End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 172 Upgrade
而在圈速上，冰城在前半小时中就确定了榜首的位置。西维尔做出1分18秒695的圈速排名第一，西维尔的队友斯图尔特落后0.302秒暂列第二。在FP1的最后20分钟里，西维尔成功再次刷新自己的成绩，做出1分18秒148的成绩将自己的领先优势提高至0.849秒。

Citroen brings a number of upgrades this weekend, with a redesigned nose taking center stage.Judging from FP1, the Citro team, which has not entered Q3 in qualifying this season, has improved in speed to a certain extent.Altaïr and Delacro ranked sixth and ninth respectively.

El Salvador's reserve driver Lukacs replaced Adonis in the first practice.This is also his first Grand Prix weekend appearance after a lapse of 7 seasons, but his performance in the first practice was a bit unsatisfactory, and he only ranked 19th.

In the subsequent second practice, the game was disrupted by the virtual safety car only 2 minutes after the start of FP5.Easter's slump continued after the poor performance in the first two games of the season.After Easter lost control at Turn 7, the car rushed out of the track, and Porter's car "stranded" in the gravel area had to wait for the "rescue" of the race crane.Fortunately, as the car returned to the garage quickly, Easter successfully returned to the track in the last 30 minutes of free practice after the car was cleaned.

In the first 20 minutes, almost all the drivers on the field tested the soft tires.Stewart ranked first with a time of 1:18.The Leysin team showed excellent performance. Virgil and his teammate Tesrock, who lost a lot of practice time due to mistakes in the first practice session, ranked second and third.

In the next 20 minutes, several drivers began to use supersoft tires for qualifying simulation.However, due to the gust of wind, the two Bingcheng drivers and the two Leysin drivers made mistakes in their sprint laps and failed to achieve representative lap times.

With about 37 minutes left in practice, Santak's Dongsheng car experienced a power unit failure. Santak successfully drove the car back to the garage after shutting down the engine, but the former world champion would not only lose valuable FP2 race simulation testing time, it is even possible to be forced to replace the power unit components in advance.

The dangerous release in the pit area that has appeared many times this season has appeared again in FP2.Oddmet was unsuccessful in tightening up Bepena's front left wheel during pit stop practice.Bepena had to stop the car on the side of the track, and the virtual safety car "appeared" again.According to the FIA's previous penalties for similar mistakes, Odmet will not escape the punishment of the game.

In the last 30 minutes, almost all riders began to shift their focus to long-distance testing.But in terms of heavy-duty fuel lap times, Bingcheng and Laisen performed well, but Bingcheng seemed to wear tires faster than their main rivals Dongsheng and Laisen.

The Porter team continued their good results in Barcelona in pre-season testing, with Easter finishing seventh after returning to the track, and his team-mate Wesley in eighth.

But obviously, in the first two free practice sessions of the F1 Spanish Grand Prix today, the Bingcheng team swept away the recent decline and took the two fastest single laps, but Daniel's words made people feel that F1 The tire supply company is suspected of favoring its rivals.

First of all, the state of Ice City has not been very good since entering the new season. The audience generally believes that their current racing speed lags behind Ferrari.Even in the betting company's winning odds for the Spanish Grand Prix, Daniel occupied the top position for the first time this year, but judging from the performance of the first two free practice sessions today, Ice City seems to have suddenly regained its dominance. Weir led Daniel by nearly 1 second in the first practice, and Stewart even won the fastest lap in the second practice, leading Daniel by more than 0.3 seconds.

Dongsheng driver Daniel said in an interview that the tire company changed the tire formula this weekend to help Bingcheng and Leysen solve the problems they encountered during the previous test here: "Obviously we have different tires, because the tire supply Shang responded to the problems that Bingcheng and Leysen had in the test, so we will see how the situation develops. The strength of the three teams is already very close, and a small adjustment can make a big difference. Variations, we've had good pace in the race, but honestly I'm not sure where we'll be this weekend and hopefully we can fight for the title."

Stewart's performance in the last few games is a bit embarrassing. If he wins this weekend's game, he will catch up with some points. Significance: "To be honest, our performance has not been the best since the beginning of the season. The season is still very long, and there are still many things that may happen in the future, but the temporary lead does not mean anything. The most important thing is when the season ends. Where would you be, if we're ahead just because of luck, it's not enough to win the world title."

In the offseason of just over two weeks, many teams have upgraded their cars. Among them, the biggest move is undoubtedly the Citroën team. They brought a new aerodynamic package for this race. The team described the car as The perfect version, uh... But judging from the performance of today's practice session, Citroën's progress is not obvious, and Altaïr also said after the game that the upgrade of the car did not fully meet expectations: "We have high expectations for the upgrade of the car. We are all looking forward to this weekend's race, but now it seems that there is still work left for us, the team's results today are not as good as we wanted, and the car has not been driving very smoothly."

The conflict between Altaïr and the team is obviously not a matter of a day or two. Even in this technology-oriented era, Altaïr is still more interested in the car itself than technology.

However, as a professional racing driver, his attitude has greatly disappointed his fans who have followed him for a long time. Now Altaïr seems to be struggling to survive in the F1 game.

People are paying attention to him now because of some of his "big words", and this has obviously become an after-tea joke among the audience.

If you have time to constantly find fault with the car, it would be better to focus more on reflecting on yourself.

Now Altaïr is more like a paranoid.On the other hand, his team's support for Altaïr and its investment in car upgrades...

Altaïr was clearly not a qualified pilot, at least not yet.

(End of this chapter)