Zhang Yifei's racing car is in the third position, and the racing temperature reaches the optimal working condition by constantly changing lanes and accelerating and deceleration.

Behind him was Suarez and Kubica. After the amazing crush of the Manicur track at the last stop, these two people had completely put down their previous mentality of looking down on Chinese newcomers and regarded Zhang Yifei as their number one strong enemy, or even a learning target.

It can be said that Zhang Yifei's current competition videos of three European Cup events in Renault have become the subject of research for many drivers.

They began to analyze Zhang Yifei's detour route and running style, trying to find some loopholes and breakthroughs, and then formulated an overtaking route to defeat Zhang Yifei.

But the more they studied, the more shocked they felt. This is not to say how perfect Zhang Yifei's various techniques are, but the Chinese driver's detours are often at the extreme and terrible. At any time, there is a feeling of losing control and rushing out of the track.

These drivers don’t understand why Zhang Yifei can win the championship under such crazy driving. Is this how lucky he is or has strong strength?

However, even if this kind of dancing on the tip of a knife is imitated, no one dares to do this. It is possible that if you run steadily, you can get points, or even have the opportunity to stand on the podium.

If you choose Zhang Yifei's running method, let alone obtaining points, even your life is at risk of losing control.

Only those who can truly put their lives aside are those few brave people, so most people choose to give up after studying Zhang Yifei's video.

There is also a small number of people who are mentally dark, waiting for Zhang Yifei to lose control on the track, so that this Chinese boy can understand that the goddess of luck will not always favor him, and racing will teach him the most severe lesson in life.

Of course, after all, there are still a small number of drivers who are not convinced, such as Kubica, Suarez and others following Zhang Yifei. They all have a certain chance of winning the Renault European Cup driver title.

As long as there is a glimmer of opportunity, no driver is willing to give up like this.

The one who was most dissatisfied with this is Dickson, who was the last stop.

In fact, he was already in line with Zhang Yifei in terms of driving skills in the last stop, and he just had to wait for a final chance to overtake. But no one expected that Zhang Yifei would make a shocking turn in the final stage, leaving Dixon behind, and also disrupting his mentality.

In the end, because he wanted to catch up with Zhang Yifei too much, Dixon speeded over the corner and ran out of control and rushed out of the track.

The man was not injured, but it was a big blow to confidence. After all, Dixon always thought that he was just not taking action. If he took action, the champion would be able to win.

But what really gave Dixon a fatal blow was Sir Williams' remarks after the race. He thought he was the potential driver that the boss valued the most, but he didn't expect Williams to be willing to test the driver's contract for Zhang Yifei.

This news completely shattered Dixon's pride and prevented him from recovering for many days after the game.

But now it’s different. He has a belief in “revenge” in his heart. He wants to prove himself and prove that Sir Williams has misunderstood!

The warm beads were successfully completed, and the next step was the official qualifying match, and the fastest lap in thirty minutes was still taken.

However, this time, there were not many drivers who planned to come and stop Zhang Yifei. After all, the "eating appearance" in the last game was a little ugly, and the behavior of attacking people on this personal competitive track is actually despised by the outside world.

If you lose, you will be embarrassing and won't be glorious. Maybe you will become your own black spot in the future.

I can only say that fortunately the Internet in this era is underdeveloped, otherwise many of these drivers would become the targets of ridicule. Even if you can't beat Zhang Yifei, why are you still ridiculed?

So the gunpowder smell in this qualifying match is not that strong, and it is just normal to run the fastest lap.

Moreover, other drivers here didn't know that Zhang Yifei wanted to win the Silverstone Circuit championship and ended his European Cup in Renault ahead of schedule.

If they knew, they might have a little bit of a mentality of making trouble. After all, being finished three ahead of schedule is definitely a shameless thing. Even if they can't target Zhang Yifei as blatantly as in the previous stop, they can still do it.

But there are not so many ifs, Zhang Yifei is currently leading too much points, making his usual small moves meaningless. It is better to run your own.

There is no hope for the championship, but the runner-up and third place points are not much different at present. Being able to win the top three in Renault's European Cup will also be very helpful for future equation promotion.

The five indicator lights on the track illuminate one after another, and then turn off at the same time, and the roar of the engine began to resound throughout the track.

Almost the moment the light went out, Zhang Yifei rushed out with the accelerator, still maintaining his very rapid starting reaction.

Second gear, third gear, fourth gear, facing the highway section in front of the Silverstone Track, Zhang Yifei continued to quickly upgrade and maintain speed.

After all, during the previous trial run, Zhang Yifei could pass the six and a half bends in the front seven corners. He only needed to collect fuel at Turn 5 to reduce the speed to avoid the car borrowing shoulders and being affected by grass or mud.

However, this kind of continuous upshift within 0.1 second, the extremely weak awkward feeling of gear position comes again, and it may have a moment of feeling within a few seconds.

To be honest, let alone an ordinary person, even if many professional drivers come here, they may not be able to detect subtle changes in the gearbox.

However, Zhang Yifei has driven four stops in this Renault car, and with the trial run and running of each track, he already has an extremely understanding of the characteristics of this car. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a combination of man and car.

Therefore, this extremely weak awkward feeling of gear position was still felt by Zhang Yifei.

But Zhang Yifei did not make any statement because he ran rally in his previous life. You should know that the tracks of rally are basically all very harsh road conditions. For example, the famous Dakar includes different terrains such as mountains, deserts, swamps, etc.

Rally cars perform various sudden brakes and acceleration operations under such bad road conditions every day. It is common for failures to occur. The more rapid gear changes are, the more pressure the gearbox will be.

With a little mechanical principle, we all know that the core of the gearbox is composed of various gears. It is normal for the gear to wear under the huge torque impact, and it is not surprising that there are even some metal debris.

This point is more intuitive to explain by civilian cars. Most people should have heard of the word "run-in period" when buying new cars.

This so-called running-in period is actually that it is impossible to achieve 100% accurate and matched parts of the automobile during the manufacturing process. In particular, high-precision components such as the engine and the gearbox need to be contacted and rubbed in advance to wear out some processing and assembly accuracy errors, and some metal debris will be generated during this process.

Once metal debris are in the engine or gearbox, it is necessary to take these metal debris out by changing the engine oil and transmission oil. Therefore, the first maintenance of a new car is relatively more important, because the failure to deal with these metal debris will cause the wear and tear between the parts to intensify.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei predicted that the awkward feeling brought by this shift should not be the major fault of the gearbox, but the crazy increase and decrease gears during the race, which caused wear and metal debris to the components of the gearbox.

You should know that the standard of Renault's Formula is to change one track engine at two to three stops and change the gearbox once throughout the season.

Theoretically, the life of the transmission can complete all the seven European Cup events in Renault, and there is even a lot of margin.

But the problem is that compared with other drivers, Zhang Yifei has a more intense driving behavior, which squeezes the limit of this transmission. Moreover, in terms of service life, Zhang Yifei is far more than just four races, but also has to include the test run time.

Especially since there is no test run time limit in the first two stops, the use time of the gearbox is far beyond the official competition, which will increase the consumption of the gearbox's design life.

But even if that's the case, it's not enough to drive and scrap the gearbox. It should be just a bit of awkward caused by some metal debris. As long as these debris are deposited, there is basically no big impact, and you can change the gearbox oil again after the race.

In the first two laps of the test run, Zhang Yifei did not drive fiercely, but adopted a relatively peaceful approach to make the racing tires and oil reach the best working conditions.

This is basically the case with other drivers. After all, half an hour is enough, so there is no need to take risks and keep yourself in good condition.

The atmosphere in the repair station was also the most relaxing time since Zhang Yifei participated in the European Cup in Renault. There was no pressure on results. After all, Zhang Yifei has become an F1 driver. And they don’t believe that Zhang Yifei can be eliminated even if he runs in a qualifying race?

The only suspense is nothing more than whether Zhang Yifei can get the pole position. It doesn’t matter if he can get the best. After all, no driver can monopolize the pole position, and even if Senna and Schumacher come over to drive, they can’t do it.

But when he arrived at the fifth lap, Kossell saw the lap speed delivered by the event command center and began to feel something was wrong, so he asked Yamamoto Ukyo next to him: "Ukyo, what is the fastest lap speed when he tried to run before flying?"

"1 minute 42 seconds 625, the lap record in the race track was almost 0.3 seconds."

Hearing this answer, Cosell looked at the numbers on the circular screen again, which showed that Zhang Yifei's last lap took 1 minute 43 seconds 212.

This result cannot be said to be bad. Compared with the track record of 1 minute 42 seconds 997, there is only a very small gap.

Due to the limitations of equipment in this era, Kossell cannot know the lap times of other drivers in real time, but he believes that the current time is theoretically OK for Zhang Yifei to be in the top three, and he may even be the first.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei's lap speed during the test run was very stable. Except for the start of two laps, the others were extremely close to the track record, and even most laps broke the track record.
Chapter completed!