Zhang Guan ushered in his first timed lap.
All racing sports compete with speed. This is true for sprinting in track and field, and it is also true for racing. However, a racing car has to run more than fifty laps in a race. The so-called advantage is more like accumulated lap by lap.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan drove the racing car, speeding past the straight road in front of the main grandstand, quickly turned into Turn 1, and then accelerated towards Turn 2.
Silverstone has many high-speed corners, among which Turn 2 to Turn 6 are a series of high-speed turns. This continuous high-speed turn places high demands on the driver's driving skills. Schumacher broke his leg when he crashed. It was at Turn 4 of Silverstone that he ran off the track and hit the guardrail.
Ross Brawn once witnessed the moment when Schumacher broke his leg, so when Zhang Guan went through this series of consecutive turns, Ross Brawn couldn't help but become nervous.
"Be careful!" Brown clenched his fists. He felt that Zhang Guan was driving very fast, so he was afraid that Zhang Guan would not be able to master the brakes well and cause an accident.
However, Zhang Guan passed these consecutive high-speed corners smoothly and then entered the next straight.
"The rhythm of this cornering is great! It feels a bit familiar... How could Zhang Guan, a man who drove an F1 car for the first time, master the rhythm of cornering so well? Such cornering is completely the kind of experienced driver. Only veteran drivers can show this." Ross Brown shook his head in confusion.
Turn 7 is a right-angle turn, and Turns 8 to 10 are large hairpin turns. These two turns are not difficult, and then there are high-speed turns 11 and 12.
Ross Brown can't see the situation on the track. This is not a competition. There are not so many camera lenses facing the track. In fact, even in official races, he rarely looks at the scene on the track. In front of him His monitor is full of dense data, including engine data, tire data, and driver operation data. Through these data, he can make more accurate judgments.
However, at this time, Ross Brown was extremely surprised by the data in front of him, not because the data were bad, but because these data were so perfect.
"The control of the accelerator, the timing of braking, the rhythm of shifting gears... How is it possible! How could there be such perfect data! How could such data be produced by a newcomer who touched a Formula One car for the first time? Now he has He ran two-thirds of the distance without making any mistakes. At this level, he can still achieve a good result even in qualifying! How did he do it?" Ross Brown had a feeling in his heart. Impulsively, he wanted to call Zhang Guan out of the car and ask him if he had ever raced in a Formula One car before.
However, Ross Brawn also knows that this is obviously impossible. He can be sure that Zhang Guan is driving a Formula One car for the first time.
Formula One is different from other sports competitions. For example, in basketball, football, high jump, and long jump, an athlete can practice by himself if he has nothing to do. He can spend dozens of dollars to buy a football, find an open space to play for a day, and find a sand pool to practice long jump at any time, so it suddenly appears. It is also normal for a folk master to be a master.
But Formula One racing is different. If you want to practice on your own, you must first have a racing car!
There are only a little more than 10 teams in Formula One. This sport is so transparent that even if a certain team has an extra test driver, other teams will know immediately. And this thing is burning money when running. No team will lend a car worth three to four million US dollars to others for practice, not to mention that practice requires a special venue, the asphalt on the ordinary racing track, It's not up to the standards of running in Formula One.
Therefore, it is completely impossible for Zhang Guan to practice running a Formula One car in private. Even if Zhang Guan participates in racing competitions in other sports, there will be traces of it in the news. Because of this, Ross Brown was shocked.
"With this data, those who didn't know it would have thought Schumacher was running on it!" Ross Brawn shook his head. What he saw in front of him had broken his understanding of the sport of racing. At this time, even if he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe it.
After the right-angle turn at Turn 14, there were the consecutive hairpin turns at Nos. 15 and 16. Zhang Guan still made the turn smoothly. He did not lose too much time by using the road shoulder, and then he turned the corner. At the high-speed corner No. 17, I rushed towards the final finishing position.
"Woo..." The roar of the engine flashed past Ross Brown's ears, and he knew that Zhang Guan had crossed the finish line.
"How are the results?" Ross Brown turned to ask the assistant next to him, only to find that the assistant was staring at the screen in surprise.
"What's the score?" Ross Brown asked again. The assistant seemed to wake up from a dream. He pointed at the display and said: "1 minute 20 seconds 916..."
"What? 1 minute 20 seconds 916? You're not mistaken! How can it be so fast? This car's qualifying time on this track last year was over 1 minute 21 seconds!" Ross Brown looked surprised. explain.
"That's right, it's 1 minute 20 seconds 916." The assistant nodded, and then said: "I also find it incredible. Last year at this Silverstone track, Button drove this car and his time was 1 minute 21 seconds 631. , Zhang Guan is faster than Button!"
Ross Brawn thought for a while and said: "The British Grand Prix was held in July last year. Although we made some optimizations to the car in the following months, considering that this car uses Button's Familiar training, if someone else drives it, it shouldn't be possible to be faster than Button! Did we put enough oil in this car? "
"According to your instructions, we only added less than one-fifth of the fuel. We were worried about an accident, so we deliberately added less fuel." The assistant continued.
"That is considered a light car racing, but even a light car cannot be so fast! It is said that he is running alone on the track and will not be interfered by other cars, but this car is Button's car. It was trained according to Button’s familiar driving style. If it were a car that Zhang Guan was familiar with, wouldn’t his speed be even more amazing? How could such a thing happen! A rookie driving an F1 car for the first time must be faster A professional driver with eight years of F1 racing experience? What a coincidence! It must be a coincidence!" Ross Brawn murmured to himself.
Zhang Guan is still speeding on the track. He is becoming more and more familiar with the tuning of the two cars. At the same time, the reduction of fuel also makes his speed become faster and faster.
In the second timed lap, Zhang Guan once again ran within 1 minute and 21 seconds.
"1 minute 20 seconds 899, Zhang Guan's speed is faster! So that was no coincidence! He can really drive this car and run under 1 minute 21 seconds! This is his first time driving a Formula One car. !" Ross Brown took a deep breath, everything in front of him was so unreal, making him feel as if he was in a dream.
"genius!"
These two words flashed out of Ross Brown's mind. He has been in the Formula One industry for decades, has seen many talents, and has also discovered drivers like Schumacher, but today, Zhang Guan's performance made Ross Brawn feel, Those talented drivers in the past seemed so humble and unworthy of mention!
"I believe that after today, you will definitely hand over the new car to me with confidence!" What Zhang Guan said a few minutes ago resurfaced in Ross Brown's memory, and at this time Ross Brown finally knew, This is not just a joke.
“It looks like I’m really going to hand over the new car to him!”
PS: In the last three days of this month, please purchase a guaranteed monthly ticket, thank you all!
The first chapter has been delivered. In the last three days, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket. Thank you!
(End of chapter)