Roaming guide for racing industry

Motor racing represents the peak of automobile technology and plays an important role in the spread of automobile culture. However, due to the variety and complicated rules of F 1, WEC, WRC, FE and other events, there are often spectators who are faced with the dilemma that racing cars are difficult to get started and can't understand, and unfortunately they pass by the wonderful racing cars. The theme of "Roaming Guide in the Motor Racing Industry" aims to make a concise and comprehensive popularization of all kinds of motor races, and strive to help fans who want to learn about the rules and events with the shortest length and easy-to-understand diagrams, and to show the charm and excitement of motor races for readers who don't know much about motor races. In the second issue, let's talk about FE.

1. Why look at FE?

FE, that formula? E, where E stands for electric, Formula One championship, is the highest standard electric car race in the world. Different from traditional automobile sports, FE aims to bring a new experience to the audience with a new competition mode. As an experimental platform for the cutting-edge technology of electric vehicles, the electric equation promotes the transformation of automobile manufacturing in the competition, thus attracting automobile manufacturers and related enterprises from all over the world to participate in the competition. At the same time, as a practitioner of the concept of sustainable development, the electric equation combines the concepts of new energy, environmental protection, future technology, electronic entertainment and so on, arousing the public's beautiful expectations for a clean future. FE is a new generation of emerging car races that fans should not miss.

2. What is 2? Do you see it?

-Team/driver

The quickest way to start a sport is to be a fan of a team or an athlete. So is FE. Under the current competition system, there are 65,438+02 teams in FE this season, each team contains two drivers, that is, there are 24 drivers participating in each grand prix. In terms of motorcade, China fans are most proud of our China motorcade-Teach motorcade. They won the annual championship of FE twice in the 20 18/20 19 season and the just-concluded 20 19/2020 season, which is the highest achievement made by China team in all automobile races at present. In addition, there are six world-renowned automobile manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Nissan, Jaguar and Porsche, who come to participate in the future automobile competition with unlimited potential. Fans can see these familiar names in the FE field. In terms of drivers, the most eye-catching one is the famous China driver Ma Qinghua, who has fought for FE for many years on behalf of Weilai Team. In addition, there are many former F/KLOC-0 drivers who play for FE, including Massa and Van Dorn. Old fans of these drivers can pay more attention.

-Competition system

As a new high-tech automobile race, FE has many brand-new race systems, which are different from F 1 F2 and other races. This article makes a brief introduction here.

-Standardized racing cars

If the fans pay attention to the observation, they will find that there seems to be no difference in appearance between the cars of FE teams except painting. That's true. At present, in the FE racing system, the FE racing cars of each team adopt unified standardized configuration in aerodynamic shape, suspension, brakes, batteries and other components, and the research and development point of each team is only the motor power unit. The reason is that the research and development of aerodynamics, chassis and other parts has a very high demand for funds. For a race like FE, which has just started, the team can't bear such huge budget pressure. Adopting standardized racing cars has the disadvantages of uniform appearance, but the advantages include: narrowing the gap between teams and teams and increasing the excitement of the game; Motor technology is the easiest way to feed back the manufacturer's own research and development of new energy vehicles, which makes FE play an important role in promoting the technological progress of new energy vehicles in the world.

-Street races

In FE events, all the tracks are not fixed, but are all rebuilt by streets. This concept of street racing not only brought FE racing to fans, but also promoted the concept of environmental protection. You know, many traditional events don't have street races because the emissions and noise of fuel racing cars have a great impact on the urban environment. FE obviously has no such problem.

Match day

Different from F 1, the practice, qualifying and race of a sub-station of FE are all held in one day, which is called a race day.

-Practice match

* * * Two sessions, 45 minutes and 30 minutes respectively, are for drivers and teams to practice, and the results of practice matches usually do not affect the results.

-Qualifying match

Qualifying determines the starting order of drivers in the race. The fastest driver will start from the first row and the slowest driver will start from the last row. In the first four quarters of qualifying, 24 drivers were divided into four groups for qualifying, and each driver had the opportunity to run a lap. After the first four quarters, the fastest six drivers will enter the fifth qualifying session, which is the so-called super pole race and will determine the ranking order of the top six. The setting of super pole position competition is to increase the excitement and appreciation of the competition.

There is a lot of information in the broadcast picture of the qualifying match to help the audience better understand the game. As shown below, the red box in the upper left corner is the lap ranking table, where you can see the current driver's performance ranking. The green box at the bottom left is the detailed data of a driver, as shown in the figure, da? The output power of COSTA's car is 190kW, which currently takes 55.8 seconds. The pink and purple characters S 1 and S2 represent that he is the fastest driver in the first and second stages of the track. Accordingly, the green characters of S 1 and S2 indicate that drivers have made their fastest achievements in the first and second stages, but not all drivers.

-Race

The match was held at the end of the match day. Different from the counting system of F 1, FE adopts a timing system similar to WEC. The progress of each FE tournament is 45 minutes+1 lap, that is, the countdown starts 45 minutes. After running for 45 minutes, all cars need to complete the last sprint lap, and the final result of this championship is the last order to cross the finish line.

Learning how to read the broadcast information can help the audience better understand the game in the broadcast picture of the game. As shown below, "4 1:49+ 1" in the red box? "Circle" shows the progress of the game, which means that there are 4 1 minute 49 seconds plus one circle left in the game. The ranking table in the green box shows the ranking of drivers in the current race and the time interval gap between drivers. In addition, there will be professional data such as remaining power, attack mode and fan acceleration in the broadcast picture of the game, which the author will introduce in the corresponding part.

-Seasons

FE includes 10- 15 tournaments in a season. After each game, the top 1~ 10 players won 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and/kloc-respectively. In addition, the drivers of the fastest lap and the fastest lap in the four qualifying sessions can get 1 point respectively, and the drivers of the pole position in the qualifying session can get 3 points. For the team, the points of each team are the sum of the points obtained by the two drivers of the team. When all the races in a year are over, the driver with the highest points will win the annual driver championship, and the team with the highest points will win the annual team championship.

What is 3.3? FE thinks?

-Policy/Power Management

The most important tactical strategy of the FE Championship is the management of the power use of racing cars by teams and drivers. Every car has 100% battery power when it is started. During the race, when it needs to attack or defend, the battery consumes fast, but when the car enters the cruising state, the battery consumes slow, so it is particularly important to decide when to choose which driving mode to race. In addition, the driver should recover the braking energy through the steering wheel during the race, and the temperature environment and vibration during the race will interfere with the battery power. Under the influence of so many variables, the power management of racing car has become a very difficult knowledge, which plays a decisive role in the victory or defeat of drivers.

As shown in the figure below, during the broadcast, the audience can know the remaining power of each car at the red box position in the figure.

-Strategy/attack mode (attack? Mode)

Attack mode is a high-power output mode for every racing car, which aims to provide extra acceleration effect for the racing car when attacking or defending. In general, the attack mode can be started 2-3 times, lasting 3-5 minutes, and the specific number and time will be stipulated by the competition according to the track.

As shown in the following figure 1, in order to activate the attack mode, the car must leave the racing line and take a long and time-consuming route through the designated activation section (in the red box) to activate the attack mode. Therefore, choosing when and where to activate the attack mode is also a decision-making focus of tactical strategy.

As shown in Figure 2 below, when the driver activates the attack mode, he will have a special symbol (in the green box) in the ranking table. In addition, as shown in the red box, the ring LED light on his racing car will also turn blue.

-Strategy/fan acceleration (fans? Boost)

FE is the first competitive event in the world that allows fans to actually participate. By voting for the favorite driver, the top five drivers will get extra opportunities to accelerate. This extra power output does not exceed five seconds at most, and can only be used at the driver's discretion in the second half of the final. However, only a few seconds is enough to overtake or defend the car behind at a critical moment.

As shown in the figure below, drivers who turn on the fan acceleration will have a special green sign in the ranking table (in the red box) and mark it on the right side of the picture (in the green box).

-Accident Treatment/Yellow Flag/All Yellow Flag/Safety Car

For high-speed racing cars like FE, any debris or faulty cars on the track are extremely dangerous, so it is particularly important to deal with accidents in FE competitions. When there is a minor accident in the game, the yellow flag is "yellow?" Flag "means an accident occurred in a certain section of track. Drivers should pay special attention at this stage, and are not allowed to overtake or exceed the prescribed speed. When there is a relatively complicated accident in the game, the yellow flag is "full"? Sure? Yellow? Flag ",at this time, drivers are not allowed to overtake in the whole track and must not exceed the specified speed. When the accident is serious and difficult to handle, a safety car will be dispatched. At this time, the safety car is driving on the track, and all the racing cars should follow the safety car in order, which greatly compresses the traffic queue and suppresses the speed, leaving room for accident handling.

Interestingly, because FE is an all-electric racing car, the safety car of the competition is also served by a modified BMW electric supercar-BMW i8, which is very sci-fi.

4. When/where. Do you see it?

At present, the 20 19/2020 season has ended in August 14, and FE has entered the offseason. Next season will start in about 5 months, and the specific schedule can be found in FE official website.

FE has an official live stream, and there are broadcast windows in Sina Sports, Tencent Sports, Betta Fish and Tiger Tooth. Fans directly search for "FE? Live broadcast "is enough. It is worth mentioning that CCTV5+ channel sometimes broadcasts FE live, so you can pay attention to it.

In addition, the FE formula has official accounts on Sina, Weibo and Bili Bili, as well as a large number of video resources such as popular science and replays of previous events, which are suitable for new fans who want to see FE in into the pit.

5. Write to new fans of FE

As a newly-started race, FE has been criticized and questioned, the most common of which is that old fans think that without the roar and roar of the engine, FE has lost the soul of automobile races. Admittedly, the author admits this, but if you are willing to try to watch a FE game, you will find that there are sci-fi shape design, rigorous and scientific tactics and strategies, fierce overtaking and dogfighting, and volunteers marching on the field when China wins. There are wonderful moments you didn't expect, FE, waiting for your arrival.

Author: Wang

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