Verdens proves that he is ready for his new challenge

Robert Vicense went to his first race of the season at the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship in long middle with a simple goal: “To leave to be high with our head.” Canadian undoubtedly said that a Chevrolet Carvet Z06 GT3.R was adapted to allow him to drive with hand controls especially during its first schedule. But what could be for Vikan and team partner Tommy Milner, there was also a feeling.

Positivity included the second -generation electronic brake system developed by Bosch motorsport that proved to be “Finnish from Start to Finish” during a 100 -minute race. This allowed him to compete for the first time after returning to professional racing after an accident to change his life in Indycar in 2018.

Vikens ended the fastest in other free practice as he threaded his GT Detona class DXDT racing Chevi among the walls on the 1.97-mile long beach beach circuit. He then finished over half a second from the position of the pole in the qualifying despite the side-wise from another car on his warm lap-he completed his lap with a damaged suspension.

“It was all going into sunlight and rainbow qualifying,” Vikans, a driver who has always felt a intimacy with a street circuit. “We thought that if we do everything right and play our card correctly, we have a shot on the pole. Clearly, if you told me that last week, I would have said that you are dreaming.

“But we finished eighth. The electronic hand control system from the bosch was doing everything that I was required to do. So it hurts that we did not get to maximize our ability.”

Vikens has considered the system developed by Bosch to Carvet as a success that has allowed him to take the next step of his racing return with a program in the five IMSA sprint race in Carvet. Jordan Smart, Motorsport Application Engineer at Bosch Motorsport, says, “Integrous with the car” says.

Hyundai Brakes on TCR car, in which Vikans IMSA’s Michelin Pilot had returned to competition in the Challenge support chain, was based on hydraulic braking. Now, Bosch Electronic Brake System (EBS), Smart explains, the input venture allows the “slight electrical signal which is converted into brake pressure” over the control of the steering wheel. “This is true break-by-wire.”

Vikens and Milner moved into the long beach race on 12 April, with ambitions to improve the eighth place on the grid, although with a Proviso. Driver changes are an integral part of the IMSA series and DXDT knew that in the race it would lose time for its rivals in pits.

“Currently there is a little more time with this situation that we are to be taken out of the car with Robert,” says Bryan Sellers, program manager of DXDT of IMSA team. “We have a lot of moving pieces with Robert out, bringing the next driver in.”

As a result of the loss of time, Milner fell from seventh place to P10, out of which Vikans were shocked in pits. For a long time, the factory Carvet driver made it to fifth place, but as he passed a BMW for the situation, he receives a tap at the back which dislikes bodywork.

Race Control Milner’s pits demand that they could properly secure the correct bodywork, as a result of the delay, DXDT CHe was finished at 15th position in the classroom.

“Safety is the top priority and after some contacts the bumper behind us was a bit loose, and they gave us a black flag for the pit for repair,” the detailed tells us. “Our race was more or less at that point, so whatever we had ended. I don’t think it tells the whole story.”

“It’s racing,” says Smart. “The system we have developed provided the capacity to Robert and had speed. It was an important route for us: we provided it to the level to reach that level.”