End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 176 Pole Position = Champion
The next few laps were uneventful, Stewart gradually extended the lead to 4 seconds, Altaïr kept trying to attack Kendrick in front of him, but never got a chance.

The race soon came to the 17th lap, and almost nothing happened on the track, but the weather was a bit gloomy, and there was still the possibility of rain.On the 18th lap, Daniel took the lead to stop and put on medium tires. After coming out, he was temporarily in the 7th place. At this time, Bingcheng urged Xiweier to speed up and complete the overtaking. On the 20th lap, Xiweier also completed his first pit stop. His It took a little longer to enter the station this time. After coming out, it was just behind Daniel, and Dongsheng's tactic was successfully completed.

On the 22nd lap, Stewart made the fastest lap again, and he had an advantage of nearly 18 seconds ahead of Santak behind him.On the 25th lap, Santak's car suddenly lost power. He was overtaken by many cars in a row, but he did not retire for the time being. Stewart pitted one lap later, and was temporarily behind Tesrock after coming out. Station Teslock temporarily ranked first.Santak regrettably withdrew from the race after returning to the pits.

On the 29th lap, Baxter almost collided when trying to overtake Diago, and the audience screamed.Gu Gaoyuan of the Yinhua team had a problem when he entered the station, which was delayed for a long time, and his ranking fell to the bottom.However, the Leysin team has not entered the pit for a long time. There is no doubt that they will definitely adopt a one-stop strategy, while the strategies of other teams are not very obvious.On the 34th lap, Vergil finally pitted and ranked fifth after coming out, and Tesrock also pitted later, and Stewart returned to the top position.

On the 41st lap, Gu Gaoyuan’s car broke down and withdrew from the race. He stopped on the side of the track and a virtual safety car was dispatched. Daniel took this opportunity to stop again to change tires. After coming out, he ranked No. 8 behind Tesrock four.At the end of the safety car, Altaïr immediately overtook Kendrick in front of him and came to the [-]th place.Tesrock's car then collided again and the front wing was badly damaged, but he did not pit, and the debris from his car nearly killed Daniel.

Entering the last 20 laps, Daniel's position was not ideal, and Delacro of Citroen also withdrew from the race due to car failure.In the last 15 laps, Daniel began to speed up to catch up. He was still about 1.8 seconds behind Tesrock and nearly 20 seconds behind Silver. It was already very difficult to return to the top two.On lap 56, Vergil made the fastest single lap, while Stewart began to control his speed.

Entering the last 5 laps, the track still seemed relatively calm. Daniel’s speed did not increase. In the end, Stewart took the lead to cross the finish line and won the first championship of the season. His teammate Silver won No.2 to help the team complete the 1+ 2, Tesrock won No.3 on the podium.Daniel finally won the 4th place, while the home race Citro driver Altaïr won the 8th place and got the points again, and Zhang Yue won the No.6. After several races, he is definitely the most stable performer The rider is gone.

And this result may have been expected long ago. Stewart, who started from pole position, hardly encountered any challenges and easily won the championship of this race.

In this race, most of the drivers realized the strategy of finishing the race with one stop, but Daniel became the earliest driver to pit and changed tires again under the virtual safety car.After the game, both the team and Daniel said that the one-stop strategy was very difficult for Dongsheng Chariots in this race, so this plan was not considered in the original strategy for this race.

"We were faster than other teams on racing tyres, which is very rare and strange. I was faster than the Rock after changing tires, and my tires were newer, but I still couldn't find a chance to surpass. Overall, the car just wasn't fast enough this weekend and even if I tried the two-stop strategy, I didn't have the best tires at the end of the race."

Daniel chose to pit to change tires under the virtual safety car on the 40th lap of the race, but Daniel, who fell behind Tesrock after exiting the pit, was not satisfied with the result of the race.This is because Daniel did not control the parking position when he entered the stop, which led to the team technician taking 5.6 seconds to change the tire for Dongsheng driver.

"All of us have a virtual safety car monitoring device provided by the FIA ​​on our cars, and we will follow the instructions of this device to reduce the speed of the car by about 40%. But now everyone knows that pit stops under the virtual safety car can save money. Time, so the loopholes in this rule have been widely abused. And I found that taking a weird line under the virtual safety car can save time even more, so the problem with this software is really big.”

The F1 race director disagreed with Vettel's remarks. He said: "I really don't know what Daniel is talking about. We have implanted this software in the ECU master control of the car, and there are pairs of drivers every 50 meters on the track. The detection of the driver’s speed. They require the driver to strictly control the speed of the car under the virtual safety car. I guess what he means is that it is more time-saving to take the racing line than to take other lines during VSC.”

Tesrock collided under the virtual safety car with the trapped Aifan, and the accident caused the former's nose end plate to fall off.Despite this, Teslock still persisted on the track and played a good speed. After the race, Tesrock said that he did not expect that such a complicated front wing would not affect the speed of the car after being damaged.

"I kept the car as fast as possible under the virtual safety car, and I was very close to Aifan. I realized that he braked suddenly, and I was too close to him to dodge. Fortunately, this car It caused the outside of my front wing end plate to come off and it only affected my speed in some high-speed corners. So although my car was damaged, the speed was still good."

In addition, because Easter's car lost control at the start stage and crossed the center of the track, the accident caused Alex and Alfredo's multi-car rear-end collision.The stewards of the race believed that Easter was inappropriate in this operation, so he gave Easter a penalty of starting three places behind in the next race.

The penalty document reads: "The driver clarified to the race stewards that he wanted to use the inertia of the car to avoid the rear car formation, but he entered the lane of the track. Therefore, he chose to hit the accelerator with all his strength to avoid the rear car, but unfortunately It was Alex and Alfredo who were involved in the accident."

(End of this chapter)