"Beautiful!"

"Great, overtook Alonso on the straight."

"Fei looks angry."

"It's not easy to mess with serious flying."

When the team members in the pit saw this scene, they couldn't help but start celebrating.

Zhang Yifei's feints and lane changes on the long straight road are too beautiful, and a series of controls can be described in four words.

More importantly, how long has it been since you've seen a Prost car that can eat your opponent on the long straights?

Alonso's mood on the track can be said to have fallen into a trough in an instant, and he is even more uncomfortable after eating flies. In the Australian Grand Prix, it was because of the performance and small faults of the car that he was set by the champion Schumacher twice, and even by the Chinese boy for one lap.

As a result, now in the Malaysian Grand Prix, the long straight acceleration, which has little technical content, can actually be eaten hard by Zhang Yifei's Prost car, and this kind of thing can actually happen?

It can be said that being eaten hard by Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and other teams Alonso can be accepted, and being eaten hard by Prost, who is also a dishman, really makes him feel a little aggrieved, is the Minardi car really so bad?

In fact, Minardi racing is really so bad, last season Prost and Minardi team were at the bottom, and both of them went out together with zero points.

In the historical 2001 season, the Prost team also scored 4 points, completed the breakthrough of zero, surpassed the Arrow team with 1 point, and the Minardi team with 0 points, and rose two places to become the third from the bottom.

You must know that the 2001 season was already the time when the Prost team was disbanded, and even the prototype AP05 of the 02 season was forced to sell to offset the account.

As for this kind of convoy on the eve of bankruptcy, Minardi can't even run, which is enough to see how good it is.

The problem is that not only the Prost team, which collapsed in 02, but even the Flying Arrow team, which collapsed in 03, can beat the Minardi team by 1 point, and it is the younger brother of the rookie pecking each other.

Perhaps the only strength of the Minardi team is in its fleet operation, and it has not gone bankrupt or not. Even at the most crashing moment, he sold his team assets to the local tyrant Red Bull and successfully cashed out.

At this point, neither the stubborn Prost nor the confused arrows are far inferior to Minardi.

Of course, the history of this world has changed, and the arrow hugged Toyota's thigh and escaped the fate of bankruptcy and liquidation, so there was no farce of the driver asking for wages and going to court.

As for the Prost team, it is also against the sky, although the team's finances are tight, but the overall situation is starting to go up, as long as this year's track results do not collapse, it should be no problem to find two big sponsors to continue their lives, and finally found a chance to survive in the cruel F1 paddock.

Zhang Yifei, who overtook Alonso on the track, was not in a good situation and he is now in eighth place. Not only is the gap with the first echelon gradually expanding, but even the two Williams drivers who have overtaken the past have run farther and farther, at least at this stage, the hope of catching up is very slim.

Because of the long V-shaped straight, Zhang Yifei is bullying and bullying Minardi racing, and it is impossible to reach the speed of Williams racing. Zhang Yifei will inevitably fall behind on the straight, and can only recover the gap a little bit in the corner.

It's just that compared to the simple handling of floor oil acceleration on the straights, it is too difficult to recover the gap in the corners. Zhang Yifei's primary goal now is not even to catch up, but to stabilize the current gap and no longer expand.

When it came time to make the last pit stop to change tires, he used super soft tires to "fight" with light oil, and hit the chance to enter the top six points at the end.

As for the dream of being on the podium, Zhang Yifei has been awakened by the "beating" of reality.

Because the group of riders in the first echelon is simply not human, they really run as fast as brutes!

The car is already terrifying, and you have to add Ferrari cars, McLaren cars, Jordan cars with Honda, and Renault cars that are back on the track today.

These teams and engine suppliers are manufacturers who have proven their strength and technology on the track, and the stability and performance are not comparable to the teams at the bottom of the rankings.

With a good car, the master has evolved into the "Battle of the Gods" of the first echelon, and when the rookies peck each other later, they are also competing to fly.

The only difference is that the rookies in the back peck each other, which may cause everyone's speed to slow down. And their battle of the gods is to run faster and faster under the competition, and even start lapping the low-ranking drivers in the second half of the race.

Even after a track press, the big three of Schumacher, Barrichello and Coulthard are still far ahead, not giving the drivers behind them any chance.

As Zhang Yifei overtook Alonso, the situation on the track began to calm down, and the fierce overtaking scenes gradually became less and less intense, entering a period of relative peace.

However, this period of peace is not good news for Zhang Yifei. He needs the first echelon of drivers to compete fiercely, and even in the event of a track accident, he will take the initiative in the safety car again, so that he can have a chance to catch up.

Otherwise, in the current situation, it is really not easy for him to overtake Schumacher Jr. and Montoya at the same time and seize their positions into the points area.

This is not only the performance and strength of the car, but the two of them are the same team before and after, and when Zhang Yifei wants to overtake, he will definitely face their joint attack.

Unless he has crushing skills, such as Schumacher now, it is too difficult to defeat Montoya and Schumacher Jr. at the same time, and Zhang Yifei's current strength cannot reach this level.

Even if it is the last pit stop to change tires, it may not be able to complete the final counterattack.

So in the team pit stop, after experiencing Zhang Yifei's joy at Alonso's overtaking, everyone gradually began to calm down. If there are no major changes in the future, the eighth place in the Malaysian Grand Prix may be Zhang Yifei's final result.

Qualifying eighth is actually a perfectly acceptable result for the Prost team. But this time, everyone will have high expectations for Zhang Yifei, and even this includes Alessi's dedication, is it really impossible to change his life against the sky?

"It's raining."

In the maintenance parking space, Ah Hu looked at the raindrops falling from the sky and muttered a word.

In less than ten seconds, the rain began to increase suddenly, from the first small raindrops to a continuous drizzle. And at this moment, a thunderclap sounded in the sky, reminding the world that this might just be the beginning.

"It's not good, Yifei uses hard tires, and the grip will drop sharply in rainy days!"

Chen Zhi remembered that Zhang Yifei started on hard tires, which is suitable for dry and hot tracks, and the Sepang track that does not rain is actually quite suitable.

However, when it rains, the tire temperature will drop very quickly and will not even reach the optimal operating temperature required for tire grip. You must know that the rubber "melting point" of rain tires is only sixty or seventy degrees, and the melting point temperature of hard tires is even about 100 degrees.

In comparison, the working temperature of soft tires is lower, and the process of reducing grip is also lower than that of hard tires.

"I'm going to tell Kossel!"

Chen Zhi's second reaction was to inform Corpher of the rain and ask him to remind Zhang Yifei to be prepared, after all, except for the manager, race engineer and chief technician, other team members have no right to call.

But without waiting for Chen Zhi to report, the Prost strategy team has already begun to implement the backup plan.

"Fly, get ready, pit for the next lap for full rain tires."

Without hesitation, Korsell gave the track order, and judging by the gloomy and gradually expanding rain, it would be at least a heavy rain.

In addition, due to the rain in the previous two days, the water absorption of the track itself tends to be saturated, and the Sepang track, which is built on the swampy ground, has some water accumulation areas due to the sinking terrain in the past two days.

The displacement of semi-rainy tires can no longer solve the problem, and Korsell directly chooses all-rainy tires.

"Roger, pit stop for the next lap."

In fact, there is no need for Korcel to say, Zhang Yifei is also ready to make a pit stop, because the raindrops in the sky are close to the size of mung beans, ticking on the helmet, and it has clearly left water marks.

And this is just the beginning, it is foreseeable that this will be a heavy rain, and the safety requirements for rain warfare in this era are not as high as those of later generations. Halfway through the race, unless it was a rainstorm that affected the safety of the drivers, there would not have been a red flag to stop the race so early.

Listening to Cosell's pit stop instructions, the faces of the team members were not good-looking, and the rain at this time was undoubtedly a worse thing for Zhang Yifei.

You must know that the advantage of the one-stop tactic is to rely on the second half of the schedule to exert force, and now you are forced to pit and change tires, which is equivalent to burning all the previous efforts to press the car and protect the tires.

If you knew that it would rain heavily to change the rain tires, it would be better to let Zhang Yifei use soft tires or neutral tires at the beginning, and then half load the oil, so that the early speed will be much faster than the hard tires and heavy oil, and many thrilling overtaking and overtaking scenes can be avoided, and there is no need for Alessi to block the car!

This heavy rain is equivalent to announcing the failure of the team's one-stop tactics!

Compared with the frustration and pessimism of the team members, Zhang Yifei looked at the raindrops falling in the sky, and his heart began to be excited and ecstatic.

To be honest, looking at Montoya and Schumacher Jr., who were gradually being distanced, Zhang Yifei was really a little unconfident that he could catch up with and surpass the two of them in the second half of the schedule.

Because some of their soft persimmons are different, they are really two hard stones on the current track, and if they want to eat them, they may have their front teeth knocked out.

But now this rain means that there will be a rain war next, which is the scene that Zhang Yifei was looking forward to before the game.

Fifteen years ago, Senna achieved the name of Senna in the rain with a shocking rain battle in the rookie stage.

In today's heavy rain, I, Zhang Yifei, want to use the Sepang track to erect a legend of a trapeze man in the rain!