In the face of Dixon's challenge, Zhang Yifei replied in a flat tone, and did not show any desire to fight.

Because Zhang Yifei at this time no longer regarded Dixon as his opponent.

It's not that he looks down on Dixon, but his future opponent will be an F1 driver, one of the most powerful drivers in the world!

Zhang Yifei's attitude of not taking it seriously made Dixon feel a kind of anger, for a driver competing in the same field, ignoring it is the biggest humiliation!

"Then let's see you on the track!"

After Dixon dropped such a sentence, he turned around and left Zhang Yifei's pit, the angry expression on his face did not dissipate in the slightest.

"Is there something wrong with this guy's head?"

Ah Hu watched Dixon leave, and couldn't help muttering, in his eyes, this was a completely inexplicable move.

Hearing Ah Hu's words, Zhang Yifei just smiled, in fact, he could understand Dixon's inner thoughts at the moment.

Every driver has their own pride, hoping to win by crushing their opponents, rather than picking up a mistake in the car.

It's just that Zhang Yifei's control is so amazing that Dixon is unwilling to admit that he has such strength, so he will come to the door to confirm it.

As a result, Zhang Yifei didn't take him seriously at all, which was the biggest blow to Dixon's self-esteem and pride. In the end, leaving in anger becomes an inevitable thing.

In fact, from the moment Dixon came to the door, he had already lost, and a driver who was really strong and confident in his heart would not come to confirm this kind of problem!

It was at this point that the pit console received an order from the track command center to assemble and all the drivers headed to the track grid to prepare for the start of the race.

"Start getting ready for the ride!"

Korsell issued an order at this time, everyone in the pits was busy, Ah Hu didn't think about Dixon's matter anymore, turned around and ran to the rear of the Renault car, and docked the electronic ignition with the ignition interface of the car.

At the same time, Ukyo Yamamoto and Brother Shigo pushed the tire rack with tires and various pressure testing instruments to the track, which will be the final process preparation before the start.

Zhang Yifei sat in the Renault car, nodded to Cosell, signaled that he was ready, and then started the car in an orderly manner, loosened the gear and drove out of the pits.

As soon as he opened the maintenance channel, Zhang Yifei just kicked the accelerator to speed up, and he wanted to upshift to feel the characteristics of the new gearbox. However, due to the speed limit of 80 km/h in the pit lane, the gear can only be upgraded from first to second gear at most.

Although it can only be raised by one gear, the gearbox responds very quickly, and there is no shift stuttering problem caused by synchronizer failure before.

And this time Zhang Yifei's upshift speed, deliberately according to his habits on the track to upshift, did not feel any special jam or other differences in the gearbox, it seems that the gear ratio tuning, Kossel they match their driving habits very accurately.

Entering the grid from the pit lane, all the drivers parked in their respective spaces in the order of the previous qualifying session. Zhang Yifei was fifth in the qualifying race, so he naturally parked in the No. 5 parking space.

To be honest, parking in the fifth parking space, Zhang Yifei is really a little unaccustomed. Because this is Zhang Yifei's lowest ranking since participating in the Renault event, even if it was his qualifying debut at the Monza circuit before, Zhang Yifei won fourth.

However, unlike the obscurity that was ranked fourth at the time, as soon as Zhang Yifei's No. 13 car came out, there were loud cheers and applause in the direction of the audience.

Originally, Zhang Yifei had a lot of supporters in qualifying, and his amazing control in the last game made more people impressed by his strength and driving skills. Even with many doubts, the number of fans is still rising.

It's just that the cheers are still mixed with some boos and inverted lotteries.

There are supporters and opponents, some people don't believe that Zhang Yifei has such strength at all, even if some of the team's voice calls are released after the game, they also think that this is Zhang Yifei acting with his team to hype himself.

It also includes some folk racing masters, even professional drivers, and because they understand the difficulty of Zhang Yifei's handling, they don't believe that this young Chinese driver can do it.

"Don't cheer too soon, you'll know the truth later."

"The strength of the driver flying is good, but it is too despicable to use this kind of hype."

"That's right, I can't think of how Yifei's event resume managed to do this amazing manipulation."

"If you want me to agree with his strength, unless the Chinese kid wins the championship today!"

A lot of cynicism appeared, most of them with a sour feeling of eating lemons, and the people who said these words were not very confident.

After all, Zhang Yifei has completed a hat trick in two consecutive stops, even if he doesn't win the championship of the Silverstone Circuit, it is enough to prove his strength!

So in the face of such remarks, Zhang Yifei's supporters naturally responded to not be outdone.

"The truth is that Fei is far ahead at the moment, and no one is his opponent!"

"In the first three races, I won the championship in two stations, Zhang Yifei's strength still needs to be proven?"

"There's only one reason Fei can do this, he's a talented driver."

"Yes, genius is not the preserve of European drivers, Fei has proven that he is a real genius!"

Some fanatical supporters' remarks, if Zhang Yifei heard it, it is estimated that he would blush himself.

To be honest, the genius driver said it except when he was blowing water in front of his own people, and he was really embarrassed to say it in front of outsiders.

When the second bell sounds, Korsell and Ah Hu leave the track, and the official race will start immediately.

When he left the track, Korsell didn't say anything special, and he was as chic as ever. I couldn't see at all what the gearbox failure had on him, and he didn't even give a word of advice.

Cosell's "indifferent" attitude made Zhang Yifei feel very comfortable, which is the real professional mentality. Transmission failure is a thing of the past, and changing one means turning the page, and there is no need to worry about anything.

While waiting for the warm-up ring instructions, Suarez, who was ranked fourth, looked back at Zhang Yifei.

Suarez is Zhang Yifei's old rival, and he knows that the only time this Chinese kid didn't get pole position was when he started at Monza.

But it was at that stop that Zhang Yifei made a name for himself and became the "public enemy of the track".

Because he relied on the starting advantage, at Turn 1 of the Monza circuit, he overtook the popular seed at the time, the European karting champion Kubica, and showed strong strength.

Now that he is in front of Zhang Yifei, will he repeat the mistake of Kubica?

While Suarez pondered the question, the warm-up lap lights were on and all the drivers started in turn, following pole sitter Dixon.

Zhang Yifei also started at his own pace, but he didn't expect Suarez's movements to be a beat slower, he stepped on the accelerator and almost overtook the front car directly on the warm-up lap.

Is this a tactic against me?

Faced with this situation, Zhang Yifei muttered in his heart, because the FIA stipulates that overtaking is not allowed on the tire warmer. If you accidentally overtake and fail to bring the car in front of you back in the first place, you will be subject to a 30-second time penalty.

If he is punished for 30 seconds, then the champion must have no hope, because he was "besieged" in the previous qualifying match, Zhang Yifei really had to defend himself.

It's just that Zhang Yifei thought too much about it this time, and Suarez started slowly, purely because he was distracted. When he reacted, he still warmed up the tires at a normal pace, and there was no deliberate move to let Zhang Yifei overtake.

Taking advantage of the time of the warm-up lap, Zhang Yifei began to frantically increase and decrease gears and test the gear ratio of the new gearbox. As Cosell said before, there are some changes in the gear ratio, especially in the high gears, and the optimal rev match is about 500 rpm.

For a 10,000-rpm engine, 500 rpm is a very slight difference, but for a formula car, any 1 millisecond difference in power response can add up to the time it takes to decide where a championship will go.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei must change his driving habits and adapt to the new gear ratio adjustment of the gearbox as soon as possible. It's a challenge for a new Formula driver, but it's nothing for Zhang, who has absolute confidence that he can handle the changes.

The warm-up lap is over, which is the time for the start of the race, and Suarez has an inexplicable nervousness in his heart at this time. The little accident just now was almost overtaken by Zhang Yifei, giving him the illusion that his prediction came true, and he would repeat the mistake of Kubica.

At the same time, Suarez also understands that as a professional driver, you must not be afraid of your opponents on the track. No matter how strong the opponent is, you have to have confidence in yourself, otherwise you are doomed to lose before the game even starts.

So Suarez took a deep breath, stabilized his fluctuating mentality, and focused all his attention on the track lights, at least the situation of the starting time being overtaken, he did not allow it to happen!

The lights on the track began to light up, and many people's heartbeats jumped straight to the light "poof, poof".

As soon as all the lights went out, the engine on the track began to roar, and the drivers began to bang the throttle to speed up the accelerator frantically, not wanting to be overtaken at the start.

The same is true for Suarez, who loosens the clutch and replenishes the oil, and his movements are very smooth without the slightest mistake.

Just when Suarez thought he had a perfect reaction to the start, he suddenly heard the roar of the engine next to him. He didn't even need to look in the rearview mirror to determine the target, and the front half of another car had already appeared next to the car, and there was a big number 13 on it!