157 Tough Opponents (Chapter 3)
Zhang Yifei began to speed up frantically and made some aggressive overtaking moves, which Yamamoto Ukyo on the sidelines naturally saw it.
He subconsciously reached for the call button of the headset, hesitating whether to start a call with Zhang Yifei to stop his high-risk driving behavior.
But in the end, Yamamoto Ukyo still put his hand down, formula racing is not F1, there are no steps such as changing tires and refueling, so there is a lot less tactical strategy. Today is Zhang Yifei's first formula race, and Yamamoto Ukyo doesn't plan to interfere too much.
Because for a novice, your too much intervention may not necessarily have a positive effect, but can make the driver feel confused.
This feeling is like playing a game.,Novices are already dishes.,There's a BB machine next to crazy guidance.。 Originally, the novice was just a little dish, but he couldn't be beaten when he was said, because the whole person was stunned.
Of course, racing can't use such exaggerated metaphors, but Yamamoto Ukyo restrained his idea of guiding Zhang Yifei to drive, and chose to trust Zhang Yifei's own judgment.
Turn 1 starts into the corner, because all the cars slow down here, so the corner can be described as "crowded", and there is no choice of cornering route at all, as long as you can avoid collisions as much as possible.
At this time, Zhang Yifei suddenly understood why Massa chose to seize the outside line instead of taking the shortest route from the inside. It's his perennial experience in karting, and he would rather take a detour than get stuck with other drivers, which will be even lower.
Zhang Yifei didn't squeeze into the inside line, he braked with his left foot, throttle with his right foot, and constantly increased and decreased gears to avoid other cars next to him.
This is also the difference between the driving style of professional racing cars and ordinary civilian cars, and the normal driving method of general grocery cars is to clutch with the left foot, brake or accelerator with the right foot.
If you drive a high-performance sports car, or go on the track, without changing the automatic transmission or sequential transmission, you will become a clutch with your left foot, and your right foot will brake and accelerator at the same time, which is called a heel toe action.
However, when entering the real professional racing stage, the clutch will only be used at the beginning stage, and the left foot brake and right foot accelerator will be directly used during the race, so that the fastest driving operation can be made.
Of course, this is just the way to drive a car, and it is a very dangerous way to drive with a manual transmission, the left foot brake, and the right foot throttle.
Because in the face of sudden emergencies, it is easy to step on both feet at the same time, especially some early cars do not have a brake priority system, and when you step on the brake and accelerator at the same time, the braking force cannot compete with the engine torque and inertia, and it will still accelerate and crash into it.
However, with the development of automotive electronic systems in later generations, they are basically equipped with brake priority systems, and at the same time, the vehicle is still forced to slow down when the brake and accelerator are pressed. However, the driving method of the left foot brake and the right foot accelerator is still not recommended.
The middle position had the largest number of cars, and Zhang Yifei passed through Turn 1 in extreme thrills, but he glanced in the rearview mirror. Just after he made the corner, three Renault cars collided in a row behind him and slammed into the corner buffer.
Unlike Formula 1 cars, the Renault Euro 2000 can only be regarded as a junior formula race, and the level of drivers is uneven.
Just like Kimi and Massa, they swept the karting event, and then swept the Renault series and quickly entered the F1 team.
And the dishes are those students or paid drivers, and the strength can only be described as very general. Any race is a big wave and the average level of junior events cannot be compared to Formula 1, and the accident rate of Formula Renault is quite high.
It was precisely because of this collision that the track was divided into two obvious groups, and the first echelon successfully turned and began to lead in front. And the drivers who were originally in the last echelon were forced to slow down and catch up because of the middle echelon.
This makes the front, middle and rear three rider groups now become the front and rear two, and Zhang Yifei has become the crane tail position of the first group.
However, these drivers are not in a hurry, after all, the format is to take the fastest lap in half an hour, so falling behind is not a problem at all, as long as you can play at your level for one lap.
At the same time, because the speed of Turn 1 was very slow, the accident was not serious, and the three cars all rushed out of the track into the buffer sand, and the race team did not send a safety guide car to press the car, and the race continued normally.
Turn 2, Turn 3, and one bend after another, and the whole convoy was pulled into a long snake formation. There are a lot of drivers who deliberately slow down and distance themselves from other cars so that they can have enough room to play by the next lap, which is also a kind of tactic.
But at this moment, there are several racing cars that have distanced themselves from the first echelon, and these are the drivers that Junko Takeda wanted Zhang Yifei to pay attention to. Suarez of the No. 6 Prema team, Makina of the No. 15 Mano team, and future F1 driver Kubica of the No. 22 car.
Coupled with a No. 3 car, Massa, several of them seemed to be competing with each other, constantly increasing their speed to prove their strength.
These are all sponsored by professional teams, and they have a lot of experience in karting racing, and they have been competing on various tracks all year round.
Therefore, their driving skills and experience are not on the same level as other competitors, just like Zhang Yifei, a pure rookie who participates in professional formula for the first time, even if he has two lifetimes of racing experience, he is not necessarily better than a driver like them who participated in karting events at a few years old.
Zhang Yifei's two lifetimes of professional racing experience have not been completed for less than ten years, and many of these drivers, if you count karting events, are really close to ten years of career.
In this way, the distance between Zhang Yifei and the leaders was gradually thrown away, but he was still very stable in his mentality and was not in a hurry.
As a professional driver, calmness on the track is the most important psychological quality, because impatience, anger and other negative emotions will affect your judgment.
With speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour, the slightest distraction can have serious consequences, and he must be able to calmly judge all situations.
Ah Hu on the sidelines did not have Zhang Yifei's calmness, and it was the first time he watched a formula car. Even if he knew the competition system, he was a little anxious when he saw Zhang Yifei behind, and couldn't help but say: "Why is Brother Fei getting behind getting further and behind, come on!" ”
"It's okay to be behind, it's the speed that counts, it's the first lap and the race has just begun."
Junko Takeda replied lightly, it is a very common phenomenon to fall behind in the first lap of professional events, not to mention qualifying, even if it is behind in the main race, there is nothing to worry about.
And this race is full of strong players, and there are nearly ten people who have won the championship title of the kart series, so Toyota's expectations for Zhang Yifei are not high, as long as he can run into the race, it will be considered a success.
Now Zhang Yifei is far from the strongest drivers, but he has maintained the top ten position in the first echelon, which has exceeded previous expectations.
Just as Junko Takeda finished speaking, the pit screen showed the race standings of the first lap, and the fastest lap was not Massa, who was too far behind from the starting position, but Suarez, the No. 6 driver of the Prima team.
His first lap was 1:59.273, which was nearly five seconds slower than the track record, and even slower than Zhang Yifei's test lap time.
But Zhang was slower on the first lap, passing the start line in 2:02.115, ninth of all riders.
The first lap is generally one of the slowest lap times in the race, depending on the temperature of the tyres and the weight of the fluid.
Moreover, there were too many starts this time, and everyone was forced to brake and slow down at various points in the early stage, so the general results were slow. If Zhang hadn't narrowly passed Turn 1, he might have been three seconds slower in lap time if he had been stuck behind.
The first lap was only a warm-up, and as the distance opened, the real race for speed was just beginning.
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