ended in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, this game has unsurprisingly become the most boring game of the 2020 season, none of them. But there is no doubt that the wealthy Abu Dhabi naturally wants to hold the title of the season ending game for a long time, even if it wants to run under the most beautiful fireworks, the least ornamental of the year Of a game. The $1.322 billion Yas Marina Circuit is the largest in the world, but in the final episodes of the past years, Abu Dhabi has only witnessed the birth of world champion drivers in the 2010, 2014 and 2016 seasons. For many people, the only impression that Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has brought to them in the twelve years is the boring circle. In addition, in all past Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, except for Kimi Raikkonen in 2012, the rest of the championship drivers started from the front row and led all laps most of the time. .
The special 2020 season has brought us a lot of wonderful memories, whether it’s the Austrian closing game full of plots, Pierre Gasly’s Monza first crown, or Max-Weiss Tapan (Max Verstappen) stood on the highest podium at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, and Mercedes' epic tyre replacement big Oolong created at the Sakhir Grand Prix has become the biggest highlight of this year. People's emotions when watching this year's final game should be regarded as experiencing a big fall to a big rise. First, they witnessed the regret of Sergio Perez, who had just been crowned the first championship of his career. Retired, and then saw Verstappen beat the Mercedes duo for the second time this season, and almost won a perfect result of a Grand Slam. Coincidentally, the two will officially become teammates next year, and the Mexican contract is still illusory before the end of the game.
Of course, the third topic in the minds of more people should be the old-fashioned topic: How can we make a game held at Yas Marina look good? The track designer Hermann Tilke actually proposed to modify and adjust the track at the beginning of its completion. This was also based on the belief that many people at the time believed that it was impossible to overtake. . But until the 2020 season, the layout of the Yas Marina circuit has not undergone any substantial changes, and the competition has become boring year after year. In fact, we can have some wild ideas. After all, budgets are never a big problem for Arabs.
Over the years, the total number of overtakings in most of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has been in single digits. Renault driver Esteban Ocon's final lap of this year's race against Lance Stroll (Lance Stroll) can be regarded as one of the few overtaking shots in this year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix One out. After the game, Aokang even said in the camera that he knew that the game was boring during the radio communication with the team, and it took a long time for him to surpass Stoll, and the main energy was wasted. In the part of following the car and sucking the wake.
O'Connell’s outward teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, didn’t really like the design of this track either: "Yas Marina is a very good track, but the design here makes it almost impossible for us to To overtake here, maybe we still need to work on the layout. You have to know that we have almost no corners to do, so every race is very difficult. My deepest impression here is that one is not counted. The long straight, the two DRS zones do not leave you many opportunities for hands-on, because their distance is too close."
So, what changes can we make to the Yas Marina Circuit in the short term? Does the game here become more interesting? Of course, some other difficult-to-overtake F1 circuits with similar characteristics to the Yas Marina are best applicable.
In fact, one of the biggest problems that Yas Marina has been facing is the connection of various slow bends, as pointed out by Aokang. In addition, the so-called "outside" design of most corners is also very unfriendly to the driver, The curvature of the outside of the shoulder means that a small mistake will bring very serious consequences. For the engineers of each team, it is also very difficult to adjust the car to an appropriate mode to deal with such track characteristics, because the car needs tire slip and oversteer here, so the outer rear Wheels will have difficulty finding grip. Although the hydraulic differential will make this task easier, all teams need to face the same problems.
However, if we can look back at this unusual 2020 season, it is not difficult to find that some new tracks have actually brought a lot of fun. A very typical example is Mugello, where the F1 Grand Prix was held for the first time. The end of the long straight line here is a spectacular right-hand corner with a sloping arc. In the case of moderate width, drivers can choose a lot. For different routes, we have also seen in this year’s competition that everyone has the same chance of overtaking using outside or inside lines. Alexander Albon's overtake Ricardo in the race also created his first podium in his career.
, like Mugello, Portimao, who also ushered in his F1 debut this year, has similar characteristics. However, considering that the last corner of the Algarve circuit is faster, the drivers can take advantage of the wake to launch an attack when they come to the start straight, and then choose a suitable route at turn 1. . In the same way, we also saw a lot of turn 1 outside passes in the Algarve this year. This is something that many people did not expect before coming to this new track. At the same time, the track characteristics are very suitable for following the Algarve circuit also contributed a very exciting Portuguese Grand Prix. After the release of the temporary calendar for the 2021 season, Algarve has also become one of the only strong contenders to be determined.
Yas Marina Circuit has two DRS sections, but subject to track restrictions, they are two sections connected together. As we have seen in many races in the past, most of the time the drivers will directly complete their hands in the first DRS zone after turning back on the 7th. However, considering that after turn 9 is the detection point of the second segment of the DRS zone, the driver who originally completed the overtaking on the back straight can easily re-enter the DRS attack range of the following car, so many offenses and defenses are Similar to the situation of courtesy, the only exception may be that the car's tire advantage on the big straight after turn 7 is too obvious, allowing him to directly open the gap of 1 second after the hairpin turn of turn 8. Except for these two straight roads, Yas Marina really couldn't find other better overtaking locations.
Russia’s Sochi circuit, known for its stop&go corner layout, faces the same problem as Yas Marina. The DRS areas of the two circuits are relatively close to each other, and before the big straights are slow corners. This is why in recent years The coming Russian Grand Prix is also very boring. However, compared with a circuit like Abu Dhabi, the Sochi circuit has always had a lower fault tolerance rate, which in many cases will cause a lot of sparks, but that's it.
Traditional tracks that are prone to excitement, including traditional high-speed tracks such as Silverstone, Spa and Suzuka. These places have very high-speed corners before the big straights, so the application of DRS can be more effective , Especially when you can find the perfect car balance adjustment in high-speed corners such as Maggotts-Becketts, Pouchon and Spoon. Of course, in these high-speed tracks, the difficulty of overtaking is also inseparable from the performance of the car itself. Generally, in order to tune a car that can adapt to all types of tracks, engineers need to adjust the car's downforce to the highest level. However, the disadvantage of this is that it is difficult for the car to maintain balance when being followed by the car. Among the major changes to the technical rules that
will introduce in the 2022 season, the organizers are also trying to solve this problem. The downforce of the current version of the F1 car started in the 2017 season, but it did not actually have a particularly good effect on improving the viewing of the game. The most common complaint by many drivers about cash cars is that it is difficult to follow the car in slow corners, and the front-end downforce is lost in high-speed corners. Even when they are 4 or 5 seconds away from the car in front, they will be affected by turbulence. So very uncomfortable.
's future technical rule changes are generally aimed at reducing downforce and increasing straight tail speed, but a foreseeable adverse effect is the lack of stability in corners. Nowadays, the height of the front suspension has been lowered by many teams to allow the car to obtain a more stable performance when braking and steering. Therefore, this aspect will not be particularly improved in the future new technical regulations. For this reason, Mercedes may not see the use of the DAS system in the future, so it is necessary to find a better solution to make the front wheel heat up better. In this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, both W11 cars encountered very serious tire heating problems, especially during the critical soft tire speeding process of Q3, which is why Verstappen will eventually win the game. Pole position.
returns to the topic of the Abu Dhabi race track itself. With the advent of the major changes in the rules, we may be able to start from the original layout of the track, such as removing the awkward turn 5 and 6 chicane, so that the car can enter the turn back at 7 Enjoy a period of sufficient acceleration, thereby creating another heavy brake area. Turns 8 and 9 at the end of the DRS zone in the first section do not need to be changed, but the continuous part of turns 11-13 can indeed be considered for fine adjustment of the inclination. In addition, the speed of No. 14 left-hand right-angle corners can also be further accelerated, which can be well connected with the next full-throttle No. 15 and No. 16 corners, trying to turn the heavy braking area of No. 17 into a potential overtaking point. . Of course, all of this needs to be based on the slightly increased width of Turn 17. The last part of the
track has always been the target of negative reviews. But considering the luxury hotel that straddles the last few corners, it is difficult to make drastic changes to these corners. In addition, Turn 21 has been prone to errors for drivers over the years, so the last paragraph is completely retained. The design is also a good choice.
However, it is worth mentioning that we finally saw the possibility that Red Bull Racing can rely on its own hard power to directly challenge Mercedes for the first time this year. As Christian Horner said after the game: "Although it is not very exciting for the audience, it is definitely a perfect night for us!" Plus Vesta Pan's speed has also been well reflected in the previous Silverstone, so we can look forward to next year's Abu Dhabi whether we can see a real long-lost "black and red" battle. And don’t forget that next year the driver with the Austrian manufacturer’s yellow T-frame will become Perez, so there may be an exciting four-car competition.
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