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Chapter 653 Blocking Zhang Guan (17/20)

Chapter 653 Blocking Zhang Guan (1720)

The air temperature is 20 degrees Celsius, and the track temperature is 19 degrees Celsius. Under this temperature, the tires obviously need to run for several laps before they can work normally, and all the drivers have changed to heavy rain tires. Because of the regulations, the safety car led the start. In this case, all cars must be replaced with full rain tires.

If the rainfall is only average, the race will definitely not lead with the safety car, but today's rain is really heavy. For safety reasons, the race can only deploy the safety car. All cars follow the safety car in order, and the safety car The number of laps led by the car will be counted towards the whole race. That is to say, in the first few laps of the race, all cars must follow the safety car around the track at a relatively low speed until the race meeting confirms that the visibility is normal for the race and the safety car returns to the pit stop.

This situation is obviously very beneficial to Zhang Guan, because Zhang Guan is not going to enter the pit stop and run the whole distance in one go, so he uses the heaviest fuel load. Following the safety car can consume fuel and also No lap times are lost due to the weight of the vehicle.

At the same time, under the leadership of the safety car, the speed of the car was slower than usual, and the wear on the tires was much lighter. Zhang Guan's set of full rain tires can also last a few more laps.

One lap, two laps, three laps, four laps... It's already reached the fifth lap, and the safety car still has no intention of going back, but some teams can't stand it anymore.

Some teams are light-loaded. Their original plan was to use lighter-loaded fuel and a set of supersoft tires. On the 15th lap, the supersoft tires could last almost that long, but they didn't expect a heavy rain, which completely disrupted their plan.

Even driving under the safety car will be more fuel-efficient, but for those cars that have only added fuel for eleven or twelve laps, they cannot afford to consume it. Their original plan was to rush to the front at the beginning of the race, but unexpectedly Now it is going around at a slow speed with everyone, and the advantage of light-loaded oil is not reflected at all, but it is consuming fuel in vain.

It's the fifth lap now, and the safety car is still outside. If the safety car runs ten or eight more laps, the lightly loaded car will be the first to run out of gasoline. It is undoubtedly a very unwise choice to run out of gasoline in this low-speed circling state, so some light-loaded racing cars simply choose to stop at this time to refuel.

Rosberg of the Williams team first entered the pit, and then Alonso, and these two cars could only be ranked at the bottom after exiting the pit, Zhang Guan was lucky to advance two nouns, Came to the eighteenth.

Finally, on the seventh lap, the situation on the track was much better, and the safety car was announced to return to the pit lane on the eighth lap.

On the eighth lap, the safety car returned to the pit stop, and the race officially started.

If it is a static start, the first few corners will inevitably cause the drivers to compete fiercely, but the dynamic start does not have this problem, and the first few cars enter the corners relatively smoothly.

Vettel and his teammate Webber, who started from pole position, successfully defended the top two, and behind them was the eye-catching Barrichello. Behind McLaren's Hamilton easily surpassed Ferrari's Raikkonen, and Raikkonen said that his racing engine had an abnormality.

At the back, Zhang Guan also started to accelerate. The first thing he had to face was Force India driver Fisichella, and in front of Fisichella was Force India's Sutil.

"It costs 10,000 US dollars to block a lap. I don't know if the safety car led the first few laps, it can't be regarded as blocking Zhang Guan?" Fisichella thought to himself. He looked in the direction of Turn 1 ahead, but he His teammate Sutil's racing car splashed water, but made his vision a little blurred. But the flashing red taillights of Sutil's racing car were extremely conspicuous.

"It's almost time to brake!" Sutil chose to brake after listening to the sound of the engine.

F1 racing cars do not have dashboards, but as a professional driver, you can judge the speed of the car and the engine speed by feeling and the sound of the engine, and brake with different strengths at the same time.

The starting straight at Shanghai International Circuit is very long, and the tail speed at the end of the straight can reach 310 kilometers per hour. At this time, the car is in sixth gear, and the next turn 1 needs to be quickly reduced to fourth gear, so a strong kick is required brakes.

However, at the moment when Fisichella braked, beside him, a red figure suddenly appeared.

"It's Zhang Guan!" Fisichella instantly understood that Zhang Guan used a late braking point to catch up with him.

"Braking so late, I can't enter the corner!" Fisichella is also experienced. He quickly adjusted the angle of the car and entered the first turn, trying to press Zhang Guan behind him when he exited the corner.

But the red car in front of him flickered, and there was another tail light in front of Fisichella.

At the first corner, Zhang Guan passed Fisichella smoothly.

China Force's racing car is equipped with a double-layer diffuser, which has an advantage in terms of downforce, so it can have better speed in corners. Although Zhang Guan's braking point is later than Fisichella's, he takes advantage of the slight understeer To ensure their own cornering speed and cornering speed, so easily surpassed Fisichella.

This is not only the advantage of racing, but also the crushing of technology.

At this moment, under the helmet, Fisichella's expression had become very ugly. One second ago, he was still dreaming of blocking Zhang Guan for a lap to earn 10,000 yuan, and the next second he was directly overtaken by Zhang Guan.

However, Zhang Guan did not stop. He rushed directly into the second turn and launched an offensive against another car of Force India.

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Turn 2, turn 3 and turn 4 are the first difficult points of this track. These three turns form a continuous hairpin turn, and the highest point of the whole track is at turn 2. , That is to say, this continuous hairpin bend enters the corner uphill and exits the corner downhill. During the whole process, the car will continuously shift from fourth gear to second gear, and the speed of the car must also be quickly reduced from 200 kilometers to 100 kilometers.

The Shanghai International Circuit has a slope. If measured numerically, the lowest point of the track is an absolute height of 4.5 meters, and the highest point of the track is the position of Turn 2, with an absolute height of 11.24 meters. The lowest point of the track and The difference between the highest positions is a full 6.74 meters, which is equal to the height of three Yaos. It's just that they are spread over several square kilometers, and a drop of more than 6 meters is nothing.

But for the driver, there is a certain control pressure to run such continuous hairpin turns with uphill and downhill on rainy days.

Now, Sutil of the Force India team is preparing to go through this continuous hairpin turn. However, the pressure he faces is not only the corners, slopes and rainy weather, Zhang Guan, who is already close behind, is the main source of his pressure.

It was raining, the road was difficult to walk, the curves were difficult to turn, and there were pursuers behind. This is indeed a very tragic situation.

"What is Fisichella doing! Let him block Zhang Guan, why didn't he even hold on to a corner!" Sutil couldn't help but cursed inwardly.

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