BAC Mono overtaking on F1 track Zandvoort and trackday preperations

[@jackfreeserver1565]

Finally a longer video! It would be really nice to have a review on the public roads from an owner

[@RoyzGarage]

I have had some thoughts about this, I would like to make a review and comparison between my 4 coolest lightweights cars, Atom 2 and 3.5, KTM X-Bow and off course the Mono. But I wasnt sure if anyone is interested in my opinion with bad pronounced English. I might make a POV and try and say some good things on the way, as the microphone will probably hear me with the new foamy...lets wait and see, not sure on this

[@vika0194]

@@RoyzGarage Just make a reaction video. Mount 2-3 cameras on it while driving in town. Like DoctaM3 used to to.

[@Mak12368]

@@RoyzGarage thanks for sharing these video with us. Don’t over think it. Would love any content with this car. Many countries don’t have this car so when you upload a video about it. I get a lot of enjoyment from it. Would love a POV go pro view from your helmet on public roads. Maybe durning sunset of you just driving around m.

[@Leshic2]

@@RoyzGarage If it's not a lot of trouble, I'd LOVE to hear your perspective and opinion between all your lightweight cars. I love all the lightweights.

[@Leshic2]

Great photo at the end! Worthy for a big poster in the garage! After watching several of your Zandvoort videos now, personally, I think isn't one of the best tracks I've ever seen with the banking and blind elevation corners. Reminds me of Nordshliefe that way. Many in the USA love Laguna Seca but I think Zandvoort is a much more exciting track to drive. This is like the Netherlands version of Portimao, another bucket-list track for me to visit. My next Nordshliefe visit, I HAVE TO make a trip north to Zandvoort. Thank you for the extra at the start of the video. There's so many more comments in the video I want to comment and compliment on, but this will get very long.

[@RoyzGarage]

Thank you so much, these comments make me go on...as I was having a lot of second thoughts continuing these video’s at all. My English isnt native and I dislike hearing myself mumble. In my head all sounds a lot better🤣. As for Zandvoort as a track, I was afraid the altering for F1 would make it a less exciting track, but it is even better now, the banking is cool and the runout on the main straight made me really test my breaking performance (as there is no risk of hitting the sand anymore👌🏻 The picture at the end actually is printed really big in my garage👍

[@Leshic2]

@@RoyzGarage That is awesome to hear that you made it a poster!! I would do it too and I don't even have one... yet... Don't be concerned about the English. Even people who speak it for a first language, can't speak it well. I remember meeting somebody about 18 when I was about 25 (I'm 45 now), and I tried having a conversation with him, but he spoke with so much slang I couldn't understand anything... As an American, each visit to the UK, I'm reminded that I don't speak English too. I speak American. Hahaha.. True.. I was born in the USA, but my parents are from Eastern Europe, so I've grown up and have always been surrounded by people who struggle to speak English. You're the one who's doing very well speaking another language! *I* should be the one apologizing for not speaking Dutch or Flemish! Thank you for continuing to make the videos... I used to make videos to share with others and stopped because it became so much work when I tried to make it fancy.. Just raw video is fantastic too. No need to make it fancy like a GoPro production video.

[@Mak12368]

Wow loved watching this. Would love if you do a helmet POV on public roads. Haven’t seen any on KZbin.

[@RoyzGarage]

I’ll try and do this next👌🏻

[@Mak12368]

@@RoyzGarage woohoo looking forward to it. they have the mouth go pro but thats abit too much. attaching it to the helmet achieves the same result

[@DNG84]

What chassis number? #22 here in bay area

[@RoyzGarage]

This is car 70, you can see the number on the chassis in this video😁 22 is a very different car, thats a 2.3 narrow body

[@Leshic2]

Daniel, nice!! I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 15yrs. I see that you have some Mono videos too. New Subscriber now with bell alert!

[@utterlybonkersdaddy5299]

#5 is in Italy!

[@MiSTeRJoKe96]

@@utterlybonkersdaddy5299 veramente? wow, ma la tua per caso?

[@utterlybonkersdaddy5299]

@@MiSTeRJoKe96 si. Ho importato ed immatricolato la prima e per ora unica BAC Mono in Italia. Telaio #5. È la primissima serie, ma non importa. Puro godimento di guida.

[@vika0194]

The mirrors are very shaky. They should have designed them to be more solid.

[@RoyzGarage]

There is an update, but I’m fine like this, it looks worse than in reality in the video because the camera is solid mounted🤣

[@rudolfdaher]

Very fluid driving, but not quite aggressive. How could you let this small car overtake you again?! You’re passing other cars due to acceleration difference, not handling difference, which is even greater with the Mono. You’re way beyond its limits, but remains a question: does it feel tricky or predictable at the edge of grip? Thanks for sharing such moments, and please upload more!

[@RoyzGarage]

I let him pass because the Cayman was clearly not checking his mirrors and he was in more hurry than me. It is quite simple, I am on the way with a very expensive tool and have nothing to win and everything to loose! I have no interest in overtaking on the edge or in corners, I want to be sure they see me coming. A Mono can come by so much faster than other cars that it can just simply surprise people. I was just driving and learing the lines, as it was my first time on the new layout and last zandvoort visit must have been 10 years or so, also it was my first trackday with the car (only 2 hours, so not really a day) and I was getting used and confortable to the handling and limits of myself and the car and the combination of both😁. Let me be clear, I have no interest in being the fastest, I want to explore the car and most important keep it on the black stuff 😉(allthough according to fastestlaps.com I actually am fastest streetcar by 4 seconds)

[@rudolfdaher]

@@RoyzGarage Even with all those considerations, of which I’m perfectly aware, you can go safely faster! I’m just trying to push you to this “space of freedom” reached when flirting with the limits of a car, according to Sébastien Loeb, one of the greatest drivers of all time. It’s amazing how the Mono clearly reveals its natural, visceral, instinctive, precise, efficient disposition for direction shift and cornering...

[@Leshic2]

@@rudolfdaher I disagree. New car, you approach the limits very slowly. Everybody has different confidence in their abilities and comfort level. I saw what you saw too. I would have driven differently too, but I didn't want to say anything because I could also tell from the driving that the owner was very timid. It's also easier to say behind a keyboard, than in the moment.

[@Leshic2]

@@rudolfdaher Have you ever driven a car on the race track before? Have you later driven that same car with R rated tires or slicks, vs ZR? That step alone, when you take corners faster than you ever did, feels like you're breaking laws of physics.. It becomes scary because you no longer know where the limit is.. The tires "talk" differently too.. The limit feels different also.. The Bac Mono, is that step, with a 2nd leap with downforce. His first track day with that performance, with, likely, the most expensive car you've ever owned, is scary as f*ck. I've learned from teaching new people on the race track, you can't push them too much beyond their comfort. They'll quickly loose control and you're both off the track. They're blaming themselves, but it's really that you didn't explain everything that happens when the pace is faster. You just expect them to know, to feel it, like you naturally picked up on it, when they didn't, because it's all so new experience... People who drive their baby's NEVER want to go off track. As me how I know..

[@rudolfdaher]

@@Leshic2 Dear instructor, I’ve never had the privilege of driving a decent car on a track. I speak from a totally different perspective of speed and danger. I’ve done Tripoli-Beirut, an 80 kilometers of Lebanese irregular and non maintained open road tarmac, in 32 minutes, took curves at 180 and 190 kmh, with a BMW E46 330CI, which I can drift at 130kmh, or in very narrow one way roads and corners. And I’ve learned that the so called physical limit of a car is not a static edge that needs to be reached, but a dynamic, active, ever fluctuating dimension which can be enhanced, bent or reshaped through driving excellence. If one can’t surpass laws of physics, one can raise oneself and one’s car to where they dance... If I had a BAC mono, I would learn about it, and myself, very gradually, firstly on the road. Would soften the suspension to make it more progressive, discover its reactions and its modus operandi first with power slide, then handling slide, in dry than wet conditions. Way before hitting the track.