End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 229 Difficult to Overtake

The team leader of Ice City said in summary of the game: "We have upgraded the car very smoothly, which ensures the speed of our car is sufficient. Both drivers performed very well today, especially Xi Weier, who ran A perfect lap. But we need to be careful of Dongsheng’s attack in the race, they also showed a very good speed today.”

Accidents on the track this time are somewhat rare. After Daniel completed a speeding lap, he was on his own return lap. He drove too slowly on the racing line at Turn 1.Daniel said after the race that he overtook Baxter at Turn 7-8 in the last lap, but thought Baxter pitted later.However, Baxter did not make a pit stop but started a speeding lap, and then ran into Daniel who was driving very slowly on the racing line on the exit of Turn 1.

Baxter immediately complained that Daniel blocked his speeding lap. Daniel admitted that he did not see Baxter on the rearview mirror, and the team did not tell him from the radio communication that Baxter was behind him. Dongsheng Racing Team Engineers confirmed this.But the stewards thought that even though the team didn't tell Daniel in TR, Daniel himself should pay attention to the rear car in the rearview mirror.In any case, Daniel shouldn't be driving so slowly on the racing line.Therefore, based on other similar accidents, the stewards decided to punish Daniel to start 3 places behind, which means that he can only start from 6th place in the main race.

It is worth mentioning that this is the second consecutive race Daniel has been punished.In the last French Grand Prix, shortly after the start, he had a collision with Seaver, which not only damaged his car, but also suffered a 5-second time penalty.Recently, Daniel's luck has been extremely bad.

Two Leysin drivers, Teslock and Virgil, finished 5th and 7th respectively today, but they once again had discordant voices after the race.During the race, Leyson suggested that Teslock pass Virgil so that Virgil could absorb the wake, but Teslock refused to do so.After the game, Vergeire felt that his teammates did not provide him with enough help in qualifying: "To be honest, I was really unhappy. We ran 3 times and I was the one leading each time. If I had a fair chance, Just one run. I'm not happy at all, we should have been more fair."

But Tesrock refused to compromise: "We always discuss who is at the front before the race. I was at the front in France. So we talked about it, and this weekend he should be at the front. We all want to qualify. When you get good grades, you want to beat the opponent, you want to get an advantage from the opponent."

The leader of Leysin sided with Tesrock this time: "Our team's policy is very simple and has been implemented for 7 years. Every weekend, a certain driver will drive off the track first. This time it is Virgil who goes out first. , he feels that Tesrock has benefited from it, but don't forget that Tesrock went out first last weekend."

Zhang Yue won 6th place in today's qualifying. After the game, he said that being able to keep Leysin driver Vergeire behind was considered a great success: "We performed well this weekend. We didn't expect to catch up, but we We did it. We have a great chance to get points tomorrow and I’m looking forward to the race and hopefully we can stay out of trouble and I’m very hopeful that we can have a good race tomorrow as well.”

Stewart narrowly lost 0.019 seconds in qualifying on Saturday to his teammate Seaver, who has broken the track record while taking pole position for the second year in a row.Although Ice City has dominated wins at the track for the past four years, Stewart isn't confident in the title race.

"It's a difficult track to follow and I suspect there will be very little overtaking in the race. The track now has three DRS zones, but I don't think the difficult overtaking situation will improve because I think there will be a lot of overtaking on this track. It is very difficult to catch up to the 1-second interval where DRS can be activated."

In Q2 of qualifying on Saturday at the Austrian Grand Prix, Baxter, the proud driver, sprinted with all his strength in the final stage, but was blocked by the slowing Daniel at the first corner.This accident caused Baxter to fail to improve his performance at the last moment, but in the end the Spaniard still entered the Q3 session, so he did not pay too much attention to it, and Daniel was punished three places on the starting grid.

Daniel said: "I didn't see him coming out of Turn [-] and the team mechanics didn't tell me on the radio where he was. I just overtook him on the last lap of the race and then I didn't know where he was. Should I pit or start a new lap? But I couldn’t find him when I looked in my rearview mirror, so now I can only apologize to him.”

In the qualifying race, Altaïr got bigger in the final sprint of Q2, but failed to improve his result and was fixed in the 14th place.Regarding his own mistakes, Altaïr said it was because he already knew he was 0.2 seconds behind, so he had to put all his eggs in the last two corners, and even tried to corner with full throttle.

"I know that I am already 10 seconds slower than No. 0.2, so I have to try something bold, such as going through two high-speed corners at full throttle at the end. Since we have one less set of extremes in tire selection than others, The soft tyres, so we ran laps on the yellow tires in Q2, and I feel confident about the performance of these tires in tomorrow's race."

Yinhua driver He Guangyuan was eliminated early in Q1, and Gu Gaoyuan only won the 11th starting position for the pink car.For such a poor performance, both drivers said that this was due to the upgrade of the car not being ready on time.Yinhua Racing Team plans to bring a new upgrade kit to the home court of the British race next week.

He Guangyuan said: "Our racing car lacks speed. Now the mid-stream group's competition is so fierce that the opponents' frequent upgrades make us passive. The gap between us and Q3 is not far away. Maybe one upgrade can fill our gap. I need The new kit has helped me improve the balance of the car, I'm still not satisfied with the status quo."

The sharp driver Kendrick received the first penalty since entering the F1 race. He was fined 5 places due to an abnormal gearbox in the third practice.In this regard, the Monaco teenager explained that this was due to a suspension problem in the car, and said that he would use more aggressive driving to regain his position at the start.

"The team has not found the source of the gearbox failure, they are still investigating the incident. But we can confirm that it was due to some issues with the triangular linkage on the suspension of the car, which ultimately caused the gearbox damage."

(End of this chapter)