Zhang Yifei thought of many possibilities, but he didn't expect Cosell's answer to be so simple, that is, to run fast......

Although Cowsel said this, in fact, after finishing speaking, he turned around and asked Yamamoto Ukyo behind him: "Ukyo, does Toyota have a wet tire with hand-carved patterns?"

"No, it's all Renault wet tires."

The real F1 wet tyres, with the displacement pattern on the tyres, are carved out by the team's engineers over a period of one to two days.

Because the road surface conditions of each track are different in terms of dryness and wetness, the requirements for wet tread lines are different, such as the depth of the grain, the width of the pattern interval, and so on.

The subtle differences in these patterns can have a big impact on the displacement and grip of the tire.

In general, each tire will have four main lines, just like a normal family car tire, there will be several main lines. The depth of these four main lines is between 2.5mm5mm (mm).

In addition to the depth, the spacing between these four main lines is 50mm as required by the FIA. As long as this criterion is met, some other small lines can be used freely by team engineers.

Therefore, in the event of heavy rain or heavy water in the track, the team engineers will deepen the tire lines and carve more small lines in addition to the four main lines to speed up the drainage.

The more and deeper the lines, the greater the displacement, but the corresponding decrease in tire grip and the slower the speed. If you don't, the car may slip due to too much water, which is even more dangerous.

For F1, a fraction of a millisecond per lap can be the time to determine the difference between victory and defeat. The machine builds standard tires, and the pattern standard and depth are fixed, which cannot be adapted to local conditions.

In order to ensure an absolute match for the dryness and wetness of the track surface, it is necessary for racing engineers to match the more suitable tire pattern and depth, and hand-carving has become the only choice.

But Renault is only a junior formula driver, and such a labor cost is not something that individual paying drivers can bear, even if they sign a team, they can't reach this level.

Toyota only provides primary technical support, which is obviously out of specification, and it is impossible for them to make this kind of blood for an academy student, so naturally there are no wet tires in hand-carved pattern format.

Korsell frowned at this answer, but he didn't say anything.

It is true that the event level of the primary formula cannot meet such high requirements, and it can only be said that he habitually arranges tactics according to F1 standards.

"Mentor, Renault's wet tires, the lines are the shallowest kind, there is no problem with general wetland drainage, but it may slip when encountering water on the road, do you want to replace it with safer full rain tires?"

"What is the depth of the grain of the full rain tire?"

“5mm。”

"5mm is too deep, and now it's not raining, so the depth of the lines can be one to two seconds slower than the lap time of wet tyres."

Korsell was in a rare state of hesitation, the track was not very wet, and it was only because of the special environment of the boulevard that there was water in some sections.

If everyone uses all-rain tires, there is naturally no problem, but in case someone chooses ordinary wet tires, then the tire gap of one to two seconds per lap is likely to be impossible to catch up, unless the difference in strength between the two sides is particularly large.

"But Mentor, in addition to the water on the ground, there is also a lot of standing water on the leaves of the forest. Once the car passes at high speed, the air flow fluctuations and noise vibrations will cause water droplets on the leaves to drip down, and the water accumulation on the track may be further worsened. ”

"So I think it's better to use all-rain tires for safety reasons."

Yamamoto Ukyo is a data analyst, and after experiencing the last tire puncture, he has become more strict with himself, basically groping all the race data of the Hockenheimring circuit in the past ten years.

It can be said that the Hockenheimring, because of the existence of the forest section, is the most complex sub-station of all formula circuits, full of many variables, which is very testing the team's pre-race planning.

It is precisely because the road information is too complex that when the Hockenheimring circuit was rebuilt in 02, this section of the forest track was directly cut off, so another challenging track became mediocre.

Colorel listened to Yamamoto Ukyo's suggestion, clasped his hands in front of his chest, stared at the track in front of him, and did not directly nod in agreement.

He knew the risk of dripping leaves on the boulevard, and there was once a car skiddling accident at the Hockenheimring Circuit due to the change of water on the boulevard.

But the question is whether to choose mediocre security or take the risk to compete for the championship

If Korcel were Zhang Yifei's true race engineer, he would have chosen wet tires without hesitation, as he had done in previous conversations, and mediocre safety has never been his style.

It's just that now Korcel is only "temporary", and all of them are not a real racing team. This kind of choice to play with his life, with his current identity, it is really difficult to help Zhang Yifei make a direct decision.

So Korsell hesitated, looked at Zhang Yifei and asked, "Do you choose wet tires or full rain tires in this race?"

Zhang Yifei was standing next to his conversation with Yamamoto Ukyo, and he naturally heard it.

Since he is the person concerned, this kind of thing Cowsell wants to hear Zhang Yifei's own thoughts.

"Wet tire."

"Why"

"Run fast."

Hearing this, Korsell opened his mouth and swallowed what he had to say.

Soon, the corners of the old German man's mouth, who had always been more serious, began to rise slightly.

At this moment, he really felt that Zhang Yifei, a kid, was the same kind of person as himself.

At 3:40 a.m., the race at Hockenheim began, and the race command center issued an order, and all drivers passed through the pit lane and entered the starting preparation area.

This time, Zhang Yifei was the first to come out of the pit and stop at the starting position in the starting preparation area, which is commonly known as the pole position.

Seeing Zhang Yifei's car parked on the pole position, the audience burst into applause and cheers, and even a few red flags appeared in the audience. Today's supporters of Zhang Yifei have improved several times compared with the qualifying stage.

You must know that during the qualifying competition, even if Zhang Yifei has gone through various media events, his popularity and popularity have increased to a certain extent, but those are not proof of strength, but more like a kind of "hype" heat.

In addition, Hedelberg can only be regarded as a small city in Germany, and it is already a rare scene to have more than 100 Chinese and overseas Chinese supporters.

And today's posture, Zhang Yifei estimated that there were two or three hundred people. Although this is still only a small part of the total number of 12,000 spectators, Zhang Yifei is already very satisfied, at least he is not fighting alone.

Stopping at the pole position, Zhang Yifei stretched out his arm and waved to the audience area, this is the honor that only the "winner" has. When he was late in the qualifying race before, Zhang Yifei was embarrassed to beckon.

His move made the cheers in the audience even more enthusiastic, and even many foreigner fans shouted the name "Fei" loudly.

"Look, Zhang Yifei stopped in the starting parking space, I really didn't expect that one day, I could see our Chinese drivers get the pole position!"

"Look at your appearance, what is this, fly him as a driver who can enter F1!"

"It's a little too early to get into F1 and it's nice to win Hockenheim."

"How bold a man is, how productive the earth is, do you understand?"

"That's right, I don't have any dreams at all, so what's the difference between that and salted fish"

The Chinese audience in the stadium was very excited, after all, this is the first Chinese driver to win pole position at a European circuit.

But soon there were more violent cheers on the track, which made Zhang Yifei subconsciously look to the side, Massa was driving his No. 3 car, stopping behind Zhang Yifei's right.

Although Massa had a crash during qualifying, the race had already exceeded 75 percent by that time, and according to FIA regulations, it could still be considered a valid finish.

And the qualifying session was the fastest lap, and Massa still finished second in qualifying with a time of 1:47.172.

Yesterday's accident, because of the final emergency braking and the protection of various protective equipment, Massa only suffered a slight injury, which did not affect today's race.

But in any case, after such a racing accident, Massa was still on the track the next day, and this spirit deserved the applause of the audience.

Not to mention that Massa himself was the most popular driver at Euro 2000 Renault, and it is no surprise that he has earned the respect of many fans for his frenzied pursuit of records on the track.

It seems that my audience base is still much worse.

Zhang Yifei muttered a sentence in his mouth, he didn't envy Massa, he just sighed.

The third pick was Kubica, who qualified with a time of 1:47.319, which was only 0.002 seconds slower than the track record.

It can be said that in yesterday's qualifying session, many people held their breath and wanted to prove themselves by taking pole position. Under this competitive pressure, the overall performance has been exaggeratedly improved, and if it is placed in Monza, Kubica's speed can get pole position.

In fourth place is not Suarez, but a player named Scott Dixon, whose name is Scott Dixon, who is ranked fourth by a very narrow margin.

The appearance of this player surprised Zhang Yifei, who thought that Suarez or Makina of the Mano team would rush up, but was fourth in the qualifying round by a player he didn't pay attention to.

Zhang Yifei glanced at these glances, in addition to looking at people, he was more looking at tires. In addition to choosing wet tyres for themselves, Massa, Kubica, and even Dixon, who is fourth, have all chosen wet tyres instead of all-wet tyres.

It seems that everyone has the same ambition and desire for the championship!

Just as Zhang Yifei was looking around, Massa also looked at Zhang Yifei, and the two of them looked at each other like this.

I saw that at this time, Massa raised his right hand and made a "1" gesture, his meaning was obvious, this time he wanted to win the championship.

Seeing Massa's movements, a playful smile appeared on Zhang Yifei's face.

Massa is very strong, and he can be regarded as a firm foothold in F1 at his peak, but the championship is not contracted by you, and I Zhang Yifei also plans to take this stop, so that you can experience what it is like to stand on the left side of the champion!