All-round Athlete

Chapter 648 Explosion (1220)

At 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, the third practice session started on time.

"Same as in Australia, the granulation of the supersoft tires is still very serious. Princeton's soft tires are really hard to wear." Zhang Guan said to the radio.

"The sensor shows that your engine temperature seems to be a little high." The engineer's voice came from the headset.

"Do you need to slow down?" Zhang Guan asked.

"Not for the time being, let's observe again... Well, the temperature seems to have dropped a bit, probably because of the continuous high-speed corner just now." The engineer said.

"How about the results of other teams?" Zhang Guan then asked.

"McLaren's double-layer diffuser seems to be very effective. At present, Hamilton maintains the fastest lap, and you have a difference of 0.1 seconds." The engineer said.

"Okay, I will run faster in the next lap." Zhang Guan replied.

"Alonso slid out of the track at Turn 9, and there seems to be something wrong with his car. Pay attention to Turn 9, his car is still parked there, and he has to slow down when he gets there," the engineer reminded.

"Ok, no problem."

In practice on Saturday morning, the three teams of the "Diffuser Gang", China Power, Williams and Toyota still achieved good results, and the McLaren team, which installed a transitional double-layer diffuser, also performed well. The two cars All ran into the top ten. The Ferrari team did not install a kinetic energy recovery system in this race, and their condition has also improved, while the Red Bull team, which performed well in the first two races, did not show good results in practice. The two drivers only ran for seven times. Eight laps to return to the pit lane.

The 60-minute practice session in the morning ended quickly. Rosberg of the Williams team finally surpassed Zhang Guan with an advantage of 0.039 seconds in the last lap and became the first in the Saturday practice session. Although Zhang Guan Won the second place, but still received the most applause, followed by Trulli, Hamilton and Barrichello and others.

Saturday's practice session is regarded as a weathervane for qualifying. Judging from Zhang Guan's performance, he is still the most promising person to hit the pole position. Moreover, this is the home field of China Power, so the advantage is very obvious.

Qualifying will start at 2:00 pm, and while the drivers and staff of each team are still having lunch, the circuit is already full of spectators.

The fixed stands of the Shanghai International Circuit can accommodate 50,000 spectators, and the temporary stands can accommodate 150,000 spectators. Due to the appearance of Zhang Guan this year, the organizer has temporarily built a stand that can accommodate 50,000 spectators. Two hundred and fifty thousand people arrived at the scene to watch the battle. And in front of the TV, there are countless people waiting there.

The sports channel began to broadcast the special program of the Shanghai Grand Prix after the noon news program ended. Several guests chatted there for more than an hour, and finally waited until two o'clock in the afternoon, when qualifying began.

The climate in mid-April is still very suitable. The air temperature is 24 degrees Celsius, which is not too cold for the drivers; the track temperature is 37 degrees Celsius, which is just right for the tires.

In the first quarter of the race, Rosberg of the Williams team took the lead and set a benchmark of 1:37.100 in the first timing lap, and then Ferrari's Massa ran 1:36.780. Then they ran out of the road at 1:36.480, and the two Ferraris quickly set the fastest lap time.

McLaren, which was replaced with a transitional diffuser, also performed very well. Hamilton started McLaren's recovery campaign with a time of 1:36.381. After that, apart from Webber of the Red Bull Racing Team, no one was able to surpass Hamilton's results.

Red Bull, who performed poorly in the practice session, also recovered in the first qualifying session. Weber's score was 1:35.751, which was the first driver to run within 1:56. For a track like the Shanghai track that tests the overall performance of the car, a car like Red Bull that focuses on aerodynamics has a lot of advantages.

The team told Weber that he became the first driver to run within 1 minute and 36 seconds. Weber happily returned to the maintenance area, and the extremely warm applause from the surrounding audience made Weber feel elated.

"The audience in China are so enthusiastic!" Weber thought happily.

However, soon after he saw the driver's score sheet, he knew that the applause was not for himself.

China Power Racing Team Barrichello has just set a new fastest lap, 1:35.701. As the home team, it deserves warm applause from the audience.

However, the warmer applause came from behind. After Barrichello, Zhang Guan made the fastest lap of 1:35.433, which was 0.3 seconds faster than Weber's lap time just now. In qualifying, 0.3 Seconds is still an insurmountable gap.

The applause was deafening. Although it was only the first practice session, many car fans seemed to have a premonition that Zhang Guan would still get the final pole position.

"Zhang Guan is 0.3 seconds faster than Weber. Although this is not as abnormal as the 0.5 seconds in the previous games, it is based on an insurmountable gap. It seems that Zhang Guan's dominance has continued to the China race." Abroad A commentator in China sighed and sighed, while domestic commentators kept touting it. The 0.3-second advantage seemed to be the gap between high-speed rail and ordinary express in the mouths of domestic commentators.

In the first quarter of qualifying, Zhang Guan showed a crushing advantage, which is not surprising. The two Force India cars were the last two and were eliminated.

After a five-minute break, the second qualifying session began. All the cars were replaced with supersoft tires and used light fuel. In particular, the two Red Bull cars put on a posture to challenge Zhang Guan. .

Barrichello was the first to wait for the top, while Hamilton was second. The gap between the top six was very close. Raikkonen, who was in sixth place, was only 0.1 seconds behind Barrichello, and the drivers on the track were still on the go. refreshed the fastest lap.

Weber of the Red Bull team ran another fastest lap of 1:35.173, which was infinitely close to the 1:35 mark, but he only sat in the first position for five seconds. Zhang Guan He climbed to the first place with 1:34.879 and ran into the 1:35 mark. This is also the fastest lap in today's race.

After switching to supersoft tires, Zhang Guan still maintained a 0.3-second advantage.

After that, Vettel ran a time of 1:35.130, which is still a big gap from Zhang Guan. Obviously, Vettel has squeezed the Red Bull Racing to the limit, but there is still no way to surpass Zhang Guan.

In the command center of Red Bull Racing, Newey shook his head helplessly. Today's results seem to have narrowed the gap with China Power, but considering the track factors, the gap is actually the same as before.

"Zhang Guan still dominates the race. The advantage of 0.3 seconds is unshakable. It seems that the China Force team can celebrate the pole position in consecutive races." The commentator said.

"Yes, Zhang Guan has won the pole position for three consecutive races. How many years has it been since this kind of dominance?" Another commentator said.

"The third qualifying session has begun. Zhang Guan came out very early this time... Hey, what's going on? Black smoke! Black rocks are coming out of the rear of Zhang Guan's car. Could it be that there is a problem with the engine."

In the third qualifying session, Zhang Guan left the maintenance area early and started his own tire warm-up lap. But before Zhang Guan's tire warm-up lap was over, black smoke billowed from the rear of his car, and then the black smoke became bigger and bigger, and then turned into thick smoke.

"Oops, Zhang Guan's engine exploded!"

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