 Hello and welcome back here to the channel, I'm EvilRabbit, today it's first Driftz with the Mazda R9 wheelbase, here on Assetto Corsa we are running the factory Mazda Driftz settings from the app. Now if you guys know the title I said R9 is Drifter's best friend, well I'm about to show you why I think that. I have here of course the Mazda R9 wheelbase with the RS steering wheel. But I also have something, now I want to bear in mind this is not mine, I do not have it, this is my buddy's car, so we're gonna have to hide this logo that's on this steering wheel because yes, it's my buddy's wheel. But if you take a look at the back here at the NRG 2.0 quick release and the Mazda racing quick release, do you notice the similarity? So I think you guys know where this video is going, make sure you guys follow me on all social media, all that you're found in the description box below, let's get to it. So first drift with the Mazda R9 wheelbase, we are going to be using the Mazda wheel first just because, well I'm gonna have to get it into gear anyways because I don't have my shifter because I'm still waiting on my fanatech adapter. But we're gonna go full send with this and see first drifts on Mazda's factory drift settings. Just clicked on drift and we're going full send with it. Gotta get my mouse off the screen, thank you. We are at clutch kicker, so like I said I need to be able to go set and forget for gears first initiation in and actual feeling of the wheel is very nice. So it's very similar rotation speed as my fanatech was but it's a lot more smoother. I guess that's just testament to the fact that it's a direct drive versus a belt drive So their base setting is actually quite nice, may have to do some fine tuning and things of that nature but for overall first drive with this base in a drift situation it's uh, I'm thoroughly impressed. You know I can definitely feel when the car is actually losing grip versus when it's in grip in the front and you know the fact that Mazda has a base tune that off the rip is just, I say you can just get in and drive, I'm not just throwing this Corvette down here on clutch kickers and I'm thoroughly enjoying the way this is feeling right now. So like I said we're gonna be setting and forgetting the third gear but you guys know where this video is really going. The drifter is the best friend and why I feel that way. So I think I may go through and tweak some settings but I'm not really finding any settings other than maybe friction of the wheel that I might want to make a little bit stiffer but that would pale into all different types of cars. So we would need to find out if we need to adjust the friction to make the wheel spin faster and things like that but that's all tunable in the app. So without further ado the moment why you guys are really here. So we have to leave this car in third gear because don't have shifter and when I take this Mazda wheel off I no longer have pedals but I'm gonna grab my buddy's Spark Co wheel with the NRG quick release and we're going to take it and just snap it on into place. It didn't make a ding I'm actually kind of sad we're gonna take that off and we're gonna actually make it make a ding. So there's the ding that's the ding I wanted to hear. So as you can see the quick release the 2.0 quick release from NRG bolts right on it's the same platform and everything. So now we have the Mazda R and I base with the wheel that if you have one of these sitting in your actual car and you wanted to get a sim base that you don't need any adapters like a special fan of tech hub or a hub adapter or plates like you need on like a thrust master and things to put a real wheel on you can literally take the wheel and the quick release that you have on your car and it will bolt directly to the base by simply putting it on and clicking it into place. So now we're gonna go full rip with this and Alex said I don't have pedals I don't have a shifter but big thank you to my buddy Charles for giving me his wheel out of his actual car since I don't currently have a quick release from NRG on me right now and it just works if you notice I it's so amazing that this is just working that the base works without a wheel connected you don't need to have so you can use any wheel you really want with just a quick release adapter. Now you could probably find some other adapters some generic or ones that are identical to NRG one I would say they would probably work but don't quote me on that I'm saying I know this works because the F-project 2.0 release is the same. So definitely a big thing here for drifters with this base that you can take your wheel world wheel out of your car if you have an energy quick release and put it right on this base so from an aspect of getting a wheel base I think there's only one other wheel base that you can do this and that is a sim magic wheel now the sim magic wheels are definitely a higher price tag than this Mazda R9 base and as you can see this base feels so good for drifting it does feel actually substantially nicer than my fanatec did and you know that's just testament to the direct drive and all the firmware updates and things like that that they keep releasing for these so this also means that this quick release will work on their R16 and their R21 because they are the same humps because all their wheels are the same so just it's kind of actually very amazing I hit the wrong button I want to hit this one no this one oh that put me in the neutral oh no what I can't go into gear rip I can't go to gear I literally just took myself out of gear by changing scenes so we're gonna need to take this wheel off put my Mazda wheel back on and get myself back into gear but like I said I am waiting for my fanatec adapter for my close-port shifter so that I can use it it's in the mail should be here in a day or so and then we will be able to go full rip with this definitely gonna hit up the boys energy and try and get myself up a quick release so that I can start using all my other wheels because you know it is nice to be able to do that and have nothing back here at so this is essentially like you would be having an actual prospect drift car style where you don't have anything behind it other than a steering shaft you don't have turn signals you don't have wipers you have nothing back there and it kind of makes it super nice and super clean and I do notice that going up to this wheel this wheel is slightly heavier than a Mazda wheel given that it is not all the forged carbon fiber stuff so I may want to tweak and add a little bit of force feedback so Mazda's factory drift thing is at 55% feedback on the wheel you can probably bump it up to 60 and it would feel amazing and like I said I can't think my buddy enough for giving me the wheel out of his actual car he I hit him up I was like hey man can I borrow your wheel and he brought it in for me today at work and then here but I need it back tomorrow so definitely gonna have to get him his wheel back tomorrow as much fun as I'm having with this but one thing I wanted to let you guys know is the fact that you can use your own wheel on your own quick release and it just works no adapters needed you can just pick up the R9 wheel base if you already have pedals slap your own wheel on and have a good time so make sure you guys follow me and also to meteorologist found ships for box below as always I thank you guys for coming back and watching and coming in for another episode big thank you once again the Mazda racing for setting all this stuff out and partnering up with me here on the channel so as always as I thank you guys for being here and supporting me and the channel and as always I thank you guys for watching I'm your rabbit I'll see you guys on the track