Capítulo 6: Qualifying
However, at the beginning of the qualifying, Senna was not on the old soft tyres, but on the old hard tyres.
At this time, the condition of this set of tyres was still very good, and they were only worn about 10%.
The main reason for using this set of tyres was that Senna's soft tyres had been through a long-distance test and two high-intensity use of flying laps. Although the grip was still stronger than that of hard tyres, it could not last for a few laps.
So let Senna take this set of hard tyres and make an effective lap on the track first.
When the qualifying is about to end, there will be more rubber on the track and the grip will be better, then let Senna change to the old soft tyres and rush.
Rosin gave Senna a strong sense of autonomy and trust. Ordinary drivers can't come up with an idea like him, and the team will immediately formulate the strategy for the next race according to his ideas.
Senna drove onto the track after changing to hard tyres.
Senna used not only old hard tyres in qualifying but also old hard tyres that had been run for ten laps. This tyre choice, which was very different from others, quickly attracted the camera of the on-site director.
The Commentors on the paddock were surprised by Senna Tyre's choice
Then the three commentators talked more deeply about Senna's tyre choice, but it is not difficult to judge from their words that they do not think Senna will risk running the entire sprint race on a set of tyres.
On the other side, Senna, who had already driven onto the track, did not see Zhou Guanyu behind him this time. If he had seen him, Senna would definitely let Zhou Guanyu pass, and then eaten Zhou Guanyu's wake during the flying lap.
Since there was no external help, Senna naturally knew that it would all depend on himself.
During the warm-up lap, Senna drew corners left and right to heat up the tyres of his car as quickly as possible, while also exercising the muscles of his hands.
Unlike F1, F2 cars do not have a steering power system, and the Red Bull Ring is a high-speed, high-G-force track. To do lap times on this track, you must first have enough strength to keep the steering wheel stable when turning at high speed before you can talk about the speed of lap times. Senna did this to improve his hand flexibility during the qualifying race.
Soon, Senna arrived at T9.
Senna slightly controlled his speed and waited until the F2 car in front was at least four seconds away from him before Senna started to accelerate.
When he left T10, Senna had already started to push forward with all his strength.
If there were cameras at the yellow curb at the centre of T10, it would be found that when Senna passed this corner, his tyres almost rubbed against the raised curb, and there was even a shallow mark on the rubber side of the tyre.
This shows how extreme Senna's control over the car is now.
He rushed through the finish line and the DRS detection area after the finish line at full throttle, and the first flying lap of Senna's F2 career began at this moment.
Entering T1, the left front wheel ate up the T1 corner curb as much as possible, expanding his racing line when entering the apex of Turn 1.
Then, just like T10, the right front wheel stuck to the limit and pressed on the apex curb of T1. After passing the apex, he began to add gas. The car quickly rushed out of the corner under the action of aerodynamics and tyre grip. When leaving T1, just like Jason taught Senna, the left front wheel and the left rear wheel both rode on the yellow sausage curb, but did not cross it, but ran on the sausage curb until the exit of the corner.
Then, after leaving T1, DRS was turned on for a full sprint.
Senna used low downforce tuning in this qualifying race, which means adjusting all the aerodynamic kits of the car to the lowest resistance mode.
After passing the lack of presence T2 at full throttle, Senna drove onto an uphill section.
Whether in the game or on live TV, due to the display media, the audience does not know the height of this slope very well, and the feeling is not so real.
But this is an uphill section close to 30°. After driving on this road at high speed, the driver can feel at least 2G of pressure from top to bottom.
Passing T2 and entering the second timing section, it is also the second DRS detection point of this track, the highest point of the track, and the entrance to the most frequent overtaking curve. The brakes were applied about 10 meters before the 50-meter sign, and the left tyre ate about half of the shoulder.
Because this is a low-speed right-turn uphill, the conventional outside-inside-outside cornering does not have any advantage here, but it may also damage the chassis of the car due to the large drop in the centre of the T3 bend.
So Senna did not cut the centre of the curve in this turn but took a wider route as much as possible to gain more speed after exiting the curve.
After exiting the curve, he went straight through the second DRS detection point, and after passing a long straight road at full throttle, he came to T4. The left tyre was still halfway on the shoulder. After passing the 50-meter sign, he braked to enter the curve. If the angle of the corner is good enough, he does not need to step on the brakes and accelerator in the corner and completely rely on the car's potential energy to cross the corner.
The shoulder of T4 after the corner is smooth enough, and the width of the track can be used as much as possible here to obtain enough exit speed. It is relatively simple to pass the turns 5-7. After taking a good route, the way to pass the corner is not to brake, but to release the accelerator.
However, because Senna used hard tyres, the grip was not as strong as soft tyres, so he stepped on the brakes slightly at T7. At the same time, when passing T7, he also entered the third timing section. When Senna exited this section of the road, he really felt that the weight on his steering wheel exceeded ten kilograms.
After entering T8, try to drive on the outer shoulder of T8 as much as possible. You can drive on all four wheels outside the white line, but you cannot drive on gravel.
It is not that the race will penalize you or cancel your qualifying results after driving on gravel, but it is easy to lose control after driving on gravel...
After leaving T8, climb the slope at full throttle and then come to T9.
The exit of T9 is the third DRS detection area, and the right side is the entrance to the maintenance area.
This corner is a standard outside-inside-outside cornering method. If you are using soft tyres, you don't even need to step on the brakes to pass here, just rely on inertia and the speed of the car itself.
But Senna was different, he used hard tyres, so even though he had eaten up all the curbs in T9 and the left tyre was about to press the green paint next to it, he still had to brake a little when turning to avoid running off the track at the exit of T9.
Then he went downhill to the final T10. Facing multiple G's
Senna turned just like he did at the beginning of the flying circle, turning inside out, with his tyres rubbing against the bumps on the curb.
After exiting the corner, he turned on DRS and rushed across the finish line at full speed.
As Senna's red car sped past, Rossin, who was watching the data on the Ferrari podium, focused his eyes on the data representing Senna's lap time of 1:15:010, temporarily ranking first.
Although they knew that this result appeared because many drivers had not yet started to exert their strength, Senna's ability to achieve such a result in qualifying would indeed make Rossin and others proud and excited.
After finishing this lap, Senna did not continue to run. Although his hard tyres were far from the cliff point of tyre failure, the maximum speed that this set of tyres could run was just like this. No matter how much Senna worked on the details, he could only improve it by about 0.1 seconds at most.
Moreover, Senna had no more fuel in the tank. He had to go back to refuel, and then see if there was anything else he could improve. Then he would change to the old soft tyres to do the last flying lap.
Apart from anything else, Senna was able to run the first position among the F2 drivers who used red tyres with hard tyres. Anyone who saw it would have to say: "Awesome".
When Senna returned to the station, other drivers were still running on the track. At this time, he was the only one in the entire maintenance area who returned.
Even after parking the car in the maintenance area, Senna jumped off his car and ran to Rosin and Jason who borrowed the Ferrari podium to see the difference between his telemetry data and the test in the practice race.
He was looking At Zhou's broadcast which was crossing at T2 and he saw Zhou's unwanted acceleration on the apex, Seeing Senna frown Rene asked "What's wrong ?".
"The car is in agony !"
"What?" Rene asked not able to understand what Senna is trying to say.
"Nothing !"
Senna stayed in the pit area until there were three minutes left before the end of the qualifying session. After this period of waiting, the track condition had reached its best.
Senna, who had already changed to the old soft tyres, drove out of the track again, ready to complete his last flying lap in the qualifying session.
At this time, Senna's fastest lap had been taken away by Zhou Guanyu, who made a speed of 1:14:748, which was 0.262 seconds faster than Senna's speed.
It is worth mentioning that Senna's performance at the beginning is still ranked third.
The grip of soft tyres is better than that of hard tyres. When running with hard tyres, you have to slightly loosen the accelerator or step on the brakes to pass the corner.
After changing to soft tyres, you don't need to reduce the accelerator or step on the brakes.
After changing to soft tyres, you can take a more aggressive line, you don't have to worry about the tyres locking when entering a corner, and you don't have to worry about the rear wheel spinning and slipping when you give gas earlier.
After one lap, Senna's time was 1:14:601, and he once again took the first place, squeezing Zhou Guanyu out.
Although there was still some time to do another flying lap after this lap, Senna had already used this set of tyres for three flying laps.
Originally, soft tyres were not that durable. Senna first ran seven laps of long-distance testing with this set of soft tyres and then ran two flying laps in the practice race with this set of soft tyres. Now he ran another full-out sprint flying lap.
Although the speed of this set of soft tyres is still faster than the hard tyres thanks to Senna's skills, the grip has begun to decline, and there is no way to refresh the lap time Senna has set if he continues to run.
So Senna drove the car back to the P room while avoiding the cars doing flying laps on the track. Anyway, he had done everything he should do, and the next step was to leave it to fate.
After the qualifying session was over, the specific rankings were as follows:
First: Senna : 1:14:416.
Second: Zho Ganyu: +0.185.
Third: Drugovic: +0.464
Unlike F1, there are no pole position tyres to be issued after the F2 race. After the
qualifying race, all F2 teams honestly packed up their things and made room for the F1 team, because they would start the second practice in an hour.
After Senna stopped the car, he was surrounded by Renne, Jason, Sui Wentao and others who had been waiting for a long time.
Although they had a psychological expectation of Senna's strength and had seen Senna's terrifying dominance in the practice stage, they also knew that Senna's ability to protect tyres was quite amazing, and even with the old soft tyres, there was a great possibility of getting a good result.
After greeting Congratulations from Rene and everyone, He was called to a Post-match interview. He was walking towards Angelina Senna's Communication and Social media Manager. When he arrived he saw Zho's interview taking place. Curious about what he was talking Senna moved in to listen.
"Congratulations Zhou for your good Qualifying round, You missed the pole by hundreds of seconds to Senna. How do you feel?" An interview with a mic facing Zhou asked a question.
"I am Happy with my Results, but I believe I can perform better on the Race Tomorrow !" Zhou replied with a small frown. Senna noticed some Displeasure from the interview questions.
Before he could say anything, Senna's time for an interview came. It is just a basic question consisting of his experience and expectations for tomorrow's race wishing him his results and giving good luck.
When he finished his Interview, Senna noticed he was the last man in the interview room. He soon left for the garage!
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