All-round Athlete

Chapter 658 Dry tires running in the rain (2220)

In Ferrari's command room, Schumacher's frown became tighter and tighter.

"It's been 46 laps. Why hasn't Zhang Guan stopped yet? His rain tires are almost worn out. What is he still insisting on? It's still raining heavily outside, and his tires will only run faster and faster. Slow down, maybe a badly controlled skid will lead to a fatal accident, why is he running again? Is this a deliberate strategy?"

Schumacher thought of his old friend Ross Brawn.

Ross Brawn is known as the strategy master of Formula One racing, and he has cooperated with Schumacher for many years. Many of Schumacher's classic victories are supported by Ross Brawn's precise strategy behind him, so seeing the In this scene, Schumacher immediately thought that this would be Ross Brawn's special strategy.

"Is it going to pit on the last lap and then cross the finish line in the pit lane?" Schumacher continued to think.

The maintenance area and the final straight are often parallel, and the distance in the maintenance area is counted into the number of laps. Passing the maintenance area once is equivalent to passing the finish timer once, so there are situations where the final finish line is crossed in the maintenance area. Of course, the premise of doing this must be that the team's maintenance station is before the finish line. This is actually a loophole, and Schumacher happened to use this tactic of crossing the finish line in the pit lane back then, and it was naturally Ross Brown who ordered him to do so.

"No, the speed is limited in the maintenance area, the running is already slow, plus the time to change tires, it is too late, Vettel will still cross the finish line first." Schumacher shook his head.

However, the next moment, Schumacher realized that this was a rain fight!

"Could it be that Zhang Guan is not going to stop at all!" Schumacher raised his head suddenly, thinking of this possibility.

"Two types of tires must be used in the race, except for the rain race! Because this is a rain race, I simply don't change the tires and run all the way to the end! This is a loophole in the rules! This is a typical Ross Brown style. "Schumacher thought of this, his face was full of shock, but the next second, he immediately shook his head again.

"Impossible, this tactic cannot be successful, the tires can't hold it! A set of full rain tires can last forty laps, and the remaining sixteen laps, there is no way to run! Ross Brown will not make a mistake. This kind of low-level mistake. Now Zhang Guan's set of tires is about to wear out into slick tires, and use slick tires to run in the rain? Hehe, even me at the peak of the year, I can barely hold on for a few laps!" Schumacher I thought to myself.

...

Lap 47.

Turn 16, the last corner of the track, is where the pit pit entrance is located. In this corner, turn left to enter the big straight before the finish line, and turn left after going straight to enter the maintenance area.

"Turn 16 is ahead, it's time for Zhang Guan to stop! Haha, first place, here I come!" Vettel under the helmet smiled happily.

However, the red car in front of him did not go straight, but chose to turn left.

"What? Zhang Guan has to run another lap? I know you are playing at home, but you started last. It is already very good to be able to persist to this point. Even if you pit now, the home crowd will cheer for you Cheers." Vettel thought silently.

...

On the 48th lap, it was turn 16 again.

"It's time for Zhang Guan to stop! His tires are almost worn out!" Vettel looked ahead, and then watched the red car turn left and turn into the final straight.

"Are you still in the pit? In the last lap, my speed was already faster than yours. What are you still insisting on?"

...

The 49th lap is still the 16th turn.

Zhang Guan still chose to turn left and enter the straight road.

At this time, Vettel was already a little angry.

"You haven't entered the station yet, my patience is limited!"

...

On the 50th lap, there are still six laps left before the end of the race.

"Haven't entered the station yet? No, something is wrong!"

By this time, Zhang Guan hadn't chosen to pit, and Vettel had already realized that something was wrong.

...

The command room of Chinese forces.

Ross Brown looked at the screen with a tangled face, his heart was already in his throat, and every corner Zhang Guan made made him feel extremely nervous.

"Zhang Guan's tires are about to fail. He must be very careful when cornering now, otherwise he will inevitably slip, and this situation will become more and more serious. Now that Vettel is approaching, if Vettel realizes If Zhang Guan won’t stop at all, he will definitely launch an attack. With Zhang Guan’s set of tires, I’m afraid we won’t be able to hold on for a single lap! What should we do? Now we can only hope that Red Bull won’t guess our strategy choose."

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Ross Brown's mind, and he seemed to think of something.

At the next moment, Ross Brown said fiercely: "Quickly, let the mechanic go out with the tires, by the way, dry tires, not wet tires, and don't open the tire insulation cover, now, hurry up!"

"Do you want Zhang Guan to come in and change tires?" The engineer next to him asked. He didn't understand why Ross Brown would change the original established strategy at this time.

"Don't change the tire, let Zhang Guan continue to run! But the maintenance engineer must go out with the tire." Ross Brown continued.

"If you don't want to change the tires, what's the point of sending the mechanic out?" the engineer asked with some brains.

"Nonsense, of course it is to tell others that Zhang Guan is going to make a pit stop and we need to change tires!" Ross Brown said.

...

Zhang Guan hadn't entered the station yet, which also surprised everyone present.

When entering the continuous hairpin bend, Zhang Guan's tires were slightly locked, and this situation was captured by the camera, and people can clearly see that Zhang Guan's tires have completely worn out the pattern, becoming A set of slick tires. In other words, Zhang Guan is now running in the rain with slick tires.

"My God, the pattern on Zhang Guan's tires has been completely worn out. He is using such a set of tires to race in the rain! These are equivalent to dry tires!"

"How can the flattened rain tires have the performance of dry tires! The performance of Zhang Guan's tires is definitely far worse than that of dry tires! But he is still running, how did he do it!"

"Skinless tires running in the rain, it's unimaginable that someone in this world can do this! If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really can't imagine it!"

"Look, it's skidded! Luckily, it was rescued! The slick tires really can't run! This time, the skid lost a second, so hurry up and change the tire!"

At this moment, the director switched the screen to the garage of the China Force team, and saw the maintenance technician holding the tire, holding the electric screwdriver, and walking out with the fuel pipe on his shoulder.

"China Power has made a move. The maintenance engineer came out holding the tires. It is Zhang Guan who is about to enter the station!"

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