olympian big player

Chapter 544 - Chapter 544
The qualifying round is over, at least for Bu Zelu. He simply ate his long-lost work meal, but the food still hasn't left him. After eating this shit for more than three years, he is almost crazy.

And different from tennis, although the working meals of racing drivers are more meals and less food, they are more simple to eat and drink less water.

Because you can't stop to go to the bathroom during the game, at least you can apply for a timeout to go to the bathroom when playing tennis.

In addition, racers also need a strong physique, and at high speeds, Bu Zelu looked at the nutrition package in front of him, it was really...

'MD, when I really retire, my buddy will sleep with a lobster in his arms! Bu Zelu gulped down the nutritious meal like he would an enemy.

For a lunch with almost no condiments, Bu Ze was fooling his stomach.

Lie in the caravan and take a nap for a while, although the team said that he should keep up his energy, but in fact he was just lying in the car playing with his mobile phone and watching videos.

'Mobile phone short video will be developed in the second half of this year, and it won't be too boring by then, but mobile data should be quite expensive these days, so forget it, it's none of my business! '

Bu Zelu watched the funny videos on the barrage website again for a while, and then began to look at some recently released game news.

'Oh shit, finally there is news about GTA5!It's almost time to go back to the time of rebirth, it really is more interesting to be in modern times! '

'Go back and buy everything from Uncharted and Assassin's Creed! '

In order not to forget other things, I quickly sent a message to Zaina to make a note, and remember to buy it later.

Bu Zelu is playing with his mobile phone here, the qualifying of P3 is over, Vettel and Webber of Red Bull Racing occupy the front row of the grid, ranking first and second.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa was third, while his teammate Rosberg was fourth, and the two were in the second row.

Brother, no, Aaron Kogoro, well, Alonso came to his familiar position, fifth in qualifying, and his former teammate started alongside him.

The face of F1, Kimi Raikkonen of the Lotus team!
Raikkonen is so handsome these days, Bu Zelu is only a little bit worse than him when he thinks about it, well, he can be regarded as the second most handsome person in F1.

After getting the news, Bu Zelu continued to rest on his own. Anyway, the team members will go back to have lunch soon, and then they will have a pre-match meeting.

There are less than 4 hours left until the afternoon race...

12:15, Mercedes team meeting...

12:30, driver pre-race meeting...

12:50, pre-race parade for all drivers...

It was the first time for Bu Zelu to experience this. He hadn’t seen these shots in the F1 broadcast before. At this time, he was behind the maintenance workshop of Mercedes.

The maintenance room is generally divided into front and rear. The front is the real working place, facing the side of the track, which can be photographed by the camera.

Relatively speaking, the back is a rest area, office area, reception area and so on. After the reminder from the team, Bu Zelu also started to sign autographs and take photos with a group of small car fans who came to the reception area.

This is not only the FIA's promotion of motorsports, but also the team's brand promotion activity. In fact, after the races these days, he will participate in such activities, and other drivers will also accept some interviews.

Bu Zelu didn't accept it, anyway, asking those questions, it's not interesting.

This time, the pace was also very cooperative, taking photos with some young car fans.

After 15 minutes of interacting with the small car fans, everyone came to the track. At this time, 22 luxury cars had been parked on the grid.

The most eye-catching one is of course Ferrari, who knows that it is a factory team, and it still has the most famous supercar in the world.

Yes, the 22 cars are all civilian cars, generally using the brand of the team's engine sponsor, in which case the factory team takes advantage, and all the cars are convertibles.

Bu Zelu had been reminded by the staff before that this meeting was also wearing casual clothes, and he went directly to the back seat and sat directly on the trunk, stepping on the rear seat.

The drivers' parade began, with the drivers of the team taking the drivers around the track, waving and saying hello to the fans who came to watch the race, and other interactive sessions.

The speed is only 20-30 kilometers if the speed is not fast. After all, most drivers are sitting outside the car.

After completing the driver parade, all the drivers will start preparing for the upcoming race.

At 13:30, after the last inspection of the track, each team will push everyone's cars and start parking on the grid according to the qualifying results.

At the same time, the local performances in Melbourne also started, generally speaking, there are some dances and singing by famous local singers.

Of course, there are all kinds of bosses walking around the grid at close range, and FIA boss Bernie will also take a lap on the track in person.

Or alone, or with some Australian officials or something.

It's not the first time Bu Zelu has seen Bernie. This little French old man was one of the guests who were presenting the 'Super Driver's License'.

Today's weather is also strange. The rain in Melbourne stopped after qualifying. Although the road surface is still slippery, it is now relatively dry.

The accumulation of water is not too serious. According to the observation of the drivers during the parade just now, there is only some accumulation of water on a few corners.

According to the information, the team arranged medium tires for Bu Zelu, and the top ten drivers basically used supersoft tires to start.

The current F1 is not like before. There are several tire sponsors. After the famous "Tire Gate" event in the United States, Pirelli became the designated tire supplier.

Generally speaking, several tires will be provided to the team in one year, and 5 types of tires will be provided according to the track conditions of each race.

Supersoft, Soft, Medium, Hard, Semi, Full Rain.

The literal understanding is that the rubber formula of the tire is different, and the softer the tire, the faster the speed.

Or more generally, the weight is different, and the super soft one is the lightest.

Of course, because F1 tires are made of special material formulas, we don't need to care about those materials. These are business secrets and teams need to care about them.

What we need to understand is actually how the so-called F1 tires work.Especially the layer that touches the runway: the tread!

Racing tires are made of soft, high-quality synthetic rubber, which acts like an eraser and heats up when rubbed; constant lateral forces when cornering also cause the tires to heat up.

The direction of action of the lateral force is perpendicular to the forward direction of the car body, and the process of making the tire reach the working temperature is called "thermal cycle".

As the tread heats up and cools down repeatedly, the chemicals that make up the rubber, its polymers (long-chain molecules), deteriorate, and the heat deforms the rubber molecules, although most of the molecules can return to their original shape like a spring. Other bonds break or are permanently deformed.

To use a simple analogy, when you bake cookies, the dough starts out soft, but as the baking time increases, the dough becomes harder and harder until it resembles a rock.

The tires of an F1 car are certainly not the same as biscuits, but over time, the heat generated by the movement can permanently change the properties of the rubber.

The internal structure of the rubber will change from soft, sticky, and more usable when it comes out of the factory, to slipperier and less useful. When it reaches a certain level, the tire will be replaced

However, the heat cycle is not all bad. The tires that have just left the factory generally cannot exert their maximum performance immediately. At this time, a warm-up heat cycle of one or two laps will adjust the tire to achieve the best condition.

The process of hot tires is called "scrubbing", and the tires on the car that look worn during the race are actually just the result of being warmed up by the heat cycle.

The rubber melts slightly when heated, making it stickier and more malleable. As the tire rolls over the track's bumpy track surface, the soft, slightly melted rubber squeezes into the texture of the road, gripping it firmly. ground.

Is this even more confusing? The popular explanation is that after the rubber melts, you can create some tire patterns, and these patterns are more suitable for the asphalt on the ground.

This is why F1 switched to 'slick tires' again this year. With the development of technology, such tires are actually safer for racing.

We returned to the race, and as time passed, Bu Zelu began to sit in the cockpit under the prompt of the team, and the race was about to start.

After all the drivers sat in the cockpit, all the staff on the grid were evacuated and the track was cleared.

Bu Zelu put on the goggles of his helmet, and after reconfirming the system equipment on one side, he saw that the yellow light above the grid had turned on.

With the pointer of the competitor's Rolex pointing to the 14:00 position, the yellow light turns green and all vehicles set off.

This... is not really the start of the game.

However, the first lap of the F1 race is the "tire warming lap". Just now the cars are parked on the grid. Although the "warming baby" helps the tires to heat and keep warm, all drivers still need to run a lap first.

Every driver is turning the steering wheel left and right as much as possible. From the broadcast footage, it can be seen that every driver is now "snake-skinned" in order to increase the contact surface between the tires and the ground.

At the same time, it is also to clear a dry driving lane on the still relatively slippery road, especially the top ten drivers, they all start with 'super soft'.

Bu Zelu was a little nervous at this time, taking deep breaths while driving, trying to adjust his state as much as possible.

'Dude, don't worry, what are you afraid of? Today is the first race. No, take the car back safely. Finishing the race is the biggest victory. There are 21 races a year! '

Bu Zelu kept comforting himself in his heart.

'Don't think about the mission, isn't there still a gold medal for avoiding death? '

'It's really not possible, take the time to play French Open and Wimbledon, there will always be an upgrade card, and then upgrade the death-free gold medal! '

(End of this chapter)