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415 The Amazing Gap (Chapter 2)

Listening to Mohada's remarks, the old fox Brendel naturally understood what the other party wanted to express, but after experiencing the Australian station, his impression of Zhang Yifei vaguely appeared.

So this time, I didn’t choose to dig a hole and arch fire, but helped Zhang Yifei defend himself: “Accidents on the track are very common, and Alex’s injury was just an accident.”

"Of course, we also hope that the drivers can stay calm in the race and prevent similar accidents from happening again. I believe that both Fly and Ralph Schumacher should be able to control their emotions well."

The easing meaning in Brendel's words was obvious, and Mohada naturally heard it.

The other party is an old F1 commentator, and his qualifications and status are there. Even if Mohada doesn't agree with it, he wants to point the finger at Zhang Yifei, so he can't say anything else.

I could only nod my head reluctantly and echoed Brendel's words, which was to turn this page.

On the track, after surpassing Ralph Schumacher, Zhang Yifei also adjusted his emotions in time.

Anger can stimulate your potential at critical moments, but you must never let your anger completely control your brain. Calm judgment and analysis are the state you need to maintain during the game.

After passing like Schumacher's car blocking, the gap between Zhang Yifei and Montoya was almost widened to about two seconds.

Moreover, this gap is still expanding, because Montoya's super soft tires are better than hard tires in terms of speed and grip. Now without Zhang Yifei's pressure car slowdown, Montoya can fully utilize his tire advantages.

Another point is that Montoya was pressed on the track for several laps, and actually felt anger in her heart. Now there was finally no such an annoying blue Prost car ahead. Montoya had a release and explosion, which was also one of the factors that made the distance of the car wide.

Looking at the Williams racing car that was getting farther and farther away, Zhang Yifei was not very anxious. In fact, these are reasonable things. If Montoya relied on super soft tires and Williams racing car with superior performance, the speed would not be as fast as himself.

That can only prove one thing, it is Montoya!

Being able to hold Montoya tightly with a hard tire has met Zhang Yifei's psychological expectations. Next, what Zhang Yifei has to do is to protect the tire, try to drag the tire change time to 40 laps, and use a stop tactic to shorten the entry time to get back to his disadvantage of starting from the pit area.

When the fifth lap of the race came, Renault's Fischela chose to withdraw due to a failure in the car's oil pressure. She became the fourth driver to withdraw due to a failure in the Australian Grand Prix.

Listening to the track message coming from the headphones, Zhang Yifei was a little shocked. He thought that there were enough cars at the last stop. However, he didn't expect that the failure rate of the fifth lap of this stop had exceeded the same period of the previous stop.

It seems that it is not just the Peugeot engine's compression resistance, but the engines of other teams are not performing much better in the face of the high loads of the two races. I wonder if the remaining schedule of the next fifty laps and the completion rate of the Malaysian stop will be higher than 60% of the opening match?

Of course, the issue of withdrawal rate is not something that Zhang Yifei needs to consider at present. On the contrary, the more drivers withdraw, the greater the profits Zhang Yifei will make. It is like with Feschela's withdrawal, Zhang Yifei came to the sixteenth position.

And as Zhang Yifei's speed accelerates, he continues to shorten the distance between him and the current 15th-ranked driver Marquis, Minardi driver.

The driver Marquis's strength can only be described as a dish comparison, and he really cannot reach the passing line of the F1 Plateau. But in fact, Marquis' qualifications in the F1 Plateau are earlier than most people imagine. He joined the Minardi team in 1996 and participated in his first F1 Grand Prix.

However, in the 1996 season, Marquis ran two games in total and was replaced by other drivers, becoming the test driver of Minardi team.

In the 1997 season of the following year, Marquis was once again officially a driver in Minardi. As a result, after running ten games, he was replaced again because his grades were so poor.

The magical thing is coming. Marquis has participated in two seasons. The best qualifying result is 14th place and the best main competition is 17th place. He will be trapped in almost every game.

But at this level, Minardi did not fire him, and kept him until the 2001 season in history. Marquis participated in the third time as an official driver.

Marquis's career proves one thing, that is, having money (sponsorship) is really something you can do whatever you want!

So it’s not that Zhang Yifei looks down on Marquis, but that this driver really doesn’t have the strength to gain a foothold on the F1 track, so it’s easy to surpass him.

But when Zhang Yifei caught up with Marquis and was about to overtake, he found that Marquis had actually changed lanes hard and started to "draw dragons" and was about to push himself.

You should know that Marquis has been used to being trapped on the track. When this driver overtakes, he rarely makes fierce resistance. If you like to surpass, you can surpass him. Anyway, I drive Buddhistly on the track.

So Zhang Yifei was quite surprised when he saw Marquis's pressure on the car. But soon he realized that this was definitely the order of the Minardi team. Not only did he have a holiday with Madu, the son of Minardi founder, but he also "bumped" their third driver into the hospital. Liang Zi was considered a matter of being accused, and the other party would definitely not let him go easily.

However, there is an old Chinese saying that if you draw a tiger, you won’t be a dog. It’s not that simple to “draw a dragon” on the track. Zhang Yifei’s ability to make a snake skin is so prosperous that he forced Montoya to over three laps, which does not mean that Marquis can do this.

After several lane changes, Zhang Yifei seized the opportunity on the corner, and entered the inner lane and seized the center point of the bend, easily surpassing Marquis, and the ranking reached 15.

In less than ten laps, Zhang Yifei withdrew from the race through overtaking and other drivers, and surpassed 6 drivers in a row to the 15th place from the lowest 21st place. It can be said that the ranking has climbed very quickly.

Moreover, Zhang Yifei's various car-pressing and overtaking actions were also very smooth and beautiful, and it seemed that the gap with the first echelon was constantly narrowing. But in fact, Zhang Yifei not only did not shorten the gap with the first echelon, but also grew more and more.

Schumacher, the current pole position, has been nearly 40 seconds behind Zhang Yifei. On average, it is more than 3 seconds faster than Zhang Yifei in each lap. This gap is far beyond the previous Australian Grand Prix.

If this trend continues, Zhang Yifei will be quickly slapped by Schumacher. Moreover, there may be more than Schumacher's drivers. Barrichello, who ranks second, Kurthard, who is third at the moment, and even the fourth blue-collar driver Frenzen, have the chance to complete the slapped against Zhang Yifei.

The main reason for all this is that Zhang Yifei has been fighting on the track for too long. While he is pushing Montoya by snakeskin, he has actually slowed down his speed invisibly.

He also encountered two car blocking times, which was more "hateful" than other drivers. The combination of various factors led to a widening gap.

If it were an ordinary new driver, he would probably be full of despair at this time. There was such a big gap in less than 10 laps, and he was thrown away by a driver of Schumacher. How should he chase after the next few dozen laps?

To be honest, Zhang Yifei himself didn't know the answer, but he didn't have the idea of ​​giving up at all. He couldn't catch up with Schumacher, and he could catch up with other drivers in front. The gap was big, but there was still a long schedule behind.

As a professional driver, the competition that goes all out is one of the basic professional spirit. Zhang Yifei will never give up until the last moment!

With this belief, Zhang Yifei began to steadily and increase his lap speed bit by bit. Moreover, the advantages of hard tires have become more and more obvious as time goes by. By the time of more than ten laps, many drivers who started super soft tires and soft tires have entered the station to change tires one after another. : :

Taking advantage of their entry, Zhang Yifei surpassed Renault's Jason Patton, Jaguars's Bourty, and world champion Villeneuve who slid out of the track, and went straight to the 12th position. He has surpassed 9 drivers in a row!

Now front of Zhang Yifei is from Sauber Racing Hydefield, the second driver of Prost Racing, who had played several fights with Alessi last season.

Seriously speaking, Zhang Yifei, the official driver, was snatched from Hydefield. However, compared to the average position grabbing, Hydefield does not resent Zhang Yifei. Anyway, he is planning to leave, and whether Zhang Yifei snatches or not has nothing to do with him.

When Zhang Yifei first came to Prost, he met Hydefield. However, the first meeting was also the last time he met with Prost. Since then, Hydefield has directly announced his transfer to Sauber and left the Prost team that he hates very much.

In addition to his mess of the rookie season, Heidfield's performance in history was actually very good with Sauber, even surpassing the super rookie Kimi Raikkonen at the time.

It was just with the help of both Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen that Kimi jumped from a small team like Sauber to the McLaren team of the Big Three. Relying on stronger performance cars and teams with stronger resources, he began his own road to fame.

Hydefield did not have this kind of "nepotism" and completely became a blue-collar driver of Sauber Racing. He ran 185 events in his career and won the runner-up in the sub-station 8 times, but never reached the highest podium in the sub-station once.

So Hydefield had a F1 record, that is, among the drivers who have not won the final championship, he is the driver with the most participation, the most podiums and the most points.

Hydefield's career is not the worst, but from Zhang Yifei's perspective, it is undoubtedly a tragedy. He has never tasted the taste of a champion in his eleven years of career. This regret is really indescribable.

Of course, this is all about ten years later. Now Heidfield is in full swing and wants to show off his strength in the Sauber Racing.
Chapter completed!
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