Automotive Black Technology Chapter 1584: : The strategy takes effect!
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The Williams team uses Bridgestone full-weather tires. With a unique pattern structure, this set of full-weather tires can displace dozens of liters of water in one second. In order to increase the function of clearing rainwater from the ground, the diameter of this set of tires is 1.5 centimeters wider than that of dry tires.
While one after another cars on the track were pitting for tire changes, Javier accelerated directly, moving forward quickly at a faster speed than when there was no rain!
Seeing this scene, the on-site commentator exclaimed: "God, Javier is crazy!"
No wonder he was surprised, the set of rain tires used by Javier had been run at high speed for six full laps on dry ground. The super-soft rubber used in rain tires is not wear-resistant in nature. If we look at it at a normal pace, the tires have already been severely worn and have completely lost their significance as rain tires.
You must know that all the value of rain tires lies in the drainage pattern. If there is no pattern in the form of a geometric array, which cannot provide good road drainage in heavy rain, then this set of tires will be meaningless.
In fact, in the previous game, the commentator complained about the Williams team's rain tire tactics from a very professional perspective.
In his words, "This set of tires will completely polish the pattern after five laps, and if the Williams team is really unlucky and it rains within the time limit, then this set of tires will It has completely lost its function because of the lack of tread, so the car has to pit. However, according to the current rules, they can only use semi-wet tires in heavy rain to compete with those cars that have been replaced with new full-wet blue tires. You will undoubtedly put yourself in a very embarrassing situation! ”
At this time, some senior fans in the stands also booed and shouted.
Almost everyone familiar with F1 knows that under such circumstances, Javier's pursuit of momentum is undoubtedly at the end of his game. Soon, he will have to make a pit stop because the road is heavily waterlogged, and the tires that lack tread cannot continue to travel at high speed in the rain.
In this way, the No. 1 car of the Williams team neither gained a speed advantage by starting with full wet tires, nor took advantage of catching up with the heavy rain.
In the maintenance area of the Swiss-French team, Godfrey looked at Javier who was accelerating suddenly on the track and shrugged helplessly. He made a gesture to the team manager beside him, Essens, saying that he "didn't understand what the other person was doing" and said: "I really don't understand. The brain of the Williams team is in the wrong place."
However, Essens did not give him a sympathetic response. Instead, he watched the real-time video as he continued to accelerate in the heavy rain to catch up with the cars that were still wearing slick tires and waiting to pit for tire changes. The Williams No. 1 car was in a trance.
This old man, who has been in F1 for more than ten years, keenly noticed that the four tires of Team Wei's No. 1 car seemed to be worn... not as badly as he thought!
Facts proved his suspicion.
Just when everyone thought Javier wouldn’t be able to survive for long, Javier’s lap speed kept rising!
In just one lap, he had already reached fifth place in the overall rankings.
In F1, it is very fast for a car to stop and change tires. Most teams can control the tire change time to two to three seconds. But this does not mean that the pit stop is just a waste of these three seconds.
The car slows down from high speed to low speed, then stops to change tires, and then exits the stop to merge. This set of procedures will waste at least ten seconds of advantage.
The more serious problem is the driver's rhythm.
Although each team was well prepared, the sudden heavy rain still made it difficult for some drivers to adapt.
The speed of the entire track slowed down.
In this gap, Javier directly entered the top five, and successfully got rid of the No. 2 car in the Euroleague and entered the top three!
At this time, Hamilton was already complaining endlessly.
He had just changed the tires, and the car was still equipped with a pair of orange dry tires. According to the current situation, he should actually pit immediately. But it was not yet time to pit, and he was unwilling to give in!
If you enter the station at this time, the advantages accumulated before will be lost.
But using a set of bald tires on a track with serious water accumulation, he felt deeply unable to do what he wanted. The car seemed to have a mind of its own and began to snake around the track as the car's speed changed.
The straights were better, but every time he entered a corner, Hamilton felt like he was driving a tank full of gunpowder barrels and was in danger of blowing himself up at any time.
At this moment, there was an engine beep behind him that could not be covered up by the heavy rain. Through the rearview mirror, he saw the source of the sound - it was Wei Team No. 1 that he had always been worried about. !
Javier!
"Lewis, I need you to slow down!" The technical director's voice came from the helmet with anxiety. Ahead is the S-shaped curve at the end. Even if the speed of the car is only 170km at this time, the grip performance of the slick tires is still very likely to cause sideslip.
Looking at the menacing Javier coming behind him, Hamilton gritted his teeth and released his foot on the accelerator.
Under the rain and wind resistance, he didn't even need to press the brakes, and the speed of the car dropped rapidly.
Hamilton, who had been leading the entire race, could only watch as Javier flew past him, splitting the water on the road like a sword.
At the moment when the two cars crossed each other, Hamilton was surprised to find that although the tires of Team Wei's No. 1 car were worn to a certain extent, they did not seem to have any fundamental damage!
In other words, although this set of full rain tires has been worn out, it is still functioning!
It was at this moment that Hamilton figured it out - under the lubrication and cooling effects of the rain, the wear of Harvey's full-weather tires would be reduced to an outrageous level.
In other words, if God is kind and rains continuously, Javier can almost run ten more laps with this set of full-weather tires that are still effective even though the effect is affected!
Hamilton's pupils shrank when he thought that he and many other teams had already made two pit stops, but Team Wei's No. 1 car had used this set of full-wet tires to save two pit stops.
At this moment, in his mind, a guy with a big head, whom he had not seen for a long time, appeared in his mind.
"Fernando!"
His exclamation was lost in his helmet.
In the pit area of the Williams team.
Li Fanyu and Alonso, who were sitting side by side on the small bench, looked at Javier, who was constantly racing to catch up in the rain, heading towards the first impact. High five each other and smile at each other.