284 Don't underestimate me
The race continued. When it came to lap 19, Zhang Yifei finally caught up with Dickson and ate the wake of his car. He no longer looked at the taillights from afar.
"Yifeijun, he's really running beautifully!"
Yamamoto Ukyo said this in a trembling tone. After all, under this gap, Zhang Yifei could still get the tailshot in the face of Dixon's super-level performance, and he could only describe it as super-god performance.
But the expression on Cosell's face was very serious, and there was no doubt that Zhang Yifei ran very well.
However, there are only three laps left in the game. Whether it is Cosell or Zhang Yifei himself, there is only one goal, that is, the championship.
Being able to catch up with Dixon is already considered Zhang Yifei's super-god performance, and Dixon's strength is not weak. It is very difficult to surpass him in the last three laps.
To be honest, Kossel had no confidence at this moment, whether Zhang Yifei could surpass Dickson in these last three laps.
On the track, Dixon saw Zhang Yifei's racing car in the rearview mirror and had already bitten himself. The 13 numbers on the front of the car were clearly visible.
At this moment, Dixon felt that Zhang Yifei was simply the speed of death, completely defeating his psychological expectations. He had never thought that under his lap speed, Zhang Yifei tied the lead!
It can be said that at this moment, Dixon was already completely confident in his heart, and he did not have the idea of not wanting to admit that Zhang Yifei was strong.
But this does not mean that Dixon is willing to surrender and admits defeat. He still has the lead and has the courage to think it will be the champion.
Dickson and Zhang Yifei had a final showdown before, ending with Zhang Yifei throwing away Dickson in the final stage.
Since Zhang Yifei was able to get rid of himself at the beginning, why can't I, Dixon, get rid of Zhang Yifei in the final stage today?
It was precisely with this idea and mentality that Dixon chose to defend strongly and did not give Zhang Yifei any chance to overtake. He was constantly looking for opportunities, intending to completely get rid of Zhang Yifei with an extreme turnover method, so that this Chinese boy could also taste the taste of being dumped by someone!
Facing Dixon's defense, Zhang Yifei also launched a crazily attack, constantly changing lanes from left to right to find opportunities.
Because he also knew in his heart that there was not much time left for the remaining game. If he could not surpass Dickson in this last time, his previous efforts would be in vain.
After all, 0.1 second behind Dixon is no different from 1 second behind him. They just get second place.
And once Dixon defeats himself, he will be more confident, and then there will be a situation of one-stop action on the track. The scene of defending the championship of the branch will no longer be Zhang Yifei's exclusive!
This is like Schumacher's five consecutive championships. This is really within five years, and there is no F1 driver. Can he be called Schumacher's opponent?
The answer is actually no. The strength gap between f1 drivers is not so big, so it is completely out of the same level.
The more deep reasons here are probably the absolute confidence and momentum brought by the successive championships!
In fact, Zhang Yifei also has this kind of aura. Not only himself, but many of the audience and fans on the track have no doubts that Zhang Yifei can defeat all opponents. Even if he is far behind Dixon, many people still believe that Zhang Yifei can catch up. This is the momentum and confidence of the king.
It was with this momentum of winning streak that Zhang Yifei was not angry or panicked when he was 2 seconds behind. He always believed that he could catch up and defeat Dickson!
This is actually the case now. Zhang Yifei is full of offensive desire and plans to "kill Dixon on the horse". However, Dixon also fought at this time, and he was very tough to stop Zhang Yifei from overtaking, and even risked the risk of a crash.
Dixon is very tough and he is not afraid of a car crash. But for Zhang Yifei, the damage to the car crash is too great, and he can't accept the result of zero points.
Zero points mean that his ambition to lock in the driver's championship in advance was completely broken. If he wanted to get this title, he had to run honestly in the next few events.
Zhang Yifei is not a conservative person. With a higher stage, he doesn't want to continue to "peck at each other" on the Renault track. So he launched a more fierce attack. As long as there is a slight chance to overtake, Zhang Yifei will kick the accelerator.
In this way, Zhang Yifei clenched Dixon to the 20th lap, with less than two laps left before the end of the game.
His close follow-up attack, which is a comprehensive range, actually put a lot of pressure on Dixon. Basically, there is no route to turn around, and he defends purely for the sake of defense.
You should know that Dixon's initial idea was to use his own operations, just like Zhang Yifei, who used a shocking turn to throw his opponent behind him, and showed his absolute strength to win the championship title in the sub-station.
But soon Dixon realized that his thoughts were unrealistic, because Zhang Yifei was so fast that he wanted to get rid of him. Now even the defense is extremely difficult.
At this moment, Dixon was a little impressed by Zhang Yifei's defense at the beginning. He really didn't know how this Chinese boy could do it without any leakage.
Another lap passed, and the number of laps of the competition reached the 21st. The last lap left at the end of the competition, and the black and white grid flags at the end of the competition would appear on the track at any time.
"What should I do? I'm almost out of time. Can Brother Fei pass by?"
In the repair station, Ah Hu was so anxious. When he saw Zhang Yifei catching up, he was almost like winning the championship. Unexpectedly, Dixon's defense was so firm that Zhang Yifei still couldn't surpass him after two laps.
Hearing Ah Hu's words, Yamamoto Ukyo couldn't help but feel anxious and said to Cosel: "Teacher, if you have any good strategies, please issue instructions to Yifeijun at this time. The game is about to end."
Yamamoto Ukyo puts his hope on Cosell. His mentor is a member of the McLaren Championship team. He must have seen this scene countless times. He must have a good way and strategy.
But Yamamoto Ukyo was disappointed. After hearing this, Cosel shook his head and replied: "Fei has already run out of his own speed, and the previous detour route is impeccable. The rest are some extreme ways with a success rate of no more than 50%. So whether he can surpass Dixon can only depend on himself."
What Cosell said is very realistic, that is, Zhang Yifei has reached his limit. You should know that 0.5 seconds ahead of the track record is not an ordinary number. In this case, what other instructions can be issued to improve Zhang Yifei?
The track command is just a bystander attitude to discover some details that drivers themselves ignore.
If the driver does not have any major details, no track command will work. After all, Cosell is not a god. Just a few words can make Zhang Yifei faster and easily surpass Dickson.
Even if there is a way to surpass Dixon, Cosell doesn't plan to use it, because the success rate is too low. At least the second place has points. If you break out of the track, Zhang Yifei has no hope of locking the championship in advance. He doesn't have so much time to participate in Formula Elementary Racing!
So now no one can help Zhang Yifei win the championship, he has to rely on himself!
Indeed, at this time, Zhang Yifei didn't want to rely on Kossel to issue any instructions to make himself surpass Dickson to win the championship.
He just ran at his own pace and method, and at the same time, through constant offensive testing, he made Dixon panic to see if he could find his defensive loopholes.
After the first lap, Dixon had no loopholes, or he had loopholes, but Zhang Yifei didn't find it. After all, in this kind of tense duel, it would be good to be able to accurately control his own racing, and some details are not so easy to find.
But on the second lap, Zhang Yifei finally discovered a problem with Dixon, that is, when crossing the woodote curve of the track, Dixon would always subconsciously slow down, and even almost caused Zhang Yifei to rear-end.
This woodote curve is a story-leading curve in Silverstone. As early as 1973, Judy Schachert slipped because it was too muddy, causing eight racing cars to collide in a series.
It is precisely because of this accident that Silverstone Circuit made major changes to the woodote corner and added a slowing corner to prevent the racing car from slipping at high speed again.
But this still did not completely change the woodote curve's tendency to slip. After entering the 1990s, the Silverstone Track was renovated again in the four years of 91, 94, 96, and 97 respectively.
It can be said that the most changing curve on the track is this woodote curve.
Zhang Yifei didn't know if it was because Dixon knew the history of this curve and was afraid of rushing out of the track, so he subconsciously slowed down and braked, or why he had other reasons.
Anyway, this behavior made Zhang Yifei see hope of overtaking. Others are afraid of skidding and rushing out, but in this case, Zhang Yifei is fearless. If he wants to win the championship, it is impossible to take any risks.
So when the 21 lap came to the woodote corner, Dixon subconsciously slowed down to avoid slipping too fast.
However, Zhang Yifei did not slow down, but instead stepped on the accelerator to accelerate, changed lanes and stood side by side with Dixon, and entered the woodote corner faster, and took the action of seizing Dixon's turn.
Faced with Zhang Yifei's overtaking, Dixon's reaction was faster than Kubica. He immediately stepped on the accelerator and took advantage of Zhang Yifei's overtake and stuck the front of the car in the direction where Zhang Yifei was about to change lanes, without giving him any chance to seize the detour.
However, this time Dixon was wrong. Zhang Yifei did not intend to seize his detour route at all, but rushed into the deceleration corner and then rode the shoulder tangent to cross the woodote corner.
The entire operation and lane change process was completed in one go. Before Dixon could react to what was going on, Zhang Yifei had already completed the overtaking.
Even the audience and commentators on the track did not expect that Zhang Yifei would be so radical in the woodote corner and overtaking so decisively and quickly.
Chapter completed!