European Le Mans Series: Decision at the Estoril Autodrome this holiday weekend. Filipe Albuquerque leads.
The decision of the European Le Mans Series is set in the Estoril Circuit this coming weekend. The Portuguese Filipe Albuquerque hopes to take advantage of the advantage of playing at home in the last round.
O piloto do JOTA Sport Gibson-Nissan nº 38 Shares with team-mates, British Simon Dolan and Harry Tincknell, You are leading the championship, but just one point in front of the main opponents. Albuquerque has the support of thousands of Portuguese fans on Sunday, 18 October, to help lead the LMP2 the Jota to win the race and the championship.
Filipe Albuquerque knows the Estoril track like the back of hands. Who better to make us discover the secrets of 4138 tracing meters opened in 1972.
“No JOTA Sport Gibson-Nissan, we got to the curve 1 about what 280 km/h. Caught in the panel 100 meters. A complicated slowdown, because the track is very undulating. Reduced from 6th to 2nd gear and passed over the inner corrector. Then accelerated, leaving the car slide to the outside corrector ".
"We went up the box to 4th, change we got the fast corner 2, Again a straight. We raised a little foot, without locking, playing inside corrector and leaving after the Gibson slip again to the outside corrector ".
"Before giving Curve 3, reduced from 4th to 2nd, with strong braking. It is very important to make the correct racing line, because the curve closes quite right and it is not easy to put the horses on the ground outside. For more, this being a zone of an inverted camber, with the result that there is a natural tendency for the car to escape from the rear ".
"We climbed the path of the curve 4 where there are two possible paths. Normally, I like to do immediately inland, opening a bit line in the middle of the curve, thus better output. Do well is very important, because it follows the second longest straight of the Estoril track ".
"We hasten to Satellite Interior, a curva 5. strong braking again, reducing from 6th to 3rd gear. It is very important not to overdo it. Let the car roll, as this is a long curve to the left. We do not want to go too wide, because in this area there are many "marbles" of tire rubber, that hinder adherence to play them. Also here, It is very important to have a well-tuned car, stable on the rear axle, by shape
accelerating the earliest possible, increasing the speed out of this long parabolic ".
"We hasten to 5th gear on the way the curve 6, where we again reduced to 2 or 3, depending on the gear ratio we use. At the entrance of this right is always to rely on the run from the front of the car. This is not a
problem, since there is a compression zone at the outlet, leading to return to grip up front before we play abroad corrector. We must stay outside, to best attack the very rapid right following. Already at this, one can not make such a helpline, for there to prepare the slow chicane ".
"Na baffle, reduced from 3rd to 2nd, played the broker inside the left side, and then we turn the wheel to the right - here without touching the inside too corrector. And leave the car roll to the outside of the curve, making the ideal line, that ends up being a simple mais, because we are in a low gear and the engine is full of strength. Once again, the problem is to put the horses on the ground. Let it roll on the long curve that follows is the solution ".
"Time to attack penultimate corner Estoril. It seems faster than it is in reality. It is in 3rd, always picking up speed. The trend line leads us to touch the inside corrector and also can, then, go to abroad, but we have to think of the last of the Estoril curve, really fast ".
"That last corner, known as Satellite Ayrton Senna, It is too long, very demanding for the tires Dunlop, and further to the arms and the pilot's neck. Here, we want to keep everything well controlled, Gibson preventing the head to the outside of the curve, for if we take the "marbles" of rubber and losing grip, compromising speed output. The curve is done in at 4th, 5th passing to the end. We left almost 220 km / h and the higher speed at the end of the curve, best, since then we have the long home straight. It's the start of another round ".
As 4 Estoril hours are the last five races of the European Le Mans Series 2015, a calendar that also included Silverstone (Great Britain), Imola (Italy), Red Bull Ring (Austria) e o Circuit Paul Ricard (France).
Six of the eight titles on the line will be awarded this final day in Portugal, scheduled for day 17 and 18 October.
As entradas para as Bancadas A, B and E will be free and the ticket price to the paddock’ will have the symbolic cost 10 Euros. The RTP2 transmit the test in direct from 13h Sunday, day 18.
