End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 228 Blessed Land
The "Red Bull Ring" track is undoubtedly the blessed land of Ice City. Since this track returned to the F1 calendar, all the champions have been won by Ice City drivers. The winner here last season was Xiweier.Ice City experienced a brief slump during this year's Monaco Grand Prix and the Canadian Grand Prix, but quickly regained their competitiveness after upgrading the car in the last French Grand Prix. The box and rear wing were upgraded, which made their speed continue to increase. Today's pole position result of Seawell set a new record for the fastest lap on the track again, and taking the first row also gave them a very favorable position to win the championship. It is also a test for the starting skills of the two ice city drivers. If Seaver can suppress his teammates before entering the first turn, he has a good chance to complete the defending title in this race.

Dongsheng is not without chances in this race. Daniel won the fastest lap in the third practice, and once occupied the No.3 position in Q2. He was not surpassed by Stewart until the last moment. Currently, Bingcheng's speed still has the advantage, but The advantage is not as obvious as in the previous competition, and the chances left for Dongsheng are not absolutely slim.However, Daniel was given a three-place grid penalty for blocking Baxter in the second qualifying session, making their situation less optimistic.Daniel's recent period of luck can be described as terrible. In the last race, he started from the second row. As a result, he had a collision with Seaver shortly after the start, which not only damaged his car, but also received a 5-second time penalty from the race. , very much outweighs the gain.

Judging from the qualifying situation, there is still a certain gap in the absolute speed of Leysen Racing Team compared with Bingcheng and Dongsheng, and the "Red Bull Ring" track itself is a high-speed track, so they are here The chances of competing for the championship are relatively slim, but if the performance is stable, there is still a chance to compete for a podium position.

In addition to these three teams, Porter has been performing well this weekend. Easter and Wesley have the opportunity to bring back good points in this race. It is hard to have a chance to get out of the downturn. Altaïr stopped in Q2 today, and the car was damaged a bit. If he can get points in Sunday's race, it will be regarded as a successful completion of the task.

The Leysin team performed mediocre in qualifying for the home Austrian Grand Prix.Tesrock and Vergil ranked fifth and seventh, respectively 0.710 and 0.866 seconds behind pole-sitter Seaver.But the order of appearance in the Leysin team after qualifying caused some minor friction between the two drivers.

Since the Red Bull Ring has three straights, the drivers who are close to the front in the sprint circle can usher in an increase in lap speed through the "sucking wake".Therefore, some teams have arranged for teammates to suck up the tail at the Austrian circuit in the past.However, due to the arrangement of the Leysin team, Vergil was always ahead of Verstappen in the three sprint laps of Q3.This means that Tesrock is able to benefit from the wake of his teammates during sprint laps.

At one point, Vergil deliberately slowed down in the hope that Tesrock would take the lead, and the latter's race engineer also ordered Tesrock to pass his teammates, but Tesrock said on the radio, "I will not pass him, this is the discipline of the team."

After the qualifying session, Vergil complained that his teammates did not allow him to "suck the tail", and felt unfair to the team that he was ranked ahead of his teammates. "To be honest, I'm not very happy. I gave the drivers behind me a chance to suck the tail every time. We did three sprint laps today. If I can have one chance (behind Tesrock), then It is fair. We should be more fair in the arrangement."

But when asked about this arrangement, Tesrock said frankly that the team rotates "the advantage of playing late" every week, and it happened to be Virgil's turn to play first in this game.

The team principal agreed with Tesrock, saying it was just a regular arrangement for the team.

"Our rule is very simple, that is, take turns to play first. So every game will switch the order, because this is the fairest way. In the last game, Tesrock was first, and this game happened to be Virgil's turn. We kept it as fair as possible in the team, and even the team meeting set the rule of taking turns to speak first. And actually, I think the fifth and seventh results are almost a true reflection of our speed this weekend." The team leader said.

In the qualifying session of the just-concluded F2102 Austrian Grand Prix of the 1 season, Seaver of the Ice City Racing Team took the pole position and set the fastest lap record on the track. Teammate Stewart finished second, helping the team win the championship. Front row grid position.After the race, Seaver said that Ice City Racing has been improving throughout the weekend, and he is very eager to win this weekend's race.

The Austrian Grand Prix can be said to be a blessed place for Ice City Racing Team. In last year’s Austrian Grand Prix, Seaver completed the pole position and championship.Returning here this year, Seaver, who had been having some troubles in the previous races, had a pretty good start. He ran perfect laps in Q3 and finally set a new track record, winning this race for two consecutive years. Pole position for the race.

Following the upgrade of the racing car in the previous race, Bingcheng upgraded the side box and rear wing of the racing car in this race. In Xiweier's view, this makes the racing car more and more competitive, and now he is most eager to The most important thing is to be able to bring back a long-lost victory: "We have been making progress throughout the weekend, we ushered in an upgrade to the car, today we have been working hard to adjust the balance of the car, and finally succeeded. I know that in the last lap I'm still about a tenth of a second quicker, which is obviously what I need. The car feels really good, and in the race I just hope I get a good start. I want to win more than anyone else, so I really will Do your best to fight for it.”

Stewart, who won the championship in the last race, performed well in the previous practice match. He was ahead of his teammates in Q1 and Q2 today, but he made a mistake in the crucial Q3. Not only did he fail to shake the leading position of his teammates, he was almost beaten Dongsheng's Daniel took No.2.After the game, Stewart admitted that his performance today was not ideal: "I made some mistakes in the game, but the position of No.2 is not too bad. Seaver ran a fantastic lap, and I feel good about the second lap. Very satisfied, but still unable to rank ahead of Seaver, but for the team, this is a very good result."

(End of this chapter)