Tires and engines are the two most important components of a racing car, because these two components are not only related to the speed of the racing car, but are also subject to constant wear and tear. In all likelihood, the sensors on the racing car are detecting the performance of these two components.
For this year's Formula One racing, the tires are uniformly supplied by Princeton. Princeton provides a total of six tires to the team, namely four dry tires and two wet tires.
The four types of dry tires include super soft tires, soft tires, medium tires and hard tires. Only two of them will be provided for teams to choose from at each stop. For example, the Australian Grand Prix uses super soft tires and medium tires, but no soft tires and hard tires.
When the tire reaches its optimal working condition, the softer the tire, the better the grip, and the better the grip, the faster the vehicle speed. But soft tires also have a disadvantage, that is, they will wear out quickly. When the tires wear to a certain extent, the grip will gradually disappear, and they will lose control when turning, forcing the driver to reduce the speed.
As for the two types of rain tires, they are used when it rains, namely medium rain tires and heavy rain tires. Heavy rain tires have more lines, stronger drainage capabilities, and are less likely to slip, but the speed will be slower.
Soft tires run faster than hard tires. If we use data, there can be a difference of about 1 second in lap speed between the softest super-soft tires and the hardest hard tires. The gap between super soft tires and medium tires must be more than half a second. The half-second difference is very important in qualifying where the car is competing for the fastest speed.
For a big team like Ferrari, their car performance is good enough and their driver skills are good enough, so even if they use medium tires to run the first qualifying session, they can easily advance, so in the first qualifying session In position races, big teams tend to use harder tires to avoid excessive wear on the soft tires. They leave the soft tires for use in the second and third quarters later.
For small teams, the performance of their cars is mediocre and the level of their drivers is mediocre. If they want to avoid being eliminated, they must use faster soft tires to compete. Tire wear is nothing on a car that could be eliminated at any time.
The Force India team competes on super-soft tires. They were last last year and would have been eliminated in the first round under normal circumstances, so they directly chose super-soft tires to increase speed. Even so, their results were still far behind Ferrari, which used medium tyres. Force India's current lap speed exceeds 1 minute and 27 seconds, while Ferrari's Raikkonen easily ran a time of 1 minute, 26 seconds and 615 seconds on the first timed lap.
The Williams team won first place three times in a row in practice, which greatly boosted their confidence, so they used medium tires for the race. However, reality slapped them mercilessly in the face. After a few laps, Ferrari and other major teams easily beat the results. The time was within 1 minute and 26 seconds, and the Williams team was on the verge of elimination again.
This is the tragedy of small teams, using soft tires cannot outperform other people's hard tires. In practice, those big teams didn't use their full strength at all.
The Williams team returned to the pit area in frustration, put on super-soft tires and went out to run laps.
Under this situation, everyone feels that the Force China team should use super-soft tires. After all, it is a new team. It is thankful to God if it can not be eliminated in the first quarter, so it should use faster super soft tires to give it a try.
However, to everyone's surprise, Zhang Guan ran out of the pit area on medium tires.
"Medium tire? The new team is planning to give up on qualifying! Maybe they knew they would be at the bottom, so they just broke the pot and gave up!" said a fan at the scene.
"It's impossible. If it's a broken accident, it's better to stay in the pit area and not come out, so that even the medium tires are saved. I guess they want to run two laps on the medium tires first and wait for a while. I will definitely put on soft tires." A person next to me said.
After everyone was briefly surprised, they focused their attention on big teams like Ferrari and McLaren, who were the focus of the competition.
The two McLaren cars returned to the garage after just a few laps. They seemed very confident in their results. Also returning to the garage was Renault's Alonso. On the track, Ferrari's Raikkonen has improved his time to within 1 minute and 26 seconds.
"Raikkonen achieved a time of 1 minute 25 seconds 899, which is currently the fastest lap speed, and he was using medium tires. He really couldn't be a Ferrari! Although his performance in the practice session was average, But in the main game, there was no ambiguity at all, they showed their true strength." The commentator exclaimed.
The audience at the scene also applauded one after another. After all, it was Ferrari, which had the most fans in the Formula One race. Their first place was expected by everyone.
Omi looked at the ranking of results and felt a little anxious.
Currently, Force India's two cars are ranked 15th and 16th respectively. If the game ends according to this ranking, one Force India car will be eliminated.
"We still need to be faster. We are only 0.15 seconds away from the fifteenth place. Maybe we can break into the top fifteen! If it doesn't work, just change to a set of super-soft tires and go up and give it a try!"
Just as Omi was thinking about it, the driver rankings were refreshed again, and the two Force India cars became 17th and 18th.
"One more place behind, who passed?" Omi took the lead and looked at the fifteenth place, which was Renault Racing's Piquet.
"Piquet was fourteenth just now, and he was also pushed down!" Omi then looked up, seeing Kazuki Nakajima, Webber, Trulli, Glock, Alonso, Vettel, Rosberg... All of them had names he was familiar with, and their relative positions did not change, but they all moved back one place.
"Someone ran to the front..." Omi then looked up, his eyes finally stopping at the top, the number one position.
"What!" Omi opened his mouth in surprise.
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The TV broadcast was focused on Felipe Massa of the Ferrari team.
Massa was the runner-up last year. He lost to Hamilton by only 1 point. In fact, he could have won the championship, but because of the team's low-level mistakes, he lost the final championship. So it can be said that Massa is also a driver with championship capabilities.
With the strength of the champion and being in the Ferrari team, this will definitely be the focus of the audience, and his teammate Raikkonen has just set the fastest lap time, so the broadcast camera at this time has been focused on Massa.
Massa was running his own timing lap. About five hundred meters behind Massa, there was also a red racing car. It was Zhang Guan, and Zhang Guan was also running his own timing lap. It's just that there is Ferrari's Massa in front, so no one will care about Zhang Guan behind.
How can a new team compare to Ferrari's attention
In the car, Massa's attention was entirely focused on the track. He successfully passed Turn 16 and then sprinted with all his strength.
"Massa's timing lap... 1 minute 25 seconds 844! First! Massa surpassed his teammate Raikkonen and ranked first. Ferrari occupied first and second place again! In yesterday's practice In the competition, Ferrari's performance was mediocre, but in the competition, they were still the strongest." The commentator said.
Massa had already passed the finishing point, but the broadcast camera was still focused on him. As for Zhang Guan behind him, there wasn't even half of the picture. Only Zhang Guan's timing appeared in the lower right corner of the TV.
Massa was still very focused in the car, but at this time the voice of the team came from the headphones.
"Philip, you can go slower and protect your tires. Come back next time you enter the pit area! Well done, you just passed Raikkonen." The team's technical director Dell's business sounded in the headset.
"Oh, then I am number one now, right?" Massa asked.
"Of course, of course you are number one... Huh? What!" Dale suddenly exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Massa asked in surprise.
"Uh, Philip, you're second!" Dale said.
"Second? Has anyone passed him? Who is it? Haven't Hamilton and Alonso already returned to the pit area? Who can still run first? Is it Vettel?" Massa asked angrily. Anyone would be annoyed if they were number one for a few seconds.
"Someone has surpassed you! The first one is Zhang Guan!" Dale said.
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