Chapter 261: Tournament Termination (5/20)
On the track, Toyota's Trulli was already closing in on Barrichello. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Okay, he's already in the driver's seat, he's still on all-rain tires, it's a lot slower than mine, and on the next straight, I can use the late braking point to overtake him!" Catch up with Barrichello first, and then catch up with Zhang Guan, maybe I have a chance to win the championship! ”
Trulli was planning his script in his mind and was ready to follow it step by step, but at this moment, the drop of water that fell on his helmet goggles gave him a sense of foreboding.
"Got water? Could it be raining again? No, it must have been dripped from the sponsor's billboard when I passed by it just now. The heavy rain has just stopped, how can it be falling again! ”
In the next second, countless raindrops fell from the sky, and Trulli could even see the raindrops smashing on the front nose frame of the car, and then quickly turning into countless smaller droplets.
"What? Is it really raining? Trulli's passionate, heart, suddenly fell to the bottom.
In front of Trulli was Barrichello, and he was already feeling the pressure.
"It's a real loss to run dry on all rain tires, and in the blink of an eye, Trulli has caught up, and at this speed, I can't hold this straight. If I had known that this was the case, I should have made a pit stop to change my tires just now, but if I pit now, would it be too late? Barrichello thought with some regret.
However, the next moment, he also saw countless raindrops falling from the sky.
"It's raining! It's really raining! I read that right! Barrichello looked at the side of the road in front of him, almost in the blink of an eye, and the already dry road was once again soaking wet.
"It's really raining! That's great! We won the bet! Barrichello let out a sigh of relief, knowing he had retained his second spot.
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Racing Ferrari, team leader Domenecali looked at the Chinese Power team not far away, and happened to see Ross Brown's relieved smile.
"This old fox is really betting on the rain! And he gambled successfully. Domenecali let out a long sigh, knowing that Ferrari had failed again.
In the command room of "Ding Ling ......", the voice of the phone rang, and the staff picked up the phone, talked a few words, and then came to Domenecali's side.
"Team leader, just now we received the latest weather forecast information from the weather analyst, according to the satellite cloud image, there will be a heavy rain coming soon!" The staff spoke.
"Nonsense, I just have to look at the sky outside to know this information! You don't even need to look at any bullshit satellite images. Domenecali said exasperatedly.
But then, he calmed down and asked, "Did the weather analyst say how long this heavy rain will last?" Will it be another shower that will stop soon? ”
"Weather analysts say that at the moment, it will not stop for an hour." The staff spoke.
Domenecali let out a long sigh, looked at the water under his feet, and said, "Okay, tell our two riders, come back and change to full wet tyres!" ”
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Hamilton skidding, Sebastian Vettel, Alonso skidding...... The sudden rainstorm caused the riders who had already switched to dry tyres to complain and curse. However, they had to run back to the pits as soon as possible to get on the wet tyres again.
The riders who switched to dry tyres earlier were more than acceptable to the surprise, as they had already run four or five laps on dry tyres and bought some time. The unluckiest of all were the drivers who had just switched to dry tyres and only ran a lap on dry tyres, and now the tyres were just getting hot, and the sudden heavy rain brought them back to the pits to change their tyres.
At this point, a few drivers have already been through the pit four times. On lap 15 or so, they made their first pit stop to change tyres, on lap 20 they made a pit stop for the second time to change to rain tyres, on lap 28 or so they made a pit stop for the third time to change to dry tyres, and now they made a pit stop for the fourth time to change to rain tyres, and the time for four pit stops was enough for them to run an extra lap.
"I didn't expect it to rain again, and this time it was so sudden. Judging from the camera, the rain this time was very heavy, and it looked like I had to change to full rain tires to run. The narrator spoke.
"That's right, the pit area is now ready to go, and there is a car in the pit stop, which should be replaced with full rain tires."
"The road was in terrible condition, Hamilton was slipping sideways again, and in this case, the dry tyres would definitely not be able to run. I remember that the car had just pitted for dry tyres on the last lap, and now it was about to pit for rain tyres, which was a big joke. ”
The camera was once again focused on Zhang Guan at this time, and the commentator continued: "Zhang Guan is still the first place, is he a rain tire that he just changed?" No, I remember that Zhang Guan didn't pit for dry tires just now! ”
"The two cars of China Power are still stopped, and they are still using the same set of rain tires that were changed ten laps ago! I understand now that it's no wonder they didn't pit for a tyre change just now, but insisted on running on the rain tyres, because they had expected it to rain! ”
"The car behind had hoped to catch up with the Chinese power, but this unexpected pit stop allowed the Chinese power to accumulate an advantage of more than ten seconds, and it seems that it is difficult for the car behind to catch up with the two cars of the Chinese power."
The commentator was discussing that the safety car had left the pits.
The light on the driver's steering wheel lights up, indicating that the driver is safe to go out and cannot overtake during the whole process.
"Haha, the safety car is dispatched, Zhang Guan has accumulated so many advantages, and there is no more, we still have a chance!"
"Great, the safety car appeared, everyone is going back to the same starting line, this time we may have an advantage, because our fuel and tires are enough to support the end of the race, but Zhang Guan may not, he will pit again!"
The following teams have made their own small calculations.
In the safety car, the driver was also talking to the race officer.
"The rain was too heavy, the road was in very bad condition, the visibility was very low, I couldn't even see the corners clearly, so it was too easy to get into an accident, so I suggested stopping the race!" The driver of the safety car said into the intercom.
The race is also studying the footage from the safety car's on-board camera, and the visibility on the track is indeed very low at this time, especially the splash of water from the car walking by, and the water mist formed is enough to blur the track for a long time.
After more than a minute, the directors of the competition finally announced the results of the discussions.
"For the sake of safety, let's stop the game! Show the red flag immediately! (To be continued.) )