Part 93

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We have talked through everything and after we were done he leaves and I start watching my show.
A nurse brings me some food and I spend my day watching a lot of videos and looking through the photo album again.

After some time I try to sleep but it is hardly possible because I keep on thinking about how tomorrow could go and what I am even supposed to do because I still can not remember even having something to do with F1 and even less, that I helped them with strategies even.
I try to think trough possibilities how I could help them and because I couldn't sleep anyway, I decided to just watch videos about F1 being explained and I found lots and lots of videos about Ferrari fuck ups. Not gonna lie, they were funny but while watching them the feeling of me fucking it up vanished minute after minute, because they seem so have adapted to their fuck ups, that's also why they want it so desperately that I help them, even tho I am suffering from amnesia.

Around 11:15, so after watching videos for about two hours I make up some strategies in certain situations and start writing possible strategies to certain situations down.

I don't know when I slept in but I was awakened by knocking on my door. A slight "mhm" and I spot a person in a red shirt in the door through my blurred vision.
"Good morning, I am here from Ferrari and to set up the call and everything with you so that you could help us, is that all right?"
"Good morning, yes of course it is thank you."
"I am so sorry if this is indiscreet but I am kind of a fan of you but I never got the chance to meet you in the paddock."
"Oh, well thank you. I think from now on we are going to see us more often."
I smile at the woman, who was still standing in the door frame.

We get all set up and she explains it all to me. How I activate the microphone, how I turn the volume up and down and, what I understood least, how to switch between the different screens. I only have one monitor and can't just look to my left and see another one with another camera perspective or even more data, so I have to switch between around 17 screens if I want to gather as much information as possible.

After setting me all up she already puts the data from last year on, based on which we will structure FP1.
She leaves and I look through the data to find out what was good and what was bad.
I get a call from a strategist and answer it on my brand new headset.
I ask him loads and loads of questions based on which I get a better overview of what I need to consider.
I receive video material from last year and analyze it based on different factors and also receive information about what has been changed about the car and what stayed the same so I have to consider the new elements as well.

At around 11 I get invited to a video call and present my results to the other, so what I found out were the problems last year and which problems could be present this time.

We considered a lot of information and send Charles and Carlos out to test out some things.
Very present was the problem of the wind in certain parts of the track. They come out of a wind secured part and then a struck by wind form the side which causes them to spin out, but thankfully no one has hit a wall yet.
"They have to know in which parts the wind strikes the most and also have to be able to see where the wind comes from. We have to tell them how they see that because we obviously can't just always tell them 'oh, there is wind coming from north'".

The practice ends with good results which we can definitely work with.

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