End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 215 Very Powerful

余下的50分钟里，几乎所有车手都对本周末配方最软的极软胎进行了测试。冰城也在这一条70%全油门的赛道上拿出了较为强势的速度。西维尔率先做出1分32秒371的标杆成绩，但这一圈速在几分钟后被队友斯图尔特超过。最终，两人为冰城排名FP1前二位。

Hongqi disrupted practice in the final stage of FP1.Diago's rear wheel lost grip when turning into the 12th turn, and Diago's sharp car went straight to the wall.The severe impact caused the car to catch fire and the race was red flagged.At this time, there are only 1 minutes before the end of FP2, which means that the first practice ends early.

In the second free practice, Bingcheng continued to perform strongly in terms of speed.Stewart topped the leaderboard with a substantial advantage of 0.7 seconds.Virgil and Tesrock ranked second and third behind by 0.704 and 0.723 seconds respectively.

But another Ice City driver, Seaver, had to give up the last 45 minutes of free practice due to a cooling failure of the car.Seaver therefore failed to perform long-distance simulations.Dongsheng did not focus on the sprint circle in FP2, Daniel and Santak ranked fourth and fifth. Halfway through FP2, the left rear wheel of Gu Gaoyuan's racing car fell off and was interrupted by a red flag.

Before the start of FP2, Ruijin Racing Team confirmed that Diago, who suffered a serious crash at the end of FP1, would not play in the second practice.Diago's car could not be repaired before the end of FP2 due to the fire.

In the first half hour of the second session, almost all the drivers continued to test the car adjustments, and did not choose to change to the ultra-soft tires to try the sprint lap simulation.Stewart, who used super soft tires, ranked first with a time of 1:33, and Seaver, who used soft tires, was 582 seconds behind and ranked second, which also allowed Bingcheng to lock in the top two results.Tesrock and Daniel ranked third and fourth.

The red flag came out at the 45th minute of free practice.Gu Gaoyuan's left rear wheel suddenly fell off during the sprint lap, causing the Yinhua car to spin at high speed on the straightaway.Due to the potential danger caused by the falling tires on the track, the race had to issue a red flag to interrupt the practice.Fortunately, the accident did not cause any damage to Gu Gaoyuan's car.Gu Gaoyuan successfully returned to the track at the end of FP2.

FP2在中段几分钟后冲刺开始，领先集团的车手也在此时使用极软胎进行冲刺圈模拟。斯图尔特做出1分32秒529的成绩刷新了自己的最快圈，并且以0.704的巨大优势领先里卡多。紧随其后的特斯洛克落后0.732秒。

In the remaining FP2, almost all the drivers began to focus on the long-distance simulation, and the ranking of the performance list was therefore almost unchanged.Judging from the speed of the FP2 tire simulation, one stop may be the mainstream tactic of this weekend's race.

Towards the end of FP2, Catildan was stopped on the track due to a power failure in the car.The race had to dispatch a virtual safety car to clean up the cars of Leysin's second team.

The Porter team continued to perform well in FP2. Easter ranked eighth, Zhang Yue sixth, Alfredo and Alex ranked ninth and tenth.

After the last race, Stewart publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the decline in the competitiveness of Bingcheng Racing, and then he and other engineers conducted self-criticism in the team's internal meeting.In Stewart's opinion, this will help the ice city rebound from the slump: "We as a team, we all sat down, everyone criticized themselves, including myself, our previous performance was very average, I think we must To make sure that we can continue to move forward. Afterwards we had a very good meeting, everyone was openly self-critical, and there were some great discussions. The team was able to speak honestly. I believe we will make some things better, which is exactly I planned."

There are many rumors this week about Santak leaving the team next season. Some media even said that Kendrick will replace Santak by name. My mentality and performance: "I have been listening to the news of these newspapers for a long time, and the content is the same every time. To be honest, I am a little tired of myself. I don't care about this issue now. I want to The most important thing is that when I get into the car, I try to strive for the best results and do my best to help the team.”

The Bingcheng team may postpone the upgrade of the car, which means that the team drivers Stewart and Seaver will not be able to use the new upgrade in the next French station and the next few games.

"Let's wait and see what the teams decide," Stewart said. "I trust my own judgement. If we have to run the original specification engine again, an upgrade has never been a problem for us."

Teammate Seaver said: "We'd really like to put the new one in, but we're still waiting to see if we can use it in the French Grand Prix. Every weekend, the three most powerful cars battle it out. , any speed increase we can get is important. We really want to get new upgrades."

At headquarters, the Bingcheng R&D team is fully testing new components with the aim of racing at this week's French Grand Prix, but they are still undecided on whether to use them.

Dongsheng team driver Daniel said that regardless of whether the Bingcheng team will introduce new upgrades in the French station, they will still be very competitive this weekend.

However, Daniel questioned how much performance improvement brought about by the upgrade of the car. He believed that Bingcheng would have advantages whether it is an old model or a new part.

"I can't speak for them, and I don't know how much they have improved. Although there may be a big speed increase, if the speed improvement is not big, then the difference will not be too big." Daniel said.

"I'm sure they'll be strong no matter what the situation is. As I said before, there are some races where your car adapts better for a few reasons, other circuits it doesn't, like they have the advantage in Barcelona, ​​whether it's the new The components are old. Our car can put out a lot of speed and provide a lot of downforce, but it still lacks speed compared to them," Daniel added.

Stewart believes that tire suppliers have not followed through on their promises to make tires softer.

Judging from the two free practices on Friday, this weekend's French Grand Prix will continue the trend of this season's "one-stop" strategy.Looking forward to the main race, Stewart said that the flatness of the past few races was related to the small number of pit stops, and called on tire suppliers to use softer tires in the race.

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