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Can you describe a GP weekend from a driver's point of vision?
Be creative =), Imagine youre the driver.at what time you get up, what do you do at what time, whats your programme, friday saturday and sunday.
The more detail the better. Start your engines ^ ^
Answers: Well, im not an F1 driver, but i am a Race Driver, and I'm a good friend of Jonny Reid's.
A virtuous race weekend starts a week or two in the past the actually weekend comes around. You study your diet, make sure you are drinking the right foods. You keep fit but bring in sure you dont pull a muscle or anything approaching that, and you make sure you procure to bed early and procure lots of sleep.
As for the actual weekend, i find the hardest thing to hold up, is eating at regular intervals. There is so much going on that its frozen to remember to eat and hang on to you fluids up!
Thursday is normally the afternoon for travelling and press meetings and interviews. Friday would be practice and Saturday and Sunday would be Qualifying and Racing.
Upon getting to the track on Friday, maintain mental calm and focus is essential. I arrive in attendance, have a chat to my troop boss and my mechanics, then unpack my gear. I droop my suit up, make sure I hold the right Visor on my helmet (tinted for sunny weather, clear if it's over-cast of raining), I make sure it's verbs and has ample tear-offs on it (for when it gets dirty).
Then i'll progress and sit in my coup¨¦ and make sure that the pedals be aware of right, the brake pedal's not too spongy or too hard, the clutch feel positive and the accelerator is getting full throttle.
I make sure i can bring all the gears and reverse.
Then my chief mechanic and I will discuss what set-up option we want to start on to get us within a general direction. Then be in motion to the toilet, and drink lots before suiting up and getting into the motor.
Practice: Head out onto the track for the first practice session, first few laps are conducting tests the conditions and grip levels of the track. Then you can push on when the tyres are hot and the track's get fresh rubber on it. The first test session any confirms or denys (if thats the right word) if you set-up guess was right or wrong, more or less 8 out of 10 times its right. Then following sessions is all going on for fine tuning, and setting consistent times.
Qualifying: Firstly, getting to the dummy grid is crucial. It determines where you nurture out into the mix. Next, is important to find yourself to a spot, and to know if the guy within front of you is on a hot-lap, just almost to start one, or has a moment ago finished one. If he's on a hot lap and you're in recent times about to start one, you want to stay away from him and time your knees so you catch him somewhere wherw he wont slow you up. You with the sole purpose get a couple verbs laps, so it is crucial to obtain the timing and placing right!
Race(s): Basically all the race are the same, next to just the positions varying. The start is the first thing to win right, too much wheel spin and when you snatch another gear, you get more wheelspin and everybody go past you! Not adequate wheelspin and the engine bogs and theres nothing you can do except keep under surveillance everybody zip chronological you! Whether you get a apposite start or a bad one, it's esteemed not to let it gain to you. Errors are the worst thing, they fluster you and you engineer more mistakes. The slightest thing that cause anger, pressure, stress or any other emotional sensation has to own the most minimal effect on your concentration, if not you cause mistakes. One lock-up can flat-spot a tyre, and you run a little cavernous, into the marbles and you lose speed and more importantly concentration.
Driving in the dry is relatively smooth, but rely's on your physical fitness rather than mental dimensions. The g-forces are much higher within the dry and the loads on your body are huge.
However, in the damp, the mental concentration is immense!! The car is incredibly twitchy and any oversteer have to be dealt near quickly. Getting the front downfall in is incredibly tricky and picking up the throttle too soon can be determined running 1-2 metres wider than the previous time around! There are virtually no loads on your body as your are not going particularly express.
The end of a see can not come too soon sometimes, where as contained by other times it comes too soon!
That is just some insight of my experiences and of other drivers, through a see weekend!
Friday
get up at 7am and own a (fruit??!) breakfast prepared for me by my personal trainer. Do a light workout I don`t know going around the the track on a bike or running on the treadmill in my motorhome.
At 9am i get together with engineers, mechanics and my see engineer, i look at background and sit in my coup¨¦ looking very self vital
I mainly spend friday conducting tests reading my team mate telemetry and consider ways to plot his downfall as he is two-tenths quicker than me over the lap.
Have a debrief next to the team, rebuff my team mate, speak to the select press my PR has handpicked for me and travel back to my motorhome and play my playstation whilst self blown by my supermodel girlfriend
Saturday is pretty much the same but in that are more corporate people roughly speaking so you have to be personable to their idiot wives and brattish children. I sit within my car so i can avoid the repetative question from journalists. . but speak to the Japanese and Venzuelan womanly reporters who are wearing little and bending beside my car.
Sunday. .i qualified 3rd, my lowest of the season so far, i thank god the crooked tyres we used got me this far! ha, stupid FiA. Anyway, the lights shift off and i cut inside as like lightning as i can between the first two cars, im wheel to rudder going into the first corner with the second places motor.. .the bastard punts me into a spin and i'm looking at 17 cars racing towards me. I put the sports car into neutral and attempt to find gear and acquire going but i stall. the safety coup¨¦ rolls by me in boneless sympathy
i get out, hike back to my motorhome and changeover
Get on my jet
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