[Racing] King of Speed

No matter what, the people from the Quinby team still went to invite a medical doctor. When Kinsey saw Neil standing aside, he still had an innocent look on his face, so he waved sullenly for him to leave first. Listening to the team members Thanking him repeatedly all the way as if he was a savior, Jin Xi always felt uncomfortable.

I went upstairs to be checked by the medical doctor. The rest of the place was just scratched, but there was a muscle strain on the shoulder. It was not a serious problem, but the medical doctor still suggested that Jin Xi could take a rest for two days to recover. .But this proposal was flatly rejected by Kinsey.He missed the first phase of the winter test because of attending a commercial event before, how can he cultivate for personal reasons now, the more time he has to get familiar with the car before the race, the better, he can’t waste it at will, so Kinsey insisted on playing .

Seeing that he was so sure, the medical staff and the team did not stop him, and Nair, who had been restless, was not really relieved until he saw Kinsey appear in the paddock. He can still drive, so he should be fine.

Jinxi had also seen the young man who was standing in the distance carefully looking at himself. In fact, he was not very angry with Nelson. It's just that I didn't join in as enthusiastically as before.

So Nair returned to the team's P room to continue his test after confirming Kinsey's condition, and Whibe Moore sat in front of the console every game and watched the data constantly flipping on the screen with Joseph, occasionally bowing his head Scribbling on paper and taking notes.When Neil made two speeding laps and was about to come back, Huibi pressed the call button and asked in a cold voice, "Is it this speed? Is it because I didn't sleep well at night or I didn't eat enough?"

Reading, the No. [-] driver of Sislera in the second phase of the winter test, also came. He just went up and ran two laps, and the speed of each lap was a little faster than Nair, but he was also beaten by Huibi Moore after coming down. It took a while, but the frequency is not as high as Nair.

Nair was silent and unable to answer. He was actually a little distracted just now, because Kinsey was running in front of him, doing the warm-up lap.His track engineer, Mai Ya, quickly connected to the conversation and said in a soothing voice, "Nair, your car is in good condition now, please tell me if you have any problems or difficulties, and we can discuss it later."

After a while, Nair replied, "No problem... I'll run around and see."

Maia, "Okay."

At the same time, Kinsey's speeding lap also started. This is not the first time he has come to Jerez to run a winter test, but it is the first time he has driven Quinby's new car this year. Naturally, the basic level of the car is not the same as that of Xin Ze last year. Mann's style is comparable, and the handling is also adjusted to suit him. It's just that Kinsey's left shoulder is still a little painful when he is controlling the steering wheel. It's just a little bit slower, but this little bit will be put to infinity on the race track.

So after a few laps, Kinsey's result was only ranked tenth, and the team manager Rory's voice came from the car radio immediately, "Kinsey, are you okay?" A little injury, and this result obviously should not be the performance that Kinsey should have. He is slower than Westbrook by more than 1 second per lap. Generally, the gap between the front and rear cars is within 0.3 seconds, or less. There is room for competition with each other, and if it takes more than 1 second, it will be directly out of the game.

And Kinsey would not give in easily, he naturally said that he was fine. Fortunately, he probably got used to his current state a little bit later, and his lap time gradually increased, but there was still a certain gap with Westbrook. After a few laps, he The track engineer recruited him back.

Kinsey returned to room P, took off his helmet and exited the cockpit, looking at the current fastest lap rankings on the wall screen, the first was Garnett, the second was Westbrook, but the third was... El Deloza? !

In fact, the time from the winter test to the start of the main race is not short. Many teams will have a lot of ups and downs. Some of them were far ahead before, but they were left behind when they really entered the main race. Some rankings were not very good. High, but they can get on the podium, so it is not surprising that other teams rush to the front during the occasional few laps during the test.But Kinsey looked at Nair's various statistics silently, and he felt that the smarter team should take this opponent seriously.

Rubbing his slightly tense shoulders, Kinsey communicated with his track engineer, changed a set of tires and went on the track again. Even though his absolute speed is not satisfactory, it is still necessary to do a long-distance test Yes, you can also look at the stability of the car and the ability to adapt to the tires.

Speaking of tires, besides the drivers, they must be the biggest variable in the race. With the FIA’s tire strategy changing a lot in the past few years, tires often become the most eye-catching in the race. Role.

Like a series of rules and regulations for racing car research and development, there are also strict restrictions on the use of tires. The FIA ​​invites external bids, and after the world's top tire manufacturers bid, they choose the best one to join the paddock. They must pass a A series of tests have been conducted to develop the most suitable tires for the competition, which must be safe enough and make the competition exciting, and then distributed to each team.

There are six types of tires in total, supersoft tires, soft tires, medium tires, hard tires, semi-wet tires and rain tires.

Literally, it can be understood that supersoft tires are naturally the softest, followed by soft tires, followed by medium tires and hard tires. These four are used to run dry races.As for the semi-rain tires and wet tires, one is for light rain and the other is for heavy rain. As for how much rain is considered heavy, it is up to the team to judge.

The speed and softness of the tires are also arranged in exactly the same way. The supersoft tire has the fastest single-lap speed, but because it is soft, it wears quickly. Sometimes it can’t hold up after less than ten laps. The tires are slightly better, and can run more than ten or twenty laps, and hard tires are the most wear-resistant. It is no problem to run thirty laps on some tracks that do not consume so much tires, but sometimes the lap speed of hard tires and soft tires will be different in each lap. to about 2 seconds, and the speed of rain tires is basically nothing to compare with. Generally, it is not a last resort, and no one wants to use it.

The FIA ​​also stipulates that only two of the four dry tires can be used in each race, and both of them must be used. Each tire is limited to three sets, and the specific two will be determined by the tire manufacturer at that time. Designated, it is not the team's turn to call the shots.Therefore, in addition to the designated tires issued by the Tire Chamber of Commerce in the three practice sessions for everyone to run casually, the qualifying and race on Saturday will be supported by these three sets of tires. Of course, the two sets of rain tires will last most of the time It is not used, and the most important thing is to rely on dry tires, so how to use it most economically is also a very big problem.

Because there is still a big gap between new tires and old tires, especially supersoft tires, a set of brand new supersoft tires can sometimes kill a worn out supersoft tire, even if it only runs a lap , When to use what kind of tires, what kind of tires are they in, and how the opponent uses them, all of which require the team to make detailed strategic considerations in advance.

And when it comes to tires, we have to mention changing tires during the race. Even the hardest hard tires are impossible to run the entire race. In the middle, it is necessary to stop and change tires. Sometimes one time is not enough, two times, three times, four times, five times It is not impossible, and in addition to the FIA ​​regulations, you must use both the dry tires provided. Even if your car is very suitable for running on medium tires and runs faster than soft tires, you must not Don't replace it, let another tire show its face.

In the main race, the gap between some cars with similar strength is only a few seconds, or even a few tenths of a second. After a lap, the speed that the driver can recover is often within one second, but they often enter the pit lane to change tires. , but can completely change the situation, sometimes losing the leading position, and sometimes widening the gap to the opponent. These reversal factors depend on another very important key point in the game-the team's tire replacement time.