Almighty Athlete Chapter 273: Block Zhang Guan (17/20)

The air temperature is 20 degrees Celsius and the track temperature is 19 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the tire obviously needs to run several laps to work properly, and all drivers have changed to heavy rain tires. Because of the rules, the safety car leads Under the starting situation, all cars must be replaced with full rain tires.

If the rainfall is only average, the race will definitely not be led by a safety car, and today’s rain is really heavy. For safety reasons, the race will only be dispatched by the safety car, and all the cars will follow the safety car in order. , And the laps led by the safety car will be counted throughout the race. That is to say, in the first few laps, all cars must follow the safety car at a relatively low speed and circle around the track until the race will confirm that the visibility can be normal and the safety car returns to the maintenance station.

This situation is obviously very advantageous for Zhang Guan, because Zhang Guan is not going to enter the repair station to run the whole process in one breath, so he uses the heaviest fuel capacity, which can consume fuel behind the safety car. It will not lose the lap speed because the vehicle is too heavy.

At the same time, the speed of the safety car is slower than usual, and the wear of the tire is much lighter. The Zhang Guan full rain tire can also support a few more laps.

One lap, two laps, three laps, four laps... have reached the fifth lap, the safety car still does not mean to go back, and some teams have already been unable to bear it.

Some teams are light-loaded oil. Their original plan was to use lighter-loaded oil and a set of super-soft tires. They rushed to the front at the beginning of the race. Under normal circumstances, light-loaded oil will probably be in the tenth From lap two to fifteen laps, the super-soft tires were also able to support for such a long time, but they did not expect a heavy rain to completely disrupt their plan.

Even if it is safer to drive under the leadership of a safety car, but for those cars that only added 11 or 2 laps of fuel, they cannot afford it. Their original plan was to rush to the front at the beginning of the race. I didn’t expect it to circle around slowly with everyone now. The advantages of light-loaded oil can not be fully reflected, but the fuel consumption is in vain.

It is now on the fifth lap, and the safety car is still outside. If the safety car runs for another ten laps and eight laps, the light-loaded car will first consume its own gasoline. It is undoubtedly a very unwise choice to consume gasoline under such a low-speed circling state, so some light-oil racing cars simply choose to pit in at this time to refuel.

Rosberg of the Williams team followed by Alonso, and the two cars could only be ranked at the end after leaving the station. Zhang Guan was lucky to advance two Noun, came to the eighteenth.

Finally, on the seventh lap, the situation on the track was much better. The race announced that the safety car would return to the maintenance area on the eighth lap.

On the eighth lap, the safety car returned to the depot and the race officially started.

If it is a stationary start, the first few corners will inevitably make the drivers compete fiercely, but the dynamic start does not have this problem, and the first few cars appear to enter the corner smoothly.

Vettel, who started from the pole, and his teammate Webb successfully defended the top two, and behind them was Barrichello who was staring at him. Later, McLaren's Hamilton easily surpassed Ferrari's Raikkonen, and Raikkonen said that his racing engine had an abnormality.

Behind, Zhang Guan also began to accelerate. He was the first to face Force India driver Fisichella, and in front of Fisichella was Force India’s Sudir.

"Block 10,000 dollars, do not know that the first few laps led by the safety car, is it not blocking Zhang Guan?" Fisichella thought to himself, he looked in the direction of turn 1 in front, But the splash of his teammate Sudir’s car made his vision a little blurry. But the flashing red taillights of Sudir’s racing cars are exceptionally conspicuous.

"It's almost time to brake!" Sudir listened to the engine and chose a brake.

The f1 car does not have a dashboard, but as a professional driver, he can judge the speed of the car and the speed of the engine based on the feeling and the sound of the engine, and make different brakes.

The starting straight of the Shanghai International Circuit is very long. The tail speed at the end of the straight can reach 310 kilometers per hour. At this time, the car is in six gears, and then the first corner needs to be quickly reduced to fourth gear, so it is necessary. Brake hard with one foot.

However, the moment Fischer pulled the brake, a red figure appeared suddenly beside him.

"It's Zhang Guan!" Fisichella instantly realized that Zhang Guan used a late brake point to catch up with himself.

"Brakes so late that you can't get into corners!" Fisichella is also very experienced. He quickly adjusted the angle of the car to turn 1 and wanted to press Zhang Guan behind him when he came out of the corner.

But the red car shadow flickered in front of me, and there was another car taillight in front of Fisichella.

The first corner, Zhang Guan successfully surpassed Fisichella.

The Chinese force car is equipped with a double diffuser, which has an advantage in downforce, so it can have better speed in the curve. Although the braking point of the Zhang Guan is later than that of Fisichella, he uses a slight Insufficient steering ensured the speed of entering and exiting, so it easily surpassed Fisichella.

It's not just that the car has an advantage, it's also the crushing of technology.

At this time, under the helmet, Fisichella's expression has become very ugly. In the first second, he was still eager to block Zhang Guan and earn 10,000 yuan in one lap, and then was surpassed by Zhang Guan in the next second.

However, Zhang Guan did not stop. He rushed directly into the second turn and launched an offensive against another Force India car.

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Turn Turn 2, Turn 3 and Turn 4 are the first difficulties of this track. These three turns are connected into a continuous hairpin turn, and the highest point of the whole track is on the 2nd The position of the bend~IndoMTL.com~ That is to say, this continuous hairpin bend is uphill into the corner, and downhill out of the corner. During the whole process, the car will be continuously reduced from the fourth gear to the second gear, and the speed must be quickly reduced from 200 kilometers. To 100 kilometers.

The Shanghai International Circuit has a slope. When measured from the numbers, the lowest point of the track is the absolute height of 4.5 meters, and the highest point of the track is the position of turn 2, the absolute height is 11.24 meters, the lowest track The difference between the position and the highest position is a full 6.74 meters, which is equal to the height of three Dayao. It is just a few square kilometers, and a drop of more than 6 meters is not a big deal.

However, for a driver, running a continuous hairpin with a downhill **** on a rainy day also has some control pressure.

And now, Sudir of Force India is preparing to go through this continuous hairpin bend, but the pressure he faces is not only the bends, slopes and rainy days, but the Zhang Guan, which is already close behind, is the main source of his pressure. .

It's raining, the road is difficult, the curve is difficult to turn, and there are chasing soldiers behind. This is indeed a very tragic situation.

"What does Fisichella eat! Let him block Zhang Guan, why can't he even hold a corner!" Sudir couldn't help but scolded. (To be continued.)