202 Alternative Cornering Routes (Chapter 1)
"Teacher, this is too dangerous!"
After hearing Cosel's order, Yamamoto Ukyo stood up to oppose it immediately. Zhang Yifei has an advantage at present. Even if Masa has the idea of overtaking, his turn speed from the inside may not be faster than Zhang Yifei...a`
The overtaking distance on the inside is short, but it is not the fastest detour. If Masa wants to challenge the limit speed and turn as fast as the outside line, in this track environment, it is likely that it is not challenging the limit, but purely seeking death!
Even if Zhang Yifei only made a corner of 70km/h, Masa made a sharp turn from the inside, and it would be as high as 60km/h.
At Masa's speed, it will only cause a little threat at most. As long as Zhang Yifei makes up for any operational mistakes, it is impossible to overtake on the Saches corner.
So there is no need to take such risks, this is simply a matter of risk outweighing returns!
Faced with Yamamoto Ukyo's opposition, Kossel ignored it at all. His eyes were still on the circular screen, which showed various racing data and curved scenes. He did not intend to change his decision.
Seeing Kossel's attitude, Yamamoto Ukyo opened his mouth and wanted to persuade him again, but in the end he still didn't say it. After all, the mentor is a race engineer. If this is a real team, he controls the absolute right to race strategy.
You should know that besides the driver himself, the competition engineer is the No. 2 person on the track. Even if the team boss wants to object, he has to wait until the race is over.
The same is true for data analysts. They can give suggestions, but they cannot challenge the authority of competition engineers.
Not to mention that Yamamoto Ukyo has a strong sense of superiority and inferiority in the Japanese workplace, it is even more impossible to question his mentor.
Moreover, time is not allowed at this time. All tactical thinking is only a few seconds for the time on the track. Zhang Yifei has arrived at the Saches hairpin bend at this moment.
Headset listened to Cosel's instructions, to be honest, Zhang Yifei felt a little faint inside. When he entered the tree-lined track, he felt that the car body was a little "floating" because of the water on the road. This was a clear sign of insufficient tire grip.
However, the accumulated water is only on a small road surface of the track. After the racing car passed through the accumulated water, it immediately restored its grip, so it did not cause loss of control.
But the premise of these is to run straight lines, and the inertia of the car must be added to the corners. After the speed drops, the downforce caused by the air kit will be weakened and will almost not work. It depends entirely on the grip of the tire itself.
In this case, it is undoubtedly more than several times higher than that in normal track conditions.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei thinks he is a radical gambler, but the premise is that when he has a small chance of winning, he can only rely on adventures to turn the tables.
Now I have a great advantage, and there is no need to do such a risky thing. Is Cosel, a German old man, too radical?
The race engineer can provide track strategy and tactical advice, but whether to decide whether to implement it in the end depends on the driver's own choice. Just like the F1 driver does not have a coach in the traditional sense, the race engineer does not have the absolute right of the coach.
The choice was handed over to Zhang Yifei. He did not understand Cosel's decision and could completely follow his own ideas.
But for some reason, Kossel's guidance during this period made Zhang Yifei feel that this old German man is more like his "mentor" than a simple competition engineer or coach.
The latter is a work relationship, while the former is more like a teacher-student relationship. For Chinese people, the relationship between heaven, earth, king, parents and teachers and students is much more important than professional relationships.
Without too much hesitation, Zhang Yifei lightened the force of the brake himself and kept the speed of entering the Saches hairpin bend at 80km/h.
In this case, the normal turnover route cannot meet the grip limit of 80km/h, not to mention that there is water on the tires now, and the grip is further reduced.
That's why Kossell said that with the help of the track shoulders, the angle of the curved arc is expanded, and the huge routine brought by speed is avoided, so that the car can directly lose control and rush out of the track.
When he rushed to the left shoulder, Zhang Yifei felt the car body shaking, because the right front wheel just pressed over the outermost point of water on the track, and there was an idle phenomenon.
This scene was captured by the camera, making the maintenance station look at the team members on the big screen nervously. If this is because of losing control, even if there is nothing to do with people, it will be difficult to catch up with the losses in time.
If there is any further outage of the engine, it will be a complete end. After the Fia rule racer is turned off, the driver can restart within 10 seconds, so he can continue the competition. Otherwise, he can only handle the competition according to the DNF withdrawal or the number of laps before completing the race.
The problem is that in order to reduce weight, all Formula racing cars do not have ignition systems, and only the repair station can ignite the ignition device. Unless the luck is overwhelming and the engine is turned off when entering and leaving the station, there is still a possibility of continuing the race, otherwise it will not be possible to reignite it in 10 seconds.
However, the worry didn't happen. Zhang Yifei's racing car just trembled twice, and did not lose control or rushed out of the track. He forced himself to pass the 180-degree turn, which made many viewers at the scene applaud.
"pretty!"
Yamamoto Ukyo shouted in his heart, except for Cosel, the only one here knows the difficulty of turning at a speed at Zhang Yifei.
It can be said that this is a double challenge of strength and luck, but Zhang Yifei succeeded. This is the strength that only the top drivers in the primary equation have!
Zhang Yifei succeeded in passing the corner, followed by Masa. He chose a completely different route from Zhang Yifei and went straight from the inside.
This way of turning is almost the same as the usual way of turning around on the road, but Sachez is not as narrow and exaggerated as the road, but it is just close to a U-shaped shape.
But no matter what, the speed of the bend route on the innermost side is impossible to be faster than Zhang Yi on the outside. Because the inner side is equivalent to no tangent line, it is considered hard to drive over in a sense, even if the equation tires are amazingly gripped, it cannot be done.
This is equivalent to an ordinary car, turning around at an amazing speed of 70~80km/h. Think about it, how exaggerated it is.
Not to mention 70~80km/h, even if it is halved, some cars with high center of gravity will have the risk of turning the steering wheel directly overturning.
Just when everyone thought that Masa could not exceed Zhang Yifei's speed, he did not think of the conventional turn, but chose to ride directly on the shoulder of the road, or even the asphalt buffer zone outside, using a "snap shortcut" way to pass this Saches bend!
"Damn it, does Sachez hairpin bend have such a bend route?"
"Ohgod, Masa is really the strongest driver, and he actually found this detour route for him."
"Is this considered cheating? He's over the line!"
"F1 can be opened from the buffer zone, how can I say that I press the line?"
"That's right, I can only say that Masa dares to fight as hard as Fei. If his cornering method is out of control, it will be much more serious than Fei rushing out of the track!"
Generally speaking, there is an asphalt or gravel buffer zone outside the shoulder of the track. The pavement quality of this buffer zone is far inferior to that of the F1 track, and there may be some debris.
In addition to these risks, there may be a difference in the buffer zone and the track, which will cause the racing tires to be temporarily suspended and completely lose their grip. At high speed driving, any loss of grip will cause the racing car to lose control.
So it is almost impossible for a driver to take the initiative to drive the car into the buffer zone, which is no different from seeking death.
But this route is the killer weapon discovered by Massa Team by watching competition videos and on-site measurements of the track.
Taking this line has high risks and high returns. As long as you can achieve the same speed, it is equivalent to an extra route of overtaking and killing your opponent unexpectedly.
However, under normal probability, the risk of this detour is far greater than the profit. Half of the tire crosses the shoulder is equivalent to actively giving up one-quarter of the grip.
Any operational error occurs, or some debris in the buffer area is crushed, and it is good to run out of control and rush out of the track. If it is serious, the car will roll directly, which will threaten life safety.
When Masa competed for pole position in the qualifying competition, he did not choose to use this "trump card" move. Now he has felt the pressure brought by Zhang Yifei and is even more shocked by the opponent's strength, so he wants to take a gamble.
But he didn't expect that his "trump card" did not surpass Zhang Yifei on this curve, and even had a tendency to be pulled apart, which was considered fatal to Masa's confidence!
"The convoy, what was the cornering speed just now!"
After passing the Saches hairpin bend, Masa was a little unable to accept such a result. He immediately asked the team about Zhang Yifei's cornering speed.
"The fastest turn is close to 80km/h."
80km/h?
When he heard this speed, Masa instantly felt a dazed look and couldn't believe it.
The ultimate cornering speed you deal with with is 65 to 70km/h, because the maximum cornering speed of normal Saches hairpin bend is 70km/h.
If the opponent's driver is a little more conservative and uses 65km/h to pass the corner, then Masa can use this trick to stably eat the opponent and directly overtake the corner.
Even if the opponent is 70km/h, Masa can still be parallel to the opponent after turning. The next step is to rely on his own strength to grab the line, and both sides will return to the same level again.
In a sense, as long as you return to the same level, it is already a victory for Masa, because he was always behind before passing the corner.
Today, the water accumulation in the tree-lined track caused Masa and the team strategy team to determine that the limit Zhang Yifei could achieve was 70km/h cornering speed or lower.
As long as Masa did not make any mistakes and was lucky enough, he would be able to catch up with the previous pole position on this corner.
As for faster cornering speeds, Massa and the team strategy team have eliminated, because as long as a driver with normal logic, he will not drive for life!
It's just a pity that they met an opponent who didn't play according to common sense, or they met a game engineer who had no normal logic.
Chapter completed!