278 Not an opponent
Faced with Dickson's challenge, Zhang Yifei replied in a plain tone, without showing any desire to fight.
Because at this time, Zhang Yifei no longer regarded Dixon as his opponent.
This is not to say that he looks down on Dixon, but his future opponent level will be F1 drivers and one of the most powerful top drivers in the world!
Zhang Yifei's attitude of not taking it seriously made Dixon feel angry. For a driver who competes in the same field, ignoring it is the greatest humiliation!
"Then let's see you on the track!"
After leaving this sentence, Dixon turned around and left Zhang Yifei's repair station, and the angry expression on his face did not dissipate at all.
"Is this guy having a head problem?"
Ah Hu watched Dixon leave and couldn't help muttering, in his eyes, this was a completely inexplicable move.
Hearing Ah Hu's words, Zhang Yifei just smiled. In fact, he could understand Dixon's inner thoughts at this moment.
Every driver has his own pride and hopes to defeat his opponent by relying on his strength, rather than winning because of a racing failure.
However, Zhang Yifei's control was too amazing, which made Dixon unwilling to admit that he had such strength, so he came to confirm it.
As a result, Zhang Yifei did not take him seriously at all. This was the biggest blow to Dixon's self-esteem and pride. In the end, leaving in anger became an inevitable thing.
In fact, from the moment Dixon came to the door, he had already lost. A truly strong and confident driver would not come to confirm this problem!
At this moment, the maintenance station console received a gathering order from the track command center, and all drivers went to the track departure area to prepare to start today's main race.
"Start the departure and preparation!"
At this time, Cosell issued an order, and everyone at the maintenance station was busy. Ah Hu didn't think about Dixon anymore. He turned around and ran to the rear of Renault racing car, connecting the electronic ignition device with the racing ignition interface.
At the same time, Yamamoto Ukyo and Shige pushed the tire frame with tires and various pressure detection instruments to the track. This will be the final preparation before the start of the race.
Zhang Yifei got into Renault racing, nodded to Cosel, signaling that he was ready, and then started the racing car in an orderly manner, and drove out of the repair station with a clutch loose gear.
As soon as he opened the maintenance channel, Zhang Yifei stepped down to speed up with a kick. He wanted to upgrade the gears and experience the characteristics of the newly replaced transmission. However, due to the speed limit of the maintenance channel of 80km/h, the gears can only be increased from first gear to second gear at most.
Although it can only increase one gear, the transmission responds very quickly, and it is not as good as the previous gear shifting problem caused by synchronizer failure.
And this time, Zhang Yifei's upshift speed was specially upgraded according to his habits on the track, and he did not feel any special lag or other differences in the transmission. It seems that Kossell and his team matched their driving habits very accurately in gear ratio training.
Entering the departure area from the maintenance channel, all drivers parked in their parking spaces in sequence according to the previous qualifying order. Zhang Yifei ranked fifth in the qualifying competition, so he naturally parked in the No. 5 parking space.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei is really not used to parked in the fifth parking space. Because this is the lowest ranking since Zhang Yifei participated in the Renault event, even though it was his previous qualifying debut at Monza Track, Zhang Yifei won fourth place.
However, unlike the fourth-ranked unknown at that time, when Zhang Yifei's No. 13 race car came out, there were a lot of cheers and applause in the audience.
Originally, Zhang Yifei had many supporters in the qualifying competition, and his amazing control in the last game made more people impressed by his strength and driving skills. Even with many doubts, the number of fans is still rising.
It was just that there were still some boos and overturning colors among the cheers.
There are supporters and opponents. Some people do not believe that Zhang Yifei has such strength at all. Even if some teams are spoken after the race, they think that this is Zhang Yifei acting with his team to hype him.
This also includes some folk racing experts and even professional drivers. Because they understand Zhang Yifei's difficulty in handling, they even disbelief that this young Chinese driver can do it.
"Don't cheer too early, you will know the truth later."
"The driver is very good at flying, but using this hype method is too despicable."
"Yes, I couldn't imagine how Yifei's resume achieved such amazing control."
"If you want me to agree with his strength, unless the Chinese boy won the branch championship today!"
Many sarcastic voices appear, most of which have a sour feeling of eating lemons, and none of the people who say these words are very confident.
After all, Zhang Yifei has completed a hat trick for two consecutive stops. Even if he fails to win the Silverstone sub-station championship, it is enough to prove his strength!
So in the face of such remarks, Zhang Yifei's supporters naturally responded without being outdone.
"The truth is that Fei is far ahead at the moment, and no one is his opponent!"
"I won the sub-station championship in the first three competitions. Do Zhang Yifei's strength still need to be proved?"
"There is only one reason why Fei can do these operations. He is a genius driver."
"Yes, genius is not the patent of European drivers. Fei proves that he is the real genius driver!"
If Zhang Yifei heard the remarks of some fanatical supporters, he would probably blush himself.
To be honest, except for the genius driver who said that he was blowing water in front of his own people, he was really embarrassed to say it in front of outsiders.
When the second prompt ringtone rang, Kossel and Ah Hu left the track and the official competition will begin immediately.
When leaving the track, Kossel did not have any special expressions, and he was as cool as ever. He could not see the gearbox failure at all, and it would have any impact on him, and he didn't even give him a word of advice.
Kossel's "indifferent" attitude made Zhang Yifei feel very comfortable. This is the real professional mentality. Transmission failure is already a thing of the past. If you change it, it means that this page is turned over. There is no need to worry about anything else.
While waiting for the bead warming command, Suarez, who ranked fourth, looked back at Zhang Yifei.
Suarez is Zhang Yifei's old opponent. He knows that the only Chinese boy has not gotten the pole position to start was during the main competition of Monza.
But it was also at that stop that Zhang Yifei became famous and became the "public enemy of the track".
Because he relied on his starting advantage, he surpassed the popular seed player at the time and European karting champion Kubica at Turn 1 of Monza Track, showing his strong strength.
Now that I am in front of Zhang Yifei, will I repeat the mistakes of Kubica?
Just as Suarez was thinking about this problem, the indicator light for the warm bead was on, and all the drivers began to start one after another, following the pole driver Dixon.
Zhang Yifei also started at his own pace, but unexpectedly, Suarez's movements were slower. He kicked the accelerator and almost overwhelmed the car in front of the beads.
Is this a tactic against me?
Faced with this situation, Zhang Yifei was wondering, because Fia stipulated that warm beads were not allowed to overtake. If he accidentally surpassed and did not let the car in front of him immediately, he would be punished with a 30-second penalty.
If he was fined 30 seconds, the championship would definitely be hopeless. Since he was "sieged" in the qualifying matches before, Zhang Yifei really had to be guarded.
But this time, Zhang Yifei was overthinking. Suarez started slowly, purely because he was distracted and distracted. When he realized that, he still warmed the tires at the normal pace, and there was no intention of letting Zhang Yifei overtake.
Taking advantage of the time of warming the bead, Zhang Yifei began to add and subtract gears frantically and test the gear ratio of the new gearbox. As Kossell said before, the gear ratio is indeed somewhat changed, especially in high gears, the optimal speed matching is different from the previous one.
For ten thousand rotation engines, five hundred rotations are just a very weak difference, but for Formula racing, any 1 millisecond power response gap may accumulate to the time that determines the direction of the championship.
Therefore, Zhang Yifei must change his driving habits and adapt to the gearbox's new gear ratio adjustment as soon as possible. This is a challenge for new Formula drivers, but it is nothing to Zhang Yifei. He has absolute confidence that he can control these changes.
The end of the bead warming ended, and the main race began. Suarez felt inexplicably nervous at this time. The little accident just now almost passed by Zhang Yifei, which made him feel like he would repeat the mistakes of Kubica.
At the same time, Suarez also understands that as a professional driver, you must never be afraid of your opponent on the track. No matter how strong the opponent is, you must be full of confidence in yourself, otherwise you will be destined to lose before the competition begins.
So Suarez took a deep breath, stabilized his fluctuating mentality, focused all his attention on the track indicator light, and at least the starting time was surpassed, he would not allow it to happen!
The indicator lights on the track began to light up, and many people's heartbeats were leaping "thump, plop" with the lights.
The moment all the lights went out, the engine sounds on the track began to roar, and the drivers began to rush the accelerator and speed up, not wanting to be surpassed by others at the beginning.
The same is true for Suarez. He loosened the gear and clutch to replenish oil, his movements were very smooth and there was no mistake at all.
Chapter completed!