Behind the Scenes: Max Verstappen Driving the Acura ARX-06

I watch you guys already, you need to practice more for the future, I need to get in a bit faster. All right, but you got new tires for you? New tires, wow. New tires, man. Okay. It's the only way to go. But yeah, if you want to jump in and just give that seat a bit. So what is the best way to jump in? We've been leaving the wheel on and just kind of, you know, sit your butt here, swing your feet in and slide down in. Okay. That's kind of been the... You can sit on the side. Yeah, it's fine. Just need to practice, you know, for the future. I need to get in a bit faster. Get out, get in, get in, get out. It's easy, just slide in. Pedals feel okay? Yeah. Okay, awesome. Yeah, I wanted this wheel at home as well, for my simulator. Yeah. I have the LMP2 version of it. Okay, okay. With the like clutches and everything in the back. Awesome. That's really nice. But this is, yeah, this is really cool. It's fairly similar to how we use it, just, you know, these little... That's nice. It's really fun to do the EV, the EV leave. I think I did that maybe last year on the... Oh, on the Beast. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, same deal. But man, I can't wait to see what you think. You'll have fun. It's going to be quite a change for me, you know, with the closed cockpit and the helmet on. Tight. Yeah, yeah. And who's on the radio? Stefano will be on the radio. What do you think, huh? Yeah, it's all good. Just front locking a little bit. A little bit front locking. It'll get better when it comes up. Yeah, when the temp comes up, it'll get a little bit better. Did you go to the hot map yet? No, not yet. Okay, okay. I think I could do that. Yeah, I think you could too. Yeah, if you want to go... Oh, sorry. A little bit more migration. Yeah. It'll be definitely a bit more power now with the hot map, but yeah, I mean, it looks good. I mean, the front locking is pretty normal. This tire is pretty good with the locking too. If you lock it, it doesn't... It's not so bad. Yeah. Do the lights work? Yeah, I could see it on the lights. Good, good, good. Sweet. Yeah, it's nice. I like it. Just, yeah, the front tires take a long time to warm up, so it's like trying to force it. Yeah, if you do a little bit extra turning, it'll help for sure. Yeah, it just takes a few laps. Yes, it is good. It's all good. You're comfortable. Everything comfortable. Everything good. Your pull away was good. That was easy. Yeah, the electric's cool. It works really well. Yeah, and you can give it some good gas when you leave on the electric. Yeah, it's very nice. Good stuff. All right. Anything from us? No, it's all good. Okay. Enjoy. Have some fun, dude. It looks cool. It looks cool. Okay, we'll do the same thing here. We'll push you back and then you can go. Very nice. It's nice, huh? Yeah, it was getting better and better until the last two laps, you know, then pressures go up. That's the problem. This tire requires a minimum tire pressure and it just goes. Yeah, yeah. You were straight on it though, man. Yeah, I liked it a lot. It's really nice to drive and then also trusting the high speed more and more. Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably got no grip compared to what you're used to, but for this kind of a car, it's pretty impressive. The high speed was better than I expected. Really? Nice. Yeah. So, yeah, just, you know, the low speed, you have to be quite careful with the front locking. You were good with not locking much though. Yeah. I was impressed. I thought you would have had some more lock because I feel like it's so little brake pressure. Yeah, it is. But I think also me driving on the same already, you have to apply very low pressure. Right. It probably prepared me already a bit, so. Nice. It was good. Good job, dude. That was cool. That has been great. I mean, of course, you know, I don't, the tools were explained quickly. I didn't really touch too many things, just brake bars a little bit. It drives really nice. You know, for me, first time in a closed cockpit in the beginning, getting used to the view, you know, that's like looking around a bit more. And they're quite claustrophobic. Yeah. So this is also something that for me in the beginning, I was a bit like, oh, okay. I mean, getting used to it, but it was good. Trusting the car more in the high speed at one point. And the traction. Traction. Traction is very good. You have to be quite straight to really get a good drive out of the corner. So for me, it was like getting the steering right. You sound like Hitler. I'm glad that you backed us up, right? See, we've been telling you. We're probably believers. Yeah, it was good. I mean, the air, the low speed is really, really low speed, you know, so it's even more about being straight. Your EV launch was nice. That was good. Yeah. Just straight in the, yeah. I wanted to see how quickly we'd get to the pit limiter. It's cool. Yeah. It's definitely better than ours in terms of taking off. But it was good. I mean, it was very agile for me. Like, I could play with it a bit. It took a bit of time to heat up the front. Then I artificially heated it up with some locks. One specific area. Yeah. One specific area was a few front locks. It was nice. You did well. It was awesome. Yeah. The first time. No, I think you guys will drive it. So let's, let's back up. Let's go to Sonoma. I don't know. What is the closest track? Probably the Laguna. And I mean, it's still a one piece. A job well done. Yeah. That one, I, uh, I loved that second, but it was a little bit of runoff.