🗣️ 'It did feel a bit like a gymkhana in heavy traffic which is a little scary' Sebastien Bourdais says negotiating traffic at Daytona24 is daunting, especially due to how short the new GTP cars are on spares ⬇️
Speaking after the first of two sessions today, Ganassi director of operations Mike O’Gara explained: “Both cars are virtually new so it’s a lot of in and out laps and checking sensors, checking calibrations. This car depends a lot more on the data that it is generating itself to run itself. So, things like tire pressures, brake sensors, brake pressures – things that were important before – are critical now.
“They are mission-critical, so we have to make sure all those basic things work before all the other systems like the hybrid system, the electronic brake bias, before those other things work properly. “So, this morning, with two new cars, we were just making sure all of that worked right. This afternoon, and the rest of the weekend, we can just start pushing. There is a mountain of work and a mountain of data for all of our folks to look at just to make sure all of that is functioning properly before we can start pushing on the rest of the systems in the car.
Bourdais played down the effects of double-stinting, while also admitting that the cars do make different demands of their Michelin rubber. “We tried to see what the tyre evolution was like at the test in December,” said Bourdais. “I don’t think it’s very different from what we had to do in DPi to be honest. We had to double-stint tyres in DPi as well. We’re in a very similar scenario because the stints are a bit longer with the fuel that we have on board.
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