Listening to Mohada's remarks, the old fox Blundell naturally understood what the other party wanted to express, but after experiencing the Australian station, he had a vague appreciation for Zhang Yifei's impression.

So this time, he didn't choose to dig a pit and arch the fire, but helped Zhang Yifei to justify: "It's common for accidents to happen on the track, and Alex's injury is just an accident." ”

"Of course, we also hope that the drivers can stay calm during the race and not let similar accidents happen again, and I believe that Fly and Ralf Schumacher should be able to control their emotions very well."

The ease in Blundel's words was obvious, and Mohda naturally heard it.

The other party is a veteran F1 commentator, and his qualifications and status are all there, even if Mohda just doesn't agree and wants to point the finger at Zhang Yifei, he can't say anything in this case.

I could only nod very reluctantly, and echoed Brendell's sentence, which was regarded as turning the page.

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

Anger is a thing that can stimulate one's potential at a critical time, but it is absolutely impossible to let anger completely control one's brain, and calm judgment and analysis are the states that need to be maintained during the game.

After passing through Schumacher Jr., the gap between Zhang Yifei and Montoya was almost widened to about two seconds.

And this gap is still widening, because Montoya's super soft tyres themselves are better than hard tyres in terms of speed and grip. Now without Zhang Yifei's pressure and speed reduction, Montoya can fully play his tire advantages.

Another point is that Montoya was pressed several laps on the track, but in fact, he was also holding back a breath of anger in his heart. Now that there was finally no pesky blue Prost in front of him, Montoya had a kind of release and explosion, which was one of the factors that caused the car to be pulled apart.

Looking at the Williams racing car farther and farther away, Zhang Yifei was not in a hurry, in fact, these are reasonable things. If Montoya had relied on super-soft tyres and a high-performance Williams car, he would not have been able to match his speed.

That only proves one thing, and that is Montoya cuisine!

was able to hold down Montoya a few laps by relying on a hard tire, which has already met Zhang Yifei's psychological expectations. The next thing Zhang Yifei has to do is to protect the tires, try to delay the tire change time to 40 laps later, and use the one-stop tactic to shorten the time of the pit stop, so as to recover his disadvantage of starting from the pit lane.

On lap five, Renault's Fisichella retired due to a faulty oil pressure in his car. Became the fourth driver to retire from the Australian Grand Prix due to a car failure.

Listening to the track information from the headphones, Zhang Yifei was a little secretly speechless, thinking that there were enough car failures in the last stop. As a result, I didn't expect that the failure rate of the fifth lap of this station had already exceeded that of the same period of the previous station.

It seems that it is not only the Peugeot engine that is a bit of a problem with the pressure, but the engines of other teams have not performed much better in the face of the high load of the two races. I wonder if the remaining 50 laps will be higher than 60% of the opening race in Malaysia?

Of course, the issue of the withdrawal rate is not something that Zhang Yifei has to consider at present. On the contrary, the more drivers retire, the greater the benefit for Zhang Yifei. It's like with Fisichella's retirement, Zhang Yifei came to the sixteenth position.

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

Marquis, the driver, whose strength can only be described as a vegetable ratio, is really not up to the passing line of the F1 paddock. But Marquis' experience in the Formula 1 paddock began earlier than most people think, having joined Minardi in 1996 and competing in his first F1 Grand Prix.

In the 1996 season, Marquis ran a total of two races before being replaced by other drivers as a test driver for the Minardi team.

The following year, in the 1997 season, also at Minardi, Marquis was once again given the status of an official driver. As a result, after ten runs, he was replaced again because his results were so poor.

The magic happened, Marquis has been in the game for two seasons, his best qualifying result is 14th, his best finish is 17th in the main race, and he has to be lapped almost every game.

But at this level, Minardi did not sack him and kept him until the 2001 season, when Marquis competed as a full-time driver for the third time.

Marquis' career proves one thing, and that is that with money (sponsorship), it is really possible to 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, and it's very simple to overtake his car.

But when Zhang Yifei caught up with Marquis and was about to overtake, he found that Marquis actually changed lanes forcefully and began to "draw dragons", ready to press himself.

You must know that Marquis has been used to lapping on the track, and when this driver is faced with overtaking, he will rarely make fierce resistance, you can overtake if you love it, anyway, I drive on the track.

So seeing Marquis's pressing action still surprised Zhang Yifei. But soon he figured out that this was definitely the instruction of the Minardi team, and he not only had a holiday with Madur, the son of the founder of Minardi, but also "crashed" their third driver into the hospital.

However, there is an old Chinese saying that a tiger is not an anti-dog. It is not so simple to "draw a dragon" on the track, Zhang Yifei can be snakeskin, and he forced Montoya to press more than three laps, which does not mean that Marquis can also do this.

After changing lanes several times, Zhang Yifei seized the opportunity in the corner, entered the corner to seize the center of the corner, and easily surpassed Marques, ranking 15.

In less than 10 laps, Zhang Yifei retired from the lowest 21st place and overtook 6 drivers to 15th place, which can be said to have climbed quickly in the rankings.

Moreover, Zhang Yifei's various pressing and overtaking actions are also very smooth and beautiful, and it seems that he is constantly narrowing the gap with the first echelon. But in fact, Zhang Yifei not only did not shorten the gap with the first echelon, but on the contrary, it opened up more and more.

The current pole position Schumacher has thrown Zhang Yifei by almost 40 seconds, and on average, each lap is more than 3 seconds faster than Zhang Yifei, which is far more than the previous Australian Grand Prix.

If this trend continues, Zhang Yifei will soon be caught by Schumacher. And Schumacher may not be the only driver in the ring. Barrichello, who is second, Cothard, who is third, and even Frenzen, who is fourth, have a chance to complete the lap against Zhang Yifei.

The main reason for all this is that Zhang Yifei has been fighting on the track for too long, and while he is snakeskin and forced Montoya, he is actually slowing down his speed invisibly.

And he also encountered two blocks, more "hatred" than other drivers, and various factors added up to cause the gap to continue to widen.

If you change to an ordinary rookie driver, it is estimated that your heart is already full of despair at this time. With such a big gap in less than 10 laps, and being thrown away by a driver of Schumacher's level, how should I chase it in the next dozens of laps?

To be honest, Zhang Yifei didn't know the answer himself, but he didn't have the slightest idea of giving up. If you can't catch up with Schumacher, you can still catch up with the other drivers in front of you, the gap is huge, but there is still a long race ahead.

As a professional driver, going all out to race is one of the basic professionalism, and Zhang Yifei will never give up until the last moment!

With this belief, Zhang Yifei began to play steadily, increasing his lap speed little by little. And the advantages of hard tires are becoming more and more obvious over time. When it came to more than a dozen laps, many drivers with super soft tires and soft tires had already made pit stops to change tires.

Taking advantage of their pit stops, Zhang overtook Renault's Jenson Button, Jaguars' Bourti, and world champion Villeneuve who skated off the track to move straight into 12th place, where he had already overtaken nine drivers in a row!

Now in front of Zhang Yifei is a newcomer from Sauber Racing Team Heidenfeld, that is, the former No. 2 driver of Prost Racing Team, and Alessi who did a few cars last season.

Seriously speaking, Zhang Yifei's identity as an official driver was snatched from Heidenfeld. It's just that compared with the general grabbing position, Heidefeld doesn't resent Zhang Yifei, anyway, he plans to leave, and whether Zhang Yifei grabs it or not has little to do with him.

When Zhang Yifei first came to the Prost team, he also met with Heidfeld. However, the first meeting was also the last meeting at Prost, and since then Heidfield has directly announced his transfer to Sauber, leaving the Prost team that he hates.

In addition to Heidfeld's rookie season, his performance at Sauber was actually very good in history, even beating the super rookie Kimi Raikkonen at the time.

It was only with the help of fellow Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen that Kimi jumped from a small team like Sauber to the Big Three McLaren Racing Team, relying on a more powerful car and a team with stronger resources, and began his own road to fame.

Heidfeld, on the other hand, did not have this kind of "nepotism" and completely became the blue-collar driver of the Sauber team. He ran 185 races in his career, won eight races and finished second in eight races, but never reached the top podium of a single race.

As a result, Heidenfeld has an F1 record of the driver who has not won a race, he is the driver with the most races, the most podiums, and the most points.

Heidefeld's career is not the worst, but in Zhang Yifei's eyes, it is undoubtedly a tragedy. After eleven years of career, he has never tasted the taste of a championship, and this regret is really indescribable.

Of course, this is all about a decade later, and now Heindfield is in high spirits and wants to make a big splash at Sauber.

However, he was not in a good mood for this race, because the driver in front of Heidfeld was none other than Alessi of Prost!