"Damn, is this true, Zhang Yifei's car actually had a gearbox failure just now?"

"It's impossible, although it's a little slower, but it's still the fifth place in qualifying, and the car failure can still be ranked fifth?"

"This is the audio of the commentary from the event command center, how can it be fake?"

"No wonder the speed of flying this qualifying race is wrong, it turns out that it is a gearbox failure!"

"If that Zhang Yifei hadn't had a gearbox failure, how amazing the speed was, the other drivers wouldn't have to run!"

"It's just Schumacher-level control!"

There was a lot of discussion in the audience, after all, the news was so shocking that many people felt a little unreal.

You must know that in the formula race, it is not uncommon for people to encounter failures and finish the race, and there are even many in the history of the past few decades.

The most common gearbox failure is that the upscale cannot be raised, for example, the seventh-gear gearbox can only be upgraded to sixth gear at most, and many drivers finish the race without seven gears.

But there are more serious ones, such as Michael Schumacher's second-place finish in Spain in 1994, when Schumacher's Benetton car suffered a serious gearbox failure.

At that time, he opened up the gap with other drivers with his excellent start, and was far ahead, very similar to Zhang Yifei's early state today.

However, Schumacher was running a dozen laps when his pace suddenly slowed down and he was overtaken by Damon Hill behind him.

At this time, Schumacher began to talk to the team, saying that his gearbox had failed, and the gear was stuck in fifth gear and could not be changed.

You must know that the direct gear is much more serious than what can't go up to the top gear, he can't use the high gear to accelerate in a straight line, and he can't downshift when cornering.

When the Benetton engineers heard the news, they were a little confused!

Because Schumacher's first Drivers' Championship came in 1994, when he was in the points lead, and second-placed Damon Hill was his biggest rival and later the top driver to win the World Championship.

If he retires because of the applause of the gearbox, or if he is seriously behind in the ranking and has no points, then Schumacher's points are likely to be caught up by Damon Hill and even overtaken.

This was unacceptable for Schumacher and Benetton at the time, and the Drivers' Championship was the crowning glory of an F1 driver, just like the Olympic champions in any other sport.

So Schumacher didn't want to give up, let alone retire, so he drove this car with no way to change gears, and forcibly changed his driving style and racing route, biting Damon Hill tightly, and was not overtaken by other drivers.

It's not the hardest part of the track, what's even more amazing is that Schumacher drove the car that couldn't change gears, and he also made two pit stops!

In this way, Schumacher finally finished second, 24 seconds behind Damon Hill in the overall time, but he finished second, and the overall points did not widen the gap, which also made an important contribution to his victory in the drivers' championship that year.

When the news spread after the race, it was simply controlled by the spectators and other teams. Even Williams, one of the Big Three, the technical director of Williams, said with emotion: "If this is true, relying on five gears to complete the game, then we technicians are dispensable, and we can pack up and go home." ”

Today's Zhang Yifei's gearbox synchronizer failure may not be as severe as Schumacher's lock-in gear. In terms of results, it is not as good as Schumacher who can still finish second in the main race.

But you must know that Zhang Yifei is seriously just a rookie driver, and he can't ask to be compared with Schumacher at the world champion level now.

This is not only a gap in technology, but also a gap in emergency handling experience.

Zhang Yifei has not run a total of ten races, and Schumacher is already a strong driver in 94 years.

Faced with the first track failure in his life, Zhang Yifei did not have any panic, nor did he choose to pit and retire. If it weren't for the post-race commentary to tell the situation, no one would even know about Zhang Yifei's car, it turned out that there was such a serious problem.

Therefore, the emergency treatment on Zhang Yifei's track is already commendable!

Dixon, who was about to be interviewed on pole position, was full of joy of victory in his heart, and this time he finally defeated Zhang Yifei in qualifying to prove himself.

As long as the next race, kill Zhang Yifei again and win the championship. Even if he quits the Williamson Driver Development Program, he has to stand in front of Sir Williams and say to him, "You're out of sight!"

As a result, just as he was about to interact with the audience, he heard the comments from their mouths, and Dixon's face changed in an instant.

He didn't expect that the strength he thought he would win would turn out to be just a kind of leak!

If all of this is true, it may be an even worse blow to Dixon's self-confidence than if he lost.

Not only Dixon, but even the other drivers who surpassed Zhang Yifei had extremely ugly expressions on their faces, without the joy of victory before.

How can it be? Zhang Yifei actually had a gearbox synchronizer failure on the track, so why didn't he slow down significantly? And if the synchronizer fails, how on earth does he manage to change gears?

Unlike the audience, who only knows awesome and NB, professional drivers are more puzzled by how Zhang Yifei solves mechanical failures. Before the way behind it was announced, they couldn't imagine that Zhang Yifei could rely on the manual clutch to shift the limit, and they couldn't imagine that Zhang Yifei completely relied on the perfect match between speed and speed to reduce the impact of engine torque on the synchronizer.

On the other side, Zhang Yifei drove the car back to the pit station, and saw Ah Hu and all of them standing at the door of the pit from a distance.

With a kick to the precise brake of the Renault car, Zhang Yifei just opened the mask, and before he could take off the helmet. I saw Ah Hu rushing to the side of the car, snorting and shouting with tears: "Brother Fei, I'm sorry for you!" ”

Damn, which play is this?

To be honest, Ah Hu's sudden move completely confused Zhang Yifei, should this kid be exaggerated?

"Ah Hu, have you watched too many Qiong Yao dramas recently, hurry up and give me a stop, there are still so many pit technicians on the track watching, I don't know what happened to us."

Zhang Yifei hurriedly stopped Ah Hu's "embarrassing" move, and the maintenance channel was not only Zhang Yifei and his gang, but the entire row was the driver's P room.

If you don't know the reason, you still think that Zhang Yifei is so harsh on his team members that he wants to apologize bitterly.

"Brother Fei, it's all my fault that the car broke down, and I failed to live up to your hopes!"

After finishing speaking, Ah Hu may feel that the snot affects his breathing a little, so he wiped it directly on Zhang Yifei's racing suit.

"I'm a ...... of the dog"

In the face of Ah Hu's commotion, Zhang Yifei almost wanted to say that this kid came to apologize, or to punish himself?

"Brother, I called you big brother, please stop making trouble, let me stop for a while."

Zhang Yifei was forced to be helpless, so he could only persuade Ah Hu first.

Looking at Zhang Yifei's helpless appearance, Chen Zhi couldn't stand it, and walked over to pull Ah Hu away.

"If there is a problem, let's talk about it later, let Yifei go into room P to take a breath first."

"Okay, Brother Zhi."

Ah Hu also felt that he was a little too excited, Zhang Yifei experienced a qualifying match, and he was sweating profusely at the moment, at least let him go into the P room to cool down.

After Ah Hu withdrew, Yamamoto Ukyo came over to take over Zhang Yifei's helmet, and the few of them were relatively calm.

Although I was a little nervous when facing Zhang Yifei's car failure before, this was more of a tense result than the failure itself.

After all, Yamamoto Ukyo used to serve the Toyota Le Mans endurance racing team, and it was a 6-hour and 24-hour endurance race at every turn, which was also a test of the mechanical stability of the car.

In terms of failure rate, it may be stronger than formula racing cars because of the manufacturer's tuning, but it is not much stronger.

Therefore, the applause of the car is a common thing for them, and there is no tension during the race, and now the result is doomed, and it is regarded as an ordinary finish.

Zhang Yifei got off the Renault car at this time, and when he just stood on the ground, he felt his feet go soft, and then his left foot was a little trembling.

Because the clutch pedal of the formula car is too narrow, in order to avoid a mistake when you press quickly and loosen, step on the brake next to it. Zhang Yifei relied on his toes to exert force throughout the manual gear shift process.

It may have been a long time since this kind of manual transmission competition-level control, hundreds of times of fast stepping on the clutch, Zhang Yifei's legs are now a little shaky. This is a sign of muscle fatigue, and if it is normal to continue like this, the muscle strain that Yamamoto Ukyo was worried about before may really appear.

Seeing Zhang Yifei standing in place and not moving, He Ziling keenly noticed that his left foot was trembling a little, so he didn't think much about it, and immediately came over to hold his arm, wanting to support him.

But when she faced Zhang Yifei's somewhat surprised gaze, she realized that her movements were a little too intimate. However, Zhang Yifei has already been restrained, this kind of thing is impossible to let go, He Ziling can only lower his head and act as if nothing happened.

Zhang Yifei was naturally not embarrassed about this scene, he directly put his hand on He Ziling's shoulder, and then walked towards the P room.

It's not that he wants to take advantage of He Ziling, but the high temperature fatigue of the event, plus his left foot is a little shaky, and if he doesn't hold on to something, it's really hard to walk.

When he came to the pits, he didn't speak, and Cosell spoke: "The results of the qualifying session have come out, so there is no need to continue to discuss the previous failures." ”

"Now I need to make sure of another thing, that is, in the remaining day, can you replace the gearbox to ensure that similar failures do not happen again?"