435 Freeze Frame Miracles
Rain Battles is a miracle of track weather, and many classic races in history have been created on rainy days.
And the rain battle is also the most exaggerated climate to open the lap time, for example, Senna can get rid of Schumacher and Prost in a single lap by 4 seconds, which is unimaginable in normal weather conditions.
But the question is, is it Schumacher who drives the Prost car in the back?
In this world, there is not a yellow-skinned Schumacher!
A Chinese newcomer, the first contact with the rain battle, is not a single lap speed by chance to break out the lead, but the average lap speed after the rain battle, not inferior to the most powerful drivers in the current F1 paddock, this result is really creepy, too terrifying.
If Frenzen had to think of one adjective, it would be God's favorite.
Zhang Yifei didn't know Frenzen's inner drama, and if he knew, he would definitely scoff at it.
I'm sorry, brother, I don't believe in God, I really have to reluctantly cling to one, that's also the "darling" of the dragon.
Zhang Yifei now has only one goal in mind, that is, to surpass the Frenzen in front of him as soon as possible, and then challenge the strongest trio in the current F1 paddock.
The blue phantom is constantly approaching, and the driver number of 13 is the code name of the Grim Reaper in the Western world. Frenzen never imagined that one day, a "Grim Reaper" race car from the East would give him such a strong sense of oppression.
But as an F1 driver, you can be nervous, you can feel the pressure, but you must not be afraid to throw in the towel.
No matter how strong Zhang Yifei is on the track now, Frenzen is always on the accelerator, and he wants to use his fastest speed to block or defeat Zhang Yifei, which is what a world-class driver should do.
Zhang Yifei felt Frenzen's acceleration, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth for this move. Compared to the absolute defense of the fish and the net, he prefers this feeling of attack, at least both sides are determined to win or lose in their absolute speed!
"Frenzen has accelerated, and you can clearly feel the improvement of his fighting spirit, after all, a veteran of the F1 paddock, facing the challenge of this year's newcomers on the track, dignity and honor drive him to face it head-on!"
"Compared with the previous easy overtaking, we can see that Fei has hit a hard stubble this time, Frenzen's speed is not slow, and his rich experience in the event allows him to defend the line very accurately, and does not give Fei any chance to overtake at all."
"At the same time, we were able to see that flying was not very aggressive in overtaking, because as the rain progressed, there was already significant water accumulation on many sections of the track, and the risk would increase exponentially if you took those dangerous lines at this time. For Fei, who has already reached the fifth place in the rankings, he definitely doesn't want his previous efforts to be in vain! ”
Blundell began to quickly explain the situation on the track, and Frenzen, who did his best, began to show his strength. Zhang Yifei may be faster in lap times, but it is not an easy task to easily overtake in the current track environment.
Because the rain will cause the tire grip to be insufficient, and the rain and fog caused by the wake of the F1 car, the engine, the exhaust and other reasons, it is not easy for Zhang Yifei behind him to see the track clearly, and it makes it more difficult to overtake.
In addition, as Blundell said, Zhang Yifei did not plan to take risks!
Although Zhang Yifei has a strong gambler mentality, he likes to use risky ways to earn greater gains and benefits.
But a gambler is not equal to a fool, if you use gambling money as an analogy, Zhang Yifei, who has now come to the fifth position on the track, is equivalent to his own capital of 90 yuan, and the income brought by surpassing Flencen is at most 20 yuan.
To bet on ninety and twenty yuan, you must be at least eighty or ninety percent sure, and normal people will make this bet. And now in the state of the track, Zhang Yifei's radical overtaking has a 50% chance of winning at most, so Frenzen is not worth Zhang Yifei's all-or-nothing bet.
Unless the pole position driver Schumacher is now in front of Zhang Yifei, the championship battle can allow Zhang Yifei to take out all his capital to participate in this big gamble!
After all, the winner will be the biggest winner of the Malaysian Grand Prix!
Forty-three, forty-four, forty-five......
Zhang Yifei's previous crazy overtaking began to stagnate, except for the factor of not wanting to gamble desperately, it was the outbreak of Frenzen, whose strength was much stronger than Zhang Yifei imagined.
Zhang Yifei has already positioned Frenzen as a driver who is slightly higher than Trulli. But now it seems that Frenzen can establish himself in the F1 paddock with two brushes.
At least the speed is not slow, and the defense is not leaky, blocking the most important overtaking line, and those waterlogged areas will be directly let go to Zhang Yifei to overtake, depending on whether Zhang Yifei dares to take this risk.
It is true that this tactic of shrinking the defense is very effective, and Zhang Yifei does not want to easily explore those unknown parts of the track. So we can only keep attacking tentatively, trying to find the best opportunity to overtake.
No matter how cunning the prey is, there are times when they show their flaws, and when the schedule comes to the 49th lap, Zhang Yifei finally waited for the Frenzen flaws, which also gave him an opportunity to overtake!
If Frenzen wants to use speed to win Zhang Yifei, then the speed of the car must not slow down. The faster the car, the more difficult it is to handle, and now the water accumulation on the track has become more and more serious, and the drainage lines of up to 7 wet tires cannot be used to drain the water that the wheels are in contact with.
Fortunately, the safety standards of this era are not as strict as those of later generations, otherwise the weather conditions at the Sepang circuit would have been directly red flags and the race would have been terminated early in ten years.
The complex track environment, combined with the difficulty of handling due to the speed of the car, had reached or even exceeded the limits of Frenzen's ability, and he felt that he was struggling to drive the Jordan car.
In particular, the long-term all-out duel increased this pressure, so at Turn 6 of the track, the turning angle of Frenzen was a little larger, causing the wheels to slip and the car to start flicking its tail.
Frentzen is also a driver who has been in the F1 paddock for six or seven years, and his reaction is very timely, and he made the first rescue control.
But it was this tail flick when cornering that gave Zhang Yi, who had been biting behind his car, a chance to overtake Frenzen directly at Turn 6 on the 49th lap and come to the 4th position!
Starting from the 21st pick, Zhang Yifei took 49 laps to complete the overtaking of 17 opponents on the track. Although there are many drivers who retire due to car failures, handling errors and other factors.
But there is no doubt that Zhang Yifei's performance on the Sepang track has completed a shocking counterattack that almost everyone can't imagine! As long as Zhang Yifei finishes the race normally next, this is the fame battle of his career!
"Zhang Yifei, you really didn't disappoint me, China is going to have a world-class driver."
"Fifteen years ago, there was a Senna in the rain, and fifteen years later I saw this kind of earth-shattering rain battle play, which is destined to be a reincarnation."
"It's too strong! It's so strong! Even if I was asked to brag before the game, I couldn't blow Zhang Yifei's current results!"
"I don't know what to say, Fei has broken the upper limit of my imagination, and now there are no requirements for him."
"Nope! There are still requirements, now Zhang Yifei is only one step away from the podium, and he will surpass one more opponent! ”
"One more more!"
"One more more!"
The cries in the stands began to rage, since Zhang Yifei has come to the fourth position, why not hit the top three, stand on the podium, and enjoy the cheers of the live audience?
A lot of times that's the case, when a goal is broken, a higher goal will appear ahead. Not only the audience thought so, but even Zhang Yifei's own ambition also showed geometric multiples, and he wanted to take another step forward and climb to the podium that he had looked up at below!
The normal number of laps at the Sepang circuit is 55 laps, and when Zhang Yifei overtook Frenzen, the race had already reached the 50th lap. In other words, Zhang Yifei is full of calculations, and there are only five laps left in the race to catch up with and surpass the current third-ranked Coulthard.
Frenzen said that he was a member of the first echelon, but from the beginning to the end of the Sepang circuit, there were only three real first echelons: Michael Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello, and David Coulthard.
That's right, it's these three guys who are firmly in control of the top three positions and don't give any chance to the other drivers.
The ambition is very inflated, and the ideal is also very full, but to be honest, Zhang Yifei, who has been "beaten" by reality once, once again feels what reality is very skinny.
His previous peak speeds had reached the limits of his current track and even set the fastest lap at the Sepang circuit. But there was too much behind before, and the gap between him and Coulthard was still as much as 15 seconds!
Zhang Yifei's previous lap speed could throw Trulli for 3 seconds, but if he wanted to throw Cothard for 3 seconds, it was really a bit of a fool's dream, even if Senna in the rookie stage came to run, he couldn't do it, unless it was Senna's peak.
When this gap was heard from Cossel's mouth, the flame of ambition that Zhang Yifei burned was instantly extinguished. I honestly got the fourth place, and I didn't do those unrealistic dreams.
But at this time, there was a message from the team's voice that Zhang Yifei didn't feel very real after hearing it.
"Fly, Kuthard cornered over Barrichello and attacked, two cars collided, Coulthard was squeezed off the track, stopped in the gravel buffer and turned off, and now you're in third place."
"As soon as you finish, you will finish on the podium and finish third at the Malaysian Grand Prix!"