Bertin Adrien/JP Racing

Comments:

I was really curious to make may first race in Japan a country I never been before.

I knew it would be difficult for me because the Japanese track are really special and

to give you one example when I just arrived to the Boss track I was sure that the

rotation way was the opposite to the real one it seems that Japanese and me don't

share the same feeling about tracks and after the first day of practice I was sure it

was the case.

I was almost 0.5 sec slower than the Japanese drivers and the fact that Osaka,

Takahashi, and Fukuda were the faster with the same car shows that the problem

was my set up and also my driving.

In Europe the tracks are really faster and the driving must be very smooth but on

the Boss Speed Track needs an aggressive one and I had to adapt mine to improve

my lap times.

The set up is fully different from what I usually use and the first big difference is the

width of the car, I always use 254mm and 264mm but on this track 252mm and 262

mm were better value and the speed into the small corners was much better the oil

for the shocks absorbers was softer also and I put 600cps instead of the 800.

Like this my car was just perfect for the final and I could attack during 45 minutes

with 1 refueling more than the others because I spent too much time on my set up

and I didn't had time to make all the test for the consumption.

I was really happy of the result because I had to fight a lot with very fast Japanese

drivers who I didn't expect at such as high level and for me the Inter Challenge '99

was in a certain case more difficult than the world championship in Clermont France.

Many thanks to all the Mugen Staff for his great support and see you soon on tracks.

Best regards,

Adrien Bertin