End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 169 Those Years

Perhaps because he was too impatient, Massa started the car before the staff removed the fuel pipe.As a result, oil droplets from the filling pipe spilled onto the racing car, and the extremely hot body quickly ignited the oil.Massa's cockpit was surrounded by flames, and the brave Brazilian rushed out of the pits covered in flames.

Massa seems to have a deep connection with gas pipes. At the Singapore Station in 2008, due to a mistake by the technician who controlled the light signal during the refueling process, the green light came on early. Massa rushed out of the pit area with a 5-meter-long refueling pipe. It took several efforts by Ferrari staff to remove the stuck pipe. The fuel pipe on the car was pulled out and Massa was able to return to the track.Due to Massa's mistake, the Ferrari team restarted the "lollipop", but this tool is actually not safe.

In the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, Honda's Mr. "Lollipop" raised the sign before the oiler raised his hand to indicate that the work was completed.After discovering the mistake, he hastily put down the sign.But at this time the car had already started, the "lollipop" slammed across Button's helmet, and the torn fuel pipe flooded the maintenance area with fuel.

In the 2003 Austrian Grand Prix, Schumacher also staged a frightening scene in the pit stop.When the two oilers tried to pull out the oil pipe, flames appeared at the mouth of the oil pipe. Although the staff worked together to extinguish the flame, Schumacher still lost 20 seconds of precious time.In the 2008 European Grand Prix, Raikkonen started the car with the fuel pipe still on, and knocked down a fuel worker.There are many stories about Ferrari's pits, and there are also many thrilling accidents caused by drivers in the pits.

In the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, due to rain before the race, all teams started on medium-wet tires, which gave the event more stories.In fact, the track did not dry out as fast as Alonso and Ferrari expected. It was not until the 8th lap that all the cars lined up and pitted to change dry tires. However, at such a fast speed, the cars were so dry. If there are too many, accidents will happen.Here, Vergoni of the Toro Rosso Racing Team had just changed the tires, turned off the wheel and was about to go out. Unexpectedly, Pique of the Caterham Racing Team was also paralleling and planning to pit. As a result, the two cars "kid" each other.Pique's car was okay and he continued to move forward, changing tires and changing the nose. However, because the F1 car did not have a reverse gear, Vergoni's car had to be pushed back by manpower and the nose was changed again, which delayed his time. Fortunately, in the end it was Get points.

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The F1 track is not the most dangerous place, engineers are working with their lives!
Compared to Daniel's pride, No.2's Xi Weier seemed a bit embarrassed, not only the news media, but even his fans were a little disappointed.

Especially in the last three laps of the race, Seaver had already caught up with Daniel, and he had a lot of opportunities to use DRS to overtake, but at this time Seaver's flaws in overtaking ability were exposed.

His timing and rhythm always seemed to be a little off, and Daniel was able to block the overtaking route every time and save the day.On the podium after the race, even Daniel himself admitted that it was a fluke because his speed at the time was no longer enough to defend Seaver.

In addition to failing to overtake on his own, Seaver's help to his teammates was also quite limited. After Stewart came to No. 4, he had the opportunity to help his teammates after the first pit stop, at least to help them narrow some of the gaps, but still did not success.

After the race, Seaver was very disappointed with such a result: "We had an advantage in tires at the time, and I knew Daniel would struggle. I have been trying to catch up with him, but it was not close enough. It is very disappointing to only get No.2 Disappointed, next time we will try to win the title."

Stewart started from the 9th place in this station, and finally got on the podium by relying on Santak's retirement. Compared with Seaver, Stewart, who has risen by 6 positions, is undoubtedly better. After the race, he also feels good about his performance Basically satisfied: "I started from ninth place, so No.3 is not a problem at all, it is an acceptable result. First of all, I would like to congratulate Daniel for his excellent work, which reduced our points loss. There were frustrating moments when the team couldn't hear me on the radio and communication is really important when you're trying to catch Daniel."

The team leader of Bingcheng affirmed the performance of the two drivers, but he still felt sorry for Seawell's failure: "After yesterday's qualifying, we are very happy to finish the race in 2-3. Here's The heat is not to our liking, the track surface is not good for us and I hope we will come back strong in Spain.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Yue, the newcomer of the Thunder Racing Team, was the first to put on the medium tires and performed very well. Seaver started to lose speed at that time, so we decided to run for a while and also put on the medium tires. It turned out to be a good decision and Seaver had a chance to win in the final seconds. "

After the race, the manager of the Leysen team responded to the accident between Stewart and Tesrock, saying that the two drivers are "hardcore fighters".

But Stewart disagreed, "It was interesting to hear him (Leysen manager) say that, because I think their car should have done well this weekend. But Leysen failed to bring back the final Points are due to Tesrock's inexperienced and immature behavior.

Assuming Altaïr was driving that car, I think the accident could have been avoided.I also grew up at his age, so I sincerely hope that Tesrock can learn from this accident to grow up. "

The smile on Stewart's face after this race was a bit far-fetched, not just because of the accident, but mainly because the Briton had difficulty communicating with the team after Stewart's radio failed.

But the defending champion revealed that the team will try to change that. "I didn't know how fast I needed to play or how much pressure I had to put on the tires. I didn't have enough information on Dongsheng's strategy at the time, so it was like fighting alone in the game. And because Radio issues, communication between me and the team was constantly interrupted."

"We're going to sit down and talk about the last two games and try to make a change. I think we can definitely find a way. I don't want them talking all the time, so we have to figure out the best way to do it. Method."

(End of this chapter)