GR Yaris - Arlanda Test Track #1

Arlanda Test Track, GR Yaris Circuit Pack, Conti Viking 7 ice/snow tires

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Sorry that my commentary is in Swedish if you don't speak it. But here's a sort of summary:

It's wet and quite slippery, the winter tires are optimised for ice and lots of snow so they are completely out of their depth here. But I got the option to try the car's balance and took it anyway 😊 With proper tires the car will surely not understeer as it did today. 

The main question I had for the day was will the car happily rotate into the corner or will it be more boringly on rails. And the answer is that with some trailbraking it is very eager to rotate. Very nice! With today's tires and greasy track it tended to understeer at turn-in without trail braking. And also, as you can see, when in the very long open right hander it understeered under steady state and slight acceleration. 

This will probably not be a problem with proper tires, but we will see. Maybe some more camber, less toe-in or possibly rake needs to be slightly adjusted. 

Out of the corners you have a lovely fun power oversteer. And you can easily choose how much you want by using Sport mode and your choice of ESP on, half off or fully off. And in Track mode the oversteer is reduced and replaced by a cracy efficient drive out of the corners. No understeer, it just goes!