732 Reclaiming Position (5K)
Zhang Yifei's abandonment of eating wake and his unusual lane change naturally attracted the attention of Helio and Schumacher.
According to Zhang Yifei's strength and style, he will not do some meaningless things, or it is rare to see him do meaningless actions in such a fierce competition.
So when he changes lanes now, he must want to do something now, and what he can do in this situation is naturally only overtaking.
Chinese boy, are you asking me for help?
A smug smile appeared on Helio's face at this moment, and he regarded Zhang Yifei's action as an act of bowing his head to himself.
F1 paddock flamboyant drivers fly, you have today!
Although Helio frantically mocked Zhang Yifei's behavior of bowing his head for help, he still planned to block Schumacher's cornering route at Turn 13 and let Zhang Yifei overtake the front row.
After all, joining forces is not for Zhang Yifei, but for himself, and Helio is more willing to deal with the Chinese than against Schumacher.
Helio can understand the idea behind Zhang Yifei's abnormal movements, and how can he hide it from a driver of Schumacher's level. And then again, all kinds of tricks on the track, Schumacher has played, and he has played even more unscrupulously.
It's just that now that his fame and status have gone up, Schumacher disdains to continue to "peck at each other" with children. But to overtake so visibly is impossible in front of me Schumacher!
All three drivers were ready, and when they came to Turn 13, Helio braked directly and reduced his speed to 60 km/h in first gear, which was much slower than normal cornering speed.
And he was dead in front of Schumacher, pushing down the other party's speed, and the two of them turned the corner at a snail-like speed. When he saw this scene, Zhang Yifei knew that Helio understood his thoughts, and this was to create an opportunity for himself.
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Yifei stepped on the accelerator and overtook Schumacher directly at Turn 13. At this speed of 60km/h, there is no need to play any limit wiring, and it is completely easy to reach the overtaking speed, just to see if there is room for overtaking.
Obviously, this space is very rare, 5 meters wide on the general road, can barely be regarded as a two-lane road, and the width of the general civilian car, 100,000 is about 1.8 meters.
The width of an F1 car is not wide, but rather narrow. But the problem is that in the turn, the car just leans over, not as easily as the car on the road.
What's more, F1 corners need to be routed, and if it is the same hard turning as driving a grocery cart, it may not even reach a speed of 60km/h. So even if there is Helio's block, under Schumacher's defense, Zhang Yifei's chance to overtake is a moment of lightning!
Zhang Yifei rubbed the edge of the racing car to the limit at this time, and the distance from the boundary wall of the corner, when he was closest, the distance was zero!
That's right, it's zero, because Zhang Yifei's front nose has even rubbed against the track separation wall. No driver can overtake on a 5-metre wide road on a rainy track and still maintain millimeter control of the car.
Zhang Yifei can't either, what he can guarantee now is that the car's aerodynamic kit can touch the track wall, or even the opponent's car. But you must not crash the pneumatic kit, so you lose the meaning of overtaking, and you have to go back to the pit to replace the parts.
In a simpler way, Zhang Yifei can scratch, the paint damage is no problem, and the parts cannot be smashed to affect the function.
In the face of Zhang Yifei's extreme cut, Schumacher's reaction was also extremely fast, and he changed lanes directly in the direction of Zhang Yifei, ready to block in front of him and not give any chance to overtake.
But at this time, Zhang Yifei hit the steering wheel violently, and the car cut directly to the other side in a diagonal way. Just when Schumacher was about to follow the lane change to block the car, Helio appeared on the road where Schumacher changed lanes.
With this kind of "tacit understanding" cooperation, Zhang Yifei completed the overtaking of Schumacher in an unimaginable way at Turn 13!
"Beautiful! The Grim Reaper at Turn 13 is coming! ”
"It is worthy of the death of the track, and Turn 13 is Zhang Yifei's strongest form!"
"Overtaking Schumacher again, who will dare to underestimate the driver flying in the future?"
"Seeing us, this is our ability to fly, one day he will become a world champion and become a god!"
Crazy cheers and applause rang out from the audience, and Zhang Yifei's fans were boiling.
The effect of overtaking anyone is not as amazing as overtaking Schumacher, and in the opening game of the new season, Zhang Yifei once again proved himself from the final track shortboard.
He's not the short-lived rider, the madness of the rookie season, he continues into the new season, the invincible Death Fly of the 13th, he's coming!
"It turns out that Chinese drivers can be so good?"
"I can't imagine that Zhang Yifei can get pole position and overtake Schumacher."
"So, are we underestimating the Chinese drivers?"
Many Singaporean viewers in the audience who looked at Zhang Yifei with a sense of superiority were shocked by his performance and strength at the moment.
They have a stereotyped mindset that only white drivers can play in cars, and even the Japanese have been playing for decades without making much splash in motor racing, especially the most cutting-edge formula cars.
I didn't expect that the Chinese driver, who I always looked down on and thought was a native hat, could really control the situation in the F1 paddock, and even completed the overtaking of Schumacher, which was something I couldn't think of before.
Does this mean that Chinese drivers are really about to rise?
However, the cheers in the stands were not one-sided, and the trend of Zhang Yifei and Helio joining forces was too obvious, especially in the last block, which was just like Helio deliberately letting Zhang Yifei overtake.
This kind of move ignited the anger of many Ferrari and Schumacher fans on the track!
"FUCK YOU Helio, you actually chose to join forces with the Chinese Yankees, you forgot the humiliation on the Indy track?"
"Time Punishment! This kind of behavior is definitely going to be punished, and Helio and Zhang Yifei are controlling the game! ”
"Two unsportsmanlike people, you don't deserve to be called drivers."
"Hurry up and apply for arbitration and let these two scumbags get off the track!"
A lot of Ferrari or Schumacher fans can accept their idol being overtaken, but they absolutely can't accept being controlled by two newcomers to the track in such a despicable way.
In their eyes, this is an insult to the spirit of racing and a desecration of the driver's identity!
It's hard to accept for these pure fans, but for F1 teams, they've seen too many unscrupulous things to do in order to win. What is this kind of team-up, it is just a small episode on the road to victory.
"I can't believe that Helio and Zhang Yifei can cooperate so tacitly, even like teammates in a team."
The chairman of the McLaren team, looking at the scene that had just happened on the track, showed a hint of surprise and envy in his tone.
Indeed, Zhang Yifei and Helio just now, the whole cooperation was like a cloud of peers, and even Schumacher was shaken over. And more importantly, these two people are not teammates, but enemies!
In the absence of communication at all, it is possible to do this purely by virtue of the tacit understanding on the track and the understanding of the situation. If any team can bring these two men under their roster, it could dominate the entire F1 paddock.
"Both of them are undisputed geniuses."
The designer next to him, Nevey, nodded and expressed his agreement, the opening match of these two young people was really eye-catching. In a sense, it could break the pattern of future F1.
"Yes, they're all talented drivers, but there are countless geniuses in this world, but there's only one champion."
Dennis uttered the words silently, then looked at the broadcast screen of his team's drivers.
At the moment, the two McLaren drivers are struggling to "struggle", Coulthard's form is as low as ever, Kimi Raikkonen is a little better, and he is in eighth place on the track, but in front of him, it is Alonso of Prost Racing.
Kimi, the super newcomer who once created the "triple jump" with a lot of attention, can't even last year's Minardi team, the eliminated rookie driver Alonso?
Thinking of this, Dennis felt a little heartache, there are too many talented driver titles in the F1 paddock, but there is always only one champion. Now it seems that the closest to this title is the Chinese kid Fei, or the American kid Helio.
But at this moment, the situation on the track changed, interrupting Dennis's reverie.
Because Zhang Yifei overtook Schumacher in the corner, he did not stop his overtaking, and came directly to the position side by side with Helio, and the two of them were on the long straight after Turn 13, frantically competing for track acceleration ability!
What the hell just happened?
The time went back to three seconds ago, when Zhang Yifei overtook Schumacher at Turn 13, it was not a complete overtaking success to be precise, because he did not completely seize the front row of Schumacher, the two of them were cornering at the same time, and at most Zhang Yifei had an advantage in the time of exiting the corner.
So after exiting the corner, Zhang Yifei faced a very embarrassing situation, that is, the three cars were too close to each other, and he did not insert himself into the middle of Helio and Schumacher.
So at this time, a triangular layout was revealed, and Schumacher stubbornly guarded his own line, and bit the rear of Helio's car, not giving Zhang Yifei a chance to "plug".
If he can carry it to the next corner, Schumacher will be able to rely on the advantage of the line to turn defeat into victory and overtake again.
It can only be said that it is worthy of Schumacher, in the face of such a joint attack, he has not been completely defeated, and he still retains the hope of turning the tables.
If it is other drivers, it is estimated that they will be a little panicked in the face of such a situation, and try their best to "plug" in front of Schumacher, otherwise when the long straight is finished, the overtaking advantage that they have finally obtained may fall short!
But for Zhang Yifei, he didn't panic at all! Because from beginning to end, he didn't just want to overtake Schumacher, he also wanted to overtake Helio!
So Zhang Yifei didn't want to "plug" in front of Schumacher at all, and after coming out of the corner, he directly kicked the floor oil to accelerate, and rushed towards Helio in front of him.
And because of Helio's down-speed car Schumacher, the speed of both of them out of the corner is slower than Zhang Yifei, who overtook in the corner. So at this critical point in time, Zhang Yifei occupies the advantage of going out of the corner, and he has the opportunity to complete the miracle of overtaking two cars in a row!
When I saw Zhang Yifei in the rearview mirror that he didn't change lanes, Helio already felt that something was wrong with the situation, did this Chinese guy even want to overtake?
And the next acceleration of Zhang Yifei confirmed Helio's idea. That's right, the Chinese kid's ambition is bigger than everyone thinks, he doesn't just want to overtake Schumacher, but his own head pole position!
SHIT! Don't try to overtake me!
Helio's anger came up at this time, he was originally the kind of arrogant character who had no one in his eyes. Seeing that Zhang Yifei didn't have the slightest idea of "gratitude" with his help, but wanted to kill himself, which made Helio feel an extreme provocation.
If Helio has a bit of Chinese culture, then he will definitely say that this is the real-life version of the story of the farmer and the snake!
However, just as Helio was about to change lanes and change from blocking Schumacher to blocking Zhang Yifei, he suddenly found that his rear wheel position had an extra fiery red front nose.
That's right! At this time, Schumacher blocked the space for Helio to change lanes, and Zhang Yifei, who was overtaking just now, also very tacitly tried to pull to the side, and gave Schumacher this lane, which relied on the wake of the racing car and could have a "slingshot effect".
Zhang Yifei, who had teamed up with Helio to kill Schumacher before, completed his alliance with Schumacher after the corner, and was ready to take out the first car Helio!
At this moment, Schumacher on the Ferrari car, the expression on his face was extremely complicated, and he was not angered and unwilling to be joined together.
Or to be more precise, he had it before the corner, but after the corner, after seeing that Zhang Yifei did not change lanes and "add stopper", he was gone. Because at this moment, he had already understood Zhang Yifei's inner thoughts, and at the same time, he was shocked by the meticulous ambition and plan of this Chinese kid.
And when he found that Zhang Yifei not only did not change the line, but also tried to pull to the side, he instantly understood Zhang Yifei's next thought, wanting to let himself block the car Helio and create an opportunity for him to overtake!
At this moment, Schumacher had a feeling that the back waves of the Yangtze River were pushing the front waves, and everyone thought that Helio and Zhang Yifei were calculating themselves, but they didn't expect that even Helio was calculating.
Do you cooperate, or don't you cooperate?
The choice crossed Schumacher's mind, but he made it in a flash.
In addition to Zhang Yifei giving up the overtaking space of the "catapult effect" and giving himself the opportunity to overtake Helio. It's just that he was pitted by the American kid in front of him, Schumacher was unhappy in his heart, he was overtaken, you Helio don't think about it, sit firmly in the Diaoyutai position of the head car!
At the same time, such an idea flashed in Schumacher's mind, that is, is his decision now also in Zhang Yifei's calculations?
Give yourself a chance to overtake as a benefit to achieve assistance to him, if so, then this Chinese newcomer's calculation and scheming are really terrifying!
Just when Schumacher blocked Helio's lane change to block the car, Zhang Yifei relied on a faster cornering speed and quickly achieved a side by side with Helio.
If you find yourself in the way of a car with no hope, what you can do now is to compete to see who can get to the next corner faster. Therefore, Helio did not hesitate at all, and accelerated at full throttle to upshift wildly, and competed with Zhang Yifei for the acceleration ability of this long straight.
If it had been a short straight, Helio might have won, but alas, it was the longest straight on the Singapore circuit. Once the speed exceeds 250 km/h, the seven-speed gearbox has a subsequent maximum acceleration capability that beats the six-speed gearbox of Renault racing cars.
So there's no perfect gear selection on the track, it's up to the team and the driver to make their own choices. At the beginning, Helio enjoyed the gear advantage of the Renault car, so now he must suffer the gear disadvantage of the Renault car!
The two of them accelerated wildly, and in the corner of Helio's eyes, he found that the blue and red Prost car next to him was surpassing him little by little. From the side by side at the beginning, to the front of the car, then to the body, and finally to the rear!
On this long straight, the Prost car finally showed its strong performance, and in terms of extreme acceleration, it beat Helio's Renault R202 car!
At the 14th corner, Zhang Yifei entered the corner first, completely completed the overtaking of Helio, and when the race came to the sixteenth lap, Zhang Yifei regained his pole position again and became the first car in the Singapore race!
However, Helio also relied on the advantage of starting acceleration to block Schumacher, who was speeding up at the same time, and finally retained his second place.
But when Helio became second, the previous idea of the Renault team was completely reversed. Now Helio will face Schumacher's crazy attack alone, and indirectly become Zhang Yifei's "wingman".
What is called stealing chickens does not make rice, and now Helio and the Renault team have personally performed this scene.
"Take it back, it's our pole position!"
"This is the victory of flying, the victory of our Prost!"
"On a rainy night at the Singapore circuit, I overtook three top drivers in a desperate situation, and Yifeijun really tried his best!"
"Phineas NB, win the championship of this opener!"
The poor start at the beginning did not disturb Zhang Yifei's fighting spirit and state, and he regained his position as the first car with 16 laps in an unfavorable situation.
Even if there is no interlude at the start, the wonderful overtaking at Turn 13 alone can be called the most shocking scene of tonight's Singapore Grand Prix!