The first practice session in the morning lasted for 90 minutes, mainly to adapt to the venue. In order not to excessively consume tires, teams often choose to use harder tires, so the driver's results are relatively average.
After 141 days, the cars took to the track again, and all the cars chose to run a warm-up lap before returning to the pits. The drivers didn't even run a complete timed lap, let alone a result. Obviously this is done to allow the car to adapt to the track first. After all, this is the first race for the new car, and there are too many areas of the new car that still need to be improved and debugged.
Of course, there were also some drivers who did not come out immediately, such as Alonso, Raikkonen, and Zhang Guan.
At this time, the track seemed very clean, and the cars were parked in the maintenance room for debugging.
"The track is clean, let me go and improve my lap time!" Zhang Guan said into the microphone.
"Okay, stay safe." Ross Brown's voice came from the headphones.
The maintenance technician pushed the car out of the garage, Zhang Guan pressed the accelerator and rushed out of the pit.
"Red! Power of China! Driver No. 22 is Zhang Guan!" Everyone paid their attention.
The car numbers of Formula One cars are sorted according to the ranking of the previous season. When sorting, the two members of the team will be lined up together. Last season's champion was Lewis Hamilton, so he is the No. 1 driver, and his teammate Co. Vallainen took the honors and became the No. 2 driver. Ferrari's Massa was the runner-up last season and is the No. 3 driver. His teammate Raikkonen is naturally the No. 4 driver, and so on.
Among them, the Honda team withdrew, so the numbers 18 and 19 that originally belonged to the Honda team were deducted. That means there are no drivers No. 18 and 19 this year.
The Force China team is a new team. Even though Barrichello had 11 points last season, according to the rules, the Force China team can only be ranked at the bottom. Zhang Guan, as the team's number one driver, is ranked 22nd, and Barrichello is the number 22. The second driver is ranked 23rd.
Some people may have questions, why do the ten teams have an odd number like No. 23? Because Europeans taboo the number "13", the driver's number is not No. 13, and driver No. 12 is followed by driver No. 14.
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Zhang Guan is out!
Countless lenses were focused on this red racing car.
"When Zhang Guan steps onto the track for the first time, will he crash?" someone asked.
"Probably not. The characteristic of the Albert Park track is that the buffer space is large enough. Look at the corners, there is such a large lawn. Even if you rush out of the track, you will not crash. At most Just run to the lawn! And now he is the only car on the track, so even if he crashes, he has no opponent!"
"Look, he rushed out of the pit area and reached Turn 1!"
"I can definitely pass it. Turn 1 is not difficult, and he has just left the pits. There is a speed limit in the pits. 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’ll run off the runway!”
"We passed Turn 3 too! Turn 4 went smoothly too! We passed Turn 5 too!"
"Hey, let's not talk about it. It looks pretty good and has some tricks, but it hasn't even rushed out of the runway yet!"
"It's definitely fast. The first few corners are easy, but in the following corners, I might run off the track."
Everyone stared at Zhang Guan on the track, witnessing him running all the way to Turn 12, Turn 13... Zhang Guan passed Turn 16 smoothly, then sprinted with all his strength and entered his first timed lap. .
"Haha, Zhang Guan is going to do a timed lap! I didn't expect that the first person to run a timed lap today would be Zhang Guan!"
"It's probably because the car's performance is not good, and I want to run it in more!"
"I think I might be afraid that there will be too many cars and I'll hit someone else, so I'll just run away first!"
"It seems that Zhang Guan is really a rookie, daring to be the first to run a timed lap. Everyone knows that the track at the beginning is not clean, and if you run first, you will suffer a big loss!"
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 the car runs a few laps, the rubber particles from the worn tires will adhere to the track and absorb the fine sand particles. At the same time, the heat generated by the tire wear will also cause the water on the track to evaporate, making the driver more comfortable when running.
Many people looked at Zhang Guan on the track as a joke, and some even started to bet on when Zhang Guan would rush out of the track. The racers from other teams who originally wanted to go out were also stopped one after another.
"Don't go out yet, let Zhang Guan run for a while. He is a rookie. He has never even run a go-kart, let alone participated in a racing competition. What if you go out now and get hit by Zhang Guan?" Such a voice came from Longsuo's headphones.
"Lewis, wait a little longer, don't be anxious, maybe Zhang Guan will run off the track at the next corner! We have to be patient, you know, the track is very dangerous now!" said Hamilton's headset. Said.
"What is the difference between a person who has never participated in a racing competition and a roadkill? I just saw that the safety car and crane have been prepared. They may be used soon. Kimi, let's wait a little longer until other people Everyone is out, let's go again..." Raikkonen received this instruction.
As a result, no driver or driver in the other teams had an accident, and everyone stayed in the maintenance room, waiting for Zhang Guan, the "road killer", to cause an accident.
"Whoosh!" The car flew past the stands, and Zhang Guan's results appeared in front of everyone.
1 minute, 29 seconds and 353 seconds. Based on the standard of the first time in the practice session, this is considered a satisfactory result.
However, Zhang Guan felt more and more confident. The moment he crossed the finish timer, he did not let go of the accelerator, but continued to do the next timing lap.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan completed one lap again, but the sprint out of the track and the installation of guardrails that everyone expected did not appear.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan ran a time of 1 minute 28 seconds 875, setting a new fastest lap time.
In the command center of the China Force Racing Team, Ross Brown looked at the data in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The temperature of Zhang Guan's tires has come up. Now the tires can exert their maximum grip. Next lap he will The speed will be even faster.”
"Whoosh!" The roar of the racing engine swept across the front of the pit area, and Zhang Guan once again improved his lap time by 0.2 seconds.
At this time, a strange scene appeared. In the maintenance area, all 19 racing cars were waiting there, while Zhang Guan was alone on the track, constantly setting his fastest lap time.
One lap at the Albert Park circuit took less than 1 minute and 30 seconds. Zhang Guan had done more than a dozen laps without knowing it, and he was going faster and faster.
"Crash! Sooner or later, the car will crash! There will definitely be a crash! Just wait and see!" Omi had a very smug expression, but as the rounds went by, Omi's expression became more solemn. Although he is not a driver, he can already tell that Zhang Guan really knows how to drive a Formula One car.
And all around, the reporters waiting to see the joke were in complete silence...
"Could Zhang Guan really know how to drive F1?"
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