Friday morning's practice session lasts 90 minutes, but no car will choose to run the entire course, and the average driver will limit the number of laps to around 20 laps, depending on the actual situation. There are many reasons why the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is so.

First of all, tire consumption is a problem, the tire wear of Formula 1 cars is very bad, according to different types of tires, a set of tires can last ten to twenty laps, the rules require that a car in a race can only be used eight sets of dry tires, to polish the tires in practice, the race is useless.

Secondly, the driver also has to protect the engine, the rules stipulate that a car only has eight engines in a season, so the engine is one less than one, this season's seventeen races, and now it is just the first practice race, the car engine can not wear too much.

Finally, the riders have to maintain their stamina and prepare for the race the day after tomorrow. Motorsport is also a physically demanding sport, especially Formula 1. Formula 1 cars do not have an electronic power assist system, so many of the maneuvers are done by the driver's strength, and the driver has to bear several times the gravitational acceleration when the car turns. Under normal circumstances, each rider will be dehydrated by several pounds after a race, which is the same as dehydration during strenuous exercise.

For these reasons, Zhang Guan was called back to the pit, and Ross Brown made an adjustment to the car based on the data returned by the sensors on the car, then asked Zhang Guan to go up for three or four laps, and then returned to the pit room to start adjusting the car.

Getting the car in the best condition is the main task of every team in practice sessions, and it is also a must-do. Considering the different characteristics of each track, some tracks are fast, some tracks have many curves, and the cars will be completely tuned for each race.

The 90-minute practice session was over quickly, and when Zhang Guan stepped off the field, he walked towards the rest area with Barrichello.

"Hi, Zhang Guan! I'm Sebastian Vettel! "Sebastian Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull Racing came over.

"Hello, Zhang Guan, I'm Rosberg." Williams' Rosberg also greeted Zhang.

That's change, or rather, recognition. Before that, the drivers may not regard Zhang Guan as their peers, and even some of them think that Zhang Guan's super driver's license was bought with money, but today's practice match has obviously changed the views of the drivers, and Zhang Guan's strength has been recognized by everyone and recognized by his peers.

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In Friday morning's practice session, the Williams team performed brightly, with Williams drivers Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima taking the top two spots. The results of the Chinese Power Team are in the upper midstream. Ferrari still topped the big teams, while McLaren underperformed.

On Friday afternoon, Williams was still in the limelight, with Rosberg once again in first place, Red Bull Racing and Toyota Racing on a rebound, while McLaren remained sluggish.

By Saturday morning, the team had switched to supersoft tyres for practice, which had led to a significant improvement in the drivers' performance, with drivers already under 1 minute and 26 seconds in Saturday morning's practice session.

In these three practice sessions, Zhang Guan's performance can be regarded as tepid, he did not hit the lap times of the top few, but he did not lag behind, almost all of them were in the upper middle of the range.

Zhang Guan felt that he was a new driver, and the first race should be more low-key, and after all, there was no need to fight for the first place in the practice round, but in fact, his performance had already shocked everyone.

It's normal for a driver who has just entered Formula 1 to finish bottom in the first race. For example, Swiss driver Bouami, who is also a newcomer to F1 this year, finished first from the bottom in Friday's practice session, which is the ranking that a newcomer should have.

However, after a brief period of surprise, attention was drawn to the likes of Ferrari and McLaren. Chasing big names is a relatively common phenomenon in sports, such as Real Madrid in football and the Lakers in basketball, even if their results are relatively average, they can still get a lot of media attention.

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On the afternoon of March 28, the Albert Park Circuit welcomed a large number of spectators as qualifying for the F1 Australian Grand Prix was about to begin.

Racing can't be like a track sprint, where everyone starts in a row, and nothing else, the width of the track alone is not allowed. And it is not easy to overtake in motorsports, and the person who starts in front is undoubtedly more advantageous, so who is in front and who is behind needs a qualifying race to compete.

Qualifying is the fastest lap, the rules of Formula 1 qualifying have been changing over the years, the previous qualifying race is each driver wheels up to run laps, whoever has a good result will start in front, and then the FIA felt that this kind of running is too boring, a car is not interesting to circle by itself, so it was reformed.

The current qualifying round is divided into three quarters, and the elimination system is implemented. After the pit lane opens, all the cars can come out to run laps, as many laps as they want within the allotted time, and after qualifying, the drivers will be ranked according to their fastest time. This means that if you are fast enough, you can run one time lap and get the first place, but if you don't have enough speed, you can run ten laps and be the last to last.

And in fact, in the past, teams like Ferrari, they had the fastest cars and the fastest drivers, so they would often just run one time lap and then call it a day, because they were fast enough to finish first. But some small teams, they will keep running on the track, hoping that they will be lucky enough to play and get a better starting position.

The duration of a qualifying session is 20 minutes, and the top 16 finishers advance to the second qualifying session. There were only 20 cars in the race this year, so in reality the first qualifying session was actually just four people eliminated.

"I think at the level of our car, we can run the first qualifying session on medium tyres so we can save on a set of soft tyres." Ross Brown's voice rang out from the headphones.

"You are the conductor, we listen to you." Zhang Guan said.

The pit crew put the car on medium tyres, but didn't get the heat shield on the tyres. Because racing tires need to reach a certain temperature to have the best grip, the thermal cover keeps the racing tires from cooling down.

"The pit lane is open, listen to my instructions and get ready to go out, we need to find a good moment so as not to be blocked by other cars." Ross Brown spoke.

More than a dozen or twenty cars are running on the track at the same time, and everyone wants to run the fastest lap time, but the cars are fast and slow, and there are often cases where fast cars are blocked by slow cars. For example, when the car in front of you is ready to go back to the pits, the speed will definitely slow down a bit to avoid wearing out the tires, and if there happens to be a car behind you that is sprinting for the fastest lap, the result will inevitably suffer.

Therefore, the timing of the car is crucial for qualifying. The timing of the car is good, there is no slow train in front, and you can run a lap relatively smoothly; The timing of the car is not good, and there is one or even several slow cars in front of you, and the results will definitely be greatly affected.

Finally, Ross Brown saw an opportunity, and he said into the walkie-talkie, "It's now, get out right now!" ”

The pit crew quickly pushed the car out and removed the tire cover. Zhang Guan stepped on the accelerator and drove onto the main road of the maintenance channel, while at the same time, the camera lens was also aimed at Zhang Guan.

"It's a neutral tyre! Zhang Guan actually used neutral tires to race! I thought he would use super soft tyres! ”

"Why does he use neutral tires? Is he so confident that he can enter the second round with neutral tires? ”

"Medium tyres are a lot slower than supersoft tyres. A new team chose medium tyres instead of supersoft tyres in the first qualifying session! The ideas of the Chinese are also unique enough! ”

In the distance, Omi looked at this scene, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned.

"Who do you think you are, Ferrari or McLaren? Want to get to the second round with neutral tyres? Arrogant! ”

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