Zhang Yifei's starting speed was very fast, and the whole starting process was smooth, maintaining his usual advantages and strengths, and not giving his opponent any chance at the starting stage.

This time, however, the other drivers were not slow at all, and the distance was almost the same as the starting distance of qualifying.

After all, compared to Formula Renault, there are some uneven kart drivers, and those who can enter the front of the grid have more or less several championship titles, and even F3 champions of the same level.

Maybe Takuma Sato and Yuji Inide are not as strong as Massa and Kubica.

But at this point in time, they are better than Massa and Kubica, who are still junior formula drivers, so the chase will be more intense!

With the throttle down to the end, a frantic upshift began, and the car quickly crossed the starting Grand Prix building and drove clockwise towards the Cultural East Corner.

Compared with the previous Renault car, the Dallara car used in F3 this time has 20 horsepower and the top speed of the car has also increased from 260km/h in the Renault class to 280km/h.

The slight increase in power and top speed is actually not very significant. The main difference between the Dallara race car and the Renault car is that the engine has been upgraded, so that the low torque is more abundant, and the response time of the gearbox has also been improved.

This change makes the acceleration response of the car faster at low speeds, especially on a slow-speed track like Guia, where the importance of acceleration ability is far greater than that of top speed.

After all, many times, the Guia Circuit does not run at a top speed of 280 km/h.

Due to the width of the track, all the cars are almost lined up, biting the car in front of them, waiting for the opportunity to overtake the corner.

The same is true for Takuma Sato, who used the wake effect brought by the car in front of him to chase after Zhang Yifei's rear very closely, not even half the length of the body.

And at the same time that Zhang Yifei was upshifting, Sato Takuma was also upshifting with floor oil, not giving Zhang Yifei any chance to throw himself off.

Of course, Takyu Sato was not wide enough to get to the height of the local riders on Oshima behind him. If history has not changed, the title of this year's Australian Island Grand Prix will fall to Gao Gao, who will also become the first driver on Australian Island to win the Grand Prix.

And not only did he win the F3 championship title, but he also won the all-Japan championship when he participated in the Japanese Super GT.

It can also be seen from these results that Gao Gao is a very capable driver, and has been among the top drivers in Asia for a long time. Coupled with the local advantage of the Guia Circuit, he followed Takuma Sato very easily.

The first few cars roared away, and the drivers at the back of the qualifying race did not have this kind of precise control of the distance.

With such a close following distance, the car in front of you will slow down slightly, and the driver behind will easily rear-end collision as long as the strength is not enough, or if the reaction is not timely.

In Formula 1, dozens of the world's best drivers race together, and this kind of rear-end collision is considered a low-level mistake in their eyes, and the rear-end driver is also called a "torpedo".

But in the Grand Prix F3, you can't ask these drivers to be held to F1 standards, so it's normal for them to have on-track accidents.

Historically, whether it is F3 or GT racing groups, there have been more than a dozen car collisions in a row, which instantly reduced the completion rate to less than 50%.

And the cost of this kind of serial collision accident is extremely expensive, and the value of a dozen racing cars may be as high as hundreds of millions! Guia was once called one of the most expensive circuits in the world because of these racing accidents.

So less than 10 seconds after the start of the race, there was a rear-end collision on the track. However, the consequences of such an accident were not serious, and only minor damage was caused to the rear wing and nose wing of the car.

Neither driver chose to retire, but instead chose to carry on the race with the damaged car.

The accident on the track naturally attracted the attention of commentator Li Xin.

"The Guia Circuit, which has been called the most dangerous track in Asia, was reflected at this moment."

"Just 10 seconds into the race, there was the first racing accident on the track, but in terms of visual inspection, the accident should not be serious, there is no safety car, and the two accident cars are still racing on the track."

"But from this we can also feel the risks of hand-to-hand combat at the Guia Circuit. The distance between the cars at the back of the qualifying is even larger, and several drivers in the first echelon can be said to have directly entered the white-hot competition. ”

"At present, pole sitter Zhang Yifei, even if he is far from the fifth-ranked Japanese champion Yuji Ide, may not be able to reach 30 meters. You must know that the length of the Dallara car is just over 4 meters, which means that the distance between the first echelon drivers is in a very extreme range, which is really daring! ”

Li Xin originally wanted to say that this was the gap in the driver's level, but considering that he was an on-site commentator, it was a bit contemptuous of the drivers at the bottom of the grid to say that the technical gap was so straightforward, so he used a more euphemistic statement.

In the case of a small difference in level, coupled with the fact that the driving is a uniform model of racing car, it is very unrealistic to want to throw the opponent away on the straight or some arc sections.

That's why the first few drivers who had ideas about the championship set their sights on Turn 1 of the Guia Circuit, also known as Mandarin Oriental Circuit.

The difficulty of this curve is not exaggerated, but because the high-speed bend has high requirements for routing, as long as there is a mistake in the wiring, the rear car can use the acceleration effect brought by the wake to seize the best cornering route of the car in front, so as to complete the corner overtaking.

Zhang Yifei has also played this kind of greeting before, and if he is a little more ruthless, he can even directly squeeze the opponent out of the track.

Obviously, Takuma Sato has this idea, and he has always been a "reckless" style of racing, if he grabs the cornering route, he will never make an evasive move, and at that time, the two cars will collide because of the line.

This situation is unacceptable to Zhang Yifei, even if it is Sato Takuma, it is not worth "dying together" with him.

After all, the vast majority of drivers have the opportunity to participate in the Grand Prix again, but Zhang Yifei did not. After the race, he will return to the Prost team base in Europe for F1 winter training.

Now Zhang Yifei can also participate in the F3 Grand Prix as a "swing man". Once you become an official F1 driver, you have to participate in the Australian Island F3 race, which is simply a laughing stock.

Therefore, the Grand Prix has only one chance for Zhang Yifei, and he will not give Sato Takuma a chance to show a "savage collision"!

The brake point decelerated precisely, and then Zhang Yifei cut into the corner, and Takuma Sato really took advantage of this opportunity to launch an attack. But Zhang Yifei's tangent angle was very perfect, and he once overtook Zhang Yifei's rear wheel position, but he could no longer speed up and completely surpass.

Because at this time, Zhang Yifei was already close to the APEX point, and he was about to accelerate out of the corner. Zhang Yifei, who seized the best cornering route, was naturally able to use the extreme speed to corner.

However, Takuma Sato, who was in the overtaking route, did not slow down if he did not succeed, and the consequence was not just as simple as rushing off the track, and he would crash directly behind the reinforced protective fence.

If you are lucky enough to be dodged by the car behind you, if you are unlucky, it will cause a series of collisions, and if you are hit by a car behind you at a speed of more than 100 kilometers, the whole Dallara car can be torn apart.

Takuma Sato has the characteristics of a "kamikaze", but he will not do this kind of senseless suicidal attack.

It's just that Takuma Sato's overtaking failed, and the consequences are not as simple as if it didn't happen, the height of the third place seized the opportunity, while Takuma Sato was still in the overtaking route, he accelerated with one foot of throttle, followed behind Zhang Yifei's cornering route, and instantly surpassed Takuma Sato and came to the second position.

This dazzling performance of the height naturally triggered the cheers of the audience, so the height is also a local driver, and it is easier to get support on the island than a pure foreigner!

After the Mandarin Oriental Turn, the Guia Circuit's longest and widest straight will be ushered in, and you can almost use full throttle speed to head towards the next famous corner, Lisboa Bend.

After exiting the corner, Zhang Yifei glanced in the rearview mirror with his spare eyes and found that the driver was not Takama Sato, who was biting tightly, and changed to the height of car No. 19.

To be honest, this situation surprised Zhang Yifei a little, he didn't expect that in the first corner, the height could surpass Takuma Sato.

He is a driver who knows him very well, and he has even been in contact with it in later generations, and he is very strong, and he has both formula and touring cars. But compared with Takuma Sato's Formula 1 and Indy 500 double repair drivers, it is still more than a step behind.

Not to mention Takuma Sato, who finally won the world championship of the Indy 500, in a sense, he can be regarded as standing at the peak of the driver.

Now it seems that it is not for nothing that Altitude can become the first Grand Prix champion on the island. His absolute familiarity with the track, coupled with his ability to control opportunities, is the key to his ability to surpass Takuma Sato!

But Zhang Yifei doesn't care which of them follows him, after all, no matter how good the runner-up is, he can only stand below the champion.

With the excellent cornering of Mandarin Oriental Bend, Zhang Yifei opened up a little distance from the car behind, at least there was no "face-to-face" scene at the start of the race.

With a long straight at full throttle, it's hard to overtake, and the drivers' ranking order hasn't changed.

Soon the drivers came to the Lisboa Bend, which has the highest difficulty coefficient and the highest accident rate on the Guia Circuit. This corner is a huge test for the driver and one of the easiest places to overtake.

Just as Zhang Yifei was about to enter the corner, Coser's voice sounded in the headset: "The height of the rear car is accelerating and approaching, take the defensive route when exiting the corner, and pay attention to the problem of narrowing the field of vision." ”