Vol 5 Chapter 253: Sepang

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The Sepang Circuit is located 65 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This circuit has been hosting the f1 Grand Prix since 1999, which happens to be its 1o year. ★
The track has a total of 15 corners, 8 straights, a single lap length of 5.543 kilometers, a race of 56 laps, and a total length of 31o.4o8 kilometers, which is the longest of all Formula One events. At the same time, Sepang Circuit also owns the fastest track in all Formula 1 circuits, with a width of 22 meters.
Although it is the widest one of all f1 circuits, Sepang is not easy to drive because the longest two straights of Sepang are followed by a card bend. When the degree gap is not very large, For the leading drivers, as long as they can take their own routes, it is difficult to get over.
It is also worth mentioning that there will be a very dangerous animal on this track, that is the cobra. The Sepang Circuit is surrounded by agricultural planting areas. In the rural areas of Malaysia, cobras and wildcats are two common animals, or there are always wildcats where there are cobras. Although the wild cat is not considered to be the upper layer in the food chain, it happens to be the nemesis of the cobra. However, most wild cats are more afraid of people, so they will not be too close to the track. The cobra is different. If you see a cobra on the Sepang circuit, , Then don't be surprised.
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Zhang Guan arrived in Malaysia on Wednesday and he is going to attend the media meeting on Thursday. The staff of the convoy came earlier. The first thing they came to Malaysia was to get a weather forecast from the meteorological department.
This is Malaysia. It’s normal to rain. It’s a new thing not to rain in Malaysia. And the most troublesome is some sudden and very short rainfall, sometimes storms raid, but four or five minutes after the sun is shining, for the car, it is necessary to change the rain tires when it rains, and the rain stops After changing the dry tires, it might rain after changing to the dry tires. When the time comes to change the rain tires, the team's tactical deployment is likely to be completely disrupted.
So the weather forecast is very important for the fleet. Most small fleets without money obtain weather conditions from the meteorological department, while large convoys such as Ferrari simply rent meteorological satellites and temporarily hire meteorological experts to provide services for them.
Due to their outstanding performance in Australia, the China Force team has also become the focus of media chase, they got more shots in the Friday practice.
Friday's practice didn't rain, and the Ferrari status that gave up the kinetic energy recovery system also picked up, winning the top two in the second quarter practice session on Friday afternoon. As for the other giant McLaren, who was entangled by the "door of perjury", his results ranked in the middle.
For Zhang Guan, he has been familiar with the track all Friday, and then constantly adjust the car. He didn't run out of the fastest lap, but his results were upstream.
But Zhang Guan's teammate Barrichello had bad luck. During the practice, he failed to change the box. According to the regulations, the replacement of the box is to back up five cars.
On Saturday morning, there was light rain before the start of the practice, but after the start of the practice, the rain stopped and the sun was still out. At this time, the track looked a little slippery, and the drivers did not dare to go all out. It wasn't until after a few laps that the track was dry that the drivers started to make the fastest results in turn.
As in the previous race, Williams’ Rosberg still ruled the practice, and then Ferrari, Red Bull and Toyota also performed well. The two cars of China Power won the ninth and tenth, respectively. Before McLaren.
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Saturday afternoon, qualifying.
Before the game started, there were reporters at the end, and all kinds of guns and short guns chased the track.
"From the results of the practice match, it seems that the Chinese power that took the top two in the last stop is relatively average."
"A new team won a championship in the first leg. Did you really regard them as Ferrari? The result of the last race was just a coincidence."
"Yes, I think so too. After all, the big team is not ready for the first race, so it was a coincidence by China Power and won a championship. Now that it is the second race, the status of other teams is definitely With some improvement, it is impossible for China's power to continue to dominate the Sepang circuit. You can see from the results of the two days of practice. China Power has not even entered the top three."
"Remember when the Australian station, the performance of Chinese power in the practice is also relatively average, maybe they are hiding power?"
"Impossible. A new team, where is there any strength to hide! Zhang Guan got the pole position at the last stop is just luck, you see, they may not be able to qualify for the third quarter at this stop. Match!"
"Look, look, Zhang Guan comes out! There are no green stripes on the tires, they are hard tires!"
"Hard tires? It seems that China's strength is still quite confident, dare to use hard tires to run the first quarter qualifying."
"Looking at their performance in the practice match, there should be no problem with the hard tires running in the first quarter!"
The temperature in Malaysia is relatively high, and the Sepang circuit is a tire-consuming circuit. If it is a soft tire, I am afraid that it may not be able to persist even 1o laps, so Princeton provides drivers in this race. Both soft and hard tire configurations are available.
The hard tires Zhang Guan currently uses are the hardest and slowest of the four dry tires.
But this did not affect Zhang Guan's promotion. Soon after, he scored a score of 1 minute and 35 seconds, and this result was enough to ensure that he entered the second quarter of qualifying.
The best result of the first qualifying session was made by Zhang Guan's teammate Barrichello, 1 minute 34 seconds 681, this result is almost faster than Zhang Guan, 4 seconds, but Barrichello is using A set of soft tires, and he will use it in the second quarter.
It is worth mentioning that the Ferrari team may be too light. The two Ferrari cars only ran two laps and returned to the maintenance area. They thought they could enter the second quarter, but in the end Massa suffered To the elimination, Raikkonen was also in the 14th place, almost did not enter the second quarter.
Ferrari is a strategic mistake. They are not inferior in strength, but they misjudged the situation and caused a car to be eliminated. But the Force India team is really weak. Their two cars are located in the 18th and 19th respectively, and they were both eliminated. The last one is Buimi of the Red Bulls. He is a driver who has just entered Formula One this season. It is normal to run a penultimate.
In the second quarter of qualifying, Ferrari ate a lot of time and came out early, and other drivers were also stimulated by Ferrari's elimination of a car. At the beginning, it drove out of the pit and used it. They are all soft tires.
In the second quarter qualifying, the drivers chose soft tires and light load oil, so the car is much faster than the first quarter. Almost every driver's score is within 1 minute and 35 seconds, and it is still constantly improve.
The Red Bull team and the Toyota team performed well in this stop. They have ran out of good results within 1 minute and 34 seconds.
However, this result is much slower than that of someone.
"1 minute 33 seconds 778! Zhang Guan! He is still so fast, just like the second quarter qualifying of the previous stop, it is close to the lap gap of o.5 seconds!" (To be continued.) 8
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