472 Textbook Corners (Chapter 3)
While Zhang Yifei was extremely depressed, there was actually someone who wanted to greet Zhang Yifei's family members cordially, and this person was Ralph Schumacher behind him.
This Chinese kid let Montoya overtake, and let Heidfeld overtake, and when Lao Tzu was about to overtake, a lane change blocked in front of the car, and now he has to press the car!
What the hell does this mean, can't you afford to play, everyone else can let it go, and it's my turn to block someone?
The problem is that the Chinese kid doesn't let the super even if he stops it, and then the long straight road also changes lanes frantically to press the car, directly allowing the leading driver to widen the distance, which makes Ralph Schumacher so angry that his lungs are about to explode.
Interlagos Circuit, not only the American drivers want to get good results and give an explanation to their hometown parents, Ralph also wants to go further, after all, no one wants to bear the title of an indisputable brother forever, he wants to catch up with his brother!
Zhang Yifei naturally felt his dissatisfaction and anger from Schumacher's crazy lane change from a young age. But Zhang Yifei didn't have a choice, the Williams car driven by Schumacher Jr. used the engine provided by BMW.
That's why Williams Racing's livery this year will be blue and white, because that's the same color as the BMW logo "Blue Sky and White Clouds".
The BMW engine's power advantage this year is obvious, and it is basically the most powerful racing power unit in the current F1 paddock, even surpassing the Ferrari engine. At the beginning of the Albert Park circuit, Montoya relied on the power advantage of the BMW engine to take Zhang Yifei on the straight.
However, this year's Williams car's aerodynamic design is a little worse, plus a rookie driver, and Schumacher Jr., a driver whose name is bigger than reality, the results can only be said to be so-so, and the powerful performance of the BMW engine has not been brought into play.
Similar to the Williams team, McLaren, one of the Big Three, has the strongest Mercedes-Benz engine on the track and the fastest theoretical speed.
The result was too inconsistent, and in the last race, Kimi Raikkonen retired due to a malfunction, and David Coulthard had another problem at the start, resulting in a failed start.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei, according to historical experience, thinks that his Peugeot engine is a time bomb. As a result, I didn't expect that except for the weak power, there was nothing wrong in the competition, and McLaren's Mercedes-Benz engine blew up a few times.
Sometimes fate is like this, I thought I was driving the worst car, but when I compared, the Prost car was still less than the top and more than the bottom, which really moved Zhang Yifei to cry......
It is precisely because of the comparison that the effect can be seen, and Ferrari has become the most stable car on the track with its rich experience in car design and a strong team of technicians under the premise that the engine is not dominant.
Coupled with Michael Schumacher, who is currently the strongest and has no one, he will naturally dominate the world.
So in any case, Zhang Yifei can't let Schumacher Jr. surpass him, otherwise the power advantage brought by the BMW engine will be too difficult for him to overtake him.
With his excellent pressing skills, Zhang Yifei successfully blocked Schumacher Jr. behind his car on the starting straight. Then he braked hard to slow down, from a maximum of 300 km/h, to 88 km/h in second gear, and made the first sharp left turn.
Zhang Yifei turned the corner according to the usual operation, but the little Schumacher who was holding his breath did not plan to spend this overtaking point peacefully with Zhang Yifei.
I saw that he chose to brake late, entered the Senna bend at a speed of almost 100km/h, and wanted to overtake Zhang Yifei from the outside lane when the inner lane line was already occupied by Zhang Yifei, so that he could directly enter the middle of the S bend, so as to completely lead the opponent.
But Schumacher's speed was not extreme enough, and when he crossed the middle of Zhang Yifei's car on the outside of the front wing, the left turn was already completed, and Zhang Yifei accelerated directly out of the corner on the short straight, cutting off his overtaking route and pressing him behind the car again.
For Schumacher Jr.'s overtaking move, in fact, it has always been expected by Zhang Yifei, and he coped with it very calmly.
Because Schumacher's overtaking speed is too slow, 100km/h is not enough, if you want to quickly overtake Zhang Yifei in a sharp corner, you must at least reach more than 110km/h, in order to overtake in one fell swoop.
It's just that this kind of speed requires very high grip, and it also needs to borrow the shoulder to line up. It's only the first lap and the warm-up lap doesn't necessarily make the tire temperature work at its best, so Schumacher Jr. doesn't have the determination to break off the track with a 70 percent chance of getting off the track.
And then again, the game has just begun, and to do this kind of extreme manipulation, to use the word ruined boat, is simply an insult to this idiom, and a more appropriate word should be stupid!
After the sharp left turn, Zhang Yifei began to speed up, entering 3rd gear at 150km/h through the downhill right bend of the S bend. At the moment of passing through the corner, he once again kicked the floor oil, and the tail speed out of the corner was even as high as 230km/h.
The alignment, gear shifting, acceleration and deceleration timing of the entire Senna bend, Zhang Yifei has reached the textbook level of control.
After the race, even many fans who watched the video review, whether they supported Zhang Yifei or not, had to objectively admit that this Chinese boy's understanding of the Interlagos circuit was not inferior to that of any Brazilian driver.
It is precisely because of Zhang Yifei's superb control that after the Senna bend, he actually pulled away the little Schumacher, who was already close to the butt of the car, for a distance. There is no doubt that Zhang Yifei overtook Schumacher Jr. in cornering manoeuvres.
โshit๏ผ When did Ralph become so unbearable? What kind of joke is this iconic corner like Senna Bend, which can be thrown off by the Chinese Yankees? โ
"Ralph has been running in F1 for a few years, and his brother is still Schummy, so he can't control a rookie?"
"Maybe it was because of the failure to overtake and disrupted his cornering line, but I'm sure Ralph will catch up because his surname is Schumacher!"
"Don't even be a Chinese newcomer and embarrass Shumi!"
Some European or American spectators on the track felt a little unacceptable when they saw this scene.
Although the Seine Bend is a classic corner of the Interlagos circuit, it does not mean that as long as you overtake, you will be successful.
However, in the step of competing for hard power such as cornering and routing, Zhang Yifei was thrown away, which made it difficult for many fans who were optimistic about the Schumacher brothers to accept, and they expressed their dissatisfaction.
After Senna bent over, he temporarily relieved Schumacher Jr.'s threat to Zhang Yifei, and now Zhang Yifei's attention began to focus on the Sauber driver Heidfeld in front.
Heidenfeld is actually among the rookie drivers in the last two years, both in terms of performance and stability, and it is not bad compared to Marquis, Yoong Long, Iide Yuji, and Bernoldi.
It's just that his luck is really not very good, the first team to enter the F1 paddock is the Prost team, which was on the verge of collapse at the time, and then he and Alessi, a French veteran, do each other's treasures.
The racing score did not score a point, but the level of boxing has greatly improved, with a height of 1.66 meters, Alessi, who is a head taller than himself, has played back and forth.
When he came to Sauber, his results began to rise, and he even beat Kimi Raikkonen, a super newcomer who created the miracle of "triple jump".
It's just that he didn't have a thigh hug from his Finnish hometown, and world champion Hakkinen gave up the vacant position after his retirement to his compatriots. So Kimi Raikkonen soared from the bottom of the Sauber team to the Big Three team McLaren.
However, Heidenfeld's performance in the Sauber team in the past few years is okay, and he can be regarded as a mid-to-upper driver, which also laid a solid foundation for him to enter the Williams team later.
It's just that the Williams team in 05 is actually in a downhill stage, and the Big Three have become in name only. The strength of Heidfeld's mediocrity is at most guaranteed not to lag behind, and it is impossible to save the giant team.
So he switched back to the BMW team that bought the Sauber team, which ushered in the second spring of his life, and basically returned to the ranks of middle and upper reaches.
But that's where his ceiling lies, he will never be able to become a top driver, and finally retiring from Renault after a few years with BMW.
Against Heidfeld, Zhang Yifei had no pressure, he believed that the other party could not stop him.
In the middle of the chase for Heidfeld, the cars behind began to enter the Seine Bend. It was also at this time that Kimi Raikkonen, a super-newcomer who many people were optimistic about and followed, had a tire lock in the corner.
This situation has made many viewers wonder, could it be that Kimi Raikkonen also made a low-level mistake of stepping on the brakes?
No one knows exactly why, but what the audience can see is that Villeneuve and Alessi, who are behind Kimi Raikkonen, both took the opportunity to overtake the Finnish driver and drop Kimi to 13th place.
For this situation, many Kimi fans are very heartbroken, they have high hopes for Kimi, and the Australian Grand Prix also gave them the illusion that this year's super rookie title is definitely Kimi's.
But in the follow-up track performance, Kimi was very mediocre, there was no super newcomer at all, and the gap with Zhang Yifei was also widened, what happened to the Finnish iceman?
However, the audience did not feel sorry for Kimi Raikkonen for long, because at the moment the competition in the first echelon of the track is more fierce.
The Colombian driver was like a Saiyan outburst, unexpectedly overtaking Barrichello and began to attack the red god Schumacher.
This situation was something that everyone didn't expect, and Zhang Yifei, who was lagging behind, naturally couldn't see it.
If he knew, he would be surprised in his heart, could it be that Montoya's "battle for fame" was still staged according to the trajectory of history?