How to Master the French GP | Nico Rosberg

hey what's up everybody welcome back to f1 fridays this week we're going to the french grand prix in the castle where of course i've driven a lot as well i'm doing a different setup this week because i'm in berlin at the moment because i've got my green tech festival it's a tech event that i founded three years ago co-founded and it's on this week and actually tonight is the highlight of the festival it's the green awards gala the global event where we're going to be handing out awards to some of the greatest change makers of our time our lifetime achievement award is going to be won by robert redford jane goodall is going to hold the laudazio so it's going to be i think a very very special evening the link is below so click on that and you can tune in live for free to watch the awards from your home but anyways now let's go i did this i recorded this lap yesterday so i'm just gonna voice it over it now to tell you all the tricks and details so let's hit it let's jump into the hot lap and just before i get going as always here's your opportunity to win a giveaway gift from me which i'll send to you the question that i want you to answer this week is given that the podium last week in baku was such a fan favorite because it was so unexpected my question to you here now what was your favorite podium of all time and why so what was maybe the most surprising or the most impressive or were the most spectacular the most emotional um that's my question to you now so answer that and if you get the top trending comment on this video then as always i will be sending you a surprise gift so good luck with that and now let's hit it into the hot lap [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] this all right so let's start the lab here now um so the special the special thing here is especially if you're continuing to start so the wind usually comes from southeast here so it's coming from the back and especially if you consider the start that makes it really difficult to turn one because you just have ultra low grip in a way that you've never had it before into turn one plus here you have zero risk on the runoff areas so the combination of those two things means everybody just takes ultra high risk into turn one because if you break a little bit late what happens you just cut straight on and that's it and you still rejoin the track afterwards and that's why like in 2018 we saw so many crashes into turn one everybody just went nuts into that taking high risk with the wind from the behind so i think start again is going to be massively interesting this year so here you're coming down the street probably you're in eighth gear here in the simulated seventh gear but that's probably incorrect and you're breaking around 80 80 75 80 meters and then you got to stay wide for a long time because the corner kind of closes in which it's always the most difficult corners when they like close in late on because you're breaking deep while starting to turn and front inside locking is often a problem so you can see here stay stay out probably a little bit more than i just did there so stay out stay out and then cut in the very end there and get the late late apex and then stay a little bit left to be able to get a beautiful run into that second part and get a great acceleration down into the next straight um because the longer the straight the more important exits are for corners because you're gonna be able to make up a lot of time on the straights um because that speed advantage that you exit the corner with will carry on all the way down the straight so here you see got a really good run out onto the next straight um now just try and straight line the straight as much as possible then stay left and again at 80 meters break quite hard but then try and release the brake a little bit and try and carry speed through this but at the same time it's so important to stay tight because the next corner again is crucial because it's a really long one so you can lose a lot of time there so it's important to stay super tight so you can see here stay tight tight to the right like a little bit over half track and then go for a little bit of later entry again here and just here carry the speed through minimum input on the car and it's just about carrying the speed through because every little breaking input or acceleration input takes away grip from the lateral into longitudinal so because the capacity of the car is there's 100 and if you if you have everything if you have your longitudinal left and if you have your longitudinal forces completely constant so you're just rolling through you can put 100 into the lateral carry the most amount of speed then as soon as you take some of that grip away into a braking movement or acceleration you reduce the amount of lateral capacity that you have so if you do 10 braking then you only have 90 lateral so you have to go slower through the corner um so it's really important to be super super smooth into such a in such an area just carry the speed through accelerate really smoothly on the accident a little bit and then again brake a little bit harder here and then so important to get a really tight run through here because tight corner i need to hit the apex really tight see here just touch that curb a little bit and then on the exit try and straight line it for a short amount of time to get the maximum traction but then so important to get the turn in right for this next part which in qualifying is flat so again i missed the i missed the apex a little bit there and it seemed so important to hit that curb i must have been drunk or something there um i'm a heineken 0-0 ambassador i don't um drink alcohol so and then here it's easy flat if you hit that apex it's easy flat and really carry the speed out and make it as smooth as possible through this section to be able to slingshot back onto the straight there again down the straight get those up shifts right beautifully you know it's so important to it's so important to hit the exact perfect if you up shift half a second too early you lose a couple of hundredths down the straight if you upshift half a second too late you touch that limiter and straightaway you lose a couple of hundreds on the straight which can make the difference between first place and second place so that upshift point is so damn crucial to get it absolutely spot-on and drivers like lewis they have little sounds little beeps in their ear to help them with their app shifts um i didn't have that at all i was just going on lights so it really depends drive it to your driver what tools you use to make your up shift as perfect as possible around the lap and the and the engineers will tune it also statistically on a friday you'll look at your up shift points statistically and if you see that on fifth to sixth gear for some reason you're always up shifting slightly earlier and you're losing performance then they will tweak the sound the beeps in the air or the lighting system just for that gear and they'll delay it a little bit which will then you're still doing the same thing but naturally then since they delayed the lights just for that gear you're going to be shifting ever slightly later just in that gear and then statistically you're going to see how it's just going to be perfectly aligned with all the others and again just helps your performance through the lap now how awesome was that inside come on did you know that i didn't know that i didn't know that actually okay there we go let's continue um okay here we go so now 75 meters again hit the brakes and this is quite a difficult one because it's quite a fast entry but you need to stay tight on the exit and that's crucial so over braking here just will kill your lap time so yes you need to go deep but really don't over brake here and stay tight and stay left on the exit to be because the next one is the most important to get a really good open run into the corner to nail the exit because it's a super long straight afterwards so i went a bit too far to the right here probably best to say middle track here and then get a late entry and then just nail that exit floor it early try and straight line it use as much track as possible and then get a beautiful exit run out there and um then try and straight line this long long straight again your up shift point so they absolutely need to nail it this corner nowadays because there's so much downforce on the car this corner is easy flat so again here it's just about getting the radius beautifully perfect not turning into late not turning into early and just making as smooth as possible to not scrub any speed to carry the most possible speed through just hit that apex if it's there where the pilot is and now this corner so hard so what you have to do is brake a little bit earlier because again as i explained before you don't want to put too much you waste too much capacity on the longitudinal you want to have a little bit less stress for the car the longer tunnel and the braking to keep more lateral potential for the car so brake a bit early brake smooth and then just carry that speed in and and and give more capacity to lateral grip so you're carrying the speed through the corner and just go wide quite a tight entry actually hit the apex and then you can run it out really wide so this is not a good example what i did here i don't know why but you have to you have to be quite a lot further out here so really beyond middle of the track and then it's so difficult by this time your tires are raging hot because you had that flat out corner before you had this really high speed entry here so your outside towers are raging hot and this is where you destroy the tires in the race as well and so here to get the to get the steering input right to hit the next apex is so difficult because the tires are in much less grip than usual and so if you turn in where you normally turn and you'll never you'll never make it to the apex so you need to anticipate a little bit because you have less front grip on that tire so anticipate a little bit and it's all things you have to adapt to also more tire temperature here turn in a bit earlier and then and then you'll make the apex so here you can see hitting the apex beautifully here probably in the real life can't take as much curb as that probably you can just touch the curb rather than going so much on it but on this on the game here that's the perfect way to do it and then again on the exit use as much curve as you can really depends on i think this curve is very bumpy so you can't use as much again there in real life as on the game and you just touch it on the exit there and then this corner again so difficult like you got your tires raging hot here especially the inside tires now which is where you lock up the front tire so break balance to the rear to the rear a little bit here to relieve that front inside a little bit and then just super late entry so you try and straight line the braking as much as possible try and run it really deep and then very very late boom turn in alonzo style no no not quite that and um and then hit that apex and again straight line the exit because again the straight line afterwards is quite important you can lose a lot of time so straight line that exit use the curb just touch the curb there don't use too much of it because it's really bumpy on the exit there and then through here just smooth stay tight and the most important here is to stay all the way on the right before turning and again you can turn in very very late here because it's a super long corner and the apex is very late and you need to stay really tight on the apex because the next hairpin is a crucial one for that time so you turn in very very late here that was a little bit early but anyway fine and then really light apex it's only that last apex that matters so really light apex stay completely left straight line the braking that's important try and get it try and straight line the braking here and then just a normal normal hairpin really just touch the apex there try and get a straight line exit cover the hammer the power down finish the lap and hopefully it was an awesome lap time to get you onto pole position and now we're going to jump into the q a session so here we go question one it's from gary why is the poultry card track considered as one of the least popular circuits um because first of all there's no risk for the drivers because the runoffs are just super safe so you can just push over the limits and there's also no real special corners you know it's just all flat all the same so it's just not and also it's very hard to overtake so there's no overtaking on this track so that just makes it as one of the least popular ones question two sparta paul ricard is known as a very popular test circuit because of high speed straights low speed and mid speed corners it's difficult to handle so many different types of score as a driver and also the car engineer the public car is quite a difficult track to engineer because you need a little bit less downforce because you have long straights but at the same time so many long long long corners so it's a really difficult compromise also most long corners are like left hand side corners so you'll you need to adapt the track and make it the the car and make it different for left hand side corners right inside corners usually that means putting more camber on the left hand side tires so that they can cope with that higher higher speed than in the right hand side corners so it's just uh it's just some some adapting you have to do there it's not not easy to set up uh question three from mate are there moments in a race where you really wish for a safety car if yes how often does a racing driver think of this opportunity absolutely there's moments where you wish for a safety car you know when when you're running second the guy in the lead just in front of you has pitted then you are praying for a safety card because if the safety car comes out you will lose less time when you pit and so you're guaranteed to come out in front of the guy and win the race so those are the kind of moments where you're praying for safety guards but those things also play into the strategy because if there's a high risk safety card track then if you're in the lead you will try and consider that when when boxing first you know so but that's one of those moments so question four jamie what exactly is meant by balancing formula one and how exactly do you set it so balance in formula one is is very easy you come into the corner you steer under steer is when you steer but the car doesn't steer the car just keeps on going straight oversteer is when you come into the corner you steer and the car steers so much that the rear like breaks out and you're like steering way too much so that's under the oversteer and that's what we talk about balance and it can be it can be affected so strongly with first of all setup aerodynamics but even in in your car settings um if you use the differential differential is the difference between the rear wheel speeds if you completely open it up then the rear is just completely free and it will just oversteer so much if you completely lock it up the rears that are not allowed to rotate at different speeds they have to rotate at the same speed which means that the rear is always trying to just go straight and you won't be able to turn so even just with a diff you can impact the car setup massively from your steering wheel question five norman with such a mixed combination of slow medium and high speed corners should cars run an open or closed differential that's funny that you're asking just this now what about camera angles the differential how do you use it it's very very difficult to answer what i would say is for example let's take corner entry you want the diff to be fully locked on breaking um because it's quite bumpy and everything and if it starts to do random things in the rear you'll just you lose so much grip so you need to be have it locked and then when you turn in though of course you want the diff to open in the right moment and so just as you're turning in and you can infinitely set that to the finite detail that how much steer how much lateral load the car needs to see before it starts opening the diff and it's very important to get that right because if the diff stays locked too long lock diff means that the rear tires cannot rotate in different speeds they always have to rotate in the same speed and that means the car just always wants to go straight um so you need to open it up right in the moment when you're turning in and it's so hard to get right that's one example and then on traction you always want to lock diff also so on the exit as you're going in power it should lock pretty quickly so then you can transfer the most most power to the road in the most efficient way um so those are some examples bonus question from thomas uh thomas anderson how will the tire events backward impact driver confidence on track especially at high speeds i my tires blew two times at over 300 kilometers per hour it is so scary once it's spa at spa just before bloshimo this is the scariest thing ever because you just have no warning and just suddenly goes and you suddenly go spinning whilst you're still at full throttle it's scary as hell and that's what happened to verstappen as well and back we're in a very very dangerous place probably one of the most dangerous places in in the whole calendar because you're doing like 330 340 kilometers an hour and you have this pit entry wall which is just like kind of frontal to you so if for stopping would have spun there rather than to the right it would be highly dangerous um and so yeah but that's what we have to do as racing drivers we have to forget jump back in and and just get on with it again and we do that pretty well it just comes naturally with you you don't have to think about it too much so luckily also the cars nowadays are quite safe so that's really an important factor that's it okay thanks a lot for watching again my green awards gala is happening tonight click on the link below you can follow the live stream it's at eight o'clock we have robert redford winning the lifetime achievement award jane goodall is going to be doing the laudatio for him so it's going to be a very special night so watch that subscribe to my channel thanks for watching and see you next time you

Channel: Nico Rosberg

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Length: 17min 34sec (1054 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 18 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/DZT99]

Amazing that with the technology today Nico can almost take the viewer for a ride. Very important to explain how hard of a job it is to drive those cars.

Also very inspiring the way he left the sport and continues to be involved in amazing projects. Very smart move and i'm sure he's personal life gained a lot from that.

[u/irish786]

I’m always amazed by his commitment to us viewers. He must be so busy with his event but still he took time out for us to make a video and explain the track to us

[u/cars_a_wreck_now]

That Nico Rosberg has amazing hair.