olympian big player

Chapter 627 627 - Spa Circuit
After bidding farewell to a group of friends, I left the two little children to Uncle Yu to help take care of them.Bu Zelu also returned to Europe to start preparing for the second half of the F1 race.

There are still four championship missions, but Bu Zelu is very anxious.

Fortunately, the next two races are high-speed circuits, which is very good news for Mercedes.

The Spa circuit in Belgium and the Monza circuit in Italy are the two stops that Mercedes is bound to win.

For the track with many corners, Red Bull Racing, with its unique downforce design, did not fight back against other teams.

Mercedes, which has been completely upgraded this time, finally solved the problem of tire attenuation in the car after a month of overtime.

At the same time, a new round of upgrades has also been tested for a month.

Although Bu Zelu is not in Europe, the team does not only have two drivers, but also a third driver and a special test driver.

In terms of downforce, there is not much to do. This can only be solved by designing a new car this year, but for wind tunnel testing, this year's Mercedes is not much worse than Red Bull.

Besides, in terms of speed, Mercedes is the leader.

I haven't seen him for 3 weeks. Bu Zelu was a little surprised when he saw Rosberg again. He was a little tanned.

"Where did you go on vacation? Why didn't you give me a call!" Bu Zelu looked envious, this nima is definitely going to the sunny beach.

"No, you have been at home all the time, but you, I heard that you have been playing in the capital?" Rosberg said with a smile.

"Tch, tell me, where did you go? Is there any young lady?" Bu Zelu grabbed Rosberg's shoulders, walked aside, and asked secretly, avoiding his three employees.

"Really not, I have been driving a kart at home to practice my skills." Rosberg said with a wry smile.

"Uh... let's do it!" Bu Zelu was speechless, the holiday is not fun, and he even practiced extra?

"Let's go, let's go to the simulator to find out the feeling!" Rosberg really didn't go there this holiday, he had to cheer up again.

He personally felt very good in the first half of the race. He took pole position many times, but none of them turned into a champion. Moreover, in the first few races of the first half, the team did not require him to act as Bu Zelu's assistant.

So in the final analysis, he himself did not seize the opportunity.Originally, he had the best chance to bring back the pole position champion in the last Hungarian race, but who knew that the engine was reimbursed.

When Bu Zelu saw Rosberg working so hard, he was embarrassed to say that he really played for three weeks, and during these three weeks he was still a baby daddy, taking his two nephews to eat and drink in the capital all day.

Rosberg's pressure comes from his teammates and other drivers. In fact, he has no speed and no results, but the pressure from Bu Zelu is also quite high. After all, so far, the new task has only been completed once.

There are still 9 races left, and he needs to win at least half of the championships to complete the task.

An average of two games must be won.

'Spa and Monza are going to run well, you can't fish in qualifying, as long as you start in the first row, you should have a good chance! Bu Zelu and Rosberg went to the game room and thought about it in secret.

He stayed busy with the team for a week, but after internal testing, he found that the car had a major upgrade.

This upgrade cannot be said to be good or bad. In order to solve the problem of tire attenuation, the team went in the opposite direction, and unexpectedly solved the problem of car downforce.

But what was cut was a part of the speed advantage. In the next two high-speed tracks, the car was developed along the route of Red Bull.

This time there are more changes.

After a 26-day summer break, the F1 Grand Prix rekindled the battle at the historic Spa circuit. This is also the 46th time that the track with the longest lap distance in this year's calendar has hosted an F1 event.

As a classic track, Spa is considered by the drivers to be the most challenging battle. Due to its geographical location, Spa has many narrow bends and a large difference in altitude.

The weather conditions are also very changeable, and the Eau Rouge corner is recognized as the most challenging corner on the F1 track, and the track also places extremely high demands on the engine.

This year, some areas of the track have been fine-tuned, such as adding curbs and adding drains to the grid.

Due to the rain in the paddock this morning, the track was still a little wet at the start of the race, and the temperature was only 17 degrees, and the surface temperature of the track was only 16 degrees.

Most of the drivers used semi-wet tires during the system setting lap, but there were also those like Chilton, Bianchi and the Mercedes duo who used heavy rain tires.

Caterham team replaced Pique with Kovalainen to participate in the first training.

Van der Garde tested radios to avoid blind spots as much as possible.

After Kovalainen made his debut, he reported to the team that there were dry lines on the surface of the track, but the Williams driver immediately reminded that some corners were still very slippery.

After all the drivers finished their appearances, the teams were busy in the garage to fine-tune the cars, and Alonso sat in the corner seemingly having nothing to do, which was in stark contrast to the busy technicians.

Even Bu Zelu ran laps on the track very dedicatedly this time.Changed the first half of the schedule to paddle for fish in the practice match, and put it into the test seriously.

Van der Garde was not very satisfied with the grip performance of the car's rear, and Force India even performed "major surgery" to remove Sutil's engine.

At this time, Kovalainen got the news from the team that the weather conditions might get worse soon, and then Button also got similar news.

Bottas may have been too anxious, and he made a mistake at the Les Combes corner. Fortunately, the buffer zone was wide enough, but the team still told Bottas that he needed to protect the tires, because this set of tires was the only tire used in the practice plan. But Bottas soon made another mistake and drifted.

Afterwards, Raikkonen, Grosjean and Gutierrez successively had the problem of tire lock and deviation at the last corner.

At this time, the track is still dry in the second timing segment, but the last segment is already a bit slippery, which is the most difficult situation for the drivers.

At the end of half an hour, only 7 drivers ran the timing lap, and Button temporarily took the lead with 2:00.

After that, some areas of the track still rained, but the second timing period was not affected.Due to the complicated track conditions, the drivers chose to wait temporarily.

Nearly half way, Weber took the lead in changing to the hard tire in the dry tire, and then Vettel, Button, Perez and Bottas also changed to the hard tire to start testing.

As a result, both Vettel and Bottas slipped to varying degrees at the first turn, but even so, in the last 1 minutes, most drivers still switched to hard tires to hurry up and test, but the problem of "traffic congestion" inevitably appeared on the track .

But Raikkonen has not played again for a long time, and the technicians of the Lotus F1 team are repairing the front wheel hub of the Finnish Iceman.

Bu Zelu almost hit the decelerating Hamilton at the last corner, and Perez also had trouble with understeering and rushing to the buffer zone.

With 22 minutes left, Raikkonen finally debuted on hard tires.

It rained again on the track with more than ten minutes left before the end, and the drivers all returned to the garage for safety.

In the end, Alonso of the Ferrari team secured the first place with the fastest lap of 1:55, and the Force India II placed Di Resta and Sutil in second and third.

Vettel ranked 6th, Massa ranked 11th, Button and Hamilton ranked 14th and 15th respectively, the Lotus F1 team ranked bottom, and Raikkonen ranked second to last.

Mercedes' results can only be said to be quite satisfactory, ranking 9th and 18th respectively.

This time Bu Zelu didn't come over to record the track in advance, so today he was also very careful, just trying to get familiar with the track as much as possible.

After lunch, after a short rest, I started to prepare for the second free practice session in the afternoon.

Due to the rain in the first practice, the practice plans of each team were affected to varying degrees.
Among them, the Lotus F1 team is at the bottom of the ranking.

After an interval of two and a half hours, the weather conditions of the Spa track have changed dramatically, and the blue sky and white clouds are already very fine.

The temperature also rose to 21 degrees, and the surface temperature of the track reached 28 degrees.Pique, who was replaced by Kovalainen in the first practice, returned to the cockpit.

After the start of the race, all the drivers used hard tires. Although the track conditions have improved greatly, Vergni and Pique still made small mistakes off the track.

Rosberg reported that the tires were vibrating violently, and Hulkenberg also found that the car was slipping when the tire pressure was low.

Sutil complained that the car was not stable enough under the brakes, Perez struggled with grip at turns 12 and 13, and Grosjean understeered at turn 9 and veered off the track when passing the shoulder.

Massa reported that the car did not feel good, while Button found that there was oversteer under the brakes.

While the Mercedes technicians were adjusting Rosberg's car, the Buzzer skidded badly at Turn 9 and remained on the track after kicking up a cloud of dust.

Just 20 minutes later, Ricciardo was the first to put on the softer medium tires to start a new stage of testing.

After running for a period of time, Massa and Pique found that the balance of the car needed to be adjusted.

After the first 30 minutes, Infiniti Red Bull's Webber and Vettel occupy the top two respectively, among which Webber, who uses medium tires, once achieved a huge lead of 1.165 seconds.

At this time, Chilton and Alonso only ran 4 laps and 5 laps respectively.

Afterwards, Massa still complained that the car had oversteer, while Button's rear grip was still poor, and Ricciardo also felt that the car was understeering.

At the end of the half, only the Infiniti Red Bull duo could break the 1:50 mark.

When Ferrari hadn't used the medium tires, Webber switched back to the hard tires. At this time, many drivers began to use heavy fuel for long-distance tests.Alonso waited in the garage for the technicians to trim the rear of his car.

(End of this chapter)