End of the Century Talented Racer

Chapter 261 Confirmation
Easter admitted at Hockenheim that, at least for now, the door to the top teams is closed. "It looks like Dongsheng is going to sign Kendrick," Easter said. "Leysin has its own drivers, and Bingcheng has determined the driver lineup."

Easter believes that F1 has been clearly polarized. If you don't go to a big team, you can't win the championship. "It looks like I'll never have another chance to be world champion. I've spoken to the team and I'd love to drive for Porter. It would be a shame if I didn't get a chance to compete for the title, but it's not a tragedy either. . I have a good team and I don't know how long I can stay in Formula 1."

The F1 German Grand Prix has two free practice sessions on Friday.The Leysen team performed well. Virgil and Tesrock won the fastest lap respectively. Bingcheng ranked behind Leysen with a slight gap, while Dongsheng's performance was much worse. Daniel was in the two practice sessions Ranked fourth in the competition.

In the first free practice session in the morning local time, the Leysin team, which performed poorly in the previous British Grand Prix, had a clear tendency to rebound. Vergil won the fastest lap with a time of 1:13, and the Ice City Racing's Stewart ranked second 525 seconds behind, and another Leysen driver, Tesrock, ranked third.

Daniel of Dongsheng Racing Team ranked fourth behind Vergil by 0.271 seconds, but it is worth noting that he did not use ultra-soft tires, but has been testing with super-soft tires.Another Bingcheng driver, Xi Weier, ranked fifth, while Zhang Yue ranked sixth.The Hasport team also had a good performance today. Easter and Wesley ranked seventh and No.8 respectively, and the Monaco rookie Kendrick of the Ruijin team ranked ninth.

In the ensuing second practice, the Leysin team continued its outstanding performance. Tesrock used the ultrasoft tires to achieve a time of 1:13 and won today's fastest lap. However, his engine was There were some glitches in the second half of the section that affected his test mileage.Stewart of the Ice City Racing Team ranked second, 085 seconds behind the leader, and Seaver ranked third behind 0.026 seconds.

Daniel was equipped with extremely soft tires in the second practice, but his performance did not improve much. He still ranked fourth with 1:13, 310 seconds behind the leader, and his teammate Santak followed closely.The two Porter drivers continued to perform well, ranking 0.225th and 6th respectively, while Vergil, who was ranked first in the first practice, obviously lost strength in the second practice. He was not equipped with ultra-soft tires for testing, and the fastest lap Only ranked 7th, 13 seconds behind the top of the list, he also almost collided with Adonis of the Salvador team in the race.

Although Leysen performed well in today's practice match, their prospects for the race are not optimistic. Vergil will be penalized in total due to the use of the third power unit, the third energy recovery system and the third electronic control system. Retiring 20 places means he will start last in Sunday's race.

Ruijin Racing Team does not rule out the possibility of Santak joining Ruijin next season.At present, Dongsheng No. [-] driver, Santak and Kendrick all have the opportunity to become the advanced drivers in the next race, which will also be one of the ways for Santak to continue his career.

"Is it a matter of us being too rich? I don't care, I just want the best drivers to be able to drive for Rage, it's very important for the team. We really need a world champion to replace the drivers who have no wins .We are only focused on improving our performance, and being able to build a strong lineup for next season and beyond is my goal."

Citroen's Delacro has had tough times in the past two races, and while F1 returns to Hockenheim in Germany this week, Delacro still couldn't find his form on Friday, which he considers to be his worst performance yet. Friday.The Belgian hopes that the team can get the car back on track as soon as possible, and the 0.6-second gap with Altair is not his true level.

"This is the worst Friday of my career so far. We tested a lot of new aero kits on Friday morning, and we had a very tough second practice in the afternoon. We had the same problems as in the British Grand Prix. Speed. We have to get back to normal mode sooner and the team will definitely find a solution."

Dongsheng Racing Team brought a completely different engine exhaust device to this race, showing the team's extremely radical research and development process this season.During practice on Friday, Santak used the old version while Daniel tested the new version of the exhaust pipe. The new exhaust pipe head has a more pronounced arc, pointing to the car's rear wing. This upgrade is also in line with the aerodynamic rear wing upgrade. Co-occurring, the aim is to increase efficiency by blowing high-energy exhaust to the rear wing.

With the finalization of the contract between the two drivers in Ice City, Leysen driver Vergil has nowhere else to go in the 2103 season. Therefore, the Australian, who is still undecided about the contract, will complete the contract renewal with Leysen in the near future.The team manager hopes that Vergil can confirm his contract before the summer break next week.

"I believe everyone has seen how smoothly and quickly the contract renewal between Ice City and the two drivers was. We hope that we can also determine next year's driver lineup before the summer break, and then start the summer vacation without any worries. The two of us The strength of the drivers is the most outstanding, and they have made extremely important contributions to the development of the team.”

Due to the lack of aerodynamics of the Salvadoran car, neither of the two young drivers can perform normally on the track this year.In the German race, El Salvador brought a new design concept of the front wing of the car, which can help the car become more stable in corners. After the practice session, Adonis also made it clear that the speed of the car is gradually on track .

"Although the new front wing does not directly make us the best car, it is indeed the most important upgrade we have made. Its appearance allows our car to have a more stable floor and smoother airflow. Although we still have Not fully adapted to this upgrade, but we can already feel that this upgrade has finally put us on the right track.”

Wesley received a five-second time penalty for jostling Bepena's position on the track in the last British Grand Prix.The time penalty resulted in the loss of No.10 valuable points for the No.[-] driver of the Leysin team, but what he couldn't understand the most was that such an ordinary track accident required the intervention of the stewards.They brought up the topic again at the drivers collective meeting on Friday.

"The supervisor wanted to get the drivers' opinion on the incident and we discussed it for four or 10 minutes."

(End of this chapter)