Vol 5 Chapter 276: Rush to the top three (20/20)

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In racing competitions, leading cars tend to run faster and faster, and the following cars often run slower and slower. Sometimes even two people standing on the podium will have a gap of more than 1 minute. It is also common for the eighth place to be trapped by the first place when all points are scored.
Therefore, in the race, the more the rear car is chased forward, the more difficult it is to go further. Especially in the middle and back of the race, each advancement means a huge victory.
Zhang Guan has reached the twelfth place, and if he wants to go further, it has become more and more difficult, and at this time, an accident occurred on the track, BMW Sauber's Kubica and Toyota's special Luli crashed.
Turn 16, the last turn of the entire track, is a big straight before the finish line after turning 16. This curve can barely be regarded as a medium speed curve, the average driver will pass in third gear, the difficulty is not too big.
However, in such a difficult curve, an accident occurred. Of the two cars that collided, Toyota retired directly, and BMW Sauber stumbled back to the maintenance area.
In rainy days, it would have been a little more troublesome to clean up the track, so the race did not hesitate to show the yellow flag and mobilized the safety car. This also means that the first-place Vettel, his lead is cleared, and all the cars will return to their starting conditions.
The safety car is obviously good news for Zhang Guan. He smoothed the gap with the car in front.
An accident occurred in the previous two cars. Zhang Guan rose directly to the tenth place, and he was only two steps away from the eighth place to get points.
When the safety car is deployed, someone in front of the car will inevitably take advantage of this opportunity. For example, BMW Sauber's Highfield, his pit stop makes Zhang Guan enter another one and come to ninth.
But Zhang Guan’s good luck name did not end there. Under the leadership of the safety car, the Ferrari driver Massa who had rushed to the third suddenly parked the car on the side of the road, and the smoke at the end of his car The slow motion shows that the car suddenly showed power on the straight. This is obviously an engine problem and Massa retired as a result.
The safety car cannot be overtaken, but Zhang Guan is led by the safety car. Fortunately, he has reached the eighth position. He has entered the scoring area. In this order, Zhang Guan can get one point.
At this time, the seven cars in front of Zhang Guan are still ahead of the two cars of the Red Bull team, followed by Ferrari's Raikkonen, McLaren's Hamilton, China Force's Barrichello, McLaren's Hamilton And Buimi of the Red Bulls. Among them, Red Bull's two cars, Barrichello have already Buimi, have completed a pit stop, the others have not yet pitted.
"We may really have a chance!" Ross Brown's expression gradually relaxed, and the biggest difficulty was the tire wear problem without entering the station. The first eight laps of the safety car reduced Zhang Guan's tire wear. A lot, and now there are safety cars again, once again giving Zhang Guan's tires a rare rest.
The safety car led five laps on the track. On the first lap, the safety car returned to the maintenance area and the race restarted.
The rain is still heavy, and the advantages of Red Bull Racing are still obvious. After one lap, they left the other cars behind. In the previous car, McLaren's Hamilton surpassed Ferrari's Raikkonen, and Zhang Guan began to attack the seventh-placed Buemi.
Buemi has gone through a pit stop. He is a light oil strategy and uses a brand-new set of tires, so Zhang Guan is caught in a short struggle. However, Buemi eventually lost to Zhang Guan's hand. Zhang Guan used Buemi's corner once and did not take a good route, surpassing Buemi on lap 26 and rising to seventh place.
On the 27th lap, Ferrari's Raikkonen pitted for the first time. He spent a lot of time refueling. He also replaced a new set of rain tires. There are 29 laps in the race. A set of rain tires is enough to run the whole journey. Raikkonen is clearly prepared to use a stop strategy.
Raikkonen's pit stop made Zhang Guan rise one more place and came to sixth place. He began to gradually approach McLaren driver Kovalainen.
After thirty laps, drivers who adopted a one-stop strategy began to pit in one after another. McLaren’s two cars entered the lap 34 and lap 35 successively, and ranked eighth and ninth respectively after exiting. Zhang The crown has risen by two places and came to the fourth place. In front of him is his teammate Barrichello. It's just that Zhang Guan is still some distance away from Barrichello.
There are still 20 laps left in the race. At this time there are three drivers in front of Zhang Guan, namely Vettel No. 1, Webber No. 2 and Barrichello No. 3. All three of them completed a pit stop. And then they will make another pit stop, and that will be an opportunity that Zhang Guan must grasp.
At this time, Zhang Guan does not have to fight with other drivers. He can run at his own pace with ease. In this state, his speed is getting faster and faster, and he is slowly approaching.
On lap 37, Webber, who ranked second, chose the second pit stop. This pit stop time seems a bit early. Weber obviously hopes to use different strategies to surpass his teammate Vettel, and when Weber walked out of the maintenance zone, behind Zhang Guan, that is the fourth position.
Zhang Guan finally came to the third place, this place can be on the podium.
Starting in the 20th place, with the last 19 laps remaining, Zhang Guan became third, and he rose by 17 places!
And the game is not over yet, there are 19 laps!
"There is a chance, there is really a chance." Ross Brown clenched his fists, the GPS positioning system showed that Zhang Guan has gradually approached Barrichello.
Barrichello saw the red in the rearview mirror, but the water mist was too large to distinguish the specific appearance.
"Red, Ferrari? Massa has already retired, then only Raikkonen is left. It is impossible, Raikkonen should be a stop, now he must have completed a pit stop, and I am now It was also a pit stop. I was a light oil strategy. He was a heavy oil strategy. His car weight was heavier than me. In the same pit stop, I ran faster than him. He couldn’t catch up with me. "
Thinking of this, Barrichello asked, "Who is the person behind me? Is it Raikkonen?"
"No!" A decisive reply came from the radio: "Behind you is our boss. Zhang Guan!"
"What? There are still eighteen laps in the game, he has already caught up with me? He is the last one to start! He has risen 17 places so quickly!" Barrichello's surprised voice was transmitted by radio Back to the team.
"The boss is one second faster than you every lap. It won't take long before he can catch up behind you. There are 18 laps, I suggest you can pit in the next lap!" The team engineer said.
"Okay, prepare the tires for me, I'll get in." Barrichello said. This also amounts to giving up his second place. (To be continued.)
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