178 Accidents
The surrounding sand and gravel began to splash, which was much more powerful than the previous ones when the Monza Raceway was just half a tire overwhelmed the gravel buffer zone, and the entire car was submerged in dust...`
The huge inertia made the car still crash towards the isolation wall. At this moment, Zhang Yifei had already stepped on the brakes to the bottom. Renault Racing's powerful braking ability locked all the wheels.
Looking at the isolation wall getting closer, Zhang Yifei had no other choice but to leave it to fate!
Five meters, four meters, three meters, this distance is quickly shortened, which is almost the same as the summoning of the God of Death for Zhang Yifei.
At this moment, he finally understood the despair of the car god Senna who lost control and crashed into the isolation wall on the San Marino Imora track.
Although the speed of Renault's schedule at this moment is much lower than Senna's 300km/h, the protection of Formula Elementary Cars is also much lower than Formula One.
If this speed hits, even if the car does not catch fire or explode, or the cockpit falls apart.
But Zhang Yifei was not sure that he could get off the car standing, and it was the closed day of the Hoganheim Raceway. In addition to the technicians, medical logistics should be in a state of rest. If any accident really happens, he may not be able to get effective treatment as soon as possible.
Zhang Yifei held the steering wheel tightly and watched the car slide over. In fact, in a sense, he was already lucky. If the tire burst out during the tangent, then the side slip was likely to roll, and the chances of injury and death would double!
Two meters, one meter, and half a meter! Just when the isolation wall was close, the strong grip of the bald tire and the braking force of the Renault racing car finally successfully stopped the car within a distance of more than ten meters.
Looking at the isolation wall in front of him, Zhang Yifei was shocked and sweating. Fortunately, when he entered the corner, he was preparing to pass the low-speed corner with an empty accelerator. If he still stepped on the full accelerator at a high speed corner, the speed before would definitely be close to 260km/h.
At this speed, the brakes and grip are all floating clouds. There is absolutely no way to control the loss of control. Whether you can survive depends purely on luck.
For example, in 2007, the accident speed was far faster than that of the car god Senna, and the car was completely destroyed, but others sprained their ankle, and the others were not injured. This is called God's praise of the face.
Zhang Yifei stopped in the sand and gravel buffer zone, and Renault racing was completely shut down and could not start it, but he did not choose to get out of the car, but sat in the driver's seat in a little shocked manner to calm down.
This is his second track accident in which he encountered a life-and-death crisis. The last time he died directly and came to this world twenty years ago.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei didn’t feel much fear last time, because the moment the accident happened, people were depressed and there was no time to be afraid.
But this time it was different. He could say that he passed by Death and could still sit in the car completely and was afraid. Naturally, he felt completely different.
Outside the paddock, due to the special layout of the Hoganheim Track, Zhang Yifei is in the forest at this moment, and he cannot see anything happening with his naked eyes alone.
Moreover, it is not a formal competition, and the track broadcasting system cannot be opened. Junko Takeda and his group have no idea what happened to Zhang Yifei inside. They are still waiting for Zhang Yifei to rush out from the other end of the track to see if they have refreshed the fastest lap again.
After waiting for about two minutes, Zhang Yifei's racing car still did not rush out of the forest, and even the roaring sound of the engine could not be heard. They began to feel something was wrong.
"Youkyo, how long has it been since the last flight passed the starting line?"
Yamamoto Ukyo records the time and lap times of Zhang Yifei passing through the starting line, so Junko Takeda needs to determine the time.
"2 minutes and 15 seconds, 1 minute and 48 seconds in the previous lap, 926, about ten seconds slowed down."
"Really speaking, even if Yifeijun doesn't want to run the fastest in this lap, he shouldn't be slowing down more than ten seconds."
Yamamoto Ukyo was also confused. Because of the test run, the team's radio communication was not equipped, because it required the console relay to be turned on. It is only the trial run stage and the Hoganheim track cannot cooperate.
So now they are covered by the forest and have no idea what is happening inside. And thinking that this is just a trial run stage, Zhang Yifei no longer tries to the extreme and is unlikely to have an accident.
After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, that is, Zhang Yifei's racing car was shut down and parked at a certain location in the forest.
Just like ordinary civilian manual transmission vehicles, the starting stage of Formula Events is particularly prone to shutdown, and even the probability of shutdown is higher due to pedal layout factors.
Even an experienced civilian car driver doesn’t need to say how he runs when he gets on an F1 race car for the first time, and he can’t even complete the most basic starting movements.
But the shutdown is usually in the initial stage. As the race progresses, the temperature of the racing engine is very high. When the gasoline enters such a high temperature environment, it only takes a little spark and heavy pressure to ignite it.
After all, Zhang Yifei is a driver who has won the European Cup in Renault, and can he still make such low-level mistakes on the track?
Just as several people were speculating on what was going on, Brother Zhi saw a piece of dust appearing above the forest.
The dust is not obvious due to the concealment of trees and the noon sunlight. If it weren't for the special scanning of the forest part of the Hoganheim track, ordinary people wouldn't have noticed that dust would have floated up at all.
"Miss Junko, what's going on?"
Zhige pointed his finger at the area where the dust was floating and asked Junko Takeda beside him.
Junko Takeda also looked in Chen Zhi's finger direction. After finding the dust above the trees, her face immediately changed. She said in a panic voice: "What happened, hurry up and go!"
After saying that, Junko Takeda didn't care whether the others could react. She ran towards the place where the dust floated.
Experience tells Junko Takeda that usually dust or smoke appears on the track, which will definitely cause an accident. Either the car catches fire or breaks out of the track, the sand and gravel buffer zone can raise such dust.
No matter which situation it is, it means that Zhang Yifei is in a dangerous situation. She never expected that such an accident would occur if she had a simple pre-match trial run.
Seeing that Junko Takeda had already run away, the remaining few people also instantly understood what was going on. They all ran towards the accident site frantically. If they could arrive one second earlier, Zhang Yifei would have more protection.
Several people were running wildly on the track because it was not the track open day, and there were no safety cars and ambulances on duty. In addition, in order to avoid the influence of irrelevant personnel in the track, Zhang Yifei chose to try the run at lunch, but he didn't even want to find a car to help, or the time was too late.
Now that you can only run hard with your feet, Zhang Yifei has become the absolute backbone of the team and cannot tolerate any accidents in him.
The Hoganheim track is 6.8 kilometers in a circular shape, and Junko Takeda and the others are standing in the center of the track, so it is actually not far from the location of the Zhang Yifei accident, less than one kilometer.
Chen Zhi and Ah Hu had the best physical strength and quickly surpassed Takeda Junko in front. It only took a few minutes for the two of them to less than a kilometer.
When they arrived at the bend, they stopped Zhang Yifei's racing car in the sand and gravel buffer zone from a distance, which was very close to the isolation wall. However, the dust has dissipated almost now, and it is clear that the racing car is not seriously damaged, which makes them feel relieved.
As the distance approached, they saw Zhang Yifei sitting on the ground, with his helmet on the side, leaning against the Renault Racing body.
Seeing this scene, their hearts that had just fallen behind were raised again. Brother Fei had already sat on the ground. Could it be that nothing happened?
"Brother Fei, how are you doing? Are you injured?"
Hu Zi rushed to Zhang Yifei, grabbed his arm tightly and asked.
"Be gentle, you were not injured at all, you will be seriously injured in your grip!"
Zhang Yifei replied angrily, "Ahu is probably too nervous and his hands are too strong."
You should know that there are very few auxiliary equipment for repairmen these days, and they all have enough strength, so it is really hard to bear to hold it with all your strength.
Hearing Zhang Yifei say this, Ah Hu also reacted. Seeing that Brother Fei seemed to have nothing to do, he then gave up and smiled honestly.
"Yifei, what happened?"
Chen Zhi also realized that Zhang Yifei was fine, so he was not as panicked as Ah Hu, and began to ask about the incident.
"The tire burst out of control."
"Type burst?"
Chen Zhi was very surprised. He didn't expect it to be because of a tire blowout. Logically speaking, I used a neutral tire today, which is a little harder than the usual soft tire. The risk of a tire blowout is theoretically lower.
At this moment, Junko Takeda and others finally arrived. They looked at Ah Hu and Chen Zhi, standing beside Zhang Yifei and chatting quietly, and realized that Zhang Yifei should be fine, and they felt relieved a lot of their hearts.
"Yifeijun, are you okay? What happened?"
"Nothing is wrong, it's just a tire that breaks out of control and rushes into the sand and gravel buffer zone."
Zhang Yifei replied as usual, then stood up from the ground with his hands on the racing car.
After a few minutes of calming down, Zhang Yifei's mentality has basically been almost stable, and there is no need to sit on the ground to make them worry.
And then again, the tire blowout in Formula racing is not a rare accident. The most famous one is the 2013 F1 British Grand Prix, where the "tire blowout" incident was born.
In one race, five F1 drivers, including Hamilton and Massa, experienced a tire blowout in the track.
This incident also put Pirelli, the then F1 tire supplier, into trouble, and triggered a subsequent driver strike. They did not want to challenge the extreme racing car that was already on the verge of losing control, but were also troubled by the threat of tire blowouts.
Since then, the tires of the F1 race became harder and more wear-resistant. In line with the changes in the rules prohibiting refueling, the later F1 race cars only needed to enter the station once, which made many tactics, strategies and other things become empty talk.
After all, racing does not need to refuel at all. If you change your tires and enter the station, you just need to run on the track without any brainstorming, so naturally you don’t need these tactics and strategies.
Chapter completed!