Located 65 kilometres from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, the Sepang Circuit has been hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix since 1999 and is in its 10th year. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The circuit has a total of 15 corners, 8 straights, a lap length of 5.543 km, and a race length of 56 laps, for a total length of 310.408 km, the longest of all Formula 1 races. The Sepang circuit is also home to the fastest track in any Formula 1 circuit, with a track width of 22 metres.

Despite being the widest of all the F1 circuits, the Sepang circuit is not easy to overtake, as the two longest straights at the Sepang circuit are followed by hairpins, and it is difficult for the leading drivers to be overtaken as long as they can follow their own line when the speed difference is not very large.

It is also worth mentioning that there is also a very dangerous animal on this track, which is the cobra. The Sepang circuit is surrounded by agricultural growing areas, and in rural Malaysia, cobras and feral cats are two very common animals, or where there are cobras, there will always be feral cats. Although the wild cat is not considered the upper layer of the food chain, it happens to be the nemesis of the cobra, but the vast majority of wild cats are more afraid of people, so they will not get too close to the track, and the cobra is different, if you see a cobra on the Sepang circuit, then don't be surprised.

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Zhang Guan arrived in Malaysia on Wednesday and is due to attend a media conference on Thursday. The convoy staff arrived earlier, and the first thing they did when they arrived in Malaysia was to ask for a weather forecast from the meteorological department.

This is Malaysia, rain is a normal thing, but not raining in Malaysia is a new thing. And the most troublesome is some sudden and very short rain, sometimes the rain hits, but four or five minutes later the sun is shining, for the car, the rain has to be replaced with rain tires, and the rain has to be replaced with dry tires, after the dry tires are replaced, maybe it will rain, and then the rain tires will be changed, and the team's tactical deployment is likely to be completely disrupted.

So the weather forecast is an important thing for the team. Most of the small fleets without money get their weather information from the meteorological department, while large fleets such as Ferrari simply rent weather satellites and hire meteorologists to provide them with their services on a temporary basis.

Due to their excellent performance in Australia, the Chinese power team also became the focus of media chase, and they were given more footage during Friday's practice.

It didn't rain on Friday's practice, and Ferrari, which had abandoned its kinetic energy recovery system, picked up the top two in the second practice session on Friday afternoon. As for McLaren, another giant plagued by "perjury", the results are in the middle of the pack.

As for Zhang Guan, he was familiar with the track all Friday, and then kept adjusting the car. He didn't set the fastest lap, but he was in the upper reaches.

However, Zhang Guan's teammate Barrichello was unlucky, he had a gearbox failure during practice, and according to the regulations, the gearbox was replaced in the race, which required him to start five places back.

On Saturday morning, it rained lightly before practice began, but when practice began, the rain stopped and the sun came out, making the track a little slippery and the drivers afraid to run at full strength, until a few laps later, when the track was dry, and the drivers began to make the fastest times in turn.

As in the previous race, Williams' Rosberg dominated the practice session, followed by Ferrari, Red Bull and Toyota, with the two Chinese Power cars finishing ninth and 10th respectively, ahead of McLaren.

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Saturday afternoon, qualifying.

Before the race began, the finish line was already full of reporters, and all kinds of long guns and short guns chased the track.

"Judging from the results of the practice round, the Chinese power, which won the top two in the last stop, played a relatively average role."

"A new team, a first win, do you really think of them as Ferraris? The result of the last race was just a coincidence. ”

"Yes, I think so too. After all, in the first race, the big teams were not ready, so they were taken by the Chinese power and won the championship. Now in the second race, the form of the other teams has definitely improved, and it is impossible for the Chinese power to continue to dominate the Sepang circuit. If you look at the results of the two days of practice, you will know that the Chinese forces did not even enter the top three. ”

"I remember when I was in Australia, the Chinese forces were relatively average in practice, maybe they were hiding their strength?"

"Impossible. A new team, where is the strength to hide! Zhang Guan was just lucky to get the pole position in the last stop, you look at it, they may not be able to enter the third quarter of qualifying in this stop! ”

"Look, Zhang Guan is out! There are no green stripes on the tires, they are hard tires! ”

"Hard tires? It seems that the Chinese power is still quite confident and dares to use hard tires to run the first qualifying session. ”

"Judging from their results in the practice session, there should be no problem running the first quarter on hard tires!"

The temperature in Malaysia is relatively high, and the Sepang circuit is a tire-intensive track, and if it is super soft, I am afraid that even 10 laps may not be able to last, so Princestone provided drivers with two configurations for soft and hard tyres.

The hard tires Zhang Guan is using now are the stiffest of the four dry tires, and they are also the slowest ones.

However, this did not affect Zhang's progress, and soon after he brushed a time of under 1 minute and 35 seconds, which was enough to ensure that he entered the second quarter of qualifying.

The best time in the first qualifying session was done by Zhang's teammate Barrichello in 1:34.681, which was almost 0.4 seconds faster than Zhang's, but Barrichello used a set of soft tires, and he will use this set of soft tires in the second quarter.

It is worth mentioning that the Scuderia Ferrari, perhaps too lightly, both Ferrari cars returned to the pits after only two time laps, thinking they were good enough to make it to the second quarter, but in the end Massa was eliminated, and Raikkonen was also in 14th place, narrowly missing the second session.

Ferrari were a strategic mistake, not because they were not weak, but because they misjudged the situation, which led to the elimination of a car. However, Force India was really not enough, and their two cars, which were 18th and 19th, were also eliminated. Last in line is Toro Rosso's Boumy, a driver who has just entered Formula 1 this season, and it is normal to run a penultimate race.

In the second qualifying session, Ferrari came out early, and the other drivers were also stimulated by Ferrari's elimination of a car, and drove out of the pits at the beginning, and they were all on soft tyres.

In the second qualifying session, the drivers chose soft tires and ultra-light fuel loads, so the speed was much faster than in the first session, and almost every driver was under 1 minute and 35 seconds, and it was still improving.

Red Bull Racing and Toyota Racing had a strong performance in this race, with a time of under 1:34.30 in succession.

However, this result is still much slower than that of someone.

"1:33.778! It's Zhang Guan! He was still so fast, just like the second qualifying session of the previous stop, it was a lap gap of nearly 0.5 seconds! (To be continued.) )