Blundell didn't argue with Gonzalez, and after two days of practice and qualifying, the two Brazilian Grand Prix commentators were clearly on opposite sides.

Even if Blundell is not a diehard fan of Zhang Yifei, but in order to respond to Gonzalez, he is now habitually standing on Zhang Yifei's position.

However, it is true that as Gonzalez said, the initial stage is really a big disadvantage for Zhang Yifei, so it is difficult for him to make a conclusion.

After the warm-up lap, all the cars returned to the grid area, and Zhang Yifei was on the right side of the track, directly in front of McLaren's Coulthard, who was second in qualifying.

This guy is currently considered to be the Big Three in the F1 paddock, second only to Schumacher and on par with Barrichello. In the overall standings, either he occupies second place or Barrichello occupies second place.

However, compared to Schumacher and Barrichello who are at the beginning of their prime, Coulthard is already at the end of his peak this season, which is considered the last glory.

After this season, a group of newcomers in the F1 paddock, such as Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen, and even the later Jenson Barton and Alonso, will emerge on the stage of F1 history.

This represents the end of an era in Formula 1 and the end of the glory of the 90s.

However, Zhang Yifei's eyes were locked on Barrichello in front of him, his qualifying result was third, and Barrichello was in front of pole sitter Schumacher, two red Ferraris, one in front of the other.

It's also a common sight in F1 paddocks these days, with Ferrari red always showing up in the front row.

The lights above the track began to light up, and Zhang Yifei took his eyes off Barrichello. Although aggressive on the track, he was far from losing his mind, and Cocel's tactical strategy was correct, and he was no match for Barrichello in the start.

Blindly trying to compete for speed, the final result is definitely that he is thrown behind, it is better to focus on Montoya in the back.

Although Williams Racing is not as strong as McLaren and Ferrari at this stage, it is not comparable to Prost Racing. Zhang Yifei was once forced to eat by Montoya, and this kind of scene must not be repeated at the Interlagos circuit.

At least before entering the No. 1 Seine bend, Zhang Yifei wanted to block Montoya to the driver and not give him the slightest chance.

Zhang Yifei also has full confidence in blocking Montoya, because it has been staged several times before, and the most exaggerated one pressed Montoya for fifteen laps!

Even if the Interlagos circuit is Montoya's semi-home track, Zhang Yifei doesn't think Montoya has any chance to surpass himself.

The five lights went off, and unlike the orderly start of the warm-up laps, this time it was clear that the drivers were starting much faster, and the roaring sound of the engine was much more irritable.

Zhang Yifei is also fighting for his honor this time, his attention is very concentrated, almost the moment the starting indicator goes out, he has already rushed out with one foot on the accelerator, and the starting response is definitely one of the best on the current F1 track.

Since the acceleration performance cannot be compared with the opponent, then the starting speed must not lag behind, otherwise there is no advantage, what to run with others?

The speed of Barrichello and Montoya is not slow, it may only be a thousand seconds away from Zhang Yifei, this kind of slight backwardness is not obvious in the starting stage, they can rely on the performance of the car, in the next straight line acceleration process to catch up.

But at this time, a strange thing happened, Zhang Yifei rushed out quickly, but the Coulthard of the McLaren team in front of him started very slowly, and it can even be said that it started slowly, which is about the same as the starting speed of ordinary people driving a manual transmission grocery cart.

This kind of starting speed, let alone in F1 drivers, even in low-end races, should not be a problem.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei did not take into account at all that the strength of Coulthard, a driver at the current Big Three level, would have problems at the start, and he almost hit the rear of the car in front of him when he stepped on the accelerator.

"The unexpected happened, and Coulthard, from McLaren, seemed to have a problem with the start and was obviously too slow. His starting speed directly blocked the flight of the Prost team behind the car, causing Fei to be forced to change lanes to overtake. ”

But at this time, the Williams driver Montoya, who was flying behind, took the opportunity to overtake from the left. We all know the rules of Formula 1, when the front wing of the car behind passes the rear wheel of the car in front, it is not allowed to change lanes, so Fei was forced to block behind the Coulthard car and was easily overtaken by Montoya. ”

And not only Montoya, but also the newcomer Heidfeld of the Sauber team behind also seized this opportunity and followed the Montoya driver to overtake. After being overtaken by two opponents in a row, Fei finally completed the lane change and blocked Ralf Schumacher of McLaren, who wanted to overtake him! ”

Blundell spoke at a very fast pace to explain to the audience what was happening on the track.

This accident was so unexpected that no one would have imagined that such a thing as a starting error would happen to David Coulthard. You must know that he is a veteran in F1, ranking in the top four of the standings in the past five years, and is known as a strong contender for the world championship.

But the accident happened to this one, Zhang Yifei was blocked at an inexplicable start, directly behind two places, and the ranking became sixth.

"What a situation! Can Coulthard still make such low-level mistakes? Does McLaren team control the race with Williams? ”

Inside the pits, Prost looked at the sudden scene on the track and smashed his fist directly on the table, feeling extremely angry in his heart.

In this race, Zhang Yifei withstood the pressure of the practice race and rose against the trend, so that the morale of all members of the Prost team reached a peak, waiting for Zhang Yifei to perform the miracle of Malaysia again and stand on the podium.

If it weren't for Ralph Schumacher's failure to overtake him, Prost really suspected that the Big Three had negotiated a game to control the race.

After all, among the top seven drivers, except for Zhang Yifei and Sauber's Heidenfeld, the other five are all members of the Big Three team. If Zhang Yifei is blocked, the person who overtakes him is Ralph Schumacher, not Heidefeld, then the front row is equivalent to being monopolized by the Big Three team.

The Interlagos circuit is narrow and difficult to overtake, and these three teams also have the advantage of car performance, all of them run to the front, and the drivers behind them also run a hammer!

"It shouldn't be, it looks like Coulthard's car has a breakdown, so there's a problem with the start."

"After all, the Williams team is second in one qualifying race and fifth in one qualifying race, and they have a big advantage in normal running. Now such a toss has become a third, an eighth, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Listening to Henry's persuasion, Prost took a few deep breaths to suppress his anger, in fact, what he said was also angry words, as a world-class driver, how could he not understand these truths.

It's just that Coulthard said that whether it was a mistake or a failure, this accident was too big a blow to the Prost team. Zhang Yifei was originally in the fourth position, but inexplicably fell to sixth.

What's more, it was surpassed by Montoya!

Although Zhang Yifei beat Montoya to rank fourth in the fastest lap of qualifying, the gap between the two was actually very small. Even the Prost strategy group believes that on the Interlagos circuit, Zhang Yifei has no advantage over Montoya.

You might be able to hold Montoya down when you're ahead, but now you're behind, and it's too hard to get back. The advantage of the Brazilian circuit for the drivers of the Americas is still a bit too big!

But no matter how angry he is, he can't change the facts on the track, Prost only hopes that Zhang Yifei can suppress Ralph Schumacher behind him, this guy is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it is very likely to surpass him during the acceleration of the long straight.

Zhang Yifei on the track, at this moment, is also like a dog in his heart!

At the beginning, his attention was actually more focused on Montoya in the back, after all, normal thinking would never have imagined that a top driver in the F1 paddock could have an unexpected situation when he took a step.

So it wasn't until he was about to rear-end that Zhang Yifei carried out an emergency lane change control. But at this time, the rear cars have already caught up, and there is no room for Zhang Yifei to change lanes at all, if Zhang Yifei did not forcibly "add stopper" and block in front of Schumacher Jr., it is estimated that he will have to go back 1 or 2 places.

Zhang Yifei vaguely remembers that in the 2001 season of the Brazilian Grand Prix, a similar situation seemed to have occurred. It's just that McLaren driver Mika Hakkinen, who was in third place at the time, couldn't start directly because of a car failure and stopped in the middle of the track, which also led to the safety car to lead the way.

Eventually, Mika Hakkinen returned to the pits and did not solve the problem of the car, ending in retirement.

But Mika Hakkinen has retired from the sport, with Kimi Raikkonen taking his place in McLaren.

As a result, I didn't expect the historical starting failure to happen, but the protagonist was Mika Hakkinen, who became his teammate David Coulthard.

Zhang Yifei couldn't help but doubt that the broken car that broke down in the fucking history changed hands to Coulthard, otherwise how could there be such a coincidence to let himself encounter this kind of thunder and witness history repeating itself.

It's just that everything has already happened, even if Zhang Yifei has a dog in his heart, he can only chase after him, and the game has just begun!