All-round Athlete

Chapter 633: Sepang

The Sepang Circuit is located 65 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This circuit has hosted the F1 Grand Prix since 1999, and this year happens to be the 10th year.

The track has 15 corners, 8 straights, a lap length of 5.543 kilometers, and a race of 56 laps. The total race length is 310.408 kilometers, which is the longest of all Formula One events. At the same time, the Sepang circuit also has the fastest track of all Formula One racing circuits, with a track width of 22 meters.

Although it is the widest of all F1 tracks, the Sepang circuit is not easy to overtake, because the two longest straights of the Sepang circuit are followed by hairpin turns. When the speed difference is not very large, For the leading drivers, as long as they can walk their own lines well, it is difficult to be surpassed.

It is also worth mentioning that there will be a very dangerous animal on this track, that is the cobra. The Sepang Circuit is surrounded by agricultural planting areas. In rural Malaysia, cobras and wild cats are two very common animals, or where there are cobras, there will always be wild cats. Although wild cats are not at the top of the food chain, they happen to be the nemesis of cobras. However, most wild cats are more afraid of people, so they will not get too close to the track. Cobras are different. If you see a cobra on the Sepang track , then don't be surprised.

...

Zhang Guan arrived in Malaysia on Wednesday, and he will attend a media meeting on Thursday. The staff of the team came earlier. The first thing they did when they came to Malaysia was to ask for a weather forecast from the meteorological department.

This is Malaysia, rain is a normal thing, but it is a new thing that it does not rain in the race in Malaysia. The most troublesome thing is some sudden and very short-term rains. Sometimes the rainstorm suddenly hits, but four or five minutes later, the sun shines again. If you change to dry tires, it might rain after you put on dry tires. If you change to wet tires at that time, the team's tactical deployment may be completely disrupted.

So the weather forecast is very important for the team. Most of the small fleets without money get weather information from the meteorological department, while large fleets like Ferrari simply rent weather satellites and temporarily hire meteorological experts to provide them with services.

Due to the excellent performance in Australia, the China Forces team has also become the focus of the media, and they got more shots in Friday's practice.

It didn't rain during Friday's practice and Ferrari, which had given up its energy recovery system, also recovered to finish in the top two spots in Friday afternoon's second practice session. As for McLaren, another giant that was entangled in the "perjury gate", the results were ranked in the middle.

As for Zhang Guan, he has been familiarizing himself with the track all Friday, and then constantly adjusted the car. He didn't set the fastest lap, but the result was in the upper reaches.

However, Zhang Guan's teammate Barrichello was unlucky. He had a gearbox failure during practice. According to the regulations, when replacing the gearbox in the race, he had to start five places behind.

On Saturday morning, it started to rain lightly before the practice started, but after the practice started, the rain stopped and the sun came out. At this time, the track looked a little slippery, and the drivers did not dare to run with all their strength. It wasn't until the track dried up a few laps later that the drivers started to take the fastest time in turn.

Like the last race, Rosberg of the Williams team still dominated the practice session, and then Ferrari, Red Bull and Toyota also performed well. The two cars of China Power took ninth and tenth respectively, ranking Before McLaren.

...

Saturday afternoon, qualifying.

Before the race started, the finish line was already full of reporters, all kinds of long guns and short guns chasing the track.

"From the results of the practice match, it can be seen that the Chinese forces who won the top two in the last round played relatively averagely."

"A new team won a championship in the first race. Do you really think of them as Ferrari? The result of the last race is just a coincidence."

"That's right, I think so too. After all, the big teams were not ready for the first race, so China Power took a chance and won the championship. Now it's the second race, and the state of other teams is sure It has picked up, and it is impossible for China Power to continue to dominate the Sepang circuit. You can see the results of the two days of practice, and China Power did not even enter the top three."

"I remember that in the Australian Championship, the performance of Chinese forces in practice was relatively average. Maybe they are hiding their strength?"

"Impossible. A new team, how can there be any strength to hide! It was just luck that Zhang Guan got pole position in the last race. Just look at it. They might not be able to qualify for the third quarter in this race. Race!"

"Look, Zhang Guan is here! There are no green stripes on the tires, they are hard tires!"

"Hard tires? It seems that China Power is quite confident and dares to run the first qualifying session with hard tires."

"Judging from their results in the practice match, there should be no problem running the first quarter on hard tires!"

The temperature in Malaysia is relatively high, and the Sepang Circuit is a circuit that consumes more tires. If it is a supersoft tire, it may not be able to last for 10 laps. Both soft and hard tire configurations are offered.

The hard tire that Zhang Guan is using now is the hardest one among the four dry tires, and it is also the slowest one.

But this did not affect Zhang Guan's promotion. Soon after, he scored a time of less than 1 minute and 35 seconds, and this result was enough to ensure that he entered the second qualifying round.

The best result of the first qualifying session was made by Zhang Guan's teammate Barrichello, 1:34.681, which was almost 0.4 seconds faster than Zhang Guan, but Barrichello used A set of soft tires, and in the second quarter, he will use this set of soft tires.

It is worth mentioning that the Ferrari team may have underestimated the enemy. Both Ferrari cars returned to the maintenance area after only two timing laps. They thought they could enter the second quarter, but in the end Massa was defeated. When it came to elimination, Raikkonen was also in 14th place and almost did not enter the second quarter.

Ferrari was a strategic error. They were not weak, but misjudged the situation, resulting in the elimination of a car. But the Force India team is really weak. Their two cars are ranked 18th and 19th respectively, and both of them were eliminated. The last place is Bu Aimi of Toro Rosso. He is a driver who has just entered Formula One this season. It is normal for him to run the bottom one.

In the second qualifying session, Ferrari learned its wisdom from a pitfall and came out early, while the other drivers were also stimulated by Ferrari's elimination of a car, and drove out of the pit at the beginning, and used Still soft tires.

In the second qualifying session, the drivers chose soft tires and ultra-light fuel, so the speed was much faster than in the first session. Almost every driver's time was within 1 minute and 35 seconds, and it was still going on. improvement.

The Red Bull Racing Team and the Toyota Racing Team performed brilliantly in this race. They successively ran good results within 1:34.30.

However, this result is still much slower than that of a certain person.

"1:33.778! It's Zhang Guan! He is still so fast, the same as the second qualifying session of the last race, with a lap gap of nearly 0.5 seconds!"

The second chapter has been delivered, please ask for a guaranteed monthly ticket, thank you book friends Zhili* Zhijie, Suiqifeixiang, Swz Mowang, xsf9800, Shaomai ONE, and Jiajia in Inner Mongolia for rewards. Thanks,