528 Resist Instinct
Watching the red Ferrari car keep approaching, Zhang Yifei knew that Schumacher was really here this time, and with his pride as the strongest driver, he would never allow himself to be pressed by a Chinese newcomer for 27 laps!
But Zhang Yifei also did not give in the slightest, even in the face of the attack of the car god, he firmly controlled his steering wheel, stubbornly guarded his own line, and did not give Schumacher any chance to grab the line.
10 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm!
The distance between the two cars, with Schumacher's persecution, has come to an extremely dangerous distance.
At this moment, whether there will be a crash or not is no longer up to Schumacher alone.
With this almost close distance, the reaction time has exceeded the limits of human beings, and even Schumacher cannot dodge. As long as Zhang Yifei shook the steering wheel casually, the collision of the two people could not be avoided.
Even this kind of persecution has made Zhang Yifei begin to have a physiological hedging instinct, and subconsciously wants to control the car away from Schumacher.
This feeling is like an ordinary person driving a car and seeing a car on the opposite side about to hit it. The vast majority of drivers will subconsciously hit the steering wheel to the left, and the survival instinct allows him to avoid the oncoming impact.
And this kind of avoidance operation, if there is still no way to avoid accidents, then the most unlucky is the co-pilot passenger. Because of this steering wheel, what should have been a frontal impact has turned a 25 percent small-scale impact.
It is important to know that the strongest and safest way to impact any vehicle is always a frontal impact. So in many cases, when there is no way to avoid it, I would rather hit it head-on than hit the steering wheel indiscriminately.
If there is a side impact or roll, it may die faster.
The degree of protection of 25 percent is far less than a frontal full collision, and it may have been a situation where two people were slightly injured together, but it became a minor injury or no problem, and a serious injury or even death.
That's why the co-pilot position is ranked as the most dangerous position in the traffic accident rate.
Is this situation a situation in which the driver deliberately dies and does not die in poverty? In fact, most of the time it is not, because there is no time to think and react, not to mention that the co-pilot is often sitting with his closest person.
The reason why this is done is caused by the most primitive human instinct to avoid, and the desire to win makes the driver subconsciously stay away from danger without thinking so much.
Now on the track, this kind of illusion that the other party is quickly approaching, and the illusion that the two cars will collide immediately makes Zhang Yifei have an urge to hit the steering wheel all the time!
But the long-term vocational training allowed Zhang Yifei to use his willpower to fight against this physiological instinct.
This is very similar to the instinctive training of boxers, for example, normal people will subconsciously dodge and close their eyes when faced with a hand that suddenly stretches out. But boxers have to resist this instinctive behavior of subconsciously closing their eyes, otherwise the moment you close your eyes and swing your body, your opponent will catch the hole.
So the two cars cut the line in this way that they were very close to each other, and Schumacher relied on his superb driving skills to control the extremely dangerous distance.
Originally, it was impossible to achieve this speed and the same as the heart under the drive of inertia, but the blue and red cars achieved the effect of cornering almost at the same time, and Schumacher was only slightly behind the front of the car!
"It's worthy of Schumacher, the No. 3 sharp corner can basically not fall behind, and when you enter the short straight, it will be dangerous to fly."
Jaguar team manager Nikki Lauda praised Schumacher in an exclamatory tone.
Although he has also won three world championships, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and from Schumacher's body, Lauda saw what absolute domination is.
This feeling surpasses himself and Prost, and perhaps the only person in front of Schumacher at the moment is Senna, who has ascended to the throne.
Schumacher's control of the car has reached the absolute centimeter level, and no driver on the current F1 track would dare to play this kind of operation at Turn 3 like Schumacher.
It's not that the other drivers are too much inferior, but if you call it Coulthard, Barrichello or even Ralph Schumacher to handle it alone, they may be able to do it on a technical level.
But that's in the middle of the game! In addition to technique, it also requires absolute self-confidence and courage, and the slightest mistake is the birth of a track accident, and it is the kind that cannot be avoided.
From Lauda's point of view, Zhang Yifei's performance in this race has been impeccable, and he can block Schumacher for 27 laps with a Prost car, which is already the level of a super-first-class driver on the track, and no more than 5 can do this.
Among the newcomers in the past two years, no one else can do it, Kimi can't do it, Montoya can't even do it, and as for Barton, Alonso and the like, it's even worse.
However, what Zhang Yifei met was Schumacher, who had reached his peak state, and the Prost car with backward performance, and he really didn't blame this Chinese kid for his strength, he had done his best.
If Lauda didn't expect, on the downhill short straight, Schumacher would be able to tie the gap between the front of the car with the help of the terrain. Then in the next high-speed right bend, Schumacher can use his strength to completely surpass Zhang Yifei and return to the position that already belongs to him.
The plot develops, just as Niki Lauda guessed, after the No. 3 corner, Schumacher began to accelerate at full throttle, intending to completely recover the previous disadvantage on the short straight, and then overtake Zhang Yifei!
The engine roared desperately, and Zhang Yifei turned on the speed limit again, but out of the corner of his eye, he still saw that the red Ferrari was catching up little by little, on par with his JS53 car.
Zhang Yifei has thought countless times that the drivers who fight against Schumacher in this era are desperate in their hearts. Because no matter how hard they try, they have an opponent who can't catch up.
As a result, I didn't expect to feel the despair brought by Schumacher so quickly.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei felt that he had played 120% of his level, and there had been no mistakes from beginning to end, including the perfect line pressing.
But even so, Turn 3 on lap 27 was a little unable to stop Schumacher's overtaking. This feeling of being tied by the opponent little by little, and being powerless is really uncomfortable!
Give up?
This idea appeared in Zhang Yifei's mind, and it was not a shame to lose to a great opponent like Schumacher. After all, his contemporaries have all lost, and he is still a rookie in the season, so reaching second place is already an improvement, and it is always better than the previous third place, right?
But when this idea came up, Zhang Yifei's mind came to mind, as well as the pair of expectant eyes, as well as the cheers on the track, and the expectations of countless people in China thousands of miles away.
Many times when the game reaches this stage, it is no longer a person fighting, but a team or even a country behind it.
Just like why Barrichello worked hard in the Brazilian Grand Prix, Montoya didn't even hesitate to crash, not wanting Zhang Yifei to win the Brazilian championship and embarrass himself in front of countless Colombian compatriots.
In fact, the truth is the same, and they also bear the hope of too many people.
I won't give up!
These five words appeared in Zhang Yifei's mind, and an incomparably firm determination made him put his weakness aside.
The right foot was pressed again, and the accelerator pedal had been stepped on by Zhang Yifei to the top, and Prost Racing also exerted its full strength.
50 meters of short straights, at most Schumacher with a relatively fast speed out of the corner, and the performance of the Ferrari car to catch up, it is absolutely impossible to directly eat their own to complete the overtaking in such a short distance, no matter how weak the Prost car is, it is not the speed of the tractor!
So it's a big deal that the two sides return to the same running line again, and in the next corner, who can grab the best tangent line can still lead in front!
The two cars were getting closer and closer to Turn 4, with no signs of braking on either side, and their speed soared from around 100 km/h at the exit of the corner to 200 km/h, and even more than 300 km/h.
Turn 4 is not a small angle, barely a high-speed corner, but the problem is that it is also a corner, and the maximum speed is 260km/h, or even lower.
And whether it is Zhang Yifei or Schumacher, let alone a little brake, there is no sign of even closing the throttle, do the two of them plan to go through the corner with a full throttle?
The problem was that the downhill section was going to speed much faster than expected, and if they had continued at that speed, they would have gotten 100 percent more than 300 km/h into the corner.
This speed exceeds the upper limit of 260km/h corner, it is no longer a problem that can be solved by control, and it will also rush out of the track 100% due to huge inertia, this is the law of physics!
"Fei is now on par with Schumacher, both of them are very fast, there is no sign of slowing down, are they both going to use this speed to cross Turn 4?"
"If that's the case, then I can already predict the outcome in advance, the pole position and the second driver of the Austrian Grand Prix will both cross the track at Turn 4, and whether it can be returned depends on whether the turf will slip."
Blundell directly gave the conclusion, he believes that even he understands things, two F1 drivers who can get a super driver's license, it is impossible not to understand.
Of course, Blundell can also understand the mentality of both sides, Zhang Yifei has pressed so many laps, he definitely doesn't want to be surpassed. And for Schumacher's current status, it is also unbearable to be blocked by a Chinese kid for so many circles.
The problem is that Zhang Yifei is still acceptable to play the limit, after all, he is a newcomer, young and frivolous.
Is a top veteran like Schumacher really not calm?