178 Accidents
The sand and gravel around it began to fly, much more powerful than the previous half-tyre at Monza that overwhelmed the gravel buffer, and the whole car was submerged in dust.
The huge inertia made the car still crash towards the separation wall, and at this moment Zhang Yifei had stepped on the brakes to the end, and the strong braking ability of Renault Racing had locked all four wheels.
Looking at the wall that is getting closer and closer, Zhang Yifei has no other way but to resign himself to fate!
Five meters, four meters, three meters, this distance is rapidly shortening, and for Zhang Yifei, it is almost like the summoning of death.
At this moment, he finally understood the desperation of the car god Senna, who had lost control and crashed into the wall on the San Marie Nojmola circuit.
Although the speed of the Renault course is much lower than the original Senna's 300km/h, the protection of the junior formula car is also much lower than that of Formula 1.
If you hit it at this speed, even if you are lucky enough that the car does not catch fire and explode, or the cockpit falls apart.
But Zhang Yifei is not sure, he can stand and get off the car, and it is the closed day of the Hockenheim Circuit, in addition to the technical personnel, the medical logistics should be in a state of rest, if there is any accident, he may not be able to get effective treatment in the first place.
Zhang Yifei clenched the steering wheel, just watching the car slide past, in fact, in a sense, he is already lucky, if the tire burst out of control during the tangential process, then there is a high probability of rolling in the side slip, and the probability of injury and death will be doubled!
Two meters, one meter, half a meter! Just when the separation wall was close at hand, the strong grip of the bald tires and the braking power of the Renault racing car finally stopped the car within a distance of more than ten meters.
Looking at the separation wall in front of him, Zhang Yifei was shocked into a cold sweat, fortunately when entering the corner, the empty throttle was prepared for a low-speed corner, if the high-speed bend still stepped on the full throttle, then the previous speed was definitely close to 260km/h.
At this speed, what brakes and grip are floating clouds, and there is absolutely no way to control it if it is out of control, and whether you can survive or not depends purely on luck.
For example, in 07, like Kubica, the speed of the accident was far faster than that of the car god Senna, and the car was completely destroyed, but others just broke their ankles, and the others were unharmed, which is called God's face.
Zhang Yifei stopped in the gravel buffer zone, and the Renault car was completely turned off and could not start, but he did not choose to get out of the car, but sat in the driver's seat in a little panic to calm down.
This is the second time he has suffered a life-and-death crash on the track, and the last time he came directly to this world twenty years ago.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei didn't have much fear last time, because the moment the accident happened, people were directly cold, and there was no time to be afraid at all.
But this time is different, he can be said to have brushed shoulders with death, and he can still sit in the car intact and be afraid. Natural feelings are completely different.
Outside the paddock, due to the special layout of the Hockenheim circuit, Zhang Yifei is in the forest at the moment, and he can't see anything happening with the naked eye alone.
And it's not an official race, and the track broadcast system can't be opened, Junko Takeda and his party don't know what happened to Zhang Yifei inside, they are still waiting for Zhang Yifei to rush out from the other end of the track to see if he has refreshed the fastest lap again.
After waiting for more than two minutes, Zhang Yifei's car still did not rush out of the forest, and he couldn't even hear the roar of the engine, and several of them began to feel that something was wrong.
"Ukyo, how long has it been since the last time I flew past the starting line?"
Yamamoto Ukyo recorded the time and lap time of Zhang Yifei crossing the starting line, so Junko Takeda needed a certain time.
"2 minutes and 15 seconds, 1 minute 48 seconds 926 in the last lap, almost a dozen seconds slower."
"It stands to reason that even if Yifeijun doesn't want to run the fastest speed in this lap and slow down the familiar corner, he shouldn't be more than ten seconds slower."
Yamamoto Ukyo is also confused, because of the test run, the team's radio communication is not equipped, because this requires the opening of the console relay, which is currently only in the test run stage, and it is impossible to make the Hockenheim track cooperate.
So now they are covered by the forest, they don't know what's going on inside, and they think that this is just the test run stage, Zhang Yifei is no longer going to fight for his life or anything, and it is unlikely that an accident will happen.
Thinking about it, there is only one possibility, that is, Zhang Yifei's car stalled and stopped somewhere in the forest.
Just like ordinary civilian manual transmission vehicles, it is actually very easy to stall at the beginning of formula races, and even because of the pedal layout, the probability of stalling is higher.
Even if a veteran driver of a civilian car sits in an F1 car for the first time, he doesn't need to say how he runs, and he can't even complete the most basic starting action.
But the ignition is usually at the start, and as the race progresses, the temperature of the racing engine is very high, and the gasoline enters such a hot environment that it only takes a little spark and pressure to ignite.
Zhang Yifei is also a driver who has won the Renault European Cup in Asia, can he still make such a low-level mistake on the track?
Just when several people were speculating about what was going on, Brother Zhi saw a cloud of dust rising above the forest.
The dust was not noticeable due to the obscuration of the trees and the midday sun. If you hadn't scanned the forest part of the Hockenheimring circuit, you wouldn't have noticed any dust floating up.
"Junko-san, what do you think is the situation?"
Brother Zhi pointed to the area where the dust was floating and asked Junko Takeda beside him.
Junko Takeda also looked in the direction of Chen Zhi's finger, and after finding the dust floating above the trees, her face immediately changed, and she said in a panicked voice: "Something happened, hurry up!" ”
After saying that, Junko Takeda didn't care if the others reacted, she pulled her legs and ran towards the place where the dust was floating.
Experience has taught Junko Takeda that if there is dust or smoke on the track, there is definitely an accident, either the car is on fire, or it is rushed out of the track, and the sand and gravel buffer zone can raise such dust.
No matter what the situation is, it means that Zhang Yifei is in a dangerous situation, and she really never thought that a simple pre-race test run could have such an accident.
Seeing that Junko Takeda had already run away, the remaining few people also instantly understood what was happening, and several of them ran frantically towards the accident site, and if they could arrive one second earlier, Zhang Yifei would be able to provide more security.
Several people were running wildly on the track, because it was not an open day of the track, and there were no safety cars and ambulances on duty. In addition, in order to avoid the influence of irrelevant personnel on the track, Zhang Yifei specially chose to test run at lunchtime, but he didn't want to find a car to help, or it was too late.
Now he can only run hard with his feet, and unconsciously, Zhang Yifei has become the absolute backbone of the team, and he can't tolerate any accidents.
The Hockenheim track is a 6.8-kilometer loop, and Junko Takeda is standing right in the center of the track, so it is not far from the site of Zhang Yifei's accident, less than a kilometer.
Chen Zhi and Ah Hu had the best physical strength, and they quickly surpassed Junko Takeda in front, less than a kilometer for the two of them, it only took a few minutes.
Coming to the corner, they were far away from Zhang Yifei's car parked in the gravel buffer zone, very close to the separation wall. But now that the dust has almost dissipated, they can clearly see that the car is not badly damaged, which also reassures them.
As they got closer, they saw Zhang Yifei sitting on the ground, his helmet on the side, and his back leaning against the body of the Renault car.
Seeing this scene, their hearts that had just fallen rose again, Fei Ge was already sitting on the ground, could there be something?
"Brother Fei, how are you, where are you hurt?"
Huzi rushed to Zhang Yifei's side, grabbed his arm tightly and asked.
"Light, I wasn't hurt, but you're going to be seriously injured!"
Zhang Yifei replied angrily, Ah Hu, this kid is probably too nervous, and he has too much force in his hands.
You must know that there are very few auxiliary equipment for car repairers in these years, and they all have a lot of strength, and it is really a bit unbearable to hold it with all their strength.
Hearing Zhang Yifei say this, Ah Hu also reacted, and looked at Fei Ge as if it was no big deal, so he put down his heart and smiled.
"Yifei, what the hell happened?"
Chen Zhi also saw that Zhang Yifei was fine, so he was not as flustered as Ah Hu, and began to ask about what happened.
"The flat tire is out of control."
"Flat tire?"
Chen Zhi was very surprised, he didn't expect it to be because of a puncture, it stands to reason that today he used a neutral tire, which is a little harder than the usual soft tire, and the risk of a puncture is theoretically lower.
At this time, Junko Takeda and a few people finally arrived, and they looked at Ah Hu and Chen Zhi, who were standing next to Zhang Yifei chatting calmly, and they understood that Zhang Yifei should be fine, and their hanging hearts were also put down a lot.
"Yifei-kun, are you okay, what happened?"
"It's nothing, it's just a flat tire that gets out of control and rushes into the sand and gravel buffer."
Zhang Yifei replied as usual, then stood up from the ground with his hands on the car.
After a few minutes of calming down, Zhang Yifei's mentality has basically stabilized, and there is no need to sit on the ground and worry about them.
And then again, a flat tire in a formula car is not an uncommon accident. One of the most famous was the 13 F1 British Grand Prix, which led to the "puncture door" event.
In one race, five F1 drivers, including Hamilton and Massa, experienced a puncture on the track.
The incident also put Pirelli, the supplier of F1 tyres at the time, into a difficult situation, and also triggered a subsequent strike by the drivers, who did not want to be plagued by the threat of a puncture in the extreme car, which was already on the verge of losing control.
Since then, F1 tires have become stiffer and more wear-resistant. Combined with the change in the rules prohibiting refueling, later F1 cars only needed to make a pit stop once, which made many tactics and strategies become empty talk.
After all, the car doesn't need to refuel, change tires and pit at all, it just needs to run down the track without a brain, and naturally there is no need for these tactics and strategies.
The tense and hot scene of the pit stop gradually disappeared, and the race became more and more safe and conservative, without the excitement of dancing on the tip of the knife, which eventually led to the heat of F1 began to decline.