All-round Athlete

Chapter 618 First!

The tires and the engine are the two most important parts on the racing car, because these two parts are not only related to the speed of the car, but also continue to wear and tear. Nine out of ten sensors on the racing car are testing the performance of these two components.

The tires for this year's Formula 1 racing car are uniformly supplied by Princeton. Princeton provides six tires for the team, namely four dry tires and two rain tires.

The four types of dry tires include super soft tire, soft tire, medium tire and hard tire, and only two of them will be provided for the team to choose at each stop. For example, the Australian station uses super soft tires and medium tires, but no soft tires and hard tires.

When the tire reaches the optimal working condition, the softer the tire, the better the grip, and the better the grip, the faster the vehicle speed. But soft tires also have a disadvantage, that is, they will wear out quickly. When the tires wear to a certain extent, the grip will gradually disappear, and they will lose control when turning, and the driver is forced to reduce the speed.

As for the two types of rain tires, they are used when it rains. They are medium rain tires and heavy rain tires. The heavy rain tires have more lines, stronger drainage capacity, and less slippery, but the speed will be slower.

Soft tires run faster than hard tires. In terms of data, the softest supersoft tire and the hardest hard tire can have a lap speed difference of about 1 second. And the gap between supersoft tires and medium tires must be more than half a second. The gap of half a second is very important in qualifying for the fastest speed.

For a big team like Ferrari, the performance of their cars is good enough, and the skills of their drivers are good enough, so even if they use medium tires to run the first qualifying session, they can easily qualify, so in the first session In races, the big teams tend to use harder tires to avoid excessive wear on the soft tires, and they will save the soft tires for the second and third quarters.

As for the small teams, the performance of their cars is mediocre, and the level of their drivers is also mediocre. If they want to avoid being eliminated, they must use faster soft tires to fight. Tire wear is nothing for a car that could be out at any moment.

Force India raced on supersoft tires. They were last last year and would have been eliminated in the first round under normal circumstances, so they directly chose supersoft tires to improve their speed. Even so, their results were still far behind the Ferraris using the medium tyres. Force India's current lap time exceeds 1:27, while Ferrari's Raikkonen easily ran a time of 1:26.615 on the first timed lap.

The Williams team won the first three consecutive practice sessions, which greatly boosted their confidence, so they used medium tires to start the race, but the reality slapped them mercilessly in the face. After a few laps, Ferrari and other big teams easily surpassed the results Within 1 minute and 26 seconds, the Williams team was on the verge of being eliminated.

This is the tragedy of small teams, as soft tires cannot run on hard tires. In the practice sessions, those big teams didn't use their full strength at all.

The Williams team returned to the maintenance area in dismay, put on super soft tires and came out to run laps.

Under such circumstances, everyone felt that the China Force team should use supersoft tires. After all, it is a new team, and it can be thankful that it can not be eliminated in the first quarter, so it should use faster supersoft tires to fight.

However, to everyone's surprise, Zhang Guan ran out of the maintenance area with medium tires.

"Neutral tires? The new team is planning to give up qualifying! Maybe they know they will be at the bottom of the ranking, so they just broke the pot and gave up on themselves!" A car fan at the scene said.

"Impossible. If it's a broken jar, it's better to stay in the maintenance area and not come out, so that even the medium tires will be saved. I guess they want to run two laps on the medium tires first, and wait a while. I will definitely change to soft tires." A person next to him said.

After a brief surprise, everyone turned their attention to big teams like Ferrari and McLaren, who were the focus of the competition.

The two McLaren cars returned to the garage after only a few laps, and they seemed to be very confident in their results. At the same time, Renault's Alonso also returned to the garage. On the track, Ferrari's Raikkonen has improved his performance to within 1 minute and 26 seconds.

"Raikkonen made a time of 1:25.899, which is the fastest single-lap speed so far, and he is still using medium tires. It really can't be Ferrari! Although his performance in the practice session was mediocre, But when it came to the main match, they were unambiguous at all, they showed their true strength." The commentator exclaimed.

The audience at the scene also responded with applause. After all, it is Ferrari, which has the most fans in the Formula One race, and it is expected that they will get the first place.

Omi looked at the ranking of the results, feeling a little anxious.

At present, the two cars of Force India are ranked 15th and 16th respectively. If the race ends according to this ranking, one of Force India's cars will be eliminated.

"We have to go faster. We are only 0.15 seconds away from the fifteenth place. Maybe we can break into the top fifteen! If it doesn't work, we will change to a set of supersoft tires and go up for a fight!"

Omi was thinking, but the driver ranking was refreshed again, and the two cars of Force India became the 17th and 18th.

"One more step back, who has passed?" Omi first looked at the fifteenth place, which was Piquet of the Renault team.

"Just now Piquet was the fourteenth, and he was squeezed out!" Omi continued to look up, Kazuki Nakajima, Webber, Trulli, Glock, Alonso, Vettel, Rosberg... ...all of them are names he is familiar with, and their relative positions have not changed, but they have moved back one place collectively.

"Someone ran to the front..." Omi continued to look up, and his eyes finally stayed at the top, the number one position.

"What!" Omi opened her mouth in surprise.

...

The TV broadcast was aimed at Felipe Massa of the Ferrari team.

Massa was the runner-up last year. He lost to Hamilton by only 1 point. In fact, he could have won the championship, but because of the team's low-level mistakes, he lost the final championship. So it can be said that Massa is also a driver with championship strength.

The strength of the champion and being in the Ferrari team must be the focus of the audience, and his teammate Raikkonen just set the fastest lap time, so the broadcast camera at this time has been focused on Massa.

Massa is running his own timing lap, about 500 meters behind Massa, there is also a red racing car, that is Zhang Guan, and Zhang Guan is also running his own timing lap. It's just that there is Ferrari's Massa in front, so no one will care about Zhang Guan behind.

How can a new team compare to Ferrari's attention?

Inside the car, Massa's focus was on the track as he passed Turn 16 and sprinted forward.

"Massa's timing lap... 1 minute 25 seconds 844! First! Massa surpassed his teammate Räikkönen and ranked first, and Ferrari occupied the first and second places again! In yesterday's race In practice, Ferrari's performance was mediocre, but in the race, they are still the strongest." The commentator said.

Massa has crossed the timing point of the finish line, but the broadcast camera is still aimed at him. As for Zhang Guan in the back, there is not even half of the screen, but a timing of Zhang Guan appears in the lower right corner of the TV.

Massa in the car was still very focused, but at this time the team's voice came from the headset.

"Philip, you can slow down and protect your tires. Come back when you enter the maintenance area next time! Good job, you just passed Raikkonen." The team's technical director Dell's business sounded in the headset.

"Oh, so I'm number one now, right?" Massa asked.

"Of course, of course you are number one... huh? What!" Dale exclaimed suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Massa asked in surprise.

"Uh, Philip, you're second!" Dale said.

"Second? Has anyone passed? Who is it? Haven't Hamilton and Alonso returned to the maintenance area? Who can run first? Is it Vettel?" Massa asked angrily. Anyone will be annoyed when they are the first for a few seconds.

"Someone surpassed you! The first is Zhang Guan!" Dale said.

PS: first ask for a guaranteed monthly pass. Let me report to you, in the middle of this month, I have to cooperate with a promotion recommendation on the website. At that time, dozens of chapters of manuscripts will burst out at one time, and there are still about ten days to collect manuscripts, so I can only Stable update, probably after next week, there will be a big wave, it is expected that there will be thirty or forty chapters! I hope you can join us a lot. Thanks.

The first chapter has been delivered, ask for a guaranteed monthly pass!