End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 254 Difficulties
英国媒体近日在社交网络上邀请车迷投票，选择自己认为最为合适的F1赛历长度。其中，18-20场这一选项最受欢迎，得到了40%的得票。而荅骄领队认为合适的15场比赛仅获得了14%的车迷青睐。

Since F1 in 2098, Ice City Team has won all driver and team world championship titles.However, Dongsheng's strength this season has caused Bingcheng to encounter difficulties. Defending champion Stewart is currently lagging behind Daniel in the standings.When talking about the strength and weakness of each team this season, Vergil, who has won twice this season, said that Ice City is no longer as competitive as it was in the past four seasons.

"I think it's time for them to be caught up by their opponents. I think they are still the team with the strongest comprehensive ability, but their advantage is not as huge as in the past few years. But from the perspective of the whole year, they Still a tough team to beat."

After struggling this season, Citro's sporting chief has decided to resign.The departure of the French caused turmoil in the team, and the team also decided to promote the team consultant to the team sports director.Reflecting on his first grand prix in his new role, he said the team has made progress and he has high hopes for the team.

"I found that all the team members worked really hard, both on the field and in the factory. I think this weekend we got more competitive in the mid-table and got closer to our rivals. The only thing we can improve is ourselves performance, so we will continue to work hard.”

The Porter team has made great progress this season, and the team has become the leading team in the mid-range group many times in the past 10 races.But when looking ahead to this weekend's German Grand Prix, the team boss said that the slow final period at the Hockenheimring may cost the American team a lot of time.

"We are a little worried about the final session at Hockenheim because it is very slow. Our car is more competitive in the fast corners, so we will work hard to improve the car in the slower corners in Friday's free practice. adjustment."

This weekend is about to usher in the biennial F1 German station, and the McLaren racing car that once again visited the Hockenheimring is still lacking in competitiveness.Especially the struggling performance in qualifying made Altaïr have to make good use of the overtaking opportunity of this track in the race, and the newly added DRS zone can also help the driver to better keep up with the opponent.

"I love Hockenheimring, I've won three races here. It's a great pleasure to return to this most classic track after a year, it's full of fun to drive and overtaking opportunities. We clearly know we need to improve Performance in qualifying so we can have a better chance in Sunday's race."

During the period in Canada, Leysen Team [-] brought a new upgrade to the Leyson [-]nd Team team. Although the performance of this upgrade was very good at first, on a high-speed track like Silverstone, the cars of the Leyson [-]nd Team are still better than Dongsheng and Bingcheng was as slow as one lap per second in terms of single-lap performance, and driver Wesley also believed that such performance was incomprehensible.

"Purely from a performance point of view of Leysin II, I know everyone is working hard to improve it, and there are a lot of new ideas in Leysin II that have not yet been implemented. We need to spend more time to make it These upgrades are integrated into our car. The team has not yet figured out the best balance of performance for this upgraded version of the car, and the speed in the straight line is still much slower than the competition."

The technical director of the Leysin [-] team believes that the perfect and harmonious working environment between the current Leysin [-]nd team and the [-]nd Leysin team has greatly increased their confidence.The director expects that the Leysin II team will be able to exert its outstanding creativity in such an environment and ultimately create the strongest car.

"I think the second team of Leysin needs a new injection of technology. If you go to see what resources the Dongsheng factory has, you will find that they are still lacking in this area. However, they can rely on rich historical accumulation to build The second team of Leysin, which finally has self-confidence, will definitely be able to go one step further.”

The manager of the Ice City team commented on the news that the German Grand Prix may be expelled from the calendar. He believes that today's German fans have gradually lost their love for F1: "It will be difficult to solve the survival problem of the German Grand Prix. Germany Grand Prix has always been a place we love, and it would be a pity if such a race is missing. This is mainly due to the years-long dominance of the former car king over F1, Daniel's four-year domination of F1 gradually obliterated Germany Reiz for the fans. They need more time to wake up and restore the former glory of the German Grand Prix."

The head of the tire supplier's sports department believes that since the 2101 season has not visited the Hockenheimring, the supplier cannot fully control the performance of the current generation of cars on the German track.In this race, Pirelli provided cross-level tire compound options, and the combination of extremely soft, soft and neutral tires appeared again after the Chinese race.

"The German track is a bit new to us. We haven't been to Hockenheim before, and the performance of today's cars has changed significantly. We decided to use a cross-class tire compound for this race because we wanted to select The three tire compounds can be consistent in the gap in performance."

"The data collected by the drivers in practice will be crucial and then used to calculate the best tire combination for the race."

Former F1 driver Burke believes that today's F1 events give fans too many rights and opportunities to understand the drivers, resulting in the drivers' own private lives being almost exposed.He believes that this phenomenon is not a good thing. He believes that F1 drivers should be "idol" heroes, that is, they have an aloof image that is difficult to touch.

"I think today's media and drivers' personal social networks have given too much power to fans. I hope they don't forget their own jobs. Drivers should always remember that they should be the superhero image of fans."

F1's exclusive tire supplier has revealed the tire choices for the teams for the Hungarian Grand Prix.Among them, the Dongsheng team's choice seems to be more radical.Daniel and Santak opted for 9 and 8 sets of supersoft tires respectively - the softest compound for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Bingcheng's choice is more conservative.Stewart and Silver chose only seven sets of supersoft tires.

F1 owner Liberty Media has previously confirmed that it is revising the existing rules for the top ten to earn points.The American consortium stated that after the rule changes, the top 15 drivers who finish the race can score points or all the drivers who finish the race will receive points.

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