End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 168 Retirement is a small thing, but an injury is a big one
Entering the last lap, Seavir tried to overtake at Turn 1, but Daniel defended tenaciously. Until the last few corners, the competition between the two began to heat up, but Daniel played very steadily and did not give his opponent a chance.

In the end, Daniel of the Dongsheng Racing Team was forced to adopt a "one-stop" strategy to tenaciously withstood the attack of Seawell, and successfully won the championship in today's Bahrain race. Seaville won No.2 and Stewart won No. 3. The next drivers are Alfredo, Wesley, Alex and Zhang Yue.

The award ceremony after the race was naturally prepared for the top three drivers, and the rest of the drivers were of course missed.

After the awards ceremony, there was another interview session.

As the champion of this station, Daniel is naturally the focus of everyone's eyes. After the game, Daniel looked extremely relaxed, with an unconcealable joy on his face.

When answering the reporter's question, Daniel said that he once thought that the championship was about to be lost during the game.

Daniel started from pole position today. The Dongsheng team originally arranged for him a two-stop tactic, so they arranged for him to complete the first pit stop before 20 laps of the race, and put on soft tires.

However, Bingcheng took the risk of allowing both drivers to adopt a one-stop strategy today, which put huge pressure on Dongsheng in the second half of the race, especially when Santak retired, and Daniel faced the situation of fighting alone.If he pits again at this time, there is no doubt that he will give up the leading position to the driver of Bingcheng.

So Daniel had to choose to hold on. In the last ten laps, his tires were worn out very badly. Seaver was constantly narrowing the gap with him, which put a lot of pressure on Daniel.

Especially in the last lap, Daniel’s previous lead was less than one second. Seavir tried to attack many times, but Daniel defended them tenaciously. In the end, Daniel crossed the finish line first and won the race for the second consecutive year. Win the championship.

After the race, Daniel also admitted that he thought he had lost the race: "With 10 laps left in the race, I told the team that everything was under my control. This was actually nonsense. Nothing is under control, the team told me. When I reached Xiver's speed, I felt that I would definitely not be able to stop him, and I felt that he would definitely catch up with me."

Daniel continued: "Ice City's plan was a bit beyond our expectations, because the team originally planned to take two stops, we had to change the plan, choose to protect the tires as much as possible and stick to the end of the race. Fortunately, the strategy worked. Yes. We were under a lot of pressure and luckily we made it to the end. I'm very happy and it's even better to win in these circumstances."

Compared with Daniel's excellent performance, his teammate Santak was very depressed today. He made a serious mistake during the second pit stop - his left rear wheel technician failed to remove the tire smoothly, but Santak had already got When the green light was signaled, his car rushed out, which caused injuries to the staff, and Santak had to retire with regret.

After the game, the game control center confirmed that Dongsheng would be investigated for unsafe release. After the incident, the technician was immediately sent to the race medical center on a stretcher. After diagnosis, he had a fractured tibia and fibula in one leg.Santak said in an interview after the game: "When the light turned green, I started. I didn't see what happened behind me. Unfortunately, he was injured. But you all know, my job is to Going off when the lights change, I really don't know the rest, I hope he's okay."

The chairman of Dongsheng also issued a statement to send his best wishes to the mechanic: "I wish our mechanic a speedy recovery and hope that he can return to the track as soon as possible. The team performed very well throughout the weekend. It was a tough race and Daniel drove like a true champion, I feel sorry for Santak, if nothing happens he will definitely be on the podium."

Retirement is a small thing, but an injury is a big one.

The wish of "nothing" is naturally difficult to realize. For this reason, Dongsheng had to accept a fine of 50000 euros from the FIA ​​for "unsafe situation incidents".

But in the eyes of the proud Dongsheng team, these fines are nothing, because Dongsheng has a solid team and two top drivers.

But the slight gap between them and their strong opponents also made them realize that there is still a long way to go. They must maintain a high degree of concentration and work desperately with passion.

In the eyes of many people, the track is the stage with a high incidence of accidents in F1, but in fact, many accidents are caused by the maintenance station.Don't think that there is a safe haven for racing cars to refuel and rest. If a driver or technician is not careful, it will bury a safety hazard for the race.

Speaking of F1 accidents, everyone will think of Senna, but the fire that happened in the Benetton garage in Germany that year was equally horrific.In that race, when Joss Verstappen came into the pit to refuel, some oil droplets sprayed out from the nozzle, touched the hot body, and instantly formed a big fireball that engulfed the car.Fortunately, the flames were extinguished in time, and apart from Verstappen's slight burns, there were no casualties.The cause of the accident was that Benetton removed a filter in the oil gun in violation of regulations to achieve a faster oil refill speed.In the opening race of the year, the leading Ayrton Senna lost to Schumacher in the pit stop.

In 2009, Alonso suffered a disappointing weekend at the Hungaroring.Due to a mistake made by the team mechanic, the right front wheel of the car was not completely fixed before it was driven out of the pit stop. As a result, Alonso's tire flew out half a minute later.Fortunately, even though Alonso noticed the abnormal performance of the tires, he gave way to other drivers one after another, so that a similar tragedy in the F2 field did not happen.

Coincidentally, also in Hungary in 2006, Alonso pitted in a good situation. Because the team did not tighten the wheel bolt when changing the right rear tire, the wheel bolt came off after Alonso drove out of the maintenance area, and the transmission The shaft failed, and the young and vigorous car king could only choose to retire.

BMW driver Hai Fei encountered exactly the same situation as Alonso in the 2007 Spanish Grand Prix.Because the staff holding the "lollipop" flipped the card prematurely to indicate to Hai Fei that he could drive out of the pit stop, the parts on the racing tire fell on the pit lane.Heifer stopped again after one lap to avoid the accident.And the most thrilling accident of that game came from the eventual champion Felipe Massa.

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