Chapter 1579: Competition!
Seeing that the No. 2 Williams car reversed the decline in an instant and surpassed himself, Hamilton Rao is psychological quality is good, and his heart is also churning!
It's fair to say that no one in the entire F1 driver knows his car's performance better than he does. And no one knows the superiority of the engine behind him better than him!
Since 2014, the engine of F1 has undergone a sea change, from the 2.4V8 metabolic curtain to the bold introduction of a 1.6L V6 turbocharged hybrid engine. The engine will be revved at 15,000 rpm from 18,000 rpm in the V8 era, with a turbo speed of 125,000 rpm and a maximum injection pressure of 500 Pa with direct fuel injection.
Quite rightly, this F1 power cannot simply be called an "engine", but rather a "power unit", because the new power unit introduces an energy recovery system – the ERS.
Previously, F1 already had a pure kinetic energy recovery system, KERS, which recovers braking energy from the rear axle through a compact generator/electric motor system, which is the same principle as most civilian hybrid models on the market today.
But the new ERS goes one step further, in addition to the original KERS system, a second electric motor is connected to the turbine and heat exchanger, which converts the excess heat energy from the engine into electrical energy for storage.
For example, the V8-era KERS system allows riders to get an extra power output of 80 hp per lap that lasts for 7 seconds. And the 2014 version of the ERS rider gets an extra power delivery of up to 161 hp for up to 33 seconds per lap!
Not only that, but the new power unit uses 30% less fuel than before, with F1 carrying around 150kg of fuel for the full range in the V8 era, and now only 100kg is required.
This change has changed the entire landscape of F1 dramatically - in this ERS field, Mercedes-Benz AMG is the first deservedly.
Since the beginning of this new power unit era, Mercedes-Benz has completely dominated F1 by virtue of its power advantage, which has caused other teams to complain and fans to complain.
But in fact, Hamilton knew that the advanced nature of the Mercedes-Benz engine did not stop there!
What has made him most satisfied with the engine in recent seasons is the thermal efficiency of the engine. Behind him, the Mercedes-AMG's high-performance AMG-HPP engine has reached a staggering 47% thermal efficiency.
This is the best-selling engine of all F1 cars!
"Thermal efficiency" is popularly understood as the extent to which the engine can convert the energy of the fuel into the power to propel the car in front, and the average car can only use up to 30% of the energy, and the other 70% is lost through heat loss and mechanical friction.
The high thermal efficiency of the Mercedes-Benz engine represents more surging power and more sustained acceleration ability.
With this advantage, Hamilton has watched his opponent retreat from his side countless times, and seen his opponent's frustrated but helpless eyes in the rearview mirror countless times.
But now, this feeling is playing out on him, and it is so sudden, inflicted by such an opponent who he has never looked at before!
"FK! What's going on with that car!?"
Watching Amondello outpass him at an ever-increasing pace, Hamilton let out a loud cry in the middle of the internal communication.
And it was only at this point that the people in the surrounding stands reacted;
Originally, there was not much hope for this practice session, just like in the past in F1, and most of the spectators came to take pictures with the drivers.
Because in practice matches, there is generally no too fierce and continuous competition.
But at the beginning of this game, such a powerful scene broke out, which made the audience boil directly!
What excites them even more is that Hamilton, who has won the F1 championship for three consecutive years, was defeated in the secret battle of Amondello, a pure rookie!
For a while, the tsunami-like shouts of the mountains resounded in the arena, and many spectators threw the popcorn in their hands into the sky.
"Lewis, don't rush. Keep up, their engine is brand new and now looks like it's very good at acceleration and explosiveness, but it's not always going to last the whole game. Follow him, get close to him, provoke him, and you must force that rookie to exert all his strength and see the full performance of their engine!"
"As you wish!"
After receiving the message from the technical director, Hamilton directly upshifted, and the speed continued to increase.
The Copse bend is a short period of acceleration and the driver can move up to 6th gear for around 270 km/h. However, the interval was too short, and after just finishing the overtake and leading two bodies, Amondello was in front of Maggots, Becketts and Chapel, three consecutive corners.
Following the normal process, he shifted to 5th gear at 272km/h into the corner, then dropped to 160km/h in 4th gear before heading out of the corner at 248km/h in 5th gear.
This maximizes speed and ensures that the tyres do not lock up when entering corners.
However, as he entered the second consecutive corner, he was surprised to find that the distance he had just opened up before entering the corner had been completely made up by Hamilton through technique!
It has to be said that Hamilton is a very well-rounded driver who dares to fight at all times. He recovered the disadvantage with a corner and clinged to the back of Amondello's car. Seeing that Amondero's seemingly decent but flawed cornering technology, Hamilton directly used a small trick of delaying braking, directly accelerated to suck the wake of the car in front, and used the excellent characteristics of Mercedes-Benz Michelin tires to complete a smooth overtaking maneuver with better cornering performance than Williams Bridgestone tires, and directly twisted the backwardness into a parallel and slightly ahead of the front of the car.
Entering the third corner with a front-end advantage, he further took advantage of the rules advantage of the lead with a small angle adjustment, forcing Amond Dero to give way and complete a perfect overtake!
This set of operations made the audience around the audience stand up and gave warm applause.
The commentator also shouted excitedly in the voice of the male duck, "This overtaking is like a textbook standard!" It's really unimaginable, you will see this in the practice session is enough to be selected as the top 10 best overtaking cars of the year!"
Even Li Fanyu and Alonso, who were sitting in the team's pit lane, had to admit that Hamilton's series of technical treatments just now were perfect.
In just half a lap of the opening race, two overtakes have been completed, and the track has entered a white heat for a while. And Hamilton also used two transcendences to fully prove his skills.
"Good job! ”
Listening to the compliments of the technical director in the team's internal communication, Hamilton glanced faintly in the rearview mirror.
He noticed that Amondelo was also watching him through the rearview mirror, and looking at those blue eyes, Hamilton smiled coldly, with indescribable contempt.
At this time, the cars have already entered the HANGAR Grand Straight, which is the longest and fastest section of the Silverstone Circuit!
Just as Hamilton was rapidly picking up the pace to further establish his advantage, he heard a voice behind him...... A strange scream like a mechanical demon!