End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 226 The Road Shoulder
For Kendrick's outstanding performance, the Dongsheng team will naturally not turn a blind eye to it. Due to the continued poor performance of the Finnish veteran Santak, there are already rumors about his departure from the team next season, and the most promising replacement for Santak The location is Kendrick.According to relevant reports, Dongsheng has signed a contract with Kendrick for two years. The Monaco teenager will play for Dongsheng in the 2103 and 2104 seasons. His annual salary in the first year is 200 million euros, which will rise to 2104 million in 300. There are corresponding bonuses.It is possible that Dongsheng will officially announce the news during this year's German Grand Prix at the soonest.

Kendrick is expected to replace Sontuck in the Dongsheng team's seat from the 2103 season, and there were even more unbelievable remarks in the paddock in Austria this weekend.It is said that the chairman of Dongsheng hopes to exchange the seats of the sharp driver Kendrick and Santak as early as after the summer break, and even plans to sign a contract with the Monaco teenager for two consecutive seasons in the 2103 and 2104 seasons.

Ruijin Team Manager said: "We have a contract with Kendrick until the end of this year, and we have not discussed future issues with Dongsheng. I have indeed heard some exaggerated rumors in the media recently, but I think this is completely out of touch. Reality. Now that Kendrick is focused on his job at Reign, his lofty future aspirations will come to fruition at a later date, so anything is off the table right now."

The shoulders on the outer side of the Austrian track have a progressive structure. In addition to the traditional red and white shoulders, there is a green shoulder structure that will make the car emit a high-frequency vibration "beep". The outermost yellow sausage shoulder also caused Alfredo hangs during practice.For this design, the drivers have mixed reviews, and Leysen's car seems to be very uncomfortable.

"I broke the chassis in practice today. I'm sure it wasn't because I was on the sausage curb, but because the inner layer of the curb was vibrating or something. Anyway, it's an old chassis in itself, and it will come tomorrow. Will get a new one, but issues like this took a toll on my performance on Friday and I wasn't able to get the full potential out of the car."

During the practice session, Citroën Delacro and Wesley were also injured due to road shoulder problems. Gu Gaoyuan defended these drivers. He believed that the road shoulder design on the outside of the track should remain unchanged throughout. The Red Bull Ring is a track that The curbs are too harsh, while the buffer zone on the outside of Paul Ricard last weekend was too generous.

"I don't think such a shoulder change is reasonable. Different tracks should maintain the same standard to arrange the shoulders. If the run is too large here, the car will be damaged due to the shoulder, and Paul Ricard we can run ten times outside the track. Meters are no problem. Apart from that, limiting the available surface of the track is a big way to solve the problem, so that the drivers don't have to struggle to squeeze every inch of space on the track."

The Ice City team ushered in the biggest upgrade of their car this week. They took the top two places in both practice sessions on Friday.The two drivers also spoke highly of it after the practice session. They believed that this car still has a lot of untapped potential.

Seaver said: "The car feels good from the start, I can clearly feel the stability of the rear of the car has improved a lot. We still need to improve its balance settings, but it has performed very well. The tire problem may be a problem. It was a problem again at the weekend, last year when we were leading the race we had a stripping of the left rear wheel, and the warmer temperatures on Sunday will put us in the same situation."

Stewart said: "In certain spots on the track, the car is definitely better than it was last weekend. I'd like to thank the engineers inside for all their hard work. Tire issues can be really difficult and we're still learning as hard as we can. The way the tires fail here, that's still an unknown for us."

In the French Grand Prix held last weekend, all three drivers were punished or reprimanded by the competition. Among them, Ister, who was suspended for five seconds during the race, was particularly dissatisfied with this decision. Therefore, the race director made a special announcement on Thursday. A press conference was held to explain why Easter was punished for this.

"Istel made two obvious moves to the left when he was side by side with Gu Gaoyuan. We thought it was acceptable when he forced Gu Gaoyuan out of the white line the first time, but the second time he slammed to the left When talking to Gu Gaoyuan, we decided to give him a five-second penalty. After the game, Easter did not complain to us, but poured his bitterness to the media reporters, so we decided to make this matter clear. "

Porter driver Wesley was fined 5000 euros by the FIA ​​for failing to tighten the right front wheel in Friday's practice session.The team manager said: "When we didn't tighten the tires, the car had already been put down. The new tire gun detected this problem and sent an alert to the team. Although we were still fined, at least it proved the progress. The technical reform of the station has been fruitful."

Porter believes the team has improved in detecting hazards, as Wesley was signaled by the team to leave the tire change area with the right front tire not on at the end of the second free practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix.However, the team leader said that considering that the team immediately ordered Wesley to stop, compared to the Australian Grand Prix when both cars were on the track due to tires not tightened, it has improved.

"The car was jacked down before the tire changer could tighten the tire," said the team leader. "The mechanic pressed the tire change button, but the tire was still not tightened. So we immediately ordered Wesley to stop."

"Although it is not good to be fined 5000 euros, if something like this happens in the race, we can tighten the tires and the driver can continue to race. So our improvement after Melbourne has worked."

Leysin Team [-] damaged three front noses due to excessively bumpy road shoulders. The extremely bumpy road shoulders of the Red Bull Ring caused several drivers to damage their cars during the two free practice sessions on Friday.Wesley, the driver of Leysin's second team, even suffered a broken suspension in the second free practice, and the race had to send out a red flag to clean up the Frenchman's car.After practice, the Frenchman revealed that the steep shoulder damaged the team's nose three times.

"We broke three nose wings today because of too much shoulder pressure. The shoulder pressure can make the lap faster, so as drivers, we will definitely do that. But the fact is that our team broke three nose wings today, and two of them were me. Yes, one is from Catildan."

"In the driver briefing everyone complained about this topic, but the director told us that the team should improve the quality of the front wing."

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