[Racing] King of Speed

The schedule of the American Grand Prix is ​​almost halfway through. Currently, the leader is still Pirzeo, who went from third to first because of his brave start. Westbrook, who was originally behind, was trapped by the rapid failure of the tires and had to break the original stop. Normal strategy, pitted ahead of time to change tires, now dropped to eighth place, not far away is Sislera's No. [-] driver Huffman.

The second player on the field was Kinsey. Just as everyone was paying attention to Weiss' loss, he had already reached the rear of Peel, and Peel also saw the silver-purple shadow of the car in the rearview mirror.He started to walk the defensive line early, waiting for Kinsey's sudden blow anytime and anywhere.

The Austin track is a series of medium-slow corners from Turn [-] to Turn [-]. In the absence of grip, overtaking here is almost impossible. Sbruck, or Neil, Peel wouldn't be so worried, but the one behind him was none other than Kinsey Sodenshane.If Pirzeo were to choose one of the drivers to be his opponent, he would definitely choose Kinsey without hesitation, this man who will be his teammate next year, almost no need to ask why, everyone has witnessed this The cruel reality, this year, how many times Pirzeo has lost face and lost battles under Kinsey, everyone has seen it.

A reporter once asked Peel, if you go to Quinby next year, would you be willing to be the second driver?Peel is in his prime, and his qualifications are more than a little higher than that of Kinsey, and he has been working in the luxury team for so long. It is really overkill for him to be completely reduced to the role of wingman. Even if the team has this intention, Peel is definitely not that easy of soft persimmons.

At that time, he remembered that his answer was: If Kinsey has the strength to make me willing, I naturally have nothing to say.

Conversely, if he doesn't have this ability, then I will never give in easily if it is my share, even if it is an order from the team.

I believe that most drivers will think so in their hearts when encountering such a situation, but there should not be many who are so open and honest. Even in the past two years, Kinsey only euphemistically expressed his determination to "see the situation" , but Pirzeo is so direct.

Now he is facing Kinsey's challenge again. Compared with his stubbornness with Garnett, his struggle with Kinsey is more meaningful.

At this moment, Pilzeo's spirit was extremely tense, and he took every corner extraordinarily fiercely, leaving no room for Kinsey to go beyond.Jin Xi posted very close. When it is necessary to tap to overtake, the vacuum zone at the rear of the car will indeed bring a certain advantage to the speed of the car, allowing the slingshot effect to play, and then successfully climb the head.But at the same time, being too close can easily cause the rear car to be affected by the wake flow from the front, directly disrupting the driver's rhythm.

That's what the host and Ross were worried about.

"It's too close. If Peel accidentally locks the brakes, Kinsey will hit him head-on!"

But Kinsey did not disappoint after all, he walked very smoothly through seven or eight turns in a row, and kept a distance from Pirzeo, so close that he could almost smell his airflow.

Then as soon as he came out of the corner, Ross yelled, "Is it time to overtake?!"

As soon as the voice fell, Jinxi quickly posted it, and then tapped his head to overtake, but his movement was too large, causing Peel to predict the route from the rearview mirror. Because of the rule that he could not change the line twice, Peel's defensive action was not good enough. Big, just firmly stuck in the car lane, Jinxi did not pass, and the distance in the bend was slightly further extended.

There are two not-so-long straights ahead, Kinsey attacked Peel again after stabilizing his car.

Pierre naturally responded with color, and the two fought one after another in the same area for several consecutive laps.

It was only gradually that Pier realized that something was wrong. Although the number of fights was not too many, Pirzeo had a deep understanding of Kinsey's style. Kinsey looked cheerful and cheerful, but he was actually one of the best in the paddock. He is dark and insidious, and often he won't make a move easily without full confidence. This kind of fighting with himself and being unable to overtake, but wasting tires is not like what he would do at all.

Wait, tires? !

Pirzeo suddenly realized.

He hurriedly opened the TR to communicate with the team, but Jin Xi, who was at the entrance of the maintenance area, suddenly jumped in the direction.

And it wasn't until Kinsey's car slid into the passage of the head of the P area that the mechanic of the Quinby team rushed out holding the tires like crazy. The fool could understand the current situation and made it clear that he would use the Undercut tactic against Pilzeo .

"It's too covert!" The host praised this, "And asked Kinsey to feint at Pierre? Quimby GoodJob!"

"Not only that," Ross said lightly, "Look at Peel's tires..."

Seeing that the lap time comparison between Kinsey and Peale was shown on the screen in a timely manner, on the whole, Peale and Kinsey's speeds were comparable, but in fact, Kinsey was a little faster than Peel at the beginning Yes, otherwise he would not be able to quickly catch up with Peel, but after these two laps, Kinsey's lap time has gradually decreased. One of the important reasons is that the tires were excessively consumed by the fight between the two.Throughout the season, everyone can see that Satika's copycat rear wing is not as good as Quinby's and Sislera's, but the two drivers can still disrupt their situation from time to time, and Garnett can still maintain The ranks of the championship competition is because they have done a particularly good job of protecting the tires.

On some specific tracks, Pirzeau has used the 1Stop tactic several times to win unexpected good positions, and Garnett has not been trapped in tire consumption at least, so at this moment the comparison between Kinsey and Peel Under the circumstances, the tire advantage of the latter is definitely better.

But Kinsey deliberately made such a big move before the pit stop. He just tricked Pirzeo into the pit suddenly and overturned his opponent, and even forced him to grind the tires with him before he could cut him. It's just as Peel described: it's insidious.

And the fact is just as Quimby predicted, even though Satika hurriedly called Pirzeo in on the next lap, he ran for more than a minute with the old tires, and when he got out of the station, he still Falling behind Kinsey, was successfully Cut!

Kinsey put on hard tires. It stands to reason that Kinsey's hard tires are not as fast as Pirzeau's medium tires. Slower than the middle driver, but the embarrassing part is still behind, the tire temperature in the United States can't get up.

Kinsey, who has already run a lap, even if the tires are not up to the optimum working temperature, but they are much better than the cold tires that Peel just put on, so he lags behind before changing tires, and lags behind after changing tires, giving him a chance to chase It was wasted slowly in this way, and the temperature of Jinxi's tires at the back was getting hotter, and the speed was also increasing. Peel wanted to make a comeback, but the hope was even slimmer.

Although there was Quimby's cooperation in it, Pierre was completely put together by Kinsey again!

Only he himself understands the aggrieved feeling in Pierre's heart.

Kinsey returned to the leading position, the American car fans at the scene burst into cheers like a mountain and a tsunami, occupying the advantage and limelight of the home court, the technicians and team leaders in the P room were all in good spirits, obviously for this Very satisfied with the successful implementation of this tactic.

One after another, other drivers also entered the pit one after another. The gap between Nair and Garnett was very small. He also had the idea of ​​​​undercutting each other, but Sislera's car was not up to par on the tires. Even if he If you enter the station early, it is estimated that the cold tires will come out faster than the neutral tires that are not worn out now. On the contrary, being overcut by others will not be worth the loss.

So Nair still honestly followed the normal rhythm for two stops, and he was still about 3 seconds behind Garnett when he came out, and he just ran lap after lap.

At the end of the race, Westbrook made another stop, put on brand new hard tires, and managed to finish sixth from the end of the points zone. His bad luck also caused him to lose nearly 10 points. The tight top four also sharply opened up the distance, with 222 points, and he is 23 points away from the first. If there is no miracle in the next game, this year's WDC and the veteran who is about to retire should be close There is no fate.

Nair finished the race in third place, with 245 points, he still ranked first in the driver's total points list, but the points difference with No. Successfully squeezed out Garnett by 2 points, and kept a close eye on Nair's rear, while Garnett 3 still has the possibility of competing for the championship.

On the podium, Jinxi was very happy, and it was rare for him to spray champagne up and down on Neil, and the depression in his heart because of the two people's recent indifference also eased a lot.

Neil was so teased that he almost couldn't breathe. With a backhand swing, Kinsey was pushed staggeringly, and almost fell directly from the first position to the stage.

There was a roar of laughter immediately off the court, and the flash lights crackled and lit up.

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Sislera was quite satisfied with today's results. After the game, they made collective preparations and went to the contracted party venue to celebrate their [-]th anniversary.

Nair was drunk a few cups, was pulled by their sports director for a while, and was confided by the technical director for a while, and he almost told him how much the Sislera team wanted this WDC with snot and tears.

At first, they didn't even dare to think about it, thinking that they would spend the past ten years making wedding dresses for others, but now that they saw hope, they felt that all these years of hard work were not in vain.

Xu Shi was drunk, and the engineering director with graying hair and red eyes said to Horton who appeared together, "I am so grateful that you brought Neil, we need him, we have been waiting for such a child for too long It's..."

Seeing Neil's look of helplessness, the team leader Joseph came over and quietly pulled him aside, comforting, "Don't mind, everyone is just too happy."

Neil blinked and nodded, "I know..."

In the paddock, who doesn't have such a championship dream?