Almighty Athlete Chapter 235: First show
The first practice session in the morning took a total of 90 minutes to adapt to the venue. In order not to over-consume the tires, the team often chose to use a harder set of tires, so the driver’s performance was relatively ordinary.
After an interval of 141 days, the car once again boarded the track, and all the cars chose to run a round of warm tire laps and returned to the pit. The drivers didn't even run a complete lap, let alone the results. Obviously, this is to let the car adapt to the track first. This is, after all, the first race of the new car. There are too many places in the new car that need to be improved and debugged.
Of course, some drivers did not come out immediately, such as Alonso, such as Raikkonen, such as Zhang Guan.
At this time, the track looks very clean, and the cars are stopped in the maintenance room for debugging.
"It's clean on the track, I'll brush the lap results!" Zhang Guan said into the microphone.
"Okay, pay attention to safety." Rose Brown's voice came from the headphones.
The maintenance engineer pushed the car out of the garage, and a throttle of Zhang Guan rushed out of the maintenance station.
"Red! Power of China! Driver 22, Zhang Guan!" Everyone cast their attention.
The number of Formula One cars is sorted according to the ranking of last season. When sorting, the two of the team will talk together. The champion of last season was Lewis Hamilton, so he is the No. 1 driver. Teammate Kovalainen became the No. 2 driver. Ferrari's Massa was the runner-up last season and was the No. 3 driver. His teammate Raikkonen was naturally the No. 4 driver, and so on.
Because the Honda team withdrew, the 18th and 19th originally belonged to the Honda team were deducted. That is, there are no 18th and 19th drivers this year.
The Force China team is a new team, even if Barrichello had 11 points last season, but according to the rules, the Force China team can only be ranked at the end of the number, Zhang Guan as the team’s first driver ranked 22nd, Barrich Luo ranked second as the second driver.
Some people may have a question, why do ten teams come in odd numbers? Because Europeans taboo the number "13", the driver's number is not 13, and driver 12 is followed by driver 14.
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Zhang Guan is out!
Countless lenses are aimed at this red car.
"The first time Zhang Guan boarded the stadium, will it crash!" someone asked.
"It should not be possible. The special feature of the Albert Park circuit is that the buffer space is large enough. Look at the corner, there is such a large lawn, even if it rushes out of the track, it will not crash. At most it ran on the lawn! And now he is the only car on the track, even if there is no opponent in the crash!"
"Look, he rushed out of the maintenance area and turned to turn 1!"
"It must be able to pass, turn 1 is not difficult, and he just came out of the repair station, the speed limit in the repair station, I can pass this turn 1, the key depends on turn 3, it is a At a right angle, maybe he will run out of the runway!"
"Turn 3 also passed! Turn 4 is also very smooth! Turn 5 also passed!"
"Hey, don’t say, it looks like, there are some doorways, so far it has not rushed out of the runway!"
"It must be fast. The first few corners are simple. Maybe the next corner will rush out of the track."
Everyone stared at the Zhang Guan on the track and watched him run down all the way. Turns 12 and 13... Zhang Guan ran smoothly through the 16th turn, then sprinted with all his strength and entered his first time. In the circle.
"Oh, Zhang Guan is going to be a chronograph lap! I really didn’t expect that the first chronograph lap will be Zhang Guan today!"
"It is estimated that the performance of the car is not good, I want to run in more!"
"I think I might be afraid that if there are more cars, I will hit other people, so run first!"
"It looks like Zhang Guan is really a rookie, and dare to come out first to run the chronograph circle. Everyone knows that the first track is not clean, so it’s a big loss to run out first!"
The so-called track is not clean, it does not mean that there are large foreign objects on the track, but that there will be small sand and some moisture on the track, which will affect the speed of the car. After a few laps, the worn rubber particles of the tire will adhere to the track and absorb the small sand particles. At the same time, the heat generated by the tire scraping will also evaporate the water on the track, and the driver will be more comfortable running.
Many people look at the Zhang Guan on the track with a joke, and some people even start betting when the Zhang Guan will rush out of the track. Other teams, the racers who originally intended to go out, have also been stopped.
"Don't go out and let Zhang Guan run for a while. He is a rookie and hasn't even run a kart, let alone participate in a racing competition. What if you go out now and get hit by Zhang Guan?" This sound came from Alonso's headphones.
"Lewis, wait, don’t worry, maybe the next corner, Zhang Guan will rush out of the track! We have to be patient, you know, it’s dangerous on the track now!" That's what it says.
"What is the difference between a person who has not participated in a racing competition and a street killer? I just saw that the safety car and the crane are already prepared, and it may be used immediately, Kimi, let’s wait a second, Wait until everyone else is out, let's go..." Raikkonen received the order.
So none of the other teams had manual vehicles. Everyone stayed in the maintenance room honestly, waiting for Zhang Guan, the "road killer" to have an accident.
"Whoosh!" The car flew past the stands, and the Zhang Guan score appeared in front of everyone.
1 minute 29 seconds 353, according to the standard of the first time in the practice game, this is a satisfactory result.
And Zhang Guan feels more and more. When he rushed past the end timer, he did not release the throttle, but continued to start the next lap.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan once again finished a lap, and everyone did not expect to rush out of the track and install the guardrail.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan ran out a minute and 28 seconds 875, refreshed the fastest lap.
China Force Racing’s command center~IndoMTL.com~Ross Brown looked at the data in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. He said: "The temperature of Zhang Guan tires has come up. Ground power, he will be faster in the next lap."
"Whoosh!" The roar of the racing engine swept across the front of the maintenance area, and the Zhang Guan again improved its lap score by 0.2 seconds.
At this time, a peculiar picture appeared. In the maintenance area, 19 cars were all waiting there, and Zhang Guan was alone on the track, constantly refreshing his fastest lap.
Albert Park Circuit, less than 1 minute and 30 seconds per lap, Zhang Guan unknowingly swiped a dozen single laps, and the faster the faster.
"Crash! Sooner or later! There will definitely be a crash! Wait to see!" Omi's expression was very suspicious, but as he circled, Omi's face became more dignified. Although he is not a driver, he can already see that Zhang Guan really can drive a Formula One car.
And around, those reporters waiting to see jokes are even more silent...
"Does Zhang Guan really open f1?" (~^~)