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Chapter 744 744 - Qualifying

So if one day is not participating in F1, then Vettel will also participate in other motorsports.

The regret of not having four consecutive championships is nothing to Vettel. On the contrary, it can stimulate his fighting spirit. A well-matched opponent is where the passion of racing lies.

Just like Senna and Prost, Niki Lauda and James Hunt.

And this year is the official stop of his Sebastian Vettel and Bu Zelu's head-to-head confrontation.

Maybe many years later, someone will take out this year's F1 and make a movie?

Thinking of this, Vettel suddenly smiled. If there is a movie, there are many legendary stories about that bastard Bu Zelu. This may just be a project on his legendary road.

'It should be an honor to be able to play against such a great athlete! Vettel thought cheerfully, "Of course, it's best for this bastard not to come to F1 anymore, go to other events, there are three bastards waiting for you on the tennis side, hurry up!" '

Half an hour of preparation was over soon, Bu Zelu turned his head to look at the old sister and brother-in-law sitting in the guest room, nodded and got into the cockpit of the racing car.

The Interlagos track ushered in the third practice game.

Interlagos was plagued by intermittent rain throughout the day on Friday, which also affected the teams' plans for the two practice sessions.

However, Rosberg, who dominated Friday's practice session, was very optimistic that if the weekend continued to rain, he still had a chance to compete with the Infiniti Red Bull.

However, his teammate Bu Zelu looked like he was indifferent to the world, and he came to participate in the third practice just to participate in the qualifying match in the afternoon.

If the FIA ​​is restructured and they are still eligible for qualifying if they don't participate in the third practice, then Bu Zelu promises that he will accompany his sister and brother-in-law to talk about the mountains.

Infiniti Red Bull didn't have much of a problem, and while the team didn't get a chance to test the 2014 tires, neither did the other teams.

Vettel said that the car is basically good, and Webber's KERS system has also been resolved after a small glitch.

Felipe Massa said that it was a difficult day in the local battle, and Alonso said that the weather conditions were unpredictable. In order to save full rain tires, Ferrari even avoided going out when the situation was bad to save full rain tires for qualifying or the race. .

The practice session was still held in rainy weather, the temperature was 19 degrees, and the surface temperature of the track was 21 degrees, so DRS was still disabled, but the KERS system was available.

After the green light of the pit lane came on, Perez took the lead and ran the speeding lap. At this time, the drivers could only use full rain tires, because there was a lot of water on the track, which also required the drivers to be very careful.

However, after a whole year of experience in the rain, all the drivers can be considered veterans, especially in the next few races, there were almost no major crashes.

Unlike the beginning of the season, almost 100% of the accidents occurred in the first corner of the starting stage, and then led to the safety car, but look at the next few races.

If there was a safety car at the last stop, Bu Zelu might be able to officially become a god one stop earlier.

Mercedes will report that the flooding situation today is worse than that on Friday. Rosberg said that the flooding in the starting area of ​​the big straight is very serious. Infiniti Red Bull also specifically told Vettel to go to the 4th turn in the pit lane Be careful on this road.

The embarrassment for the team is that the drivers need to adapt to this kind of weather as much as possible, but they cannot use too hard full rain tires for the race.

Although everyone is used to rain battles, rain battles themselves have higher risks.

After 20 minutes, only Perez did the timing lap, while Toro Rosso's Vergni and Ricciardo, as well as Bu Zelu, were the drivers who had never made an appearance.

Hamilton made a brief appearance to see the water accumulation on the track, but the situation was not optimistic and he had to go back. Many drivers, including Alonso, simply left the cockpit.

After all, if there is too much water on the track, once there is a crash, it will have a great impact on the qualifying that will start more than two hours later. The drivers obviously do not want to take this risk.

This rain is different from the previous rain battles. The previous races were all drizzle but at the same time it can ensure that there is basically no water on the track.

At the same time, it will also cause the racing car to be unable to 'clean' the road surface through the tires, but today is different, the water on the road, alas~
The Caterham team also told Pique to stay in the P room honestly, because the weather conditions are now changing drastically.

Hulkenberg re-emerged as the rain subsided just after the halfway mark, only to find that the oversteer was severe.

Although Vettel once rushed to the first place, he was still slightly off the track at the 4th turn.

Afterwards, some drivers came on stage one after another, including Toro Rosso's Ricciardo, but there were still many drivers who chose to stay in the maintenance room in order to save tires.

The long-awaited Buze shoes only ran 3 laps on the track, barely made a timed lap, and then returned to the maintenance room again.

Chilton made a mistake at Turn 4, fortunately there is still room for redress, and Bianchi made a similar mistake near Turn 8.

With 10 minutes left, some drivers headed by Weber began to choose semi-wet tires, but soon the rain came again.

Ferrari simply refused to allow Alonso and Massa to reappear, while Button and Rosberg did not complete the timed lap.

In the end, Infiniti Red Bull Racing's Webber secured the top spot with the fastest lap of 1:27, followed by Lotus F891 Team's Grosjean and Kovalainen in second and third.

Vettel only ran 4 laps, ranking 17th.Perez was the most diligent driver in the three training sessions. He ran a total of 21 laps, but most of the drivers' laps were in single digits. Among them, Button and Bu Zelu only ran one system setting lap and never appeared again.

The hasty ending of the third company ended like this, Bu Zelu decisively returned to the rest room to take a shower, and the elder sister and brother-in-law did not say hello.

These two are not children, and they are accompanied by three employees.

Bu Zelu, who simply ate something to pad his stomach, was waiting for the qualifying in the afternoon.

As Interlagos continued to be shrouded in rain, many drivers waited on the exit of the pit lane well before the start of the first qualifying session.

The unpredictability of the weather made qualifying a busy start.

The first to drive onto the track was the Mercedes Pace, and all the drivers chose semi-wet tires.

1分25秒342是步泽履树立的标杆，维特尔以0.04秒稍稍落后，而两人身后的胡肯伯格已经落后了0.7秒。

These two people have already become gods in rainy battles this year, and the whole year's rainy battles have already shown the strength of the two of them.

Five minutes later, the rain seems to have increased.Rosberg entered the top three, 5 seconds behind his teammates and Vettel.

As the track is very crowded, there are constantly drivers on the racing line of the opponent's flying lap.

In the last leg of his F1 career, Webber tried his best and finally entered the top ten.

With 9 minutes left, most of the drivers returned to the maintenance area due to the general reaction that the rain in the second and third timing segments of the track was very bad.

At the last moment, Kovalainen, who was still working hard to break out of the knockout zone, created the fastest third time period of the game, which helped him jump to the fifth place all at once.

The track conditions seemed to improve, and then both Toro Rosso improved their lap times.

In the end, Sutil, Maldonado, Pique, Van der Garde, Bianchi and Chilton were eliminated.

Overall, the focus of the first session was that Mercedes-Red Bull led the lap time on semi-wet tires.

Before the start of the second qualifying session, there was still a queue waiting for the green light to open the maintenance area. This time Rosberg led his teammate Bu Zelu to make the first appearance.

Rosberg leads his team-mate by 0.4 seconds and temporarily takes the first place, with two Ferraris behind him.

Webber is still a bit slow, his first lap of semi-wet tires only completed 1 minute and 34 seconds, making him almost the bottom of the race.

At the same time, Vettel was the last to appear. The former Triple Crown champion broke Mercedes' record and took the first place by 0.1 seconds.

In the McLaren camp, Button's first timing lap only ranked 11th. For how to balance qualifying and the use of tires, each team has its own plans.

Since each driver only has 4 sets of semi-wet tires available, saving tires for the race cannot be ignored.

In the last 5 minutes, many drivers put on new semi-wet tires hoping to improve their lap times.

Sure enough, Grosjean improved Vettel's previous result by 2 seconds by virtue of the fastest second time period of the game.

As the track conditions gradually improved, all drivers were busy on the track, and lap times and rankings were constantly changing.

With the exception of the McLaren, both cars were in the knockout zone and the rain intensified again.

Perez lost control at turns 5 and 6, causing his Sauber to plummet into the protective wall.

Slow motion showed the rear of his car hitting the slippery shoulder, with the front wing hitting the opposite protective wall.

Perez himself was not injured.

In the end, he was out early after the second qualifying session together with Kovalainen, Di Resta, Bottas, Button and Hamilton.

McLaren's double exit in the second quarter surprised many people. Regardless of the team points or driver points, McLaren finally defeated Sauber, and the Mavericks and other mid-range teams ranked among the BIG-5.

But today's Brazil station is not very friendly to McLaren.

The third qualifying session was postponed by 40 minutes in order to clear Perez's car and the large amount of water on the track.

At 1:30 a.m. Weinan time, Q3 finally gave the green light.

At this time, in order to witness Bu Zelu's road to the championship, many Huaxia fans stood in front of the TV, even if it was a qualifying match.

Vettel and Webber grabbed the top two spots at the exit of the pit lane, both on full wet tyres.

Webber's first "test the water" was fixed at 1:29, with teammate Vettel leading slightly by 215 seconds.

The Mercedes duo successfully squeezed between the two Red Bulls.

Red Bull's first lap attempt proved that the track was within the tolerance range of the semi-wet tires, and the two directly pitted to change tires.

Vettel confirmed to Red Bull that he needed to change to semis.

(End of this chapter)