When Zhang Yifei caught up with Barrichello, there were many conversations like Steiner and Lauda, all discussing whether Zhang Yifei could surpass Barrichello and how long he could surpass him.

Although the grand prize can be seen, in the first lap of qualifying, Barrichello did not have the idea of fighting Zhang Yifei with all his might. But it can also be seen from his blocking behavior that Zhang Yifei wants to easily overtake it, but I am afraid it will not be so easy.

Many people have thought of countless answers, but no one can imagine that Zhang Yifei surpasses Barrichello, and he doesn't need a lap!

Even Ralph Schumacher, who was running behind Zhang Yifei and waiting to watch the two tigers fight, felt stunned at the moment.

Barrichello didn't use all his strength, he could see it, the question is that no matter how much he didn't use his strength, it was impossible to stop even a lap in the street race, what is the difference between this and just letting the car go?

The audience, and even the track commentators, were collectively silent for a few seconds when they saw this scene.

Barrichello: Is this a fuss? Anyway, it was also the third place in last year's overall points, and there was a qualification to compete for the second person in the entire F1 field, but you couldn't stop it in a lap?

The only one who does not have this kind of emotion is probably the Ferrari team strategy team, and they have not forced Barrichello to stop Zhang Yifei before, just like the Williams strategy team.

Because it was only the first lap of qualifying, and in any case, Barrichello's two years at Scuderia Ferrari were among the top drivers. Soldiers can be killed, not humiliated, and can show the strength of the strategy group at critical moments, forcing Barrichello to obey the team's orders.

However, in normal times, it is impossible to dictate Barrichello all the time, and the top drivers have dignity and status, no matter what they say.

Compare Ferrari's door to Renault's door crash, and Ferrari's strategy team's strongest command is to ask Barrichello to give way to the car. It is absolutely impossible to engage in such a suicidal crash without treating the No. 2 driver as a human being, as Renault did.

They thought that even if they didn't give the order to block the car, Barrichello would not let Zhang Yifei pass him easily, and he still had to do what he should do, and he couldn't let the Chinese newcomer jump too much.

As a result, I didn't expect that I couldn't stop a lap, and I was overtaken like this, which was simply a humiliation for Ferrari and Barrichello!

"What does Barrichello do, no matter how much he does it for the sake of the Ferrari team and his own face, he can't let Fei surpass it so easily!"

Jean Todd was very dissatisfied, but he did not turn on the team's voice to accuse Barrichello, after all, there was no team instruction, and what to do was Barrichello's freedom.

"You can't blame Barrichello, no one expected Prost to have such a strong ability to accelerate sharply."

Ross Brown was, after all, a top race car designer, and he could tell at a glance the power of the Prost AP05 car.

The strength of the Ferrari engine is at most only a decision on the lower limit, and how strong the real upper limit is still depends on the Prost team's own research and development capabilities. The French car chassis has always been a strong point, but this kind of low-torque acceleration means that the gearbox matching tuning is also very good, it seems that this year's AP05 car will really become the enemy of F2002!

"We all underestimated Prost's knockoffs."

Jean Todd sighed, he paid more attention to Zhang Yifei before, and never put the Prost AP05 car in his eyes, and even thought that compared to the Ferrari car, it was more of a "copycat".

In retrospect, it's really underestimating the R&D capabilities of the Prost team, and it's no coincidence that the title of the fastest car in the winter test is a car that has the performance to rank among the top cars in Formula 1.

"Do you want Shumi to get serious and treat this as a race?"

At this time, Ferrari's race director, Stefano de Monnecali, opened his mouth to ask Jean Todd a question.

This is the new racing director of Scuderia Ferrari, because it is said that the Ferrari board of directors is interested in Jean Todd to become the CEO of the Ferrari Group. This would inevitably distract Jean Todd's experience, so the team's strategy began to take the right underneath, with de Monnecali seen as the next generation of Ferrari team managers.

However, at this time, it happened to be the time when the Ferrari Golden Triangle was in full swing, and the Ferrari race director did not have much say.

"Let's wait until Fei catches up with Shumi!"

Jean Todd's words have returned to the same giant momentum as before.

Schumacher was too far ahead of Zhang Yifei on the grid, and the first lap was coming to an end soon, and he would start to push his strength as well. And more importantly, the Ferrari F2002 car was completely tailor-made for Schumacher, and only he could bring out the full potential of this rover.

On the contrary, judging from the feedback from the winter test, Barrichello said many times that he was not suitable for the new car, but the team management did not pay much attention to it, and the No. 2 driver was not entitled to enjoy so many resources.

So Zhang Yifei can surpass Barrichello, but don't think about surpassing Schumacher!

After saying this, Jean Todd hesitated for a moment, but still said a word to Rose Brown, the technical director beside him.

"I'm going to have the R&D center adjust the car to Barrichello's needs, and I don't want to see that a second time."

What many people don't know is that F1 cars are not driven from start to finish, but can be fine-tuned during the race.

Even some R&D grinding, the car can't catch up with the new season, so the old roof for a period of time, and there are many cases where the new car is directly replaced in the second half of the race.

The previous F2002 basically didn't take much into account Barrichello's needs. Now it seems that this year's opponents are very strong, relying on Schumacher's ability alone, it may be risky to defend the title continuously, so it is necessary to take care of and strengthen Barrichello.

"I know."

Ross Brown nodded, a scene like today's Ferrari being killed by someone in a short straight lane is simply a shame for the Big Three.

As a race car designer, Jean Todd can't even tolerate it happening again!

Zhang Yifei looked at the red Ferrari car in the rearview mirror at the moment, and the expression on his face had a hint of indifference. He knew that Barrichello didn't give it his all, but the Green Leaf driver also underestimated himself and this year's AP05 car, did he really think he was driving a "tractor"?

If you want to deal with yourself with a playful attitude, you must face this kind of don't crush the result!

At this time, Zhang Yifei was in front of him, only two drivers were left, Coulthard and Schumacher, if the previous scenario continued, maybe in the qualifying stage, Zhang Yifei would stage the scene of the race in advance, that is, not only to compete for lap time, but also to compete for rankings.

However, Zhang Yifei knows very well in his heart that Coulthard may let himself surpass, but Schumacher will never let himself surpass easily, or even overpass!

This is not only the pride of the first person in the F1 paddock, but more importantly, after Schumacher won the F2002 car this year, there will be a peak scene in the peak, almost invincible.

Historically, he has won 17 races, won 11 races, finished second in 5 races and finished third in 1 station, stood on the podium throughout the year, and defended the world championship in six races ahead of schedule.

It can be said that it is this kind of terrifying record that makes Zhang Yifei start the layout a year in advance, and this AP05 car will appear to meet the peak Schumacher.

It can only be said that this year's preparation was not in vain, at least this Prost car, let Zhang Yifei see hope. This is the real reason why he is crazy in the first lap of qualifying, even if his mentality is as stable as Zhang Yifei, he can't bear the expectation of a year, and he has to test his hard work.

Of course, no one knows at this time how terrifying Schumacher will be this year, including himself.

Qualifying continued, and soon the car had passed the starting line, and Zhang had cleared his mind of Schumacher. Now he only wants to know one thing, and that is how fast he ran on the first lap.

"Kossel, is the lap time out?"

Zhang Yifei pressed the call button and couldn't help but ask Cowser, he had never cared about the speed of the first lap of qualifying like today.

"Not yet."

Hasn't it come out yet? Zhang Yifei has a sense of loss in his heart, but he also knows that the speed measurement and statistical equipment of this era cannot refresh the lap time in real time like later generations.

But soon, Zhang Yifei heard Prost's excited voice in the headset: "Come out, 1:45.627, the fastest lap on the track at present!" ”

1:45.627?

When he heard this number, Zhang Yifei recalled that if he remembered correctly, the track record was Alonso's 1:45.339, but the fastest lap was the pole-position speed of 1:44.801 run by Massa, which was nearly a second slower.

It's just that Zhang Yifei forgot one thing, that is, he only ran the first lap, this speed is close to the track record, and at this moment, the lap speed of most drivers is also 1 second slower than Zhang Yifei's lap speed!

Even Schumacher, the first car, was as much as 0.5 seconds slower than Zhang Yifei, and on the contrary, the second place was Helio who started at the bottom. He didn't follow the rules on the first lap, and with Takuma Sato and Alonso overtaking in a frenzied attack, there was a clear distinction between the old and the new on the track.

That's the younger the driver, the crazier it is!

At the same time, the audience in the stands also boiled directly in the face of Zhang Yifei's far ahead lap time!

When they saw Zhang Yifei surpassing four first-class drivers in a row, they already had a premonition that Zhang Yifei's lap time would be exaggerated. It's just that even Zhang Yifei's fans didn't expect him to be so fast in the first lap, and even Schumacher was left far behind.

Didn't many people conclude that Zhang Yifei's track shortcomings were not good at night battles? Now stand up and take a look, so that you can see another king of night battles on the track after the rain battle is invincible!