In Monaco, the choice between pole position and the strategy of the official competition is always a dilemma. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Monaco's Monte Carlo circuit is one of the most difficult to overtake, because the track is so narrow that even if other cars catch up with them, there is no angle to enter or exit the corner, except for those one or two places, there is almost no place for overtaking in the whole circuit.

But at the same time, the Monte Carlo circuit allows for a one-pit stop strategy. Although the whole course takes a full 78 laps, the total distance is actually only 260 kilometers, which is much shorter than the total distance of more than 300 kilometers on other tracks, and the consumption of tires is also much lower.

So the team was faced with a choice between whether to run for pole position with a light car with low fuel capacity, or to add more petrol and make one less pit stop.

And even if it is two pit stops, different strategies will be distinguished. With a little more fuel before the race, you can use two short pit stops; The pre-race refueling is general, and a combination of a long pit stop and a short pit stop can be used; There is less fuel before the race, so it is only two long pit stops to fill up the tank.

On such a track that is not easy to overtake, strategy becomes especially important. Drivers can't overtake their opponents on the track, but the team's strategists can use their pit stop strategy to do things that drivers can't do on the track. This is the character of the Monte Carlo circuit.

If Zhang Guan showed great dominance in the first two quarters of the race, as he did in the previous races, 0.5 seconds faster than the second place, it is estimated that it will be difficult for all the teams to raise the confidence to compete for pole position, after all, the 0.5 second advantage is difficult to make up for even if it is ultra-light with oil. At that time, the teams will instead find a way to find a way to pit stop strategy, especially for the Chinese power, which will greatly increase the uncertainty of the race, and for Zhang Guan, it will become a situation of the enemy and the enemy.

But now Zhang Guan showed the level of "fighting five scum" in the first two quarters of the practice match, which gave his opponents hope. With hope of competing for pole position, teams such as Ferrari and Red Bull certainly did not miss out on this opportunity, and they did not hesitate to opt for light fuel loads, which meant that the team had only one choice in terms of pit stop strategy, and that was to make two long pit stops.

Originally, Zhang Guan did not intend to deliberately slow down in the first two quarters, because everyone knows that this track has the highest demand for downforce, and it is an advantageous track for China Power's cars, even if Zhang Guan deliberately runs slower in the first and second quarters, it will be suspected of retaining strength. As a "five-time champion" since the start of the race, it is 100% conspiracy to suddenly slow down on the track in which he is most advantaged.

But the news media happened to give Zhang Guan a "green hat king" at this time, so Zhang Guan and Ross Brown discussed, and simply calculated the plan, and ran slower in the first two quarters of qualifying, so that everyone thought that Zhang Guan was affected by the "green hat king", and he was completely out of shape during the game, and his results would be so bad.

And things turned out to be as Zhang Guan and Ross Brown planned, Ferrari and Red Bull, the main competitors of the ******** power, saw the hope of pole position, and in order to compete for pole position, they all chose light fuel to race, and this is equivalent to Ferrari and Red Bull completely leaking their pit stop strategy.

At Monte Carlo, if you can't overtake on the track, you have to rely on a pit stop strategy; And if even the pit stop strategy is understood by the opponent, the word "surpassing" can only be regarded as an unattainable dream.

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Third Quarter Qualifying.

Ferrari's Massa was the first to break out of the pits, but reality gave Ferrari a head start, Massa had a plan at the rear when he came out of one of the corners, the front nose fin hit the crash wall, the front wing of the car fell off, and the car had to return to the pit lane to replace parts.

Two Red Bull drivers, Ferrari's Raikkonen, Renault's Alonso, and Williams' Rosberg, completed their own timing laps one after another. Because their results are all within 1 minute and 16 seconds very quickly.

"Rosberg of Williams Racing, 1:15.455!"

"McLaren's Kovalenen, 1:15.516!"

"Sebastian Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing...... 1:15.271, this result is almost close to the 1:15 mark! ”

"Barrichello of the China Power Team, 1:15.077! Well, China's power is temporarily in the first place! ”

The commentator reported the drivers' results, and the team's strategy engineers had already seen the results on the monitors.

"Barrichello's time in the second quarter was 1:14.711, and we all know that the car was basically empty in Q2, and he can now run 1:15.077, which is only 0.36 seconds slower than the empty gas, and I expect him to have about 20 laps." Raikkonen's headphones rang with the voices of Ferrari's strategy engineers, and in almost three to five seconds, they had made precise calculations.

"Isn't 20 laps of fuel about the same as my fuel load?" Raikkonen then responded: "Zhang Guan is not in shape today, and the Chinese forces are ready for Barrichello to attack the pole position!" Don't worry, I'm definitely faster than him, the pole position is mine. ”

Raikkonen was looking intently ahead, and he was going to run his best.

"Whoosh!" The car flew past the finish counter, and Raikkonen's name appeared on the electronic display, and he finished first.

"1:14.927! Raikkonen ran under 1 minute and 15 seconds! That's a full 0.15 seconds faster than Barrichello! Looks like the pole position belongs to Ferrari! ”

"Yes, we could probably congratulate Ferrari in advance on their first pole position of the season! Since the renewal of Ferrari's cars, their form has improved immediately, with points in their last race and pole position in this race. It's the sixth race, and with eleven more to go, it looks like this year's title race is just getting underway......

In the Ferrari workshop, the pit technicians were already high-five and hugging each other, and they had already begun to celebrate the team's pole position.

It was at this time that Zhang Guan turned around Turn 19 and rushed to the finish timer.

A red shadow flew in front of the main stand, and in the next second, Raikkonen's name on the display was instantly squeezed to second.

"It's Zhang Guan! Zhang Guan went to the first! He surpassed Raikkonen! ”

"1:14.726, 0.21 seconds faster than Raikkonen!"

This is the Monte Carlo circuit, which is only 3.34 kilometers in one lap, which is only three-fifths the length of the other circuits in terms of more than 5 kilometers, and the difference of 0.21 seconds in the previous lap of the Monte Carlo circuit is equivalent to a difference of 0.35 seconds in a lap compared to other circuits.

At this moment, cheers came from the garage of the Chinese power. Zhang Guan took pole position again.

Six races, five pole positions! (To be continued.) )