Chapter 235: Debut (Four Changes)
The first practice session in the morning lasted 90 minutes, mainly to adapt to the venue, and the team often chose to use a stiffer set of tires in order not to over-consume the tires, so the drivers' results were relatively ordinary. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After 141 days, the cars were back on the track, and all the cars chose to make a warm lap back to the pits. The riders didn't even run a full time lap, let alone a result. Obviously, this is to get the car used to the track, after all, this is the first race of the new car, and there are so many things that need to be perfected and tuned in the new car.
Of course, there are some drivers who didn't come out right away, such as Alonso, such as Raikkonen, such as Zhang Guan.
At this time, the track is very clean, and the cars are parked in the pit room for adjustment.
"It's clean on the track, I'm going to brush up on the lap times!" Zhang Guan said into the microphone.
"Okay, stay safe." Ross Brown's voice came through the headphones.
The pit crew pushed the car out of the garage and Zhang Guan rushed out of the pits with one throttle.
"Red! Chinese power! Driver No. 22 is Zhang Guan! The crowd paid attention.
The Formula 1 cars are ranked according to last season's rankings, and the order makes sense that the two members of the team are lined up, with Lewis Hamilton winning last season, so he is the number 1 driver, and his team-mate Kovalainen is the number 2 driver. Ferrari's Massa was runner-up last season as the No. 3 driver, and his team-mate Raikkonen was naturally the No. 4 driver, and so on.
Among them, the Honda team withdrew, so the No. 18 and No. 19, which originally belonged to the Honda team, were deducted. That is, there are no No. 18 and No. 19 drivers this year.
The Chinese Power Racing Team is a new team, even if Barrichello had 11 points last season, but according to the rules, the Chinese Power Racing Team can only be ranked at the bottom of the number, Zhang Guan as the team's No. 1 driver No. 22, and Barrichello as the No. 2 driver No. 23.
Some people may wonder why the ten teams have a singular number like the number 23? Because Europeans taboo the number "13", the number of the rider is not 13, and the number 12 is followed by the number 14.
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Zhang Guan is out!
Countless shots were focused on the red race car.
"Zhang Guan is on the field for the first time, will he crash!" Someone asked.
"Probably not, the feature of the Albert Park track is that the buffer zone space is large enough, you see the corner, there is such a large lawn, even if you rush out of the track, you won't crash, at most you run on the lawn! And now he is the only car on the track, even if it is a crash, there is no opponent! ”
"Look, he's out of the pits and at Turn 1!"
"I must be able to pass, Turn 1 is not difficult, and he has just come out of the pit, the speed limit in the pit, I can pass this Turn 1, the key is to look at Turn 3 for a while, it is a right-angle corner, maybe he will rush out of the runway!"
"Turn 3 has passed! Turn 4 went smoothly too! Turn 5 has also passed! ”
"Hey, don't say it, it looks like it, there are some doorways, and they haven't even rushed out of the runway so far!"
"It's definitely fast, the first few corners are easy, maybe the next corners, you'll get off the track."
Everyone stared at Zhang Guan on the track, watching him run all the way down, Turn 12, Turn 13...... Zhang Guan made a smooth run through Turn 16 and then sprinted with all his might into his first timed lap.
"Hehe, Zhang Guan is going to make a timing lap! I really didn't expect that the first person to run the time lap today would be Zhang Guan! ”
"It is estimated that the performance of the car is not good, I want to run in more!"
"I think it's probably because I'm afraid that I'll hit someone else if there are too many cars in a while, so let's run by myself first!"
"It seems that Zhang Guan is really a rookie, and he dares to be the first to come out and run the timing lap. Everyone knows that the first track is not clean, and it is a big loss to run first! ”
The so-called unclean track does not mean that there are large foreign objects on the track, but that there will be small sand particles and some moisture on the track, which will affect the speed of the car. After a few laps of the car, the rubber particles from the worn tires will adhere to the track and absorb the fine sand particles, and the heat generated by the broken tires will also evaporate the water on the track, and the driver will run more comfortably.
Many people looked at Zhang Guan on the track with the eyes of jokes, and some even began to bet on when Zhang Guan would rush off the track. And the other teams, the racers who were originally intending to go out, were also stopped.
"Don't go out yet, let Zhang Guan run by himself for a while. He's a rookie, and he hasn't even run a go-kart, let alone participated in a racing race, what if you go out now and get hit by Zhang Guan? Alonso heard this in his headphones.
"Lewis, wait, don't worry, maybe at the next corner, Zhang Guan will rush off the track! We have to be patient, you have to know that the track is very dangerous right now! That's what Hamilton said in his headphones.
"What's the difference between a guy who hasn't raced a car race and a road killer? I just saw that the safety car and crane are ready, and they may be ready for use right away, Kimi, let's wait a little longer, and when everyone else is out, we'll go again......" Raikkonen received this order.
As a result, none of the other convoys played manually, and everyone honestly stayed in the maintenance room, waiting for Zhang Guan, the "road killer", to have an accident.
"Whoosh!" The car flew past the stands, and Zhang Guan's results appeared in front of everyone.
1:29.353 is a decent time by the standard of the first time in the practice session.
But Zhang Guan felt more and more, the moment he crossed the finish timer, he did not release the throttle, but continued to do the next time lap.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan finished another lap, and the expected rush off the track and put on the guardrails did not appear.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan ran a time of 1:28.875, setting a new fastest lap.
In the command center of the China Power Team, Ross Brown looked at the data in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The temperature of Zhang Guan's tires has risen, and now the tires can exert the maximum grip, and his speed will be faster in the next lap." ”
"Whoosh!" The roar of the racing engine swept past the front of the pits, and Zhang Guan improved his lap time by 0.2 seconds again.
At this time, a peculiar picture appeared, in the pit area, all 19 cars were waiting there, and Zhang Guan was alone on the track, constantly refreshing his fastest lap.
At the Albert Park circuit, one lap took less than 1 minute and 30 seconds, and before he knew it, Zhang Guan brushed more than a dozen laps, and the faster he drove it.
"Crash! Sooner or later, it will crash! Definitely crashes! Wait and see! Omi's expression was very smug, but as the circle came down, Omi's face became more and more solemn. Although he is not a driver, he can already see that Zhang Guan really knows how to drive a Formula 1 car.
And all around, the reporters who were waiting to see the joke were even more silent......
"Could it be that Zhang Guan really can drive F1?" (To be continued.) )