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00:16You
00:17Why do I
00:21Mean we had some time to I love it like a baby. Yeah, but how old is she now?
00:26Two weeks almost two weeks
00:30Yeah, it's Friday. So we can six days. Did you shed a tear?
00:35Almost you know when they are like like
00:38On the edge on the edge, but then it's but then it's like not falling out
00:43But what about when you held up 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. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely
00:53Surrounded by a lot of girls, but that's why the pets now every time we get a new animal is
00:58male just to
01:00Compensate a little bit
01:02Yeah, to balance so I'm not alone
01:14How many cars are there on track do we know that? Oh, yeah
01:19Excuse me
01:20Really, but thanks, but can we just take this man on track or not? No, of course not
01:25Why'd you say of course not? It's a race weekend. You cannot just walk up with a normal car
01:30You need a roll cage, I think okay
01:32Wait, you can literally rock up. I think with any car thinking theory I can go and get Suzuki Swift
01:38and hack around with me. I
01:40Think let's see
01:55We're doing like a test day here at the the Nordschleife and they told me you can run under like
01:59a fake name
02:01Oh, but I actually have to talk with a German accent job because my name is Franz Hermann for the
02:05back
02:07Yeah
02:08Hermann racing
02:11Because nobody knows right yeah, nobody knows you're yeah, yeah, you know, so fun so from now it's fun. It's
02:17fun fun fun. I'll tell them
02:20Let's make it as German as we can that's why it was France Hermann
02:28So good German Chris, it's good stop to zero
02:34And the other one please
02:38Today you don't need a license. You don't need a permit or something like this
02:42You just need to have a driving license. Yeah, and that's that's what you have to expect out there think
02:47about that
02:48The others are doing taxi rides and I said many many cars. It can be all kinds of cars or
02:54yeah
02:55Mostly racing cars. We have just a small security package around the Nordschleife
03:00So there's not on every marshal post
03:02There's a marshal so it might take a little time when something happens until we have the first intervention car
03:09with you
03:09We have some people informed that especially you are driving out there as soon as your number
03:15Comes through the radio. There will be a special intervention car coming out
03:19Just to avoid this you are somewhere lost out there in the Eiffel forest
03:24Yeah
03:26It can also be an experience
03:28Yeah, maybe
03:30This track is something really special
03:33This is a proper track
03:34Thank you
03:36First of all the length but also the difficulty
03:38You know not knowing what you're gonna get in terms of conditions
03:44Elevation changes bumps that you need to understand how to go over certain curves
03:48A lot of people I think already in the beginning they 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 just because it's that long
03:59So you know there's so many mistakes that you can make on a
04:02On the lap
04:03So I mean to hit the perfect lap around the Nordsch system was impossible
04:08Franz Hermann is gonna try today
04:11With Franz Hermann tried to of course keep it a bit undercover on the entry list
04:15You know with participating in the day
04:17But of course you know once you got there with the full-on livery as well
04:20Like I mean there's nothing that you can
04:22You can do but at least in the morning it 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 to the type of balls you need to do that
04:47Probably no one has done a perfect lap there but
04:50Yeah to string it all together
04:52It honestly it takes just a massive amount of confidence
05:01To drive that in a full race back GT3 cars
05:05It really feels like driving a spaceship round a narrow rainbow road almost
05:16It's 25 kilometers 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 through the forest you know
05:32Y intrigue the kitchen
05:33So usually we are all ready to do it
05:36So let's get your two blocks off and take the deck
05:36Then there's a couple of guards to pull it in there
05:48Let's get your block and keep the little extras
05:52Hello everybody
05:58Like you are looking out
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
06:26the 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 a barrier 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 really wants to like
07:04basically 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
07:14well it's a whole car it's like a bit more like like throughout that whole so just build up
07:19don't go flat straight away because it's like a confidence thing where you think you can't
07:23go flat because it's like really jumps a lot but actually like when you keep it flat because
07:28you go faster you have more grip but it's just a bit of a open now then so just be
07:33prepared
07:35and then i think you're ready to go
08:02let's see how he feels after it because i told him to hold the wheel
08:17so far it's been a really good season for chris
08:28sometimes 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
08:43then 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 vermuland and harry king
09:21my first lap is the most tense i'd ever been in a race car and that was already after i'd
09:25driven six
09:26six months with the gt3
09:32how was it a bit of traffic huh that is it's going to do it right now
09:39you get loads of different things that you've never experienced in a normal racetrack and
09:43i guess that's what gives the norse life its reputation
09:50it's fun but at the same time you're already preparing ahead because i'm not here to just
09:54do my laps you're preparing to come back here one day and race in gt3
10:16you had a few rounds where you have made some mistakes operationally and we felt a bit lost with
10:21the car and that was where you really started to be in a bit of a roller coaster like in
10:25emotions
10:26and again as well oh 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
10:50it's family time i'm busy with gt3 i mean i easily switch off my mind from 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 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 we could at least with a balance that we were
11:23happy
11:23with i knew that that was the most important race of the year and i wanted to make sure that
11:27we were
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 close
11:40to
11:41the event at the track so then francis step into the car
11:46like
12:01it's what m На
12:01it's what more your head had blows on
12:13What's with this gala thing like?
12:15Which gala thing?
12:17Oh, the F1 movie.
12:26Hey, everybody's got a suit that's way too big for them.
12:28Yeah.
12:29The best one.
12:31Why not dare, mate?
12:32We are actually doing performance.
12:34You know, these are now, they're all still sleeping there.
12:37And we are here working on performance.
12:41I'm not the type of guy that wants to be on that premiere on the red carpet.
12:45It's just not, I'm not like that.
12:47I don't want to hang around with, like, famous people that get invited.
12:50I don't need to be in front of the cameras all the time.
12:52It's just really not me.
12:54And that's why I don't want to rock up there and be in a suit
12:58and, yeah, act important while we all shit on the same toilet.
13:25The 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.
13:34But just so you've got it, like, how much it is, you know?
13:42Bosh, we have two new tyres already in session one.
13:45That is just simply lovely.
13:50We just came back from Montreal.
13:52And, of course, at the moment I'm a bit sleep-deprived,
13:55but I 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
14:05and we need to try and maximize everything.
14:12Yeah, Max has been super invested right from the beginning,
14:15since over a year ago getting the programme together
14:19and putting all the pieces together in order to let us perform.
14:25He is involved in the engineering development of the car,
14:27in the set-up decisions that we make,
14:29as well as testing the car himself with us
14:32and also by himself without us in Spa, just before the Spa 24 hours.
14:37These decisions become critical for our performance.
14:40And not only me, but the whole team.
14:43The endurance racing is with three drivers
14:44and he has to help bring everyone together
14:47and maximize the performance of the car.
14:50My role is to, of course, first of all, drive the car myself
14:54and understand what is needed to improve on.
14:58The actual pedal length is OK.
15:01It's a little bit longer than the body.
15:04For 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 base that we had
15:11and then I already had quite a lot of ideas of what I wanted to test.
15:15And, of course, speaking also to the drivers,
15:16they 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
15:25because even if it's, let's say, more standard than Formula One,
15:29there'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.
15:37We didn't really have the time.
15:43I really liked it how it was before. That was very good.
15:47Yeah, you're in the back.
15:48Yeah.
15:48Because the problem is all three drivers are just
15:51telling each other the same fucking thing, you know,
15:53so they are all pushing for the same problem, if you know what I mean.
15:57Oversteering an entry and then they look at the data
15:59and you're just matching each other's entry, which is already wrong.
16:03But the thing is, that's why I'm happy that actually, you know,
16:06we run an Aston and then they run also a Ferrari because for the drivers,
16:10maybe for the performance it's not great, but it's good to adapt to different cars
16:14because otherwise you just drive off muscle memory
16:17and you're not learning anything.
16:27Do you want to take off, man?
16:34No one takes off.
16:37No one takes off.
16:37Always on the phone and I said no, I don't have anyone on the phone.
16:40Every time they're all on the phone,
16:42they're all on the phone always.
16:44And then when you need them...
16:45Never on the phone.
16:47I 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.
16:59How's it going, yeah?
17:01Yeah, all good.
17:02I started the morning with basically the setup like you guys ran.
17:06Now we are changing the diffs, so soon in five minutes I have to go out
17:10to try the diffs, so eight faces instead of twelve.
17:15It's also quite important to know the car
17:16because 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
17:31so I can also give the best feedback to the drivers and the team.
17:35It's good.
17:36We are going through all the test items.
17:37I mean, we'll discuss it more, you know,
17:39going through the data maybe a bit.
17:41All right.
17:41Thanks for what you're doing anyway.
17:43Yeah, no worries.
17:43We'll keep going.
17:44Good luck, thank you.
17:45Bye-bye.
17:46Bye, guys.
17:46Yeah, bye.
17:49Love the car now.
18:04Yeah.
18:04Thank you everyone.
18:05That was a thing that we needed, and I'm very happy with it.
18:11Have you got any preference?
18:13Yeah.
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.
18:25Really hammer down, like, do not get damaged.
18:27Like, okay, you can get hit, but don't try it 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,
18:35not 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, maybe.
18:46Yeah.
18:47After the day, they went into the race weekend with, yeah,
18:50a bit more information on the car, and I probably asked for a lot,
18:54but 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.
19:20Yeah.
19:20It's still a long way to go.
19:22Yeah, I know.
19:22We haven't done anything yet.
19:24Very exciting to see Chris come from the sim, then into the Aston Martin.
19:30For Chris to be around Cherie, I think, is a very good thing,
19:33because Cherie is really a guy that goes out there,
19:36and it 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,
19:45it is...
19:46It'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.
19:53People are calling you, riding you.
19:55You need to answer.
19:56You're living off a schedule.
19:58You know, it's serious now.
20:00You know, you're a professional driver.
20:03Nothing 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 starts with 72 cars 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.
20:43This gives you a bit of chills when you're sitting there watching that.
21:02During this spa, 24 hours.
21:04Max was there in Austria.
21:06Yeah, I mean, he has his, uh...
21:09His own thing going on in the business hours, let's say.
21:12Buying going수 in marche.
21:21..GASPS
21:22S stars
21:25terminal
21:32I got hit, like, really.
21:35Fucking idiots.
21:37Once that switches off, he was, uh...
21:40Focused on what was going on for us
21:44Now I follow all the races whenever I can like after my phone race
21:47I immediately go back on the on the iPad or laptop to catch up on the race and I analyze
21:52it on 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 points where you can
22:15try something different in the stint and
22:17Doing I mean as much as he could from the other side of Europe, I guess
22:49I
22:52Did go well we ended up winning in the closing minutes in our class that it was a very is
22:57actually a super flawless race
23:03That was our group's first time doing it and to have a 25-hour race like that
23:07I barely even I rarely even have sim races 24 hours that are that clean
23:11The winning team in this gold cap category give an applause
23:16racing
23:21Harry King, Chris Lelem et Thierry Vermeulen. On a récupéré deux des trois. Et en l'honneur de la victoire
23:27de ceux-là on écoute l'hymne national
23:29neerlandais
23:39It's a big relief when when everything comes together. I know how much effort everyone in the team has put
23:45so you're just so happy that you were able to
23:48Do your part and and deliver also for them
24:05Happy marks? Yeah
24:09For our first 20-f hour race
24:13Good strategy, we're on point with that
24:18I think pretty strong base and winning our class. Yeah, go can you ask for more?
24:24Very good
24:26Let's celebrate champagne
24:29Yeah
24:44Fascinating guests today a superstar is on the grid
24:51This you Chris
24:54Let's try and get to the lead as fast as possible
24:57You have to overtake some people
24:59I had a bit of a moment
25:08It's not over
25:11Look how slow I am on the straight
25:15Fuck me, man. I'm soaked
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