 23:36
  think that like you, you don't really can catch up.
• 23:39
  So, you know, sometimes it's also good to just keeping your position,
• 23:44
  but I would never give up and just say like, Oh, I'm never going to
• 23:48
  catch it because you never know.
• 23:50
  Sometimes stuff happens and then maybe every second counts.
• 23:54
  Yeah, true.
• 23:57
  Because sometimes like we are too afraid to make a mistake, but We forgot that
• 24:04
  someone else can make a mistake too.
• 24:06
  Like you're not the only one on the track and yeah, anything can happen.
• 24:10
  And especially if you, if you do have this like 10 or 15
• 24:13
  second gap after a long race.
• 24:15
  Or like towards the end of a long race that can also make the other person in
• 24:19
  front a bit nervous You know if if they see like hey, okay I really hope my tires
• 24:24
  are still holding up and that person behind me has been like 10 seconds The
• 24:30
  gap has been 10 seconds for the whole race so sometimes that can cause like
• 24:36
  thoughts of like Oh, I hope I don't mess up because if I spin i'm gonna
• 24:40
  lose a win And they spin because they're thinking too much about the spinning.
• 24:46
  So you really have to be strong in your mental game as well, and not let
• 24:51
  these thoughts get to you when you're in that position, but also maybe try
• 24:55
  and induce those kind of thoughts in your opponents to gain an advantage.
• 25:02
  Then, how do you train your mental for that?
• 25:06
  I'm down to the question like that.
• 25:07
  Like, how do you like train your mental?
• 25:09
  Like, yeah, this is a race I want to win no matter what happened.
• 25:13
  I, I won't give up, but sometimes, you know, like, not gonna lie.
• 25:17
  Sometimes we, as a human will be like, you know, God, I'm tired of this.
• 25:22
  Oh my God.
• 25:23
  Did this guy catch me?
• 25:25
  It's catching me.
• 25:26
  So how do you like train your mental?
• 25:29
  Like to be.
• 25:31
  To stay positive in the race like to stay like keep your
• 25:34
  heads up no matter what happened.
• 25:35
  We do it We finish the race Um It's sometimes it can be difficult.
• 25:42
  That's true.
• 25:43
  But uh I I've seen it like with a friend sometimes who would like
• 25:50
  every time that um, He made a mistake or he spun out or something.
• 25:55
  He would just like quit the race You And, um, Oh, I'm not going to win it.
• 26:00
  I'm not going to win it anyway now.
• 26:02
  But he'd like lost so much eye rating doing that because like,
• 26:06
  instead of finishing like fifth or something, he just like quit and,
• 26:11
  and like finished last because he didn't like recover from his spins.
• 26:17
  And, um, I noticed that when I started on eye racing, I also had like one
• 26:23
  or two races where I was like, huh.
• 26:25
  I don't know.
• 26:26
  I don't, I don't know if that's worth it, but I just like continued the race and
• 26:31
  saw that others make mistakes as well.
• 26:33
  And in a race with, I don't know, 20 people where I was running P17 and I
• 26:39
  thought like, oh, this race is over.
• 26:41
  Within a couple of minutes, I managed sometimes to get back to
• 26:45
  like into top 10 or top 5 even.
• 26:49
  So it's, it's really like a mentality that pays off.
• 26:54
  And, um.
• 26:56
  I would say, like, really, like, actively try it.
• 26:59
  Even, even if you think it's, it's not going to work and you're
• 27:03
  not going to improve, finish the race and see where you end up.
• 27:07
  You might be surprised at, like, how good you will be doing at the end of it.
• 27:13
  That's That's beautiful, right?
• 27:16
  Because sometimes like yeah, people will be like giving up like I've seen like
• 27:20
  I did some official session in iRacing and yeah Of course, we know the chat the
• 27:24
  voice chat and everything and I did mostly awful in iRacing and you know Like after
• 27:30
  that big crash you will see like some people will get disconnected right away.
• 27:34
  Like, you know, like They crash, they back to the pit, and they
• 27:38
  quit the game, go to the other one.
• 27:40
  But yeah, I think for me, no matter where you finish, you have to finish the race.
• 27:45
  That's the mentality that I got in my head, like, maybe I don't have
• 27:49
  the mental, the winner mentality yet, as in like, you know, those kind of
• 27:54
  mentality, but for me, as a start, you have to finish all the race.
• 27:58
  Like, no matter where you finish, you try to finish.
• 28:01
  That's the first step for me.
• 28:04
  Yeah, and also just like, I think what goes with that is
• 28:08
  to just stay out of trouble.
• 28:10
  You don't have to be the fastest, especially when you're starting out.
• 28:14
  Like, I was, um, think like, like starting out on, especially on iRacing,
• 28:20
  on like a sim where, you know, at the end of the day, it doesn't count.
• 28:23
  It's, it's a piece of software.
• 28:26
  There is no like real racing, like racing, yeah, but like
• 28:29
  no real cars attached to it.
• 28:32
  So, um, Really just like finish it and be like consistent in the terms of like
• 28:39
  don't spin and just keep it on track.
• 28:42
  You don't have to like immediately be, um, Setting pole laps.
• 28:48
  It's it's like going to the gym where like when you when it's your first day
• 28:53
  in the gym No one expects you to lift the heaviest weight So am I racing as well?
• 28:59
  Like if you're just starting out or also if you've been on there for a longer
• 29:03
  time, but only now start taking it more seriously No one's expecting you to be
• 29:08
  like an eSports pro, you know, all of that The people who are really, really good at
• 29:14
  the game spend thousands of hours in it.
• 29:17
  True.
• 29:18
  So, that's something that people often forget, I feel like.
• 29:23
  Because, um, if you, it's easy to like look at the top times and see them going.
• 29:30
  I want to be there.
• 29:31
  I want to be on the top, you know, like.
• 29:33
  Yeah, like looking at the fastest times and then you're just like,
• 29:36
  oh, I can't, I can't do this.
• 29:38
  And like, they're just born better or something.
• 29:41
  Yeah.
• 29:41
  Mm hmm.
• 29:41
  Well, most of it is down to just practice and just like sitting down also like
• 29:47
  analyzing your telemetry or like your lines and like, just like looking at
• 29:53
  what you're doing after you've done it.
• 29:55
  And yeah, just like analyze where you could improve and what the
• 29:59
  difference is to the people who are doing faster lap times than you.
• 30:03
  Right, right.
• 30:04
  Like always analyze, like, like always analyze your performance in the race.
• 30:11
  I think most of the time, like, uh, at least for me, based on my experience,
• 30:15
  like people like saying like, yeah, you need to use more of the track.
• 30:19
  And then I feel like when I was in the cockpit view, I
• 30:22
  feel like, Oh, I use the track.
• 30:24
  I use all of it.
• 30:26
  I touch the curb.
• 30:27
  I went off the grass.
• 30:29
  That's how I feel.
• 30:29
  But then I look into the replay from the, from the, uh, not
• 30:33
  the cockpit, the chopper view.
• 30:35
  So you can see like.
• 30:36
  how you go in the track.
• 30:38
  I was like, yeah, no, I haven't used all the track yet.
• 30:41
  I haven't used it.
• 30:42
  So how do you practice?
• 30:44
  Like, how do you like practicing for driving at certain
• 30:49
  track with a certain car?
• 30:51
  Um, like, how do you watch the replay?
• 30:54
  Yeah.
• 30:55
  Or like, uh, it depends on the type of racing I'm, I'm going to
• 31:00
  be doing kind of if it's like an endurance race or like a sprint race.
• 31:04
  Mm hmm.
• 31:05
  But in general, in general, it does make sense to really like do a couple
• 31:10
  of laps just to get like a baseline in.
• 31:12
  It doesn't matter what lap time it is.
• 31:14
  It really doesn't.
• 31:16
  And to then just like, you know, do it like consistently.
• 31:21
  See that you can do like the same lap time, I don't know, let's say for
• 31:24
  the starters, within one second and always doing like the same lap time
• 31:29
  and then you, you go back to your replay and you look at your car from
• 31:34
  the chase and you say, on every corner, I'm like, I don't know, still half a
• 31:40
  meter away from the edge of the track.
• 31:43
  And then you can like.
• 31:44
  Really like sit in there again and just like also like drive down like a straight
• 31:49
  slow and just go to the More and more to the right hand side and just here
• 31:56
  When your tires touch the grass and then like notice, okay How wide is my car?
• 32:02
  How much space do I have to the edge of the track to then be
• 32:06
  using all of it for the next time?
• 32:08
  You're trying to improve driving slow bring your car more to the edge So
• 32:14
  you can actually see or feel, okay, this is the edge of this corner.
• 32:19
  Like, okay.
• 32:20
  Yeah, like in, in real life racing, you obviously have these like
• 32:23
  time constraints of like, it costs money to, to get the car on track.
• 32:28
  The track has only, you know, Limited hours where you can just be on track.
• 32:34
  You're also just like you can't like really like go out there and stop
• 32:37
  with the car and like go really really slowly and try out stuff, but in sim
• 32:42
  especially during like test drive sessions where you're alone on track
• 32:47
  you can do whatever you want and You should absolutely use that and try
• 32:52
  to improve that way because you're not going to be in the way of anyone
• 32:56
  It's not going to cost you anything.
• 32:58
  It's available 24 7 And, yep.
• 33:03
  Right.
• 33:03
  So, always practicing the limit of the track, of the car, like no matter where
• 33:09
  you, like, um, which track you are in.
• 33:13
  So, that is like pretty much your method of practicing.
• 33:18
  Yeah, and also just like, um, look at my lines, look at, uh, look at
• 33:24
  the delta obviously at a certain point, but, um, also with the delta.
• 33:29
  It's important, in my opinion, to sometimes turn the delta off and
• 33:33
  just do the same thing over and over and over again without the delta.
• 33:39
  And it, it might not be your fastest lap time, but I oftentimes notice that
• 33:44
  if I turn it off, I improve because I stop looking at the delta and I just
• 33:49
  stop, I start looking at the track and my braking points, my turn in points.
• 33:53
  Right, right.
• 33:55
  I'm focusing more on the driving and I stopped chasing the Delta because at
• 33:59
  the end of the day, the Delta up there, if it's green or red, doesn't matter.
• 34:04
  It's the way you drive around the track and how settled you are
• 34:08
  and how focused you are on it.
• 34:09
  So you can do it like, yeah, one lap after the other and just get the consistency up.
• 34:17
  And with consistency, you then can build speed because if you're, I don't
• 34:23
  know, losing, you know, Half a second in the in this one corner every lap,
• 34:28
  but you're doing the same thing every lap Then you can like look at it and be
• 34:32
  like hey I could break 50 meters later and suddenly you gain a lot of time and
• 34:39
  because you practice the consistency You then can do it like every lap after that
• 34:45
  Consistency is key Everybody said that.
• 34:49
  Yvonne also said that like sometimes I talk to Yvonne like I'm sorry, like
• 34:55
  I'm nervous, not like nervous, nervous, but you know what, I'm, I don't know
• 34:59
  what, how am I going to do in the race?
• 35:01
  I think I remember I told Yvonne about that, like back in the day,
• 35:04
  and she just told me like, you know what, keep your car on the track,
• 35:09
  be consistent, and you'll be fine.
• 35:11
  Cause yeah, sometimes like you see that fast driver like scoring a fast lap,
• 35:15
  but then he or she crashed, got damaged, and the race is pretty much done.
• 35:21
  Right, so keep the car on the track and be consistent.
• 35:26
  Yeah, I would say especially in like the quote unquote lower I ratings,
• 35:32
  um, so definitely anything under 2k and I would even say like between 2
• 35:40
  and 3k, I would say like that is the by far most important thing to just
• 35:46
  keep it on track and don't crash.
• 35:48
  Right.
• 35:48
  And just by doing that, just by not crashing, you should see, like, an
• 35:53
  immediate improvement in your rating, and also in your driving, per se,
• 35:59
  because you, you start being more comfortable in the car, you trust
• 36:02
  it more because you don't spin out.
• 36:04
  Right.
• 36:05
  And once you're decent at keeping the car on the track, speed will
• 36:12
  come automatically, and anything after that is not a problem.
• 36:16
  To me it was a reasonably automatic progress to then just go and
• 36:20
  like, okay, I'm consistent.
• 36:22
  I'm okay fast But now I want to go faster and be consistent Then you will find
• 36:28
  a way like to be faster once you pass the consistency lesson like okay first
• 36:33
  I gotta be consistent keep the car on the track and then for you it's like the
• 36:37
  speed comes automatically like after I mean After a while, of course not like it
• 36:42
  doesn't come instant like in one night.
• 36:44
  No Eventually, I spent a lot of time in sim.
• 36:48
  You spend a lot of time in sim like How long you spending you're
• 36:52
  spending your time like let's say weekly You Um, It fluctuates.
• 36:59
  Um, currently I don't drive every day.
• 37:02
  I kind of want to do it every day again.
• 37:05
  Um, so I couldn't, I couldn't say it.
• 37:09
  It really depends a lot on my real life stuff, what's going on and everything.
• 37:14
  So it's, it's different each week, which is, I really want to do
• 37:19
  it more consistently and really like get like a plan on how much.
• 37:24
  Yeah.
• 37:24
  Racing I do per week to just have like a really consistent way of
• 37:29
  practicing, but um, I'm, I'm working on that to find like a plan that works.
• 37:34
  Like finding the right time to start the regular stream, not the, I mean, not
• 37:39
  the regular stream, the regular drive.
• 37:42
  Like driving, trying to Yeah, I mean, who knows, maybe I'll
• 37:45
  be streaming in the future.
• 37:46
  Maybe you should, maybe you should start streaming.
• 37:48
  Maybe, maybe I'll try it.
• 37:50
  You know what?
• 37:51
  Because I think for me, like, you are like one of the best iRacer
• 37:54
  that I met here in this community.
• 37:57
  Like, honestly, like, I'm being completely honest with you, like, I adore you.
• 38:02
  Like, okay, Nina is great.
• 38:04
  So, I mean, if you're streaming, I will, I will tune into your
• 38:07
  stream and learn in your way.
• 38:09
  Because I think for me, most of the time, I'm learning about simracing by watching
• 38:14
  other people driving on the stream.
• 38:16
  Bye.
• 38:17
  Okay, that's how you do it.
• 38:19
  Okay, I will try that one, you know, so maybe yeah, I will support you if
• 38:23
  you're streaming one day Anyway, hello everyone Lieber Lieber Lieber lars.
• 38:30
  Sorry lars.
• 38:31
  Hi.
• 38:31
  Hello.
• 38:31
  Welcome to init esports.
• 38:33
  Welcome to init talks We are having nina han the back to back winner of sprint
• 38:38
  to speed winter cup and international woman's day Joining us in the chat.
• 38:43
  Hi everyone.
• 38:44
  Hi.
• 38:44
  Hi All right, where were we?
• 38:47
  I was saying hi to the chat
• 38:51
  Yeah, speaking of the routine and practice I realized that A lot of pro
• 38:57
  driver like spend the whole time in the scene practicing So I look into myself
• 39:03
  like i'm not doing enough practice yet.
• 39:06
  I haven't spent enough time in the practice So no wonder I haven't
• 39:10
  got into that level yet, you know I mean, it's, it depends where you
• 39:15
  want to end up, I guess, because for like bigger races, for example, like
• 39:20
  league races or that kind of stuff.
• 39:24
  Um, if it's like big races, then I would spend like, I don't know, I
• 39:29
  would say like on average, like 10 to 15 hours practicing for one race.
• 39:35
  So like, that's like just in practice.
• 39:38
  Um, it depends.
• 39:40
  Like, um, for, for the Winter Cup, I wasn't quite able to do that much.
• 39:47
  Um, but, um, yeah, it, it always depends on, like, how much is going on.
• 39:53
  I really try to maximize the amount of practice I get in.
• 39:57
  Because not only for, like, the result in that race, but also just to improve
• 40:02
  as, like, A driver overall right?
• 40:06
  Yeah, because also for for like real life racing i'm really Try to get like
• 40:11
  as much practice as I can basically.
• 40:14
  Oh yeah, you're doing some aerial racing too.
• 40:17
  We will talk about it.
• 40:19
  Oh my god.
• 40:20
  I'm trying.
• 40:21
  Yeah.
• 40:22
  Do you, uh, like, do you just started to get into real racing or
• 40:26
  you've been doing this for a while?
• 40:28
  Like your main, your main priority is in real racing and you're doing sim racing
• 40:33
  in the meantime, or how does it work?
• 40:36
  No, it's mainly sim racing, but I have raced in real life.
• 40:41
  So I was, um, like the first time I would really like call myself a racing
• 40:47
  driver was in the formula student.
• 40:50
  I was fast enough to be selected as one of two main drivers for
• 40:54
  the 2019 season in my team.
• 40:58
  So during that season, I was racing our self built formula car against
• 41:03
  other universities throughout Europe.
• 41:06
  Which was great fun.
• 41:07
  That was amazing.
• 41:08
  And I I still think like that is probably the most insane car i'll ever drive
• 41:13
  in my life It was like 85 horsepower on 180 kilos So that thing was really
• 41:21
  really quick with like a huge arrow package on it You can actually I don't
• 41:26
  I don't know if you can see like the calendars back there Um, no, I don't
• 41:30
  really see it Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
• 41:33
  Um, but those are the type of cars, um, that we were racing.
• 41:36
  Oh, wait, the one behind, the one behind you?
• 41:38
  Like, not, not the big one up there.
• 41:39
  That's like an old F1 car.
• 41:41
  Yeah, of course.
• 41:42
  I was like, wait, is that the one?
• 41:44
  Wait, actually, I can Oh, thank you so much.
• 41:48
  There we go.
• 41:50
  Okay, so We are making the guest start doing some work.
• 41:54
  So that was, uh, I'll try to like put it in the center.
• 41:58
  Sure.
• 41:58
  Um That was, uh, one of the cars.
• 42:01
  That's actually me in the car on that picture.
• 42:03
  Oh, wow.
• 42:04
  That is really cool.
• 42:05
  Oh, um, that is the type of cars, uh, that I was racing.
• 42:09
  That I drove a couple, a couple different ones, um, during, during some, uh,
• 42:15
  Testing and everything, but that car on, on there, that wasn't like me driving
• 42:20
  against other universities there.
• 42:22
  Driving against other universities, right, right.
• 42:24
  Yeah, and, um, after that, I was also, um, fortunate enough to have a
• 42:30
  opportunity to be, In an fully electric Formula 4 at a driver selection
• 42:36
  in Zolder in 2022, end of 2022.
• 42:41
  And that was great fun.
• 42:42
  That was amazing.
• 42:44
  It was all thanks due to Racing Pride, who, um, yeah, where I sent like a, Um, a
• 42:52
  little, like, uh, text there because they had, like, a sponsorship, um, available.
• 42:57
  But I was one of six who got to go there and be on the test day and,
• 43:02
  uh, that was really, really fun.
• 43:04
  It was great.
• 43:05
  Yeah.
• 43:06
  Overall, a really great day.
• 43:08
  And, yeah, and then last week, Yeah, and then last week I also went to, um, or like
• 43:14
  maybe let's do it the other way around.
• 43:18
  Start of this year, I finally got like my real racing license.
• 43:21
  So I'm now allowed to race, like race cars.
• 43:25
  Great.
• 43:26
  Congratulations.
• 43:27
  Congratulations.
• 43:28
  Oh my God.
• 43:30
  Congratulations.
• 43:32
  And then, um, Last week, actually, I was in, um, in England and doing a competition
• 43:40
  with Formula Woman, where I managed to get like all the way to the finals.
• 43:44
  I didn't quite win it, but I got a little, um, I say a little, I
• 43:48
  got a beautiful glass trophy here.
• 43:52
  Oh my god, yeah.
• 43:53
  For like being in the finals.
• 43:56
  Congratulations.
• 43:57
  You make it to the final round, right?
• 43:58
  Like the final top 15?
• 44:00
  Was it like top 15?
• 44:01
  Yeah.
• 44:01
  Or top 20?
• 44:02
  It was top 15, yes.
• 44:04
  Top 15.
• 44:04
  I see.
• 44:04
  Uh, so we were, I think, was it 70 or 80 girls there?
• 44:11
  Mm-Hmm.
• 44:12
  . And you managed to be like, on, on, on venue, I think.
• 44:15
  And then, um, out of that I managed to get into like the semi
• 44:19
  files, which was like top 30.
• 44:21
  And then.
• 44:22
  another step into the top 15.
• 44:25
  And yeah, I learned a lot.
• 44:27
  And I got to drive a couple of laps at Cadwell Park.
• 44:33
  Yeah, great racetrack.
• 44:34
  It's so fun.
• 44:36
  Um, so yeah, like if you, if you get the chance, like definitely go.
• 44:40
  It's, It's amazing.
• 44:42
  I see.
• 44:42
  I will, I will look into the track map and see, like, how
• 44:45
  is the catwall park looking.
• 44:46
  Yeah, like, it's, the track map, yeah, but like, look at the elevation,
• 44:50
  look at, like, onboards or look at the motorcycles that race there.
• 44:52
  They even, like, sometimes jump over that one hill.
• 44:56
  Like, it's absolutely crazy.
• 44:57
  It's so cool.
• 44:58
  I love it.
• 45:00
  Honestly, in the racetrack, I like the racetrack that has like an elevation
• 45:04
  change, you know, because I'm learning about the press and compression from
• 45:08
  that thing, you know, like, okay, you cannot, I think you cannot break
• 45:11
  like right at the top of the hill because wait, I may be wrong on that.
• 45:15
  But I watch like, um, I mean, you can, you just can't break as hard because the car
• 45:21
  is going to lift out of its suspension.
• 45:23
  So you have less force downwards.
• 45:26
  Right.
• 45:27
  Oh, so.
• 45:29
  Push your car to the ground, kind of thing.
• 45:31
  I don't know if that makes sense.
• 45:32
  Yeah, and it's kind of, the more force you have, like, downwards, the
• 45:35
  more grip the tires have, kind of.
• 45:39
  Ah, right.
• 45:39
  Um, that's why aerodynamics work, because they push the car in the
• 45:43
  ground and then you have more grip.
• 45:44
  Right.
• 45:45
  The aerodynamic to push the car to the ground.
• 45:48
  Right, right, right.
• 45:50
  But then you told us earlier that you actually mainly doing sim racing and
• 45:57
  that you now you're doing some IRL stuff.
• 46:00
  So I assume that you're not having like so many experience at the track because, um,
• 46:07
  comparing to the sim racing, I assume that you do more sim racing than real racing.
• 46:12
  Is that correct or not?
• 46:13
  Yeah, definitely.
• 46:14
  But I think that's like, at this point in time, that is most people who do racing.
• 46:20
  Because as I mentioned earlier, racing on the track is always dependent on
• 46:23
  how long the track is open, what are like the hours where you can go on
• 46:27
  track, it also, it costs like money to, you know, every lap costs money
• 46:31
  in fuel and tires and everything.
• 46:33
  True.
• 46:33
  And every lap that you can already do on the sim is going to help
• 46:38
  you doing better in real life.
• 46:41
  So.
• 46:42
  everyone who's driving like a real race car probably does like way more time in
• 46:49
  sim as well just to yeah to to like learn the track learn all the bumps learn um
• 46:56
  how to approach different corners and everything and if you already know all of
• 47:00
  this and you then sit in the car for real then it's way easier to really know how
• 47:08
  to like handle the car around this track because also sometimes with cars that
• 47:13
  are a bit more nervous on throttle, for example, and you know that on the exit of
• 47:17
  this one corner, you have like a little dip or a little bump, then you know how
• 47:22
  to put down your right foot in terms of so you don't spin, but you can get like
• 47:28
  the maximum acceleration out of it and not be surprised by the bump being there.
• 47:33
  Right, right.
• 47:34
  Because I was just about to ask you this question, because you spend
• 47:37
  more time in sim, and You're now that you're doing some IRL race IRL
• 47:42
  driving then How do you feel like?
• 47:46
  Sitting in the race track race car going to race in real racetrack,
• 47:51
  and I don't know like Because for me, I did some karting.
• 47:56
  So I did some karting sometimes, like try to get used to it,
• 47:59
  you know, learning about it.
• 48:01
  Because for me in the sim, I, I was more brave in the sim,
• 48:05
  because I know it's not real.
• 48:07
  Like if you crash, you won't feel anything.
• 48:10
  But then once I get into karting, I feel like, okay, this is fun.
• 48:15
  There is like some sense that I can gain in, in real life
• 48:18
  than when I was in the sim.
• 48:20
  But I was shocked.
• 48:23
  When I was like having this, doing this carting, I was shocked because, okay, the
• 48:27
  engine sound is so loud on my right ears.
• 48:31
  Because then back then I remember in iRacing I turned on the engine
• 48:35
  volume so I can hear the tires better.
• 48:37
  But in real life, you cannot custom that sound.
• 48:39
  So I was like, Oh no.
• 48:41
  And everything just like blurry in my head.
• 48:44
  Like, Oh my God, I feel like a noob back then.
• 48:47
  I know I did some racing, sim racing in, in the sim, but.
• 48:51
  This is everything is new to me.
• 48:53
  So how did you like even manage to be in the top 15 in a real
• 48:58
  car like Tell us a bit about it.
• 49:01
  Like um Yeah, like obviously sim racing I think is reasonably
• 49:08
  close to real life at this stage But it does have its limitations.
• 49:12
  So one thing that we also Talked about yesterday, for example with ByteSkiVisir
• 49:18
  in our test session Uh, is that, especially at high speeds, uh, you're
• 49:23
  going to start to get the fear factor.
• 49:26
  Because in a, in a rig, if, I don't know, someone who knows the track tells
• 49:31
  you, okay, turn three is just flat out, then you're just gonna, in the
• 49:35
  sim, you're just gonna do it flat out.
• 49:38
  And it doesn't matter.
• 49:38
  And if you spin out or something, then, you know, it doesn't really matter.
• 49:43
  But if you, if you are racing a real race car, and you're suddenly
• 49:46
  going, I don't know, Um, two hundred kilometers an hour or something.
• 49:52
  They are quite different to what you expect, like, what
• 49:55
  you have in normal cars.
• 49:58
  Right.
• 49:58
  Especially when I was doing the, um, Formula Student.
• 50:01
  Because in there, with all the aerodynamics and the car not
• 50:04
  being very heavy, we had up to like, um, Certainly above 2.
• 50:10
  5 G and I think the highest I saw on one of my own boards was like 3.
• 50:14
  0 G's, naturally.
• 50:17
  So that is quite a force that acts on your body.
• 50:20
  And especially also on your legs.
• 50:22
  Like for me it was always the legs that were the most like flopping
• 50:25
  from left to right to be honest.
• 50:27
  Yep, yep, yep.
• 50:28
  Cause I think here right, in real life we have that fear factor.
• 50:32
  Of course like, Before I get into, I mean, I'm not even driving a fast car.
• 50:37
  I'm just driving like, um, what do you say?
• 50:40
  Driving in the car, like doing some karting for fun,
• 50:43
  you know, at the racetrack.
• 50:45
  I already have that fear factor, like, by, I told you, like, listen to the sound.
• 50:50
  Like, okay, it's louder than when I was playing games.
• 50:53
  It already give me like that kind of sensation.
• 50:57
  Like, you know, like, you know, yeah.
• 51:00
  And like the, I feel like the sound is something you, you get over quite
• 51:04
  easily because it's, it's loud in the first moment, you know, usually race
• 51:09
  cars are quite loud, but you, after being in there for like, I don't know,
• 51:13
  a couple of minutes, then you're, you're hearing just adjust to it.
• 51:17
  And it's, it's loud, but like, it's, it's just there at some point.
• 51:21
  But the, the G forces are like coming and going all the time.
• 51:26
  So, um, and also the, the faster you go, the higher the forces get.
• 51:30
  And what you said about like the tire volumes that you would turn
• 51:34
  down the engine noise or something.
• 51:36
  I, I do the same in sim just to hear what the tires are doing, but in real life
• 51:41
  you feel it because like, um, in terms of like aviation, um, terms, you have like
• 51:49
  the, the pitch, uh, the, the role, and then also the yaw, which is kind of like
• 51:55
  how, how much you're like drifting, quote unquote, it's not drifting, but like, it's
• 52:02
  how the car rotates around its own axis.
• 52:05
  And, um, you feel that and after doing a bit of racing and if you, or like
• 52:12
  also just if you have like a good natural feel for this, you can feel
• 52:16
  like how much the tire is supporting underneath you and where you should
• 52:21
  like, where you can push a bit more and where you should really like don't
• 52:25
  push more or even like push less.
• 52:28
  Right, right.
• 52:29
  I think that's what I I cannot say that, uh, which one is better, but
• 52:36
  in sim and real life, it has its own difference as in like in the same,
• 52:42
  you can, you can adjust the volume.
• 52:44
  Like, I want to listen more to the, to the sound of tires so I can actually
• 52:48
  feel the limit of the, of my tires.
• 52:51
  But, um, again, um, I was like, in real life, we have that, um, you know,
• 52:59
  You know, like we cannot adjust the volume of the sound that we hear on
• 53:04
  the track, but on the other hand, I feel like I don't really need to
• 53:09
  listen to the tires because I get the feeling that I didn't get in the scene.
• 53:13
  Like, for example, based on my experience, I can feel when I'm going
• 53:18
  like a little bit too fast, going into the corner, like I feel it directly.
• 53:22
  Meanwhile, in the same, I was.
• 53:24
  I really need to rely on my eyes to see like if I'm going
• 53:28
  fast or if I'm going too slow.
• 53:31
  So yeah, like do you, do you like, not like agree with me on that, but is it
• 53:37
  like technically true speaking about the difference between road racing, uh,
• 53:41
  between real life racing and in the sim?
• 53:44
  Like you can feel the g force in real life, like you can feel that.
• 53:48
  Well in the sim you can, you can have like a motion sim.
• 53:51
  So, you know, like you can feel it like.
• 53:53
  You know, like when your car accelerating or braking.
• 53:56
  Yeah, like I've driven a motion sim once for around like 10 15 minutes.
• 54:04
  And, um, it does help a little, but it's different.
• 54:10
  So, um, you do kind of get the same hints at it, but you don't really, um,
• 54:18
  It's not the same sensation, because even though you get maybe like a little
• 54:22
  bit of yaw and like a little bit of like pitch or something, it's, it's
• 54:26
  different if your car just like climbs like 30 meters up the track because
• 54:30
  it's going up a hill, because you can't really like get these forces without
• 54:38
  actually doing the motion in space.
• 54:41
  Right, right, right, that makes sense.
• 54:43
  Yeah, so, um, it's close and it's, it's nice to really like feel a bit
• 54:48
  more, but it's not exactly the same.
• 54:51
  Not exactly the same, I see.
• 54:53
  Yeah, and also like, um, one thing that you will feel if you really like race
• 54:58
  a car fast is like, um, the inside of your body gets like squished a little
• 55:05
  in, in all the different directions, which is something you never have in sim.
• 55:09
  And that can be a bit like.
• 55:13
  That's the thing that makes people sick sometimes on racetracks, if they go
• 55:17
  for a ride along or something, right?
• 55:18
  Right, right.
• 55:19
  I heard about that sometimes.
• 55:21
  Yeah, so, um, and I, there's, um, you know, no shame in that, because,
• 55:25
  like, I also think, like, driving in a passenger seat is always, like, way
• 55:29
  scarier than actually driving yourself.
• 55:32
  Um, but, like, yeah, the forces are just, are quite different.
• 55:35
  It's, it can help to have, like, a motion rig or something.
• 55:39
  But, um, They're still like feeling that yeah, it's it's a bit different.
• 55:45
  It's a bit different true but then like tell me a bit about You managed
• 55:51
  to make it to the top 15 in the in your formula woman Event like last week.
• 55:59
  So yeah, how did you manage to be like?
• 56:02
  fast and make it to the top 15 like you just floored it send it and You Go?
• 56:11
  I mean, Going fast, like, how?
• 56:13
  I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't just the driving.
• 56:16
  Uh, we had other challenges attached to it.
• 56:19
  So we had, for the first, uh, to get into the semi finals, we also had
• 56:23
  like, for example, a written test about like some theory of like, okay,
• 56:28
  what do you do with a yellow flag?
• 56:30
  Um, what is the optimal line?
• 56:31
  Like what is an apex?
• 56:32
  That kind of thing.
• 56:34
  Um, which is, which was reasonably easy for me because I only took my, um, My
• 56:40
  race test like last year, so that was still very fresh and everything, right?
• 56:45
  But then we also had like media training Where we had an interview and yeah,
• 56:51
  we just had to like Get through that interview, okay And i'm generally
• 56:57
  not scared of interviews or cameras.
• 56:59
  So that was fine.
• 57:00
  That was fun for you.
• 57:01
  Like, okay, I can do this Yeah, definitely.
• 57:04
  Like I I just like Try to really like put out this confidence and just be there and
• 57:10
  like be Be this cool personality because I also just like love talking about it.
• 57:15
  It's just like the passion that just lives up in me Sharing
• 57:18
  your passion, right, right.
• 57:19
  Yeah And then, yeah, I understand that feeling, like, telling someone about
• 57:24
  something And then, um, what else?
• 57:26
  We had a fitness test that was, uh, that was quite exhausting.
• 57:31
  It's, um, I don't do like fitness that regularly.
• 57:37
  I do work or like I did work as a car mechanic.
• 57:40
  So I have like some body strength or something, but I didn't do
• 57:43
  like too much, um, fitness itself.
• 57:47
  So, um, that was like reasonably hard for me.
• 57:52
  But also, um, I set myself the goal to just not give up whatever.
• 57:57
  Stuff we have to do and it was also hard for a lot of the others But like
• 58:01
  whatever exercises we have to do I will not give up and I will pull through
• 58:05
  with it until the end and I did and I'm really proud of myself And that is one
• 58:12
  of the biggest things that I was proud of because it was it really wasn't an
• 58:15
  easy fitness test And then being in the top 30 we had to do another fitness test
• 58:21
  Right like the next morning after already having like sore muscles you So that was
• 58:26
  quite exhausting, but it was also fun.
• 58:29
  Um, yeah.
• 58:30
  What else do we have?
• 58:32
  Um, we had some driving on like, like just the line.
• 58:37
  So not every driving we did was about like pure speed, but also just like
• 58:41
  finding the line and we had an instructor with us who was, um, telling us like,
• 58:46
  okay, this is your breaking point.
• 58:48
  This is your turning point and all of that.
• 58:50
  And then you had to like replicate that and just like.
• 58:54
  And, um, have like smooth steering, smooth pedals and everything.
• 58:59
  And once you did that, then you like moved up to like the bigger car and was, were
• 59:03
  actually driving like a, like a fast car.
• 59:06
  And, um, yeah, and yeah, I think I got everything.
• 59:11
  I don't know if, oh, we also had like a reactions test.
• 59:14
  Um, which you probably have seen on like F1 or something where you have like
• 59:18
  two little like just balls that um, a trainer would like let go of and you have
• 59:24
  to catch it or like catch both at the same time before they hit the ground.
• 59:28
  Yeah, so like we had a couple of different, um, exercises that we had
• 59:32
  to pass in order to get to the finals.
• 59:35
  And then, uh, yeah, the finals were in quite tricky conditions
• 59:39
  as like, you know, common, uh, British weather was striking again.
• 59:45
  Um, it was constantly like, it was drizzling and then stopped and then
• 59:49
  was raining heavier and everything.
• 59:50
  So when I went out on track, it was really like, Slippery and just like greasy the
• 59:56
  track was really like you were constantly dancing with the car a little Um, and i'm
• 1:00:02
  so happy with my um results, even though I didn't win it because I just learned a
• 1:00:07
  lot that day I um talked to an amazing, um race driver and like he did Uh, he was
• 1:00:14
  an instructor at like a ferrari Facility.
• 1:00:19
  I don't know if I'm not a hundred percent sure But like his name is Ray
• 1:00:24
  Grimes and he also looked at some on boards with me and we talked about it
• 1:00:28
  And how I can improve and everything.
• 1:00:30
  So I was really informative.
• 1:00:32
  I learned a lot and Overall, just an amazing event
• 1:00:39
  It's more than driving on the track because you have to go through even
• 1:00:43
  the interview like Huh, you you have that media training also from that
• 1:00:48
  program, which is really great because Wow, you learn a lot and there's like
• 1:00:54
  so many things to learn I guess in few days I think how long was that?
• 1:00:58
  Yeah the program like throughout the weekend or Was it?
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, so it was it was uh, three days in total um one day at like
• 1:01:07
  a um near the National Motorsports Academy, I think it's called.
• 1:01:13
  Um, and then, uh, like around Nottingham or in Nottingham.
• 1:01:17
  And then, um, the last two days were at Cadwell Park.
• 1:01:20
  So that's a bit more to the east, if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:01:24
  A lot of drive, like, all the way.
• 1:01:27
  Yeah, it was like, I think, one and a half hours.
• 1:01:30
  It wasn't too bad.
• 1:01:30
  It wasn't bad, yeah.
• 1:01:32
  It's fine.
• 1:01:32
  Yeah, it was fine.
• 1:01:34
  Hmm.
• 1:01:34
  Um, yeah.
• 1:01:36
  Wow, that's a lot.
• 1:01:38
  Like I'm happy for you.
• 1:01:40
  Like you're going through this program and you managed to be in the top 15.
• 1:01:45
  So we had this conversation before, like I see you as a pro driver, but
• 1:01:51
  you say like, I'm, you know, I'm good, but it's not that good, but okay.
• 1:01:55
  I'm, I'm decent.
• 1:01:57
  Okay.
• 1:01:57
  Let's say that if you are decent in sim racing, where do you
• 1:02:01
  put yourself in real racing?
• 1:02:05
  Which level are you on, if you're talking about real life driving, let's say?
• 1:02:10
  Yeah, it's a bit hard to say, because I, I don't have much in
• 1:02:15
  terms of, um, experience in really, like, comparing myself to others
• 1:02:21
  in the same type of machinery.
• 1:02:23
  Because in Formula Student, for example, where I have, like, arguably
• 1:02:26
  the most experience on track, Um, every university had their own car.
• 1:02:33
  And so it was like similar to like NF1, you can be like the best driver, but if
• 1:02:40
  your car is just not quite up to it, then your results are not going to be as good.
• 1:02:44
  So it's hard to really like compare how much is like the driving, how much is
• 1:02:50
  the car and um, and all the other events.
• 1:02:54
  I also don't have like a really good basis of comparing my times to the others.
• 1:03:01
  So, Obviously, getting to all these like, um, to, yeah, also like when people
• 1:03:08
  who race for real and look at my own boards and give me tips or something,
• 1:03:12
  I know that I'm not, not too bad.
• 1:03:14
  You know, I think I'm decent again, but, um, especially in real life, I
• 1:03:21
  know that I still have like quite some things to learn, but that's also good.
• 1:03:25
  That's cool.
• 1:03:26
  Because that means there, there's new stuff, um, Yeah, and like the excitement
• 1:03:32
  that comes with it, because there's so much still out there to, to be learned.
• 1:03:37
  And I think it's absolutely like valid to say that you don't know everything yet.
• 1:03:42
  And you don't have to be like the best driver already.
• 1:03:46
  Um, but yeah, my, um, I, I don't know if you mentioned this yet.
• 1:03:51
  I don't think so.
• 1:03:52
  But like for my big goal to be racing in the 24 hour race of the
• 1:03:56
  Nordschleife in like, Let's say the next 10 years is kind of my goal.
• 1:04:02
  Um, I still have like some things to learn and but I think
• 1:04:06
  I'm on a good track with that.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah, and I obviously hope that that's gonna come true at some point.
• 1:04:12
  I'm into that because I was just about to ask you like, yeah,
• 1:04:15
  you're doing this IRL stuff.
• 1:04:17
  Like what are your goals?
• 1:04:19
  And then you told me like you want to be, yeah, NERP 24, like doing it in
• 1:04:23
  real life, like driving, competing.
• 1:04:26
  Yeah, that is obviously like that.
• 1:04:27
  That's the big dream.
• 1:04:29
  Because I, I always loved that race.
• 1:04:32
  That was, um, when my passion for racing, like, reignited, that, that was one of
• 1:04:38
  the first, like, Great that I really like watched and like followed it was like
• 1:04:43
  the 24 hour race of Nordschleife because I'm also from Germany and Partly as well
• 1:04:50
  on the side was DTM back then In current and like in the past couple of years.
• 1:04:55
  I I haven't really watched DTM too much to be honest Mm hmm, but
• 1:04:59
  the Nordschleife is just always like I just love that racetrack.
• 1:05:04
  It's amazing.
• 1:05:05
  And I'm also going to go there this year, um, to meet up with, um, a couple
• 1:05:10
  of friends online, like, especially like, um, my, my team that I drive
• 1:05:14
  with, like, usually Olympus Esports.
• 1:05:17
  And, um, yeah, I can't wait to meet all of them.
• 1:05:20
  I didn't meet them in real life yet.
• 1:05:24
  So I meet them at the track.
• 1:05:26
  It's such a special track for the event of the 24 hour race.
• 1:05:31
  Hi, Charlie.
• 1:05:34
  Hi, hello, by the way.
• 1:05:36
  Very nice to have you here today.
• 1:05:37
  We have Nina joining the Init Talks.
• 1:05:40
  We are talking about Nina being the back to back winner.
• 1:05:44
  And also I'm asking some questions about sim racing, real racing.
• 1:05:49
  Hi, everyone.
• 1:05:51
  You will manage that.
• 1:05:52
  I keep my finger crossed for you, Nina.
• 1:05:54
  Thank you so much.
• 1:05:55
  Sharon, thank you.
• 1:05:56
  Thank you so much for supporting Nina.
• 1:05:59
  Thank you.
• 1:05:59
  And I, I'm really rooting for you, Nina.
• 1:06:01
  Like, I really hope one day you will reach your goal, like racing in real life.
• 1:06:07
  Like, you know.
• 1:06:09
  Nina is awesome.
• 1:06:10
  Yes, she is.
• 1:06:12
  I'm rooting for her, like, in the Winter Cup and also, like, in the
• 1:06:16
  International Women's Day Race.
• 1:06:17
  I was like, wait, Nina won the race?
• 1:06:20
  Like, in OVO?
• 1:06:22
  She just won in road racing and now she's Yeah, like, like, he,
• 1:06:26
  he was, um, that's my team boss.
• 1:06:28
  Like, he's on the, um, he was my supporter.
• 1:06:31
  Like, he was with me in that race.
• 1:06:33
  He was, like, the one that I was talking to while winning.
• 1:06:36
  Yep, yep, yep.
• 1:06:36
  It was so cool.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah.
• 1:06:39
  Wow.
• 1:06:40
  It's so nice to have you here.
• 1:06:41
  By the way, Charlie, welcome.
• 1:06:43
  Welcome.
• 1:06:43
  Happy almost weekend.
• 1:06:45
  Oh my God.
• 1:06:46
  What?
• 1:06:46
  It's so nice.
• 1:06:47
  Like, you know, like having a spotter in, in your race is really
• 1:06:51
  important, especially in awful.
• 1:06:53
  Like, at least for me, awful.
• 1:06:55
  I really need a spotter and I have to trust my spotter.
• 1:06:59
  I think that's my thing, you know, like if I have like someone
• 1:07:03
  new spotting me, I'll be like.
• 1:07:05
  You know what?
• 1:07:05
  You join on Discord.
• 1:07:07
  Don't you ever get into my server?
• 1:07:08
  Because if I have someone spotting, I cannot hear my AI spotter.
• 1:07:13
  Something like that.
• 1:07:15
  Yeah, like there's a setting for that.
• 1:07:17
  Oh, there's a setting for that?
• 1:07:19
  Oh yes, you should tell me about it after this.
• 1:07:22
  Yeah, we can talk later about it.
• 1:07:27
  Because I think for me, I have to build the trust between me and the spotter.
• 1:07:31
  Like, build the connection.
• 1:07:35
  If that makes sense to you, like, I have to trust him.
• 1:07:38
  Like, when my spotter said like, okay, go left, I was questioning him at the start.
• 1:07:43
  Like, why should I go left?
• 1:07:44
  Because I need to reach the level of trusting someone.
• 1:07:50
  Because I feel like when I have like this human spotter, I'm
• 1:07:53
  giving my race to this spotter.
• 1:07:57
  Like, yeah.
• 1:07:58
  Yeah, I think, I think it's important in that case to Less, like, view it as, like,
• 1:08:04
  your race, but in the sense of, like, you, singular, and what, like, view it as
• 1:08:09
  your race in the sense of, like, plural.
• 1:08:11
  You know, it's like a team effort.
• 1:08:13
  It's, um, yeah, it's, it really comes together if you trust someone or not.
• 1:08:19
  Uh, similar to, like, how Rally works with your co driver,
• 1:08:23
  who's just calling out stuff.
• 1:08:25
  And if your co driver in Rally says, like, Okay.
• 1:08:28
  Flat over crest, like, keep to the right, then that's exactly what you're doing.
• 1:08:32
  And if I'm racing ovals and my team boss on the, on the radio tells
• 1:08:36
  me like, yeah, clear, move down.
• 1:08:39
  And I do that.
• 1:08:40
  I don't question it because I fully trust them.
• 1:08:44
  Right.
• 1:08:46
  Yeah, that's the new thing that I learned.
• 1:08:48
  Because, yeah, since I'm getting into oval, like, yeah, okay, I will, I will.
• 1:08:52
  I'm starting to learn about having a spotter and stuff because in road racing,
• 1:08:57
  I can just rely on AI, but for some race in oval, I need a human spotter for me.
• 1:09:02
  So yeah, like building the trust to the point that you listen to the
• 1:09:08
  sound, you follow it right away.
• 1:09:10
  Like I need to reach that certain of level of trust, you
• 1:09:14
  know, if you know what I mean?
• 1:09:15
  Like, yeah, I need that.
• 1:09:19
  And it's maybe not always going well, but that's where.
• 1:09:21
  You learn from both of you right right and if you look into the replay of
• 1:09:27
  a big crash You can you always think like, okay, I should have gone this way.
• 1:09:31
  I should have do that.
• 1:09:32
  But yeah, it's like it's it's easy to like put like the fault on somebody else,
• 1:09:38
  but like Maybe maybe not immediately after when you're still like all worked
• 1:09:43
  up about it But maybe a day later or something look at it and just really look.
• 1:09:47
  Okay, you know I have done something better.
• 1:09:51
  Even, even if you might be made, sorry, if you might've been even like
• 1:09:57
  in the right to move up and the other person was doing something wrong,
• 1:10:01
  but maybe you could have seen that.
• 1:10:03
  And maybe it wasn't like the right move from the other person, but you
• 1:10:06
  could have avoided the wreck there.
• 1:10:08
  That's also something to learn, because at the end of the day, if you're
• 1:10:12
  right or not, if you crash out, it doesn't matter because you crashed out.
• 1:10:17
  So.
• 1:10:18
  It happened.
• 1:10:19
  Like, yeah, it already happened.
• 1:10:20
  Like, you already crashed.
• 1:10:21
  And I think for me, like, I barely put a blame on someone else if
• 1:10:28
  something bad happened in the race.
• 1:10:29
  But I focus more on On what could I've done in this situation?
• 1:10:35
  Like I look into the replay, I focus on, okay, this is the crash.
• 1:10:40
  I should have gone that way.
• 1:10:41
  Like I'm focusing on what can I do better in the next race?
• 1:10:45
  Instead of like putting someone like pointing finger on someone, like it's
• 1:10:49
  your fault, I'm reporting you like that.
• 1:10:52
  You know, like I'm, Oh, I'm more like, yeah.
• 1:10:54
  Okay.
• 1:10:55
  Next time I'll do better for this.
• 1:10:57
  No, you know what?
• 1:10:58
  It's fine.
• 1:10:59
  You know?
• 1:11:01
  And by the way, Nina, like we are talking about having a spotter,
• 1:11:06
  winning the race and everything, right?
• 1:11:10
  Like, yeah, we all know that you're the winner, back to back winner.
• 1:11:14
  And also like, yeah, you managed to be in the top 15 in the Formula Woman.
• 1:11:19
  Speaking of your dream goal, you want to be in the Nurburgring 24.
• 1:11:25
  Which car do you want to drive?
• 1:11:26
  If you get a chance, driving in real life.
• 1:11:31
  Anything.
• 1:11:32
  Yeah, well, most people would probably go for like the GT3s or something.
• 1:11:37
  But actually, I would love to drive the Dacia Logan.
• 1:11:42
  I don't know, it's like, it's such a cool concept to be like in like, the
• 1:11:48
  slowest or like one of the slowest cars.
• 1:11:51
  I don't know, I just like, I really enjoy like, low powered cars because
• 1:11:55
  with, you know, With cars that have, like, amazing horsepower and everything.
• 1:11:59
  Right.
• 1:11:59
  If you, if you mess up your corner, and you step on the gas on the
• 1:12:03
  exit, you're already, like, quick.
• 1:12:05
  Massively.
• 1:12:07
  Um, but if you're in a slow car, with, like, just very little Low power.
• 1:12:13
  Oh no.
• 1:12:16
  It is quite Yeah, are we are we fine I think I think we are fine so
• 1:12:22
  for a bit It's like okay on my end the stream just started to buffer.
• 1:12:25
  So I wasn't sure Yeah, as I said like in the in the fast car if you go on throttle
• 1:12:32
  you're immediately fast again But in the slower car, it's really important that
• 1:12:37
  you keep your line smooth and effective to get all the speed like throughout
• 1:12:42
  the corner So you're not slow on exit because then this just like amplifies.
• 1:12:48
  And to me that's like a special kind of challenge to just have
• 1:12:51
  like a slower ish car and trying to preserve the speed during a corner.
• 1:12:57
  Instead of just like having insane amounts of power.
• 1:13:00
  I mean, you still have to do the same thing, but like in slow cars,
• 1:13:04
  at least for like the start, that's kind of like That sounds really cool.
• 1:13:09
  And also you're on the same track as the big guys, you know, so how
• 1:13:13
  cool must it be if you're already sending your car down there and going
• 1:13:18
  as fast as you can and then there's just like gt3 is just flying past.
• 1:13:23
  That must be insane.
• 1:13:26
  Yeah.
• 1:13:26
  Oh, I get what you mean now.
• 1:13:29
  Yep.
• 1:13:30
  Because it's quite new to me, like to listen to, like I'm doing this interview,
• 1:13:35
  like Quite some time and then like yeah, you know, like some people want to
• 1:13:39
  drive the fast car wanna be f1 and Now I have you here and saying that yeah,
• 1:13:45
  I would like to drive a slow car Yeah like I mean there are plenty of cool
• 1:13:50
  cars, you know, of course the gt4 class is amazing, especially like the Um the
• 1:13:55
  team that um by skill from yesterday is in actually like the the girls only
• 1:14:00
  team It's a team that i've like watched like all the years and everything.
• 1:14:05
  It's it's just um It's so cool to see that like a girls only team, you
• 1:14:09
  know, drivers are all females, all the mechanics are girls and everything.
• 1:14:13
  So obviously that would be a dream as well to be in that team and to not, to
• 1:14:18
  like just be visible for, for all the women out there to inspire them maybe
• 1:14:25
  to, yes, you can do racing as a girl.
• 1:14:28
  And that is obviously also something that screen to speed does to really like.
• 1:14:35
  Show anyone to be like, hey, you can do sim racing as a woman.
• 1:14:41
  There's nothing against it.
• 1:14:42
  You can absolutely do it.
• 1:14:43
  You can race as a girl.
• 1:14:46
  It's, it's not a boys exclusive club.
• 1:14:48
  And yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:50
  So I, I really, I'm happy if I even manage one person, um, if I can change
• 1:14:56
  one person's mind in that sense.
• 1:14:59
  Right.
• 1:14:59
  Yeah, that's what we want to do.
• 1:15:02
  Like, you know, I know that there are female sim racers like we are not the
• 1:15:06
  only two or the only 20 girls in this world who does sim racing, but I feel
• 1:15:12
  like it's kind of hard to meet up with other girls, especially if you're
• 1:15:17
  doing official session in iRacing.
• 1:15:19
  You're not gonna lie.
• 1:15:20
  Like, most of the time I'm the only one.
• 1:15:23
  Like the only girl on the track.
• 1:15:25
  So, it's kinda hard to find another female sim racer.
• 1:15:29
  Like, yeah.
• 1:15:30
  So, I'm so happy to have Screen2Speed.
• 1:15:32
  Like, yeah.
• 1:15:33
  We meet a lot of wonderful girls on the track.
• 1:15:36
  Or even like in the race.
• 1:15:37
  Like, you know.
• 1:15:39
  It's a really cool community.
• 1:15:42
  And, um, especially when I was doing all my, like on iRacing you have
• 1:15:46
  like the different license classes.
• 1:15:48
  Yeah.
• 1:15:48
  Or like safety rating for all the different types of racing, right?
• 1:15:52
  Right.
• 1:15:53
  So at some point I was like, hey, it would be cool to have a license in every class.
• 1:15:57
  So I set myself that goal and also like reached it.
• 1:15:59
  But, um, especially in disciplines like, um, dirt ovals, it is.
• 1:16:07
  Apparently incredibly rare to have like girls in there So, um, I was always like
• 1:16:13
  the kind of like standout account in those lobbies And I haven't done much
• 1:16:18
  like dirt oval since then to be honest.
• 1:16:20
  I should I should do that again It was quite fun I did a lot of
• 1:16:24
  there was a moment where I did a lot of dirt oval and I don't even
• 1:16:28
  know like I didn't I literally just realized at the start of season two.
• 1:16:32
  Like how did I get Uh, promoted to C class, like I barely do the dirt.
• 1:16:37
  Awful.
• 1:16:37
  But dirt awful is so fun.
• 1:16:39
  Like you are like staring.
• 1:16:41
  Yeah.
• 1:16:42
  It can be quite fun.
• 1:16:42
  Like your will is like more to the right.
• 1:16:44
  Like you're turning, you're turning.
• 1:16:46
  Yeah.
• 1:16:47
  I mean it's, I mean it's, it, it's kind of like drifting in a sense.
• 1:16:51
  Yeah.
• 1:16:51
  That's how I feel.
• 1:16:52
  I also enjoy drifting a lot on a set of coa as like a way of like winding down.
• 1:16:57
  Sometimes if like a race can go my way or something, I turn on a set of
• 1:17:00
  coa and just like drift from there.
• 1:17:04
  And that's kind of my, my way of like, just relaxing.
• 1:17:07
  I'm, you know, again, I'm like, okay at drifting, but I'm not like,
• 1:17:12
  um, drift pro, you know, I can, uh, I can do like 360 entries now.
• 1:17:17
  So like, I guess I'm all.
• 1:17:18
  It can
• 1:17:30
  do with their cars.
• 1:17:31
  It's, um, racing is so beautiful because you have all these
• 1:17:35
  different types of disciplines.
• 1:17:36
  Yeah.
• 1:17:38
  Every discipline has its own beauty to it.
• 1:17:41
  If it's rally or drifting or drag racing or circuit racing, ovals,
• 1:17:46
  anything has something special.
• 1:17:48
  So that's pretty cool.
• 1:17:50
  Yep.
• 1:17:51
  That's how I see like, yeah, in road racing, you want to go fast.
• 1:17:55
  That's how I feel and then in awful you want to survive the race But when
• 1:18:00
  you talk about drifting, it's drifting is more like art instead of like going
• 1:18:05
  fast It's like a total different thing.
• 1:18:08
  I would I would argue that both is a type of art because To go faster
• 1:18:15
  on the track also requires your car to be very stable and um to just
• 1:18:24
  do it like to this like perfection.
• 1:18:26
  Obviously the best example to that is Formula One because they are like
• 1:18:31
  so close to the edge and like so like perfect every single corner.
• 1:18:36
  And there's also a beauty to that it's a it's a different type of
• 1:18:42
  kind maybe because drifting is also like to the, to the centimeter,
• 1:18:49
  like next to walls all the time.
• 1:18:52
  So close here and so close there.
• 1:18:54
  So it's not all too different in that sense.
• 1:18:58
  If you want to call it art, it's just a different kind of art.
• 1:19:02
  Like the one is maybe like classical painting and the other one is,
• 1:19:06
  um, expressionism or something.
• 1:19:08
  I don't know my art too well.
• 1:19:10
  So I think that, I think that works that way.
• 1:19:13
  That's, that's a good point.
• 1:19:14
  Cause Yeah, I mean, you, not like you change my mind, but you give
• 1:19:19
  me like a new perspective speaking about art in racing, like, hmm.
• 1:19:24
  That's, that's, that's a good point, right?
• 1:19:27
  So And also, especially like if you're doing wheel to wheel
• 1:19:30
  racing, you know, overtaking is also a form of art, obviously.
• 1:19:34
  Yeah, I love watching the long battle, like, you know, battle in every corner.
• 1:19:39
  I think I saw that between you and Bianca, I think.
• 1:19:42
  We had a lot of those and it was so much fun because also after, after a while with
• 1:19:48
  Bianca, I knew that I could trust her.
• 1:19:51
  Like she's also a really good driver.
• 1:19:53
  So I know that I can make it tight and I can like give her, her space, just
• 1:20:00
  her space and not a centimeter more.
• 1:20:02
  I really have this very close racing.
• 1:20:05
  And And, um, that made for some great onboards.
• 1:20:09
  I still have, like, I think all of the replays saved.
• 1:20:12
  So, um, there are, like, a lot of scenes where we are, like, centimeters
• 1:20:18
  apart through a high speed corner.
• 1:20:21
  And we both knew exactly where the other one is and how much we can,
• 1:20:24
  like, push them or can't push them.
• 1:20:27
  So that was really, really fun.
• 1:20:29
  That is so satisfying to watch.
• 1:20:31
  Like.
• 1:20:32
  I, I'm the one like making and editing for the clips on screen to speed it down.
• 1:20:37
  So I was like looking into your battle, there was like a really like
• 1:20:42
  hard battle between you and Bianca.
• 1:20:45
  Well, it didn't end up well, if, uh, if I'm not mistaken, as in like,
• 1:20:50
  not like well, well, well, but.
• 1:20:52
  The battle was so satisfying to watch.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah, I mean, obviously like you have like incidents here and there and like there
• 1:21:00
  are absolutely no hard feelings, you know.
• 1:21:02
  Um, like I, at some point, like I think one time I got spawned by her, but I
• 1:21:08
  watched it back and I was like, hey, okay.
• 1:21:10
  It was a slight mistake, but I can absolutely see why you went for this gap.
• 1:21:14
  So like absolutely no hard feelings at all.
• 1:21:17
  Right, right.
• 1:21:17
  Um, It was, it was still like so much fun.
• 1:21:21
  Yeah.
• 1:21:21
  And um, yeah, and the fact that he finally can't way to do that again in
• 1:21:25
  like the next bit more build the trust.
• 1:21:27
  I know, right?
• 1:21:27
  Like the fact that you're building the trust between, there's like a
• 1:21:31
  level of trust between you and Bianca to the point that you guys can like,
• 1:21:36
  having that long battle all the way throughout the season, you know, like,
• 1:21:40
  I'm really looking forward to see you.
• 1:21:43
  Racing in the next screen to speed like I want to see and maybe I will
• 1:21:46
  join depends on the schedule, of course, and I really hope that we're
• 1:21:51
  gonna use another GR86 because I like driving that car in iRacing.
• 1:21:56
  Yeah, it's a really fun car.
• 1:21:58
  Again, it's low power.
• 1:22:01
  You know, yeah, and you and you have to really like get the speed
• 1:22:06
  throughout the corner to be fast.
• 1:22:08
  Uh huh.
• 1:22:08
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:22:09
  Yeah.
• 1:22:09
  Yeah.
• 1:22:10
  Yeah.
• 1:22:10
  And that's what I enjoy like, um, and it's quite anyone can drive.
• 1:22:14
  I say anyone, but like, Driving fast in a straight line isn't all
• 1:22:19
  that difficult, but being fast throughout the corner, that's where
• 1:22:24
  like the beauty for me personally.
• 1:22:26
  Yeah, I did a lot of drive in.
• 1:22:29
  I think for my road racing mostly I did F4, GR86, and Porsche Cup.
• 1:22:35
  Like.
• 1:22:36
  Those, those are three cars that I drive in route, but mostly
• 1:22:39
  I drive the GR86 because yeah, again, that car is not as quick as,
• 1:22:45
  especially the super formula car.
• 1:22:47
  But I realized that when I made a mistake with that car, with the GR86, I got
• 1:22:53
  time to like, you know, more time to react to the situation and to fix it.
• 1:22:59
  Like, I don't know, because sometimes with a fast car, if
• 1:23:02
  you're too fast, you got panic.
• 1:23:03
  You will spun, touch the wall, something like that.
• 1:23:06
  Um, yeah, like it's, um, in general, formula cars are just overall a
• 1:23:13
  bit harder to catch due to the nature of what the cars are.
• 1:23:17
  But, um, I also really, every time I drive a formula car and every time I spin or
• 1:23:26
  something, um, I always try to catch it.
• 1:23:29
  And I think it's also one of these things that's really important to just learn.
• 1:23:33
  Like if you spin out, don't just like let go of the wheel and be like, Oh, I
• 1:23:37
  spun and whatever, but try to recover it.
• 1:23:39
  Try to build that muscle memory of how to catch even formula cars.
• 1:23:45
  And also very importantly, how to keep it out of the wall, because
• 1:23:50
  if you're ever doing real life racing and you're going to end up in
• 1:23:55
  situations that you can't control.
• 1:23:57
  That's part of racing.
• 1:23:58
  But in these moments, it doesn't matter, you're already losing time.
• 1:24:03
  So, that's out the window.
• 1:24:05
  But, it's important to not lose the car as well.
• 1:24:09
  To really not hit anything with the car.
• 1:24:12
  And, um, that is actually one thing.
• 1:24:17
  that I was very happy about, like, practicing when I
• 1:24:20
  did the F4 test in Zolder.
• 1:24:22
  Because after, like, pushing the car more and more, I did get a spin into turn one,
• 1:24:27
  one of the fastest points of the track.
• 1:24:30
  And I, for like half a second, like, going backwards at like, you're just
• 1:24:35
  doing like, what was it, 160 or something?
• 1:24:39
  And you're just like, um, suddenly you're backwards in a formula car.
• 1:24:43
  That was kind of scary, but then also like, Um, my brain went
• 1:24:47
  like, Hey, you can catch this.
• 1:24:49
  You practice for this.
• 1:24:50
  And then like my muscle memory set in and I whipped it around again,
• 1:24:54
  did like a beautiful 360 and just kept it on track and just continued.
• 1:24:58
  I didn't even stop.
• 1:24:59
  But like, yeah, it's really helpful to practice those things.
• 1:25:04
  Practicing the car control is like really important.
• 1:25:08
  I think I learned that from driving the oval car, because especially I did a lot
• 1:25:12
  of race in the Arco and that car is like.
• 1:25:15
  You know Arca in iRacing, what's gonna happen in the crash.
• 1:25:19
  I learned a lot about car control and I reached the point like,
• 1:25:25
  okay, it's about to crash, but you know, I can, I can catch it.
• 1:25:29
  I can do countersteer.
• 1:25:30
  I can keep this car out of the wall.
• 1:25:33
  So yeah, practicing the car control is really important rather than
• 1:25:37
  just focusing on going fast, scoring a perfect lap time, like yeah.
• 1:25:42
  Practice for when something bad happened, because at some point you will
• 1:25:47
  have that moment coming to your life.
• 1:25:49
  Like, yeah, you will crash, like you will spin and you have to catch it.
• 1:25:54
  Don't break your car.
• 1:25:56
  Yes, Sophie.
• 1:25:57
  I mean, if we break the car in real life, I don't know how much we need to pay.
• 1:26:00
  Like in simulator, if we crash, we can hit the escape button back to the garage.
• 1:26:06
  But yeah, and yeah, I mean, do you?
• 1:26:11
  build your muscle memory through the sim racing.
• 1:26:15
  Like you're doing a lot of sim racing driving and like you have that experience.
• 1:26:22
  Then when that happened in real life, you have that muscle memory in your head,
• 1:26:27
  like, this is how you catch the car.
• 1:26:28
  This is how you catch the spin.
• 1:26:31
  Does it, does the sim racing like really helps you to develop that muscle memory?
• 1:26:37
  Yeah, definitely.
• 1:26:38
  Um, so.
• 1:26:41
  Yeah, it's just like a good way of, um, knowing how the car will
• 1:26:46
  react or like the type of car.
• 1:26:48
  It's, it's different if you have like a street car, also like if you have
• 1:26:52
  front wheel drive or rear wheel drive.
• 1:26:54
  But in general, practicing these like, yeah, how to keep a car
• 1:26:58
  out of the wall is definitely applicable in real life as well.
• 1:27:01
  Appliable in real life as well.
• 1:27:03
  That's amazing to hear.
• 1:27:05
  So, I mean, I drive a lot in Oval.
• 1:27:08
  I know this car spin a lot, so I should have that muscle
• 1:27:12
  memory in my head right now.
• 1:27:16
  Oh my god.
• 1:27:16
  But the difference is like in real life you have that fear
• 1:27:20
  factor and you felt afraid.
• 1:27:23
  Like you were afraid for a split second when you were backwards, right?
• 1:27:28
  Um, yeah, I mean, it's It's not a sense.
• 1:27:33
  It wasn't a sense of like being like scared for like being hurt or something
• 1:27:39
  because like I always say like If I'm especially in like a formula
• 1:27:44
  car with like all the straps on and everything to me personally, that's
• 1:27:48
  the safest place on earth Because like the chassis is literally made for I
• 1:27:53
  don't know going into a wall at 200 kilometers an hour so I I wasn't scared
• 1:27:59
  about, like, being hurt too much.
• 1:28:02
  Um, but I was kind of just like, Oh, I can't mess this up because, like,
• 1:28:07
  this is, like, my time to, like, show what I can do behind a wheel.
• 1:28:12
  And, um, crashing the car would obviously have been, like,
• 1:28:16
  the worst possible outcome.
• 1:28:18
  Yep, I bet.
• 1:28:20
  Yeah, it doesn't give you a good impression.
• 1:28:22
  Yeah, so like I, I sadly do know what breaking carbon fiber sounds like.
• 1:28:28
  I did, um, I did crash like the front wing of our Formula Student car once.
• 1:28:33
  Um, luckily it was only the front wing and it was already damaged before I did it.
• 1:28:39
  Right.
• 1:28:39
  So, um, we would have needed a new part anyway.
• 1:28:42
  Yeah.
• 1:28:43
  So I got away with like a blue eye kind of.
• 1:28:46
  But like, um.
• 1:28:49
  Yeah, so, uh, I don't know if that's a saying, actually.
• 1:28:52
  If you get away with the blue eye.
• 1:28:53
  That's a German saying.
• 1:28:54
  That is a German saying.
• 1:28:55
  We should ask Sharon, I guess.
• 1:28:57
  Sharon.
• 1:28:58
  Yeah, it kind of means that, like, it's, something happened, but,
• 1:29:02
  like, you didn't break anything.
• 1:29:04
  Yeah, at least you, look on the bright side.
• 1:29:06
  At least we didn't break anything, I guess.
• 1:29:09
  Yeah, actually.
• 1:29:10
  Wait.
• 1:29:11
  Oh, I'll just, I'll just get something.
• 1:29:14
  Okay.
• 1:29:14
  Oh, I wonder what she's going to show us.
• 1:29:17
  Anyway.
• 1:29:18
  Hello, chat.
• 1:29:19
  Welcome to AmyTalk.
• 1:29:20
  I know the connection is bad.
• 1:29:23
  I forgot that I still have this.
• 1:29:24
  What?
• 1:29:26
  The wing?
• 1:29:27
  What?
• 1:29:28
  Is that the front wing that you, uh, that you're Yes, that is, that is the
• 1:29:31
  front wing that I, that I broke in half.
• 1:29:33
  Oh, wow.
• 1:29:34
  I think you can see it.
• 1:29:35
  But it's really cool.
• 1:29:37
  Yeah, it's really light.
• 1:29:39
  Is it?
• 1:29:41
  Yeah, it's like actual carbon fiber.
• 1:29:44
  Oh, wait, I think I have that.
• 1:29:45
  Wait, wait.
• 1:29:46
  I'm gonna show you.
• 1:29:47
  Guys, be right back, guys.
• 1:29:48
  Wanna show her something?
• 1:29:49
  I have a couple of like, um, carbon fiber parts laying around from my time.
• 1:29:53
  So this is another, uh, flap.
• 1:29:55
  Oh, wow.
• 1:29:57
  That is really cool.
• 1:29:58
  Here's what I wanted to show you.
• 1:29:59
  Unidirectional carbon.
• 1:30:00
  And then on here it's like forged carbon that we did on that ear.
• 1:30:04
  Wow.
• 1:30:05
  That is really cool.
• 1:30:07
  You have, uh, you have a front wing and I got this one from the NASCAR.
• 1:30:14
  Alright, show me.
• 1:30:15
  This one.
• 1:30:17
  Oh, oh, that's cool.
• 1:30:19
  That is, this is from the Xfinity car.
• 1:30:22
  So, my friend worked as a mechanic in a NASCAR team, NASCAR Xfinity team.
• 1:30:27
  And then, I think one of his car crashed.
• 1:30:32
  Okay, I give you a little piece of NASCAR.
• 1:30:34
  I was like, oh, thank you.
• 1:30:35
  But this looking really cool.
• 1:30:37
  I like to collect like this part of the car.
• 1:30:40
  This part of the car, like every time I see someone crash on the track, I
• 1:30:43
  will start like collecting this part.
• 1:30:47
  That's really cool.
• 1:30:48
  Yeah.
• 1:30:49
  Yes.
• 1:30:50
  Sharon, like look at Nina, like she even still has the front.
• 1:30:57
  I see someone that has like a complete front bumper in, in his
• 1:31:02
  gaming room, something like that.
• 1:31:03
  And I was like, yo, where did you get that?
• 1:31:06
  I need that one too for my gaming room.
• 1:31:11
  Oh, well, no, but that was really cool.
• 1:31:14
  Like, not gonna lie.
• 1:31:14
  I didn't expect to see that in two days in a talk like in two days.
• 1:31:20
  I didn't expect to see a front wing.
• 1:31:23
  Yeah.
• 1:31:23
  But like, to come back to the topic, like, um, when I, when I was spinning,
• 1:31:28
  I was like, really just like, um, I hoping not to crash it because like Yeah.
• 1:31:33
  The sound of you being in a car and being the reason why the car
• 1:31:38
  crashed is like a terrible feeling.
• 1:31:41
  Like that was, it was really like, uh, it's absolutely like gutting
• 1:31:45
  because you feel like you let not only yourself down, but like the whole team.
• 1:31:50
  Right.
• 1:31:51
  And, um, yeah, so crashing is really like a, a thing to avoid at any cost.
• 1:31:57
  So at any cost.
• 1:31:57
  Right, right.
• 1:31:59
  Don't crash.
• 1:32:00
  Yeah, Sofie and everyone, don't crash in real life.
• 1:32:03
  Like, yeah, because you have the whole team working.
• 1:32:07
  Well, sometimes, you know, yeah, but if you still can save
• 1:32:11
  it, you have to save your car.
• 1:32:14
  Yeah, because, yeah, it takes the whole team to build the car for your
• 1:32:19
  race weekend, something like that.
• 1:32:20
  So, yeah.
• 1:32:21
  It's a team sport.
• 1:32:24
  I just realized about that.
• 1:32:25
  Yeah.
• 1:32:25
  Lately because when I I'm quite newbie here in sim racing, but at the start I
• 1:32:30
  feel like I can do this by myself You know, like I can do this by myself.
• 1:32:34
  It's a it's a solo race.
• 1:32:36
  It's okay You know, you don't need a team, but the more I get into it I realized
• 1:32:41
  that there's like engineering involved in this or you have spotter you have
• 1:32:45
  mechanic you have everyone you have pit crew So it's teamwork instead of like
• 1:32:50
  doing it solo So it's like something that I realized lately, like the more I
• 1:32:57
  get into it, I see like the whole team working together to build the car for you.
• 1:33:02
  So when you win, you win as a team.
• 1:33:05
  When you lose, he also like everyone take the loose together.
• 1:33:09
  So I think that's the beauty of racing that I just realized.
• 1:33:15
  I guess like we are in this together.
• 1:33:20
  I never broke a cool car, so I don't have a souvenir.
• 1:33:27
  You know, it's also probably good that you didn't break one because
• 1:33:30
  most of the time it's quite expensive.
• 1:33:33
  I bet like, yeah, small damage can cost you a lot of money.
• 1:33:38
  Like even if, well, no, I must not say that, but every kind of
• 1:33:43
  damage cost you money as a team.
• 1:33:46
  Yeah.
• 1:33:48
  And motorsport is already, like, one of the most expensive
• 1:33:51
  hobbies there is, you know, so.
• 1:33:53
  I realize that, like, yeah.
• 1:33:56
  I check on the price, like, if I want to get karting competitively,
• 1:34:00
  like, okay, where's the step?
• 1:34:02
  Where is the next one?
• 1:34:03
  And I look into this page on the internet, and they're giving you, like,
• 1:34:08
  The detail about what do you need to pay to get into karting competitively
• 1:34:13
  and it already starts to get pricey even on the karting level so I cannot
• 1:34:17
  imagine like in GT class or even in Formula like, well, that's all up.
• 1:34:23
  So, yeah.
• 1:34:27
  It can happen.
• 1:34:28
  I had a little panic moment due to my disability.
• 1:34:30
  I apologized to the team.
• 1:34:33
  When you got released from the hospital.
• 1:34:34
  I still have the onboard video.
• 1:34:36
  Not great to watch.
• 1:34:37
  Oh my God.
• 1:34:37
  If you don't mind sharing it with us, sharing it with us, Yvonne, you can
• 1:34:42
  share, but I bet it's not a great feeling.
• 1:34:45
  I mean, Yvonne already had her talk, right?
• 1:34:50
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:34:50
  The first episode.
• 1:34:51
  The first one.
• 1:34:52
  Yeah.
• 1:34:54
  Yeah, the first, I wasn't sure if it was like the first or um, if I was mistaken,
• 1:34:57
  but like Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:34:59
  VO was the first, first, second Victoria.
• 1:35:01
  And you are the third . The third guest here.
• 1:35:05
  Yeah.
• 1:35:06
  Yeah.
• 1:35:06
  And like also by the way, since we're had it, thanks for
• 1:35:09
  having me, like of course's.
• 1:35:10
  So fun.
• 1:35:11
  So, um, I'm glad, really enjoying it here, so, uh, fun.
• 1:35:15
  I really enjoy having with you.
• 1:35:18
  I'm learning a lot from your experience and you know, like you explained
• 1:35:22
  it to me, like starting in front and starting from the back, it has
• 1:35:26
  its own challenge, which I mostly start from the middle of the pack.
• 1:35:30
  So my gameplay is different than yours.
• 1:35:32
  Of course, like, if you start in front, the strategy is different than when you're
• 1:35:37
  starting in the mid part of the grid.
• 1:35:39
  Yeah.
• 1:35:40
  You give me a vision about.
• 1:35:44
  Okay, this is what's gonna happen if you start from the back.
• 1:35:46
  I was like, huh, yep, that is right.
• 1:35:50
  I feel like after I'm having this talk with people, this in a talk
• 1:35:53
  with people, I feel like I'm 20 percent smarter every week I got.
• 1:35:58
  Yeah.
• 1:35:58
  I mean, every, every day you should learn a little thing.
• 1:36:01
  That's, that's how I try to do life, you know, every day learn a little thing and
• 1:36:05
  that's just going to make you better.
• 1:36:07
  Yeah.
• 1:36:08
  I mean, one step at a time, I think.
• 1:36:10
  Yeah, definitely.
• 1:36:12
  And, yeah, the speed will come, the wind will come, and, yeah.
• 1:36:17
  It's actually, like, for me, I'm also in a weird spot in sim racing
• 1:36:20
  currently, where, um, I do mostly Formula Fours, and I'm usually, like,
• 1:36:27
  almost always, I'm in top split.
• 1:36:29
  Um, so, I'm, I'm decent, but, like, I'm usually not really,
• 1:36:36
  like, fighting for the win.
• 1:36:38
  So I don't, I don't remember when the last time was that I won an official race.
• 1:36:44
  It's been forever.
• 1:36:46
  It's been forever, right.
• 1:36:48
  Yeah, actually, like, I also don't do that many, um, officials currently.
• 1:36:54
  I often do, like, league races and that kind of thing, but
• 1:36:57
  not really a lot of officials.
• 1:36:59
  But that's also one thing that I sometimes have to remind myself
• 1:37:03
  about, is that I do it for fun.
• 1:37:05
  And, um, if you lose the fun, then you also, like, drive bad.
• 1:37:09
  You know, if you, if you, if you just go in there and be like, Oh, I don't
• 1:37:13
  know, quote unquote, only P5 again or something, then that's just really
• 1:37:19
  not going to be great for the future.
• 1:37:21
  Because if you think about it, if there are 20 people, then you
• 1:37:25
  were faster than 15 other people, which is a great achievement.
• 1:37:31
  But as a racer, I feel like you often tend to like, look at the people ahead.
• 1:37:37
  Obviously, you know, like overtake the next car and then the next and
• 1:37:40
  then the next, even though you're already overtook 10 cars, maybe.
• 1:37:44
  And you need to like actively really cherish those moments as well.
• 1:37:50
  Of course, there's room for improvement, but you're already doing
• 1:37:53
  well if you if you finish fifth.
• 1:37:56
  Right.
• 1:37:57
  So no matter where you finish, it's already a progress of of you
• 1:38:01
  learning things here in sim racing.
• 1:38:03
  And also like, yeah.
• 1:38:05
  Finish the race.
• 1:38:06
  I think Even even my friend.
• 1:38:09
  Um, he's a real race car driver and he won a race in sonoma last year and
• 1:38:13
  kota I think I forgot or probably nola new orleans So I asked him like you
• 1:38:20
  working in a team like you are the driver of a race car race car team do
• 1:38:25
  is Um your boss or your team principal like expecting you to win every race.
• 1:38:31
  That's the question that I asked And he told me like No, that's not how it goes.
• 1:38:37
  You know, your job as a driver is to drive and finish the race.
• 1:38:40
  That's your job as a driver.
• 1:38:43
  So, I mean, it's good if you can win it, but that's not the, that's not like the,
• 1:38:51
  or how you like measure yourself in a race or measure your performance, because yeah,
• 1:38:57
  as long as you finish the race, it's fine.
• 1:39:00
  There is like always room for improvement.
• 1:39:01
  So yeah, I try to get better next time.
• 1:39:03
  Finish the race, try to finish better and keep on doing it.
• 1:39:07
  So yeah, I guess you're right.
• 1:39:10
  Like, yeah.
• 1:39:11
  Even if you finish fifth among 20 people, it's, it's a high, it's a high point, I
• 1:39:17
  guess, like being the top five, right?
• 1:39:22
  Definitely.
• 1:39:22
  Yeah.
• 1:39:24
  The next car is the next car behind you.
• 1:39:29
  Right.
• 1:39:30
  Oh, by the way, I just realized that we almost two hours got into this
• 1:39:34
  talk, but I didn't feel like it's been two hours, almost two hours
• 1:39:38
  because I really enjoy like having this talk with you and listening to
• 1:39:43
  how you passionate about this thing.
• 1:39:45
  Like, that's the beauty of it.
• 1:39:47
  Thank you.
• 1:39:48
  Yeah, I mean, I'm always like, always.
• 1:39:52
  feel so, um, passionate when I, when I get to talk about these things because,
• 1:39:57
  um, in like real life, okay, I have like kind of my friends and everything, but,
• 1:40:02
  um, it's, yeah, sim racing is kind of a niche hobby at the end of the day.
• 1:40:08
  So to, to have the chance and to really like Talk about this like openly and like
• 1:40:14
  have people in chat who are interested.
• 1:40:17
  So thanks for everyone stopping by by the way it's just such a cool
• 1:40:21
  opportunity to really like share these moments with others and Yeah And I
• 1:40:28
  think we are down to the last question Speaking about this any thoughts.
• 1:40:34
  I have a very very important question to ask for you
• 1:40:40
  Are you ready?
• 1:40:41
  Are you ready?
• 1:40:42
  Yeah.
• 1:40:43
  So speaking about the dream team.
• 1:40:47
  Congratulations for making to the dream team.
• 1:40:50
  Yay.
• 1:40:50
  And you'll be competing in the VCO.
• 1:40:53
  So we are talking about the competition.
• 1:40:56
  Like, yeah, you're winning.
• 1:40:57
  You are battling with people and something like that.
• 1:41:01
  Okay.
• 1:41:02
  And now that you are, you'll be competing in the VCO.
• 1:41:05
  In the VCO infinity and you are in the team full of female sim racer.
• 1:41:10
  How do you feel about it?
• 1:41:13
  Yeah, it's it's really cool.
• 1:41:14
  Like I can't wait.
• 1:41:15
  It's gonna be probably a huge challenge.
• 1:41:18
  It's Like the field is gonna be like very tough.
• 1:41:21
  Um But I'm gonna try my best and as soon as like we know
• 1:41:26
  finally like the tracks as well.
• 1:41:28
  We already know the cars But I um, I can't wait to know about the the tracks
• 1:41:34
  so I can really start like practicing Specifically the stuff that I need to
• 1:41:39
  be practicing for this event, right?
• 1:41:42
  And yeah, maybe should I maybe give like a short rundown to
• 1:41:45
  everyone who doesn't know about it?
• 1:41:47
  Yeah, sure share it with us Okay, so it's called the VCO Infinity, um, and it's
• 1:41:55
  a 24 hour event with 24 races in there.
• 1:41:59
  So each race is about like an hour, I think like 45 minutes
• 1:42:03
  with like quali in between and that kind of stuff or something.
• 1:42:06
  But in general, it's 24 hours of racing with one race each hour of
• 1:42:12
  like, um, there are five different cars and five different tracks.
• 1:42:16
  And then you just have the combination of those, so you have, um, the, the
• 1:42:20
  MX5 Cup, the IndyCar, the NASCAR Xfinity, the Ferrari GT3, and the
• 1:42:28
  Super Formula Light as cars, and then five tracks that we don't know yet.
• 1:42:34
  Yeah.
• 1:42:35
  But, uh, yeah.
• 1:42:36
  Then you're gonna have these cars on all of these tracks, switching every hour.
• 1:42:42
  So, yeah, come and watch it.
• 1:42:44
  It's going to be entertaining.
• 1:42:45
  It's going to be very, like, different each time you're going to tune in.
• 1:42:49
  And, yeah, it's going to be quite the challenge to, um, switch between all
• 1:42:54
  these cars and tracks back and forth.
• 1:42:57
  So every driver in the team has to drive, I think, at least two cars.
• 1:43:01
  So, yeah, um, can't wait for it.
• 1:43:06
  Good luck with that, Nina.
• 1:43:07
  And yes, Yvonne, you've got this, Nina.
• 1:43:10
  Yes, both of you girls, you've got this.
• 1:43:13
  Okay.
• 1:43:14
  I'll be, I'll be hanging on the chat, like, see how you
• 1:43:17
  girls are doing in the track.
• 1:43:19
  I'm wishing you all the best, but again, don't forget to have fun.
• 1:43:24
  Like, enjoy.
• 1:43:26
  We'll be meeting a lot of like top team, I believe.
• 1:43:28
  Yeah.
• 1:43:29
  And it's also, it's also, um, I don't, I don't think we're going to
• 1:43:33
  be like anywhere close to the win.
• 1:43:35
  Um, but that's also not really the goal here, in my opinion, ties into like the,
• 1:43:41
  um, what we just talked about, like a P5 and 20 people, like a 20 car race.
• 1:43:46
  It's also great achievement.
• 1:43:48
  Um, I think it's like a very great thing to just show off.
• 1:43:53
  That, um, we as like a girls team, like we're there and, um, to
• 1:43:59
  anyone who might be watching it.
• 1:44:01
  It's like, like a great opportunity to just show off this
• 1:44:05
  whole community and everything.
• 1:44:07
  To show everyone like, hey, um, if you are a girl interested in racing, you
• 1:44:13
  can, you can join this and you can, you can be part of this community.
• 1:44:17
  And you don't have to, like, be all alone in, like, uh, a big community
• 1:44:22
  of, like, a lot of, like, men and boys.
• 1:44:24
  Right.
• 1:44:25
  But, like, there are, um, other girls as well.
• 1:44:28
  You just have to know where to look, kind of.
• 1:44:29
  Where to look.
• 1:44:30
  Right, right.
• 1:44:32
  I mean, yeah, we are here.
• 1:44:34
  Girls, we are here.
• 1:44:35
  So all you need to do is just join our Discord and hang out with us.
• 1:44:39
  And yeah, come race with us sometimes in the screen to speed.
• 1:44:43
  Cause we, well, we are planning to have more event in different sims.
• 1:44:48
  So it's not just gonna be in iRacing or Gran Turismo.
• 1:44:52
  We really hope that we can cover a lot of games.
• 1:44:54
  So, you know, like we can meet a lot of girls, new girls joining the community.
• 1:45:00
  I really hope that we will have another event in iRacing and also
• 1:45:05
  possibly in ACC or even Forza.
• 1:45:08
  Like, we want to have it, like, everywhere because, yeah, like, we are everywhere.
• 1:45:13
  And it's, um, you know, like, sometimes some girls playing in other games
• 1:45:18
  and, you know, like, it's our, uh, not like our, um, Our is not like
• 1:45:26
  responsibility, but we want to see you like we want to meet all of you.
• 1:45:31
  It doesn't matter which game you play.
• 1:45:33
  So yeah, if you, if any one of you here in the chat know that you
• 1:45:38
  have friends or family and yeah, she likes to play sim racing.
• 1:45:44
  Go invite her to the screen to speak so we can meet each other.
• 1:45:48
  Cause it's a different feeling when you're battling with your friends.
• 1:45:52
  With your friends like yeah, okay For example, like Nina Nina been driving
• 1:45:56
  with Bianca to the point that she can trust her like, okay I give you space but
• 1:46:00
  not too much just enough for you But no feeling on it like you practice battle.
• 1:46:06
  So I think that's the one of the Benefit of getting into a league race I'm I must
• 1:46:12
  say like you you racing with same person same people over and over to the point
• 1:46:17
  that You You're building your racecraft, you're building the thrust, you learn
• 1:46:22
  about how to battle throughout the race.
• 1:46:24
  Cause normally in official session, because you're racing with strangers,
• 1:46:28
  let's say, like someone that you don't know, you haven't met before,
• 1:46:32
  you have that, you know, like you have to predict where he's about
• 1:46:36
  to go or something like that.
• 1:46:39
  Meanwhile, like when you are, when you were like having a battle with Bianca, you
• 1:46:43
  were like, yeah, okay, I can trust her.
• 1:46:44
  We've done this many times.
• 1:46:46
  So that's the benefit of getting into a licorice, I would say.
• 1:46:52
  And by the way, um, guys, Sharon, Yvonne, we will run a real quick Q& A.
• 1:46:58
  So, um, if Yvonne, Sharon and, um, Charlie, everyone in the chat have
• 1:47:03
  a question for Nina, feel free to shoot it in the, in the chat.
• 1:47:08
  We are waiting.
• 1:47:10
  So, yeah, if you have questions, don't forget to shoot it.
• 1:47:13
  Don't be shy, like, just type it in the chat and we would love to answer.
• 1:47:17
  All right.
• 1:47:18
  any kind of question related to sim racing and motorsports.
• 1:47:23
  So I'm gonna start first, Dan.
• 1:47:25
  I'm gonna start first for this Q& A.
• 1:47:27
  If you have questions, sure.
• 1:47:29
  Of course, I have a lot of questions for you, actually.
• 1:47:32
  Okay.
• 1:47:33
  So.
• 1:47:33
  I'm here.
• 1:47:34
  I'm here.
• 1:47:35
  So if, speaking about your goal, you said that you want to be in the
• 1:47:39
  Nordschleife 24, the NURB 24, that's your goal, that realistically you
• 1:47:44
  think you can achieve in 10 years.
• 1:47:48
  And what's the next step after that?
• 1:47:50
  Like, okay, let's say you make it happen.
• 1:47:52
  You get into the 24 hours of nerf and yeah, so, um, think about
• 1:48:00
  your next plan after that one.
• 1:48:04
  Like after, after that race or like what are my steps to that race?
• 1:48:07
  Yeah, the next step after, after.
• 1:48:09
  Yeah.
• 1:48:10
  Okay.
• 1:48:11
  So, um, obviously what's going to be like.
• 1:48:14
  in the background all the time is practicing on the sim because It is a
• 1:48:19
  very long track and a very difficult track And that's also the beauty of it.
• 1:48:25
  But that also means that you need to prepare a lot so, um That's always
• 1:48:31
  going to be running in the background always practicing with different cars
• 1:48:34
  and everything on there but um I have taken like the first couple of steps
• 1:48:40
  with for example my race license So, um, to actually be able to race in the
• 1:48:47
  24 hour race there, you need like a special permit for the track, because
• 1:48:52
  the track is so long and difficult that everyone who wants to race there
• 1:48:56
  needs to do like, um, certain races to really familiarize them with the track.
• 1:49:02
  Right, right.
• 1:49:03
  The driving standards are, you know, as high as possible.
• 1:49:07
  Right.
• 1:49:07
  Because it is such a narrow and difficult track.
• 1:49:08
  So, you need like the Nordschleifen permit, is what it's called.
• 1:49:15
  Kind of like your little driver's license for that track.
• 1:49:17
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:49:18
  Uh huh.
• 1:49:18
  It's a special license for that track, I believe.
• 1:49:21
  Like, a special one.
• 1:49:22
  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:49:23
  Like, usually you just have your race license, and then you can like, For
• 1:49:28
  me, it's like a national race license.
• 1:49:29
  So I can do like races that are within one country, you know, for example,
• 1:49:33
  like a German race series that only races in Germany, I can race that.
• 1:49:40
  But since Nordschleife is so difficult, um, a couple of years ago, they started
• 1:49:45
  having like a special permit for like, especially like the longer races, like
• 1:49:50
  the NLS and the, um, the 24 hour race.
• 1:49:54
  All right.
• 1:49:55
  So, For that I need to do like, um, I would have to read up because they also
• 1:50:00
  changed it over the last year or two, a little, um, so you have to do like
• 1:50:07
  a certain amount of laps, you have to do like I think at least two races on
• 1:50:12
  there within the last two years to be allowed on there, and so I would need
• 1:50:18
  to find a way to, yeah, to just do that, and then also, um, Ideally, I would
• 1:50:27
  already have, like, a reasonable shot.
• 1:50:30
  a race, um, like a driving position in some car for the 24 hour race at
• 1:50:38
  that point, because then it's like this goal that I can work towards.
• 1:50:42
  And yeah, obviously, like the financial aspect is also a thing.
• 1:50:46
  So either you're going to work with like, um, I don't like the word sponsors,
• 1:50:51
  but like, you know, like some companies or individuals that partner with you
• 1:50:56
  in some way and Like, I don't know help you with travel or Equipment or
• 1:51:02
  all that stuff speaking of equipment.
• 1:51:05
  I would need to buy.
• 1:51:06
  Um, My own like race suit probably and like my helmet and all that stuff.
• 1:51:11
  I already looked Decide on something yet because i'm just not
• 1:51:19
  entirely like about to race yet.
• 1:51:24
  Still has like a little bit of time, but it's also something that can be
• 1:51:29
  just like bought recent, reasonably quickly and in the worst time you can
• 1:51:33
  usually like borrow it from somewhere.
• 1:51:35
  So that's not like the biggest concern, but it's something that you also
• 1:51:38
  have to, to remind yourself to buy.
• 1:51:41
  So like, I expect that as well.
• 1:51:43
  So like just like all the equipment and everything would
• 1:51:45
  be another like two grand Around.
• 1:51:48
  At least, yeah, true.
• 1:51:50
  Um, and, and, yeah, and that's like, sort of like, not really like getting
• 1:51:54
  for, getting all the expensive stuff.
• 1:51:56
  So that's really like a moderate price point.
• 1:51:58
  Right.
• 1:51:59
  And, yeah, there are a lot of regulations with this.
• 1:52:02
  So, um, depending on what I'm gonna do, like what types of races, um.
• 1:52:10
  Right.
• 1:52:10
  They can already tie into like the requirements for the permit.
• 1:52:13
  Right.
• 1:52:13
  Then obviously like getting the permit would be a thing and then finding a team
• 1:52:18
  to race with in a 24 hour series, right?
• 1:52:21
  So that race that even is somewhat like your long term goal, let's say.
• 1:52:29
  And what about in sim racing?
• 1:52:32
  This is the question from Yvonne because Yvonne asking like,
• 1:52:35
  what do you want to achieve?
• 1:52:36
  What would you like to achieve more in sim racing and in real life?
• 1:52:40
  I guess we talk about the real life part.
• 1:52:43
  So what about the sim racing?
• 1:52:47
  Like, what do you want to achieve at least this year, for example?
• 1:52:53
  Well, that's a good question.
• 1:52:56
  Um, in sim racing, I guess, uh, like the next big thing that's on VCO Infinity.
• 1:53:05
  I want to do like my best there, the best that's possible.
• 1:53:09
  At, um, I guess also, like, the seasonal cups that are coming up is
• 1:53:15
  also a goal, kind of, that I would love to take part in everything.
• 1:53:21
  But, yeah.
• 1:53:22
  And apart from that, I kind of just, like, um, I want to drive officials a bit
• 1:53:27
  more often, because, as I said, I really don't do a lot of officials currently.
• 1:53:31
  And I, I kind of, I kind of want to get back into that habit and do other
• 1:53:36
  stuff apart from, like, league races to also just, you know, Yeah, like, get
• 1:53:41
  more, like, my eye rating up a little.
• 1:53:43
  I don't care too much about it, but, um, always, like, looking at it, I feel
• 1:53:47
  like, ah, it could be definitely higher if I just put some more time in it.
• 1:53:53
  Right.
• 1:53:53
  Uh, so, yeah, that's definitely a goal.
• 1:53:57
  I also have, like, my, um, A licenses on every, uh, Class as I said, and it
• 1:54:04
  would be nice to also have like the A license and but also the rating at 4.
• 1:54:08
  99 So that would also be a fun goal.
• 1:54:12
  A fun goal.
• 1:54:13
  So doing more officials and doing your best in Infinity so I really hope
• 1:54:19
  that everything will goes well in the infinity like yeah I hope like we will
• 1:54:25
  finish all the race like those 24 race.
• 1:54:28
  Yeah, definitely.
• 1:54:29
  I'm not giving up any of my races That's a good mentality.
• 1:54:33
  It doesn't matter how often I, I, I don't know.
• 1:54:35
  I have some problem with the car or something.
• 1:54:38
  Uhhuh, , I'll, I'll finish every race that I'm part of.
• 1:54:40
  Definitely.
• 1:54:41
  Yeah.
• 1:54:42
  That's a good mentality to f mm-Hmm.
• 1:54:44
  . I mean, in order to win the race first you must to, you
• 1:54:48
  have to finish the race, right?
• 1:54:49
  So yeah, to finish first you have to.
• 1:54:52
  Finish first.
• 1:54:54
  I guess it's the same.
• 1:54:54
  Something like that.
• 1:54:55
  To finish first, you have to Yeah, something like that.
• 1:54:58
  Yeah.
• 1:54:59
  Yeah, I believe that.
• 1:55:00
  Yeah, you have to finish.
• 1:55:01
  I mean, how can you win it?
• 1:55:03
  To finish first, you have to finish.
• 1:55:04
  Yeah, to finish first, you have to finish.
• 1:55:07
  Oh, I got it.
• 1:55:10
  And here's the question from Sharon.
• 1:55:14
  So, which thing would you like to drive if iRacing didn't exist?
• 1:55:18
  That's also a good question.
• 1:55:20
  Uh, yeah, it is a good question.
• 1:55:23
  Um, it probably depends on the type of driving again.
• 1:55:28
  So for drifting, I love Assetto Corsa.
• 1:55:32
  Um, I haven't tried too many of like all the different, um,
• 1:55:38
  stuff, at least not in detail.
• 1:55:40
  But for GT3 racing, I heard that ACC, so Assetto Corsa
• 1:55:46
  Competizione, uh, is quite good.
• 1:55:49
  I did play it for a couple of hours, but not to the extent that
• 1:55:52
  I really have an opinion on it.
• 1:55:55
  Uh, I think Rensport was still quite a top, but I don't know if
• 1:56:01
  you, if you can get in that easily.
• 1:56:04
  I don't know.
• 1:56:06
  Uh, what else is there?
• 1:56:08
  Uh, R Factor?
• 1:56:09
  I haven't really tried R Factor.
• 1:56:12
  So, um, I would definitely pick something that has, um, nice physics over graphics.
• 1:56:18
  Same as iRacing.
• 1:56:21
  iRacing arguably doesn't have the best graphics, but the physics
• 1:56:24
  are just really really good.
• 1:56:26
  And um, especially if you see like a huge field of cars going over a bumpy track.
• 1:56:33
  I always think on iRacing, the way that the cars go over bumps and like the whole
• 1:56:38
  way that the chassis moves and everything.
• 1:56:41
  It's just um, You Yeah, that's just it looks real and um, not all the other
• 1:56:48
  games but on some of the other games It still looks a bit like a like a game I
• 1:56:53
  get what you mean, especially with like iracing's new rain system Like the way
• 1:56:59
  that they put in the rain is just amazing.
• 1:57:01
  It's not just like a A slippery surface or something but it's actually like
• 1:57:05
  calculating where the puddles are and like all of that stuff and redistributing the
• 1:57:10
  water if it gets thrown out by the cars.
• 1:57:12
  It's like a whole weather system, not just rain, and that's also like
• 1:57:16
  a really really beautiful thing and I hope we're going to see more of that
• 1:57:20
  in the future also in other games.
• 1:57:22
  Yeah, I think they kind of nailed it making the rain release like yeah, it
• 1:57:27
  takes time for them to develop the rain I guess the rain system the weather
• 1:57:31
  forecast and everything, but I guess it turned out pretty well like from yeah
• 1:57:35
  Based from what I heard from people who drive in the rain like yeah, it's good.
• 1:57:40
  Like yeah, it's fun Like good fun or bad fun.
• 1:57:44
  Like I was like, okay fun Yeah, it depends.
• 1:57:48
  Yeah, but I believe You I, not like I believe, but I assume that they have
• 1:57:53
  like the best system for the rain so far among all the sim, probably.
• 1:57:58
  Yeah.
• 1:57:59
  Yeah.
• 1:58:00
  And this is the question from your boss.
• 1:58:03
  From the boss.
• 1:58:05
  So, which non German race do you want to see, and which one would
• 1:58:08
  you like to race in real life?
• 1:58:11
  Non German.
• 1:58:12
  Yes.
• 1:58:13
  Um, okay, so like, um, to see or like to watch in real life is definitely NASCAR.
• 1:58:20
  I want to see like, um, a race like, I don't know, something
• 1:58:23
  like Talladega, for example.
• 1:58:25
  Right.
• 1:58:26
  That must be insane to have like a super speedway with all these like NASCARs
• 1:58:31
  going there like as fast as possible.
• 1:58:33
  Mm hmm.
• 1:58:34
  It's just like, that must be insane.
• 1:58:37
  I really want to see that.
• 1:58:39
  And, um, yeah, uh, another one Which one do you wanna race in real life?
• 1:58:48
  Yeah, I guess it's also a non German race.
• 1:58:51
  Yeah.
• 1:58:51
  Um, yeah, that's also tricky.
• 1:58:55
  I feel like, like one track that I really love on iRacing is Road Atlanta.
• 1:59:03
  Racing, pretty much any Like if I can choose a car I would probably want
• 1:59:09
  to drive like a, like a prototype, like an LMP2 or LMP3 or something.
• 1:59:15
  Right.
• 1:59:17
  That sounds like so much fun.
• 1:59:19
  Yeah.
• 1:59:19
  Yeah, like, Yeah, I love the sound of the prototype, but I haven't driven
• 1:59:26
  it a lot in the sim, but the sound is so amazing, like really amazing.
• 1:59:31
  Yeah, especially in real life.
• 1:59:32
  I've seen them in real life at the Hockenheimring.
• 1:59:34
  Oh, wow.
• 1:59:36
  Oh, um, yeah, but they sound amazing.
• 1:59:39
  I would love to drive them.
• 1:59:41
  Like the LMP3s I saw.
• 1:59:43
  Yeah, you would love to drive it in real life one day.
• 1:59:46
  I hope you'll, you'll get a chance to drive it in real life.
• 1:59:49
  Like maybe I will see you in some American series.
• 1:59:52
  Like, I don't know.
• 1:59:54
  I mean, of course, if, if, if, if it would be an option, I'd love to.
• 1:59:59
  You will take it like, yeah.
• 2:00:03
  With pretty much, pretty much any series.
• 2:00:07
  Um.
• 2:00:08
  I just like, I just love racing and, um, it doesn't matter too much what
• 2:00:14
  types of cars it is, as long as it has four wheels and a roll cage.
• 2:00:18
  I love it.
• 2:00:19
  It's like, seem like me, like yeah, as long as it has four wheels engine
• 2:00:23
  actually, actually thinking about it, I'd also love to do rally.
• 2:00:27
  Like I feel like that could also be like plenty of fun.
• 2:00:31
  I don't know how well I would do.
• 2:00:34
  Right.
• 2:00:35
  I think I would be all right, but like, um.
• 2:00:38
  Yeah, like, I'm probably not gonna be fast.
• 2:00:42
  I think I'm faster on like a circuit than on rally.
• 2:00:45
  Mhm, right.
• 2:00:46
  But, um, yeah, it's, that must be crazy.
• 2:00:50
  Right, at some point.
• 2:00:51
  If you get a chance to do some rally, you will take it?
• 2:00:55
  Like, 10 out of 10?
• 2:00:56
  Yeah, probably, probably.
• 2:00:57
  Hm.
• 2:00:58
  Interesting.
• 2:00:59
  I would love to see you.
• 2:01:00
  Like, it will be a big surprise if I see you and, um, doing some
• 2:01:04
  really at some point, like, uh, posting a picture on Instagram.
• 2:01:07
  Yeah.
• 2:01:08
  I'll be doing really, I'll be like, okay, now what?
• 2:01:11
  Now she's gonna do it.
• 2:01:13
  Really?
• 2:01:13
  Yeah.
• 2:01:13
  Like what?
• 2:01:15
  It'll be like super, super.
• 2:01:16
  Yeah.
• 2:01:17
  As I, as I said earlier, like every, every single discipline
• 2:01:20
  has its own type of like art.
• 2:01:22
  Mm-Hmm.
• 2:01:22
  . And I just love racing.
• 2:01:25
  So anything has like, um.
• 2:01:28
  It's beauty to it.
• 2:01:29
  I would also love to try oval racing at some point.
• 2:01:32
  Mm-Hmm.
• 2:01:32
  . Even though that must be like quite scary, going that fast at
• 2:01:37
  like the edge of grip, uhhuh,
• 2:01:39
  Especially with the car around you.
• 2:01:41
  Like everybody, like very close.
• 2:01:43
  Yeah.
• 2:01:44
  I, I, yeah.
• 2:01:46
  It's gonna be fun.
• 2:01:47
  I, I just, yeah.
• 2:01:49
  I imagine that it must also be so much fun.
• 2:01:51
  Yeah.
• 2:01:52
  In general.
• 2:01:53
  That's how I feel like when I see, uh, when I went to my first, uh,
• 2:01:56
  NASCAR race in Las Vegas, uh, for the first screen to speed back then.
• 2:02:01
  I think that's the moment where I've, I'm in love with NASCAR
• 2:02:04
  because everybody goes so fast and they are very close to each other.
• 2:02:08
  And, you know, like you just hear the sound go and I
• 2:02:11
  think that's the reason why.
• 2:02:13
  And also like feeling the air that the cars like push around must be crazy.
• 2:02:17
  Yeah.
• 2:02:18
  Yeah.
• 2:02:19
  The TAVI race that Sharon just like said in chat.
• 2:02:23
  It's like a, the, um, like the East German car.
• 2:02:28
  Oh, from, for the unification.
• 2:02:30
  That was like the staple of that.
• 2:02:31
  Um, from race.
• 2:02:34
  Huh?
• 2:02:34
  I just heard about that.
• 2:02:35
  They're like cute little cars, but like, probably not the best cars, but like,
• 2:02:40
  it's like, yeah, you can race those.
• 2:02:43
  Um, sure.
• 2:02:44
  It's a cute car.
• 2:02:45
  It sounds like Plenty of fun.
• 2:02:47
  It's a cute car.
• 2:02:48
  It's like.
• 2:02:49
  No, it's not a mini Cooper.
• 2:02:50
  Did you just Google it?
• 2:02:52
  Yeah, I just Googled it now.
• 2:02:53
  It's a cute little car.
• 2:02:55
  And I bet it's gonna be like so much fun.
• 2:02:58
  Like, it can be fun driving this car.
• 2:03:00
  Disposable cars.
• 2:03:02
  Disposable cars.
• 2:03:03
  It's a disposable car.
• 2:03:06
  I just know about this, by the way, Sharon.
• 2:03:08
  Thank you for mentioning that now that I Googled it.
• 2:03:11
  And I am learning something new today.
• 2:03:14
  Oh, my God.
• 2:03:16
  Nina, by the way, I think we have to end the stream and the thoughts because
• 2:03:21
  it's already, um, two hours more.
• 2:03:25
  I mean, I would love to have more chat.
• 2:03:27
  Maybe we can have some, I don't know, some fun session together.
• 2:03:30
  So, you know, like maybe we can drive and have a chat and,
• 2:03:35
  you know, like we can share.
• 2:03:35
  Yeah, we can, we can definitely drive together at some point.
• 2:03:38
  Yep.
• 2:03:38
  That sounds fun.
• 2:03:39
  Let's do that.
• 2:03:39
  Please, please, please.
• 2:03:41
  Please.
• 2:03:42
  So the plan is once I get my sim setup ready, I'll be pretty much
• 2:03:46
  ready to hit the track, hit iRacing.
• 2:03:48
  So I send you, I've sent you a friend request on iRacing.
• 2:03:52
  So, you know, like, maybe like we can do some drive together
• 2:03:55
  and like, I can tell you like, oh yeah, we are making this lobby.
• 2:03:59
  So come join, come drive with us.
• 2:04:01
  And maybe we will have.
• 2:04:03
  Um, we will have, that's the point, super backup.
• 2:04:07
  Maybe we will have any thoughts, but this time it's not like having this kind of
• 2:04:12
  interview, but having this hose and the hose and the gas driving on the track.
• 2:04:17
  How about that?
• 2:04:21
  I mean, I think I'll struggle with like, um, speaking coherent sentences.
• 2:04:28
  Otherwise we can, I don't know, maybe we can do some drifting and stuff.
• 2:04:32
  Like, you know, once my SIM set up ready, I can do a lot
• 2:04:37
  of different types of racing.
• 2:04:38
  Like I made a promise to myself.
• 2:04:40
  So yeah, it's been like months for me waiting for my sim setup to be done.
• 2:04:45
  So I made a promise to myself like, you know what?
• 2:04:47
  Once I get my sim setup ready I will push myself to the limit as in like I'm
• 2:04:53
  chasing for the win because It feels sad not having a sim setup when this is
• 2:04:58
  what you like to do, you know Like this is I understand that I also didn't have
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  it for like a period in my life Yeah, like, yeah, don't take away something
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  that I like, you know, you know, that feeling like, I just want to drive at
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  this point, you know, yeah, I can episode with Nina when, yeah, I don't know.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe, maybe we will have more episode with Nina.
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  We can have a talk.
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  Because for example, today we are talking about Nina's journey in sim racing, real
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  racing, and also, um, her plan and stuff.
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  Maybe next time we can Start talking about something more
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  technical, speaking about car setup, everything, strategy in the race.
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  That will be great.
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  And yeah, I really hope that you guys will tune in on the next In
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  It Talks, probably for the second episode of Nina coming in soon.
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  Coming in soon.
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  Thanks for everyone who's watching.
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  It was a blast.
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  I had plenty of fun.
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  Thank you so much, by the way, Nina, for, um, for your time, um,
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  to be here in the INIT Talks and I finally got a chance to have a chat
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  with you, like, talking with you.
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  Because, yeah.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  Of course, it's my pleasure.
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  Our pleasure, actually, like me and the whole INIT team, not just me.
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  I'm super, super happy.
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  Guys, don't forget to follow, give a follow for Nina.
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  Nina, could you share your social media with the chat?
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  Uh, yeah, sure.
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  I'll, I'll, uh, put in my Insta, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Um, so Nina is on Instagram and you have Twitter or not?
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  Just the Instagram?
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  Uh, just Instagram.
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  Right.
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  So don't forget guys to give a follow to Nina Han.
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  Does it work like this if I put it down?
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  Yeah, right?
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  Yeah, it works.
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  It's okay.
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  So don't forget to follow Nina on Instagram and also follow us at Enid
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  Esports and Screen2Speed to stay updated with our upcoming event, upcoming
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  activities, competition and everything.
• 2:07:05
  And also don't forget to follow Nina on Instagram to see more updates.
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  Simracing and IRL content because yeah, he posts some content about
• 2:07:13
  rail racing and that is really cool.
• 2:07:15
  So if you want to see, don't forget to hang out in downforce
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  underscore girl, downforce girl.
• 2:07:22
  And yes, by the way, thank you so much everyone for watching, for
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  tuning in, for hanging in the stream.
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  It means a lot.
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  It's so nice to have you here today nina and yeah, I really hope to See you or
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  have you in the in the next unit talks and guys for next week We'll be back
• 2:07:41
  with the new guests for the third episode of init talks So we are on episode four
• 2:07:47
  next week and today we are on episode three super happy And yes, So next
• 2:07:53
  week we will have new guests joining.
• 2:07:55
  So yeah, don't forget to tune in next week, same time, um, 9 p.
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