Chapter 287: Four Consecutive Crowns (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Wishes Everyone)
The two sets of tyres for the Bahrain Grand Prix are super soft and hard, which is the softest set and the hardest set. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this is a more strange configuration, in Bahrain this kind of track, the impact of two tires on the speed is very large, obviously the organizers hope to use the difference of tires, so that the strategy of each team is different, so that the race becomes more exciting.
This year's ultra-soft tyres are not wear-resistant, especially on a hot track like Bahrain, where 15 laps is considered good. The whole race has to run 58 laps, and the hard tires will definitely not be able to hold the remaining 43 laps, and the drivers must pit and change the tires again, so in this race, the drivers must have at least two pit stops.
After the start of the race, Zhang Guan tried to use the start to overtake Toyota's Glock in front of him, but he did not succeed, and Glock overtook his teammate Trulli to the first place. Hamilton also overtook Vettel and immediately attacked Zhang Guan, who had to give up chasing Trulli in front of him and defend Hamilton behind him.
Hamilton is an overtaking sensation in F1 and his way of overtaking is straightforward and straightforward, with he is most accustomed to overtaking his opponents at the end of the straight, using a slower braking point to overtake his opponents and then making extreme corners to hold his position. This kind of overtaking is very ornamental, very difficult, and at the same time very dangerous, which is why only people with a driving style like Hamilton are suitable for this kind of overtaking.
The Bahrain circuit has four longer straights, so Hamilton likes it because he has more opportunities to overtake, just as he now wants to use what he does best to overtake Zhang.
Hamilton boosted the speed to 300km/h, and the front Turn 4 was a 59-degree V-bend, which required the rider to brake heavily in order to get through this corner to reduce his speed to less than 100km/h.
Hamilton is obviously ready to fight for this one braking point, braking a little later, a little faster, a more extreme turn, a completely unreasonable overtaking, similar overtaking, he has done many times.
Both cars were powered by Mercedes-Benz engines, with the silver McLaren following behind the red Chinese Power, Hamilton taking advantage of Zhang's wake, and the next moment, he suddenly flashed the car to the inside of the track, while he glanced at Zhang Guan next to him.
"Don't you brake yet?" At this moment, Hamilton hesitated, because he found that Zhang Guan's braking point was also very late, and it would be difficult for him to seize the opportunity to enter the corner if he continued like this.
"Do you want to fight with me on the brakes? How can I lose to you! Hamilton didn't choose to hit the brakes right away.
"No, it's a low-speed bend ahead, and if you don't brake, you won't be able to pass!" It couldn't be any longer. Hamilton ultimately opted for the brakes.
Almost at the same time, Zhang Guan also stepped on the brakes, and the two took the exact same braking point, but Zhang Guan, as the defensive side, had a better route, and he still took the lead in the corner.
A couple of high-speed corners followed, and the downforce advantage of the Chinese Power car was evident in the corners, and Hamilton was quickly left behind by Zhang Guan. At the same time, four or five places Vettel also caught up, Vettel was overtaken by Hamilton at the start, and now of course he wanted to overtake, so he did not hesitate to launch an attack on Hamilton. Hamilton was caught in a tussle with Vettel and could not continue his pursuit of Zhang.
Getting rid of Hamilton's pursuit, Zhang Guan immediately rushed to the front to catch up with the top two Toyota cars, but after a few laps, Zhang Guan did not catch up with the two Toyotas, but the two Toyota cars continued to refresh the fastest lap.
As Ross Brown had predicted before the race, the two Toyotas were the lightest on fuel and were the first to stop, pit on laps 11 and 12 respectively, and pit in ninth and 10th respectively. At this time, the amount of fuel in Zhang Guan's car, there is absolutely no problem to run another seven or eight laps.
This time, Toyota changed to hard tires, and the new tires could not immediately enter the optimal working temperature in a short period of time, coupled with the increase in fuel volume, their speed slowed down instantly, and they were attacked by the cars behind.
In front of them, Zhang Guan, Hamilton and Vettel rose to the top three due to the pit stop of the Toyota team, and at this time, these three drivers used a set of supersoft tires in good working condition and a lighter and lighter car weight to constantly set the fastest lap time to make up for the previous loss.
They were behind two Toyota cars and they had to pit soon after, so they needed to take advantage of the light bikes and tyres to go as fast as possible before pitting.
On lap 15, Hamilton made a pit stop to change tyres, and when he came out of the pits, he was right ahead of the two Toyotas, which also showed that Hamilton had used this pit stop to overtake the two Toyotas.
A lap later, Zhang Guan, who was in first place, also made a pit stop, and he came out in front of not only the two Toyotas, but also Hamilton, still ranking first among all the cars that had made the pit stops.
After the start, Zhang Guan and Hamilton were in third and fourth respectively, and after the first pit stop to refuel, they are now in first and second respectively, which shows that Toyota's strategy of ultra-light fuel has failed today.
Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel made it until lap 20 to make a pit stop, finishing behind Zhang Guan but ahead of Hamilton. At this point, the leading three became Zhang Guan, Vettel and Hamilton.
There are very few incidents at the Bahrain circuit, and after the first pit stop for tyre changes, the cars are no longer as dense as they were at the beginning, and it's time for pure speed competition. For the cars in front, it is already clear who is fast and who is full, and the drivers' rankings have been basically fixed in the current state.
On this track, which is not very technically difficult, it is very difficult to get the second place in one lap, it is likely that you win this lap by 0.2 seconds, and you will have to return it immediately on the next lap, on this track, the difference between first and second place is often not more than 20 seconds, many times it is within 10 seconds, and in the end the situation that the two drivers are only three or five seconds apart from time to time, but it is these three or five seconds time, but it is difficult to catch up with the whole race.
On lap 33, Toyota once again took the lead in the pit stop to change tyres, this time on the last set of supersoft tyres, and then on laps 37 to 40, several other leading drivers also made pit stops to change tyres, but the top three positions remained unchanged.
"The big picture is decided!" With a relaxed look on his face, Rose-Brown opened a bottle of ice-cold drink and drank most of it in one gulp, as if he had already started celebrating the victory in advance.
In the end, after an hour and a half of competition, Zhang Guan took the lead in crossing the line and won all four of the first four races.
Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel was once again a man in second, eight seconds behind Zhang Guan, followed by McLaren's Hamilton, Toyota's Trulli in fourth, and Barrichello in fifth, one place back from China. Ferrari's Raikkonen finished sixth, earning Ferrari three points, the first time Ferrari had scored points this season, arguably the worst start in the team's history.
In terms of teams, the China Power Racing Team won 14 points in this round and became the constructors' champion again.
In the four races, Zhang Guan won four drivers' championships, while the China Power Team won four constructors' championships, which can be said to have achieved a crushing victory.
The next race, in two weeks' time, will see F1 return to Europe...... (To be continued.) )