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00:30Yeah, Friday. So a week and six days.
00:33Did you shed a tear?
00:35Almost. You know, when they are, like, on the edge, but then it's, like, not falling out.
00:43But what about when you held her for the first time?
00:46I didn't cry. I was just really happy. I didn't cry.
00:51So it's a girl's house?
00:52Yeah, yeah. It's definitely surrounded by a lot of girls.
00:55But that's why the pets now, every time we get a new animal, it's male.
00:59It's just to compensate a little bit.
01:01To balance it.
01:02Yeah, to balance. So I'm not alone.
01:14How many cars are there on track? Do we know that?
01:17Oh, yeah, quite a lot.
01:19Excuse me?
01:21Really?
01:21I think so.
01:22But can we just take this van on track or not?
01:25No, of course not.
01:26Why'd you say, of course not?
01:27It's a race weekend. You cannot just rock up with a normal car.
01:30You need a roll cage, I think.
01:32Okay.
01:32Wait, you can literally rock up with any car?
01:35I think, in theory, I can go and get a Suzuki Swift and hack around with you.
01:40I think.
01:41Well, let's see.
01:55We're doing, like, a test day here at the Nordschleife.
01:58And they told me you can run under, like, a fake name.
02:01Oh, but I actually have to talk with a German accent, yeah, because my name is Franz Hermann
02:11because nobody knows, right?
02:12Yeah.
02:13Nobody knows you're here.
02:14Yeah, yeah, genau.
02:15So, Franz.
02:16So, from now, it's Franz.
02:17Franz Hermann.
02:20Well, let's make it as German as we can.
02:22That's why it was Franz Hermann.
02:29Sounds good German, Chris.
02:31It's good.
02:31It starts at zero.
02:35And the other one, please.
02:37Today, you don't need a license.
02:39You don't need a permit or something like this.
02:42You just need to have a driving license.
02:45Yeah.
02:45And that's what you have to expect out there.
02:47Think about that.
02:48The others are doing taxi rides.
02:50That's many cars.
02:50Yeah, many cars.
02:52It can be all kinds of cars or...
02:54Yeah.
02:54Yeah, it's mostly racing cars.
02:57We have just a small security package around the Nordschleife,
03:01so there's not on every marshal post there's a marshal.
03:03So, it might take a little time when something happens
03:06until we have the first intervention car with you.
03:10We have some people informed that,
03:12especially you are driving out there,
03:14as soon as your number comes through the radio,
03:17there will be a special intervention car coming out.
03:19Just to avoid that you are somewhere lost
03:22out there in the Eiffel forest.
03:25Yeah, well, it can also be inexperienced.
03:28Yeah, maybe.
03:31This track is something really special.
03:33This is a proper track.
03:36First of all, the length, but also the difficulty.
03:39You know, not knowing what you're going to get
03:41in terms of conditions.
03:43No, it's golf.
03:44Elevation changes, bumps that you need to understand
03:46how to go over certain curbs.
03:48A lot of people, I think, already, in the beginning,
03:50they struggle to just remember the layout,
03:52you know, when you just start driving here.
03:54It takes always a bit of time to be on top of everything.
03:58Just because it's that long, you know,
04:00there are so many mistakes that you can make on a lap.
04:03So, I mean, to hit the perfect lap around the Nords,
04:06it's almost impossible.
04:08Franz Helman is going to try today.
04:11With Franz Helman,
04:13tried to, of course, keep it a bit undercover
04:14on the entry list, you know, with participating in the day.
04:18But, of course, you know, once you go out there
04:19with the full-on livery as well, like, I mean,
04:21there's nothing that you can...
04:22You can do, but at least in the morning
04:24it was a bit more quiet.
04:33It's the most epic and grueling track you can drive.
04:38Everyone calls it the green hell.
04:41I can't even think of anything that compares
04:43to the type of balls you need to do that.
04:47Probably no one has done a perfect lap there,
04:50but, yeah, to string it all together,
04:52it, honestly, it takes just a massive amount of confidence.
05:01To drive that in a full race-spec GT3 car
05:05it really feels like driving a spaceship
05:08round a narrow rainbow road, almost.
05:16It's 25 kilometres through the forest.
05:19You have the most extreme, different types of corners.
05:22As you have carousels up on a banking,
05:24you have half of it is vertical up and down
05:26through the forest, you know.
05:47If you wanna learn the magic things,
05:47and you are sprawling your road to the forest.
05:48You're getting simplyvenue here.
05:48If you want to search on your troopers,
05:48you'll find your companion for a new life-specoyo.
05:53There's a bocież, which is a long line.
05:56There actually is going to be a huge pyramid
06:15so even though there's no grand prix this weekend and he's just had the birth of his first child
06:20he still found himself at the wheel of a race car do you know franz herman
06:24the legend of franz herman however it wasn't franz herman and instead it was max verstappen
06:33i mean for me it felt not so intimidating because i've done like a thousand laps
06:39more than a thousand laps on the simulator and of course a few things change here and
06:43there barriers some curbs some bumps but at the same time of course you're driving a gt3 car
06:48not a fun car like speeds come at you a lot easier um but yeah i enjoyed it it was
06:53just a lot of fun
06:58so the carousel you really have to hold the wheel so it's not you know it it wants to
07:04like basically it wants to constantly push you out so you have to put it holding like the wheel
07:09see it is flat but there's a lot more engagement than on the sim because a lot more bumping
07:14is lifting well it's a whole car it's like a bit more like like throughout that whole so just build
07:19up don't go flat straight away because it's like a confidence thing where you think you can't go flat
07:23because it's like really jumps a lot but actually like when you keep it flat because you go faster
07:29you have more grip but it's just a bit of a i'll open now then so just be prepared
07:33uh yeah then we'll do the toy fresh and then i think we're ready to go
08:02let's see how he feels after i told him to hold the wheel so far it's been a really good
08:18season for
08:28chris sometimes you almost forget a little bit that it's his first year right because i mean he's
08:32constantly in the top 10 fighting against all these pro guys
08:43and of course you like experience of course you know there are mistakes that you make
08:46that you learn from i mean we all make them but still to be that competitive in your in your
08:51first
08:52year it's just great to see
08:59chris lallum along with jerry vermoolen and harry king
09:21my first lap was the most tense i'd ever been in a race car and that was already after i'd
09:25driven
09:25six months with the gt3 you get loads of different things that you've never experienced in a normal
09:42racetrack and i guess that's what gives the knowledge life its its reputation
09:50it's fun but at the same time you're already preparing ahead
09:52because i'm not here to just do my laps you're preparing to come back here one day and race in
09:58gt3
10:16we had a few rounds where you have made some mistakes operationally and we felt a bit lost with the
10:21car and
10:21that was where you really started to be in a bit of a roller coaster like in emotions and again
10:27as well
10:28oh my god what are you doing max what is max doing now
10:43i go to the f1 weekends i do my thing as well as i can and then as soon as
10:49i go home you know it's family
10:50i'm busy time i'm busy with gt3 i mean i easily switch off my mind for formula one
10:58next week we have the 24 hours of spa so we did some testing we had the prologue but
11:05also when you were with with three drivers on the car you know it's quite tough sometimes to
11:10do a lot of testing so i felt like we basically ran out of time a little bit and yeah
11:16i wanted
11:18to make sure that we would go into the race weekend at least with a balance that we were happy
11:23with
11:23i knew that that was the most important race of the year and i wanted to make sure that we
11:27were
11:27competitive and that we could fight at least in the top ten so that's why i think this is kind
11:32of a bit
11:33like a emergency test and of course the the actual drivers are not allowed to drive the car that
11:40close to the event and at the track so then france has stepped into the car
12:02that's what more you had a blower's over there mate what's with this gala thing like
12:15which car thing oh the f1 movie
12:26hey everybody's got a seat that's way too big for them yeah the best one uh
12:32we are actually doing performance you know these are now they're all still sleeping there
12:37and we are here working on performance
12:40i'm not the type of guy that wants to be on that premiere
12:44on the red carpet it's just no i'm not like that i don't want to hang around with like famous
12:48people that get invited i don't need to be in front of the cameras all the time this is really
12:53not
12:53me and that's why i don't want to rock up there and and be in a suit and uh yeah
12:59act important while
13:23the plan is to go from 100 to 30. yeah so it's like one extreme to the other
13:30as i said in my notes we could go something in the middle maybe for session two but just so
13:35you've
13:35got it like how much it is you know
13:38come on the next one we have two new tires ready in session one that is just simply lovely
13:50we just came back from montreal and of course at the moment i'm a bit sleep deprived but
13:56I will not be happy with myself if I wouldn't have done this.
14:00Because then we go to the race weekend and I know that we will leave lap time on the table.
14:05We need to try and maximize everything.
14:13Max has been super invested right from the beginning since over a year ago...
14:17...getting the program together and putting all the pieces together in order to let us perform.
14:25He is involved in the engineering development of the car, in the set-up decisions that we make...
14:29...as well as testing the car himself with us and also by himself without us in Spa, just before the
14:36Spa 24 hours.
14:37These decisions become critical for our performance and not only me but the whole team.
14:43The endurance racing is with three drivers and he has to help bring everyone together and maximize the performance of
14:49the car.
14:50My role is to, of course, first of all, drive the car myself and understand what is needed to improve
14:58on.
14:58The actual pedal length is OK?
15:01It's a little bit longer than the body.
15:03For me, that's less of the issue to say the bike is a bit worse.
15:08I went out there and initially started a bit with the bays that we had and then I already had
15:12quite a lot of ideas of what I wanted to test.
15:14And, of course, speaking also to the drivers, they had still a few questions about what they wanted to try.
15:22Of course, look into the details of the car together with the engineers because even if it's, let's say, more
15:27standard than Formula One...
15:29...there's still a lot of areas where, you know, you can find performance.
15:32I did a few laps in a row just because I wanted to see how it would evolve, you know,
15:37when I had the time.
15:43I really liked it how it was before. That was very good.
15:46Yeah? Yeah, in the back.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Because the problem is all three drivers are just keep telling each other the same fucking thing, you know, so
15:53they are all pushing for the same problem, if you know what I mean.
15:57Oversteering an entry and then they look at the data and you're just matching each other's entry, which is already
16:02wrong.
16:03But the thing is, that's why I'm happy that actually, you know, we run an Aston and then they run
16:08also a Ferrari because for the drivers...
16:10...maybe for the performance it's not great, but it's good to adapt to different cars because otherwise you just drive
16:16off muscle memory and you're not learning anything.
16:28You have to take care of yourself, right?
16:29You have to take care of yourself.
16:34No one takes care of yourself.
16:37Always on the phone and if you need it, no one takes care of yourself.
16:40Every time they're all on the phone, they're all on the phone always.
16:44And then when you need them, never on the phone.
16:46I need to be in the car in five minutes.
16:52Yeah, there they are.
16:55How's it going, guys?
16:56We have the boy band complete.
16:58Very sexy.
17:01Yeah, all good.
17:02I started the morning with basically the setup like you guys ran.
17:06Now we are changing the diff, so soon in five minutes I have to go out to try the diff,
17:12so eight faces instead of twelve.
17:15It's also quite important to know the car because then they can't bullshit me on things.
17:19You know, about certain things.
17:20Ah, but the car is oversteering.
17:22So yeah, have you looked at your inputs?
17:23Stuff like that.
17:24Because I know how the car responds to certain things.
17:28But for me, like I said, it's very important to understand the basics, so I can also give the best
17:32feedback to the drivers and the team.
17:35It's good. We are going through all the test items.
17:37I mean, we'll discuss it more, you know, going through the data maybe a bit.
17:41Yeah.
17:41Thanks for what you're doing anyway.
17:43Yeah, no worries. We'll keep going.
17:44Good luck, thank you.
17:45Bye-bye.
17:46Bye, guys.
17:46Yeah, bye.
18:04Yeah, thank you, everyone. That was a thing or day that we needed and I'm very happy with it. Thank
18:08you.
18:11Have you got any preference?
18:13Whoever is fastest does the most.
18:16You have to make sure to hammer down actually. Do not damage the car.
18:20That's the only thing that we need to really make sure that he's not doing.
18:24Really hammer down. Like, do not get damaged.
18:27Okay, you can get hit, but don't drive into someone.
18:29But the same for Chris as well, though.
18:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:32I want you guys, you know, just to share your honest opinion about stuff, not baby them, you know?
18:37Yeah, okay.
18:37But now I think we have some good references that you can go off from.
18:41And especially now you've driven it and you've found it yourself.
18:44Yeah.
18:45Because they look to you, baby.
18:46Yeah.
18:47After the day, they went into the race weekend with, yeah, a bit more information on the car.
18:52And I probably asked for a lot, but at the end of the day, we're all there to win, right?
18:56That's why we are going to go racing.
19:14It was the first 24 hour race for Verstappen & Com racing.
19:1824 hours to go.
19:19Yeah.
19:20It's still a long way to go.
19:22Yeah, I know.
19:22We haven't done anything yet.
19:24Yeah.
19:24Very exciting to see Chris come from the sim, then into the Aston Martin.
19:30For Chris to be around Cherie, I think it's a very good thing.
19:34Because Cherie is really a guy that goes out there and really makes it work.
19:38Because of sim racing a lot, Chris haven't really been out in the real world.
19:42So, of course, when you suddenly get thrown into this world, it is, it's a shock.
19:47It is.
19:48I mean, it's, yeah, suddenly you're dealing with a lot more people.
19:50You have more responsibilities.
19:52Um, people are calling you, writing you.
19:55You need to answer.
19:56You're living off a schedule.
19:58You know, it's, uh, it's serious now.
20:00You know, you're a professional driver.
20:04Nothing really would have prepared me for an environment like that.
20:06I mean, there's 100 plus thousand people there.
20:12And then it's flat out the whole weekend, 24 hour race.
20:19Even the race start with 72 cars that's going up at the same time.
20:24It kind of, it goes from zero to 100 very quickly.
20:35The fireworks at night as you're driving Upper Rouge on the left and right.
20:43It just gives you a bit of chills when you're sitting there watching that.
20:46It just gives you a bit of chills when you're sitting there watching that.
21:14Not crazy.
21:31No, man.
21:32I got hit like crazy.
21:35Fucking idiots.
21:37And once that switches off, he was focused on what was going on for us.
21:43I follow all the races whenever I can.
21:47Like after my fundraiser, I immediately go back on the iPad or laptop to catch up on
21:51the race and I analyze it all myself and you get the information from the team.
22:10He just sends me a screenshot or two with then a paragraph showing, you know, these
22:14points where you can try something different in the stint and doing, I mean, as much as
22:19he could from the other side of Europe, I guess.
22:52It did go well.
22:53We ended up winning in the closing minutes in our class, but it was actually a super flawless
22:58race.
23:03That was our group's first time doing it.
23:05And to have a 24 hour race like that, I rarely even, I rarely even have sim races
23:1024 hours that are that clean.
23:11The winning team in this gold cap category, give an applause, Verstappen.com Racing.
23:21Harry King, Chris Lelem et Thierry Lormeulen, on a récupéré 2 des 3, et en l'honneur
23:26de la victoire de ceux-là , on écoute l'hymne national néerlandais.
23:39It's a big relief when everything comes together.
23:42I know how much effort everyone in the team has put.
23:45So you're just happy that you were able to do your part and deliver also for them.
24:05Happy marks?
24:06Yeah.
24:09For our first 20 final race, good strategy, we're on point with that.
24:18I think pretty strong pace and winning our class, the girl can be asked for more.
24:24Very good.
24:26After that, let's celebrate champagne!
24:44Fascinating guests today.
24:47A superstar is on the grid.
24:49A superstar is on the grid.
24:51Ah!
24:51It's a big deal.
24:54It's a big deal!
24:54Let's try and get to the lead as fast as possible.
24:57You have to overtake some people.
24:59I had a...
25:00I had a bit of a moment.
25:08It's not over.
25:11Man, look how slow I am on the straight.
25:15Fuck me, man. I'm so...
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