F1: Absolute Car Feel

Chapter 132 Wu Shi is behind me?

"Wu, is your ringtone a song from your own country, China?"

He had just hung up the phone with Louise when a technician asked him a question.

"Yes, it sounds really exciting?" Wu Shi knew that this technician was a music fanatic who liked to listen to all kinds of music, depending on his mood at the time.

"Can you recommend one to me?"

"of course."

With Verstappen overtaking Ocon, the rest of the race was uneventful.

At 11:40, the competition ended, and the long-absent singing of "du~du~du~du~" rang out in the stadium.

Verstappen stood on the podium, smiling shyly with his lips pursed, swaying his body from side to side.

After the national anthem ended, he picked up a glass of champagne and shot it at Wu Shi below the stage.

"Gan!"

Caught off guard, Wu Shi was sprayed with foam all over his head.

"Hahaha!"

Verstappen laughed heartily, then symbolically sprayed Ocon and Lucas beside him twice.

In the qualifying race at 4 pm, everyone performed worse than yesterday. Wu Shi was the first to run a time of 48.081, and he was planning to do a few more good times.

As a result, no one managed to get a time under 48.1 seconds.

However, due to the penalty, even if he ranks the fastest, he must drop ten places in the race.

This punishment was quite severe, effectively costing them three games.

After the qualifying match ended, Pan Zi walked over with a cheerful smile. Just by looking at him, you could tell what he was thinking.

“Perhaps you should try to catch up from tenth place, and then we can continue our competition,” Verstappen said.

This guy is extremely competitive. He even argues with his sister about who wins when playing Mario Kart. After losing, he actually bought a Switch and said he would practice for a while and then have a final showdown with everyone.

Clearly, this is the mindset of a competitor; whenever it comes to racing, he wants to win no matter what.

"Let's have a race then," Wu Shi said casually, because the overtaking conditions on this track were very poor, and he didn't think he could easily escape from the middle lane of cars.

"Alright! I won't let you disrupt my rhythm this time!" Pan Zi's eyes were shining brightly, eager to continue the challenge.

However, the next day, a light drizzle began to fall, although it stopped later, and by 11 o'clock the racetrack tracks were all dry.

Faced with this situation, the team leader decided to let everyone use bald tires.

During the warm-up lap, the road surface was noticeably more slippery. As usual, when warming up the tires, the rear wheels lost a lot of grip, so it didn't look like a warm-up lap, but rather like an attempt to drift.

Five red lights came on and went out, and twenty-six race cars roared to life.

0.164!

Wu Shi's reaction speed was acceptable. After the vehicle started moving, he immediately began to accelerate and upshift. He spotted the dry surface in the center of the track, did not defend himself, and drove straight onto it.

Sure enough, the dry grip of the middle road was far superior to that on the sides, which allowed him to increase the torque distributed to the tires more quickly and achieve stronger acceleration.

Susu!

He leaped over two race cars, but unfortunately, someone ahead of him had the same idea and occupied the dry road in the middle.

When it was time to enter the curve, everyone braked very early.

Wu Shi noticed this, and he knew that it was because everyone was unsure about the tire grip and the slipperiness of the track.

And he made a very accurate judgment!
laugh!
He braked late at the last minute and moved into the outside lane, no longer competing with the slower cars for the inside lane.

"Wu, he's gone to the outside! Is he trying to overtake here? The only dry area in Turn 2 is the inside line!"

"His car is skidding! No, the car is skidding slightly, but the front wheels have excellent grip! How did he do that?!"

The commentator seemed to have witnessed something unbelievable and immediately roared.

Wu Shi, on the other hand, adjusted the accelerator and brake with a precision of a thousandth of a degree using his left and right feet. The feedback from the tires was analyzed and judged by his brain as if by instinct, and then quickly transmitted to his limbs.

Heh!

Despite driving on the slipperier outer edge of the road, Wu Shi was able to keep the vehicle stable.

Compared to the crowded lanes, he seemed to be driving on the emergency lane, relying on the smooth flow of traffic to jump directly to fifth place.

Seeing this, other vehicles assumed the outer track had dried up and immediately followed him.

Wow!

rustling!
After a bend, the line of cars stretched out into a long queue.

But then yellow flags were waved on the track, and the safety car waited directly at the pit lane exit.

Ailan TR: "Goddard and Guimarães collided, the safety car is expected to lead for three laps." Wu Shi TR: "copy."

On the second lap back at Turn 2, I saw a Mercedes GLC towing a blue wrecked race car off the track.

By the third lap, the track surface had dried out considerably.

On the fourth lap, the safety car left.

After turning the eighth corner, Verstappen acted quickly, pulling up to top speed immediately.

As he crossed the starting grid, the race resumed!
Wu Shi was in the fifth position at this time, and he could see the situation in front of him. In front of him was Lucas Orr.

The German cars seem to be particularly well-suited to this track, maintaining a remarkably high level of competitiveness.

Wu Shi knew it wouldn't be easy to overtake him, so he could only keep closing the gap until the second turn.

However, in a one-on-one situation, everyone knows that you need to dominate the dry inside, as the slippery outside doesn't offer the advantage of quick in-and-out play.

This continued until lap eleven, when Wu Shi could clearly feel his speed increasing as the track became drier.

Lucas, perhaps unsure of his speed, didn't dare to accelerate.

Therefore, once he entered Turn 8, he positioned his car close behind Lucas, using the slipstream to continuously increase his speed.

When he reached Turn 1, he did not hesitate to turn right.

Lucas naturally went to defend, otherwise Wu Shi would have completely overtaken him on that long straight!
He clearly hadn't studied Wu Shi's matches carefully; this guy just likes to deceive people before launching an attack.

Lucas blocked Wu Shi, but before entering Turn 2, Wu Shi pulled inward again.

The car's wheels were right on the edge of the track where the water was wet and dry, and beyond that were the white lines and the completely slippery surface.

Lucas saw all of this through his rearview mirror, and without further considering the sideline issue, he turned back to the inside to block.

Wow!
As soon as car number 3 entered the same area as Wu Shi, its left wheel began to slip extensively.

Lucas engineer TR: "Adjust the differential ratio to 8!"

However, this statement came too late. The left wheel had less traction, and the differential caused power to pour out from one side.

Wow!

Lucas's car swerved from side to side, and he struggled to steer, leaving him no time to pay attention to Wu Shi.

sieve!
To achieve a breakthrough.

Wu Shi came in fourth place.

And Jack Dennis, who was ahead, wasn't much faster either.

Just when everyone thought it would take several more laps to defeat the Englishman, a light rain began to fall.

Ailan TR: "It's raining, be careful."

Wu Shi TR: "I know, help me see how far we are from the maximum."

Alan TR: "Five seconds."

Wu Shi TR: "copy, he slipped."

Susu!

As Wu Shi spoke, he seized upon his opponent's mistake and overtook him on the bend.

At this point, only Jordan King and Verstappen remained in front of him.

Unfortunately, the rain got heavier and heavier, and before they had even run two laps, an accident occurred.

The appearance of the yellow flag interrupted Wu Shi's attack, which was undoubtedly a delay, but it also allowed all the riders to close the gap.

Wu Shi TR: "He's too slow, he's blocking me."

Ailan TR: "Attention, yellow flag, overtaking is not allowed."

Wu Shi TR: "I know, I'm just complaining, it's like someone is occupying a toilet but not using it."

Since the second half was in Chinese, Alan didn't understand it and didn't reply.

By the nineteenth lap, the yellow flag had turned into a red flag. After the safety car took a lap, the race organizers notified everyone to switch to rain tires.

All the race cars returned to their starting grids under the guidance of the safety car, and after they stopped, the team mechanics pushed out the tire racks.

Wu Shi stopped in the starting grid behind Verstappen, and saw the familiar paint scheme in his rearview mirror.

Verstappen TR: "Is Wu Shi behind me?"

Engineer TR: "YES!"

(End of this chapter)