"Monaco was street circuit geometry," Leo muttered to himself, his voice sounding thin against the roar of the simulated rain. "Narrow. Slow average speed. Every mistake was about hitting a wall. Suzuka has flowing corners at real speed. The information coming through the car is different. The volume is higher."
He sat at the starting grid of the Suzuka Circuit, his hands gripping the wheel of the virtual Arcadia car. Inside the neural link, it was a dark, relentless monsoon.
In Monaco, he had learned to memorize the barriers. He knew exactly where the metal guardrails sat, and he could calculate his distance from them down to the millimeter.
But Suzuka wasn't about barriers. It was about the ground itself. Here, he had to feel the weight of the car as it shifted across the suspension. He had to listen to the tires. Not with his ears, but with his skin.
The Simex interface flickered in his vision, displaying a comparative analysis.
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[SIMEX SYSTEM, LAP 4 ANALYSIS:]
