772 Road of Kings
", Zhang Yifei is overtaking Schumacher, is Schumacher not paying attention to the practice match, or is Yifei too strong?"
"Of course it's a flying power, didn't you notice that Schumacher had already picked up speed at the start of the second lap? If he didn't care, why did he see Zhang Yifei catching up and speeding up? ”
"Is that really that strong? Schumacher only blocked one lap? ”
"I'm also a little confused, isn't Schumacher the best driver in F1? Could it be that I don't know much about equations? ”
At least half of the Chinese audience at the scene had not paid much attention to F1 before Zhang Yifei. Especially before CCTV did not broadcast it, I didn't even watch the F1 race, at most I had heard of Schumacher's name.
How to describe this kind of hearing? Just like many people have never boxed, have heard of Tyson's name, have never played golf, and know that there is a guy named Tiger Woods, who has never even seen a tennis court, Federer is also thunderous many times.
So for these people, except for Zhang Yifei, they only know Schumacher, know that he is the strongest formula driver in the world, and know that he has won four world championship titles.
Whether it is publicity or the actual championship battle, the Chinese Grand Prix is also between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher, and the "red and blue duel" was thought to be a great battle, and even Zhang Yifei may not be able to win.
As a result, in today's practice session, I was a grass, and the driver flew one lap to catch up with Schumacher, and directly killed the other party in two laps, is this really the legendary strongest driver Schumacher?
Not to mention the Chinese audience who don't know much about formula racing in this era, even the crew members who have been in the industry for decades at the scene, when they saw this scene, they wondered if they were delusional.
From Schumacher's acceleration, it is obvious that he began to officially treat this practice race after the first lap, after all, in terms of his identity and status, if he is really easily caught up and overtaken by Zhang Yifei, even if it is just a practice race, he will not be able to get off the stage.
But here's the problem, Schumacher has begun to get serious, and he was still easily overtaken by Zhang Yifei, and the full-curve tracking braking of the 1, 2, and 3 combination corners just now was too perfect, not at all like the first time he ran on the East China Sea Circuit.
If it weren't for the fact that this Donghai track was built in a hurry this year, then other teams would definitely wonder if the Prost team had colluded with the Donghai side to let Zhang Yifei train privately on the track in advance.
If most people thought that Zhang Yifei was a young man, he was still inferior to Schumacher in terms of hard power and heritage.
So today's performance in this practice match represents Zhang Yifei's lead and surpass over Schumacher, and a new generation of F1 super kings will be born, just like Schumacher himself completed the alternation with Senna eight years ago!
"Is Fei finally going to start his own path to kingship?"
In the VIP viewing room of the East China Sea Circuit, there was an irrepressible excitement on Nicky Lauda's scarred face under the baseball cap.
Today, he did not stand in the pit of the Jaguar team and look at Zhang Yifei as an opponent, but completely felt Zhang Yifei's strength and strength with the mentality of a senior and a bystander.
The reason why Lauda will stand in the VIP viewing room is because the wheel of history about him has not been disturbed by Zhang Yifei, and he still goes on the established track. The power struggle between Ford's headquarters in the Americas and the former Stewart team in Europe erupted in full swing under the poor results of the season.
In the end, the American Ford system was defeated, and the airborne Jaguar CEO Lauda became the best scapegoat, and was unilaterally dismissed by the Ford Group without knowing it, so he changed from the head of an F1 team to an ordinary spectator on the track.
It is precisely because of the identity of an ordinary spectator that he can truly feel Zhang Yifei's progress and strength.
Not to mention other tracks, in terms of the performance of today's East China Sea Grand Prix, Zhang Yifei completed the crushing of Schumacher. If Schumacher is all he can do, or if the Ferrari strategy team can't think of anything to change, then the final winner of the championship battle will be the driver's fly!
On the track, Schumacher looked at the Prost car that passed by him and couldn't even stop it, and was a little confused sitting in the cockpit of the car at the moment.
In the 06 East China Sea Grand Prix in history, Schumacher almost used the same lightning speed to complete the overtaking of Alonso, who had risen at that time, on this corner.
Even the commentator didn't expect the overtaking to be so fast and smooth, everyone thought that the war between the two kings would at least have a grappling, and Alonso defended tenaciously.
It is estimated that Alonso that year, looking at the red Ferrari car speeding past him, was also in this state of confusion.
But that year's Tokai Grand Prix, which was already in its third year, was a very difficult way to brake in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd corners, but at least it was not a novelty, and the top drivers could do this kind of maneuvering.
For today's drivers, the vast majority of them are currently unable to control the full curve of braking, even Schumacher himself, unable to perfectly control the throttle through corners.
Now Zhang Yifei gave him a vivid lesson, using textbook-like manipulation to make Schumacher understand how to walk the line in this corner.
"It's that simple to be overtaken?"
When Jean Todd saw the overtaking scene on the track, he even lost his body for a moment.
He really didn't expect that Schumacher would be so crushed and surpassed by a Chinese boy.
Although the overtaking in the practice race does not mean anything in terms of results, Zhang Yifei's performance has proved that he has the strength to control the East China Sea Circuit. This is the first driver in the world to dominate the Tokai Circuit, and there is no one!
And what's even more chilling is that no one can know whether this kind of strength is Zhang Yifei's limit. If the Chinese kid can be stronger and faster, who will be his opponent on the track, and will the championship battle of the final battle become a suspenseless race in advance?
"Fei has really managed to dominate the track?"
Rose Brown next to him was also shocked and stayed in place, and the vague worry before had now been confirmed.
Zhang Yifei's slackness on the East China Sea track is not the so-called lost expansion, but he thinks that he has the absolute strength to defeat his opponent, and there is no need to be overly nervous and dignified.
It's just that now no one can answer the questions of Jean Todd or Rose Brown, not even the Prost team!
Because in the Prost pit, the surprise of the crew members was slightly better than that of the Ferrari strategy team, after all, they knew that Zhang Yifei ran an amazing lap time on the racing simulator.
It's just that the lap time of the racing simulator can't be equated with the performance on the track, especially a brand new track that has not been touched at all.
And now Zhang Yifei not only showed the same amazing handling and speed on the track, but also used Schumacher as a background board, proving his actual combat ability.
"Are we really going to have a championship that belongs to Prost?"
Yamamoto Youjing muttered in a low voice, just the strength that Zhang Yifei showed just now has shown the spirit of a king.
Never before has the Prost team been so close to the World Championship trophy!
"Fei has more advantages than we imagined, stronger than everyone imagined!"
There was a bit of trilling in Prost's tone, and with his experience, he naturally understood how much advantage Zhang Yifei had now.
Even in history, there are very few such championship battles and crushing another driver.
According to the current trend, the champion will belong to Fly, and it will belong to Prost!
Not to mention the strategy group, even an ordinary maintenance team that does not participate in tactical customization was a little stunned when they saw Zhang Yifei easily overtaking Schumacher.
"When did Fei Ge become so strong, and Schumacher couldn't stop him?"
Ah Hu said in great surprise, usually he is the number one "sycophant", but in the face of this scene on the track, no matter how blindly he worships Zhang Yifei, he can't imagine Schumacher's "vulnerable".
"I don't know, is this the will of heaven, destined to be on our territory, to stage a miracle?"
Chen Zhi was also a little stunned, this kind of scene was really different from what he expected. I thought it was a close war, but it turned out to be one-sided.
"Whatever his reason, this is the victory that belongs to Fei, and the glory will belong to Prost!"
Chief technician Charlie didn't care so much, he had more than ten years in his career, and for the first time he had the opportunity to become a member of the championship team, which was much more important than Ah Hu and Chen Zhi.
What's going on behind the scenes, it's not something the maintenance team should worry about, they just need to witness the victory!
Overtaking on the track was completed, but the practice match did not end there, and Schumacher, who was stunned for a short time, still had an extremely strong psychological quality after all, so as not to be defeated by this defeat before the start of the race.
He reacted and stepped on the accelerator to go down, ate the wake of Zhang Yifei in front of him, and chased after him.
What tuning plan, what track feedback, this moment is not within the scope of Schumacher's thinking, he just wants to catch up with Zhang Yifei and understand where he "lost"!
The two cars are still racing, relying on the wake effect and the fact that there are many straights on the East China Sea Circuit, Schumacher can barely bite the tail of Zhang Yifei's car. It's just that he was shocked to find that he couldn't even organize a basic attack.
As long as there is a slight slackness and can't eat the wake, Zhang Yifei will be thrown away far away.
When Schumacher couldn't believe it, he could clearly watch Zhang Yifei go over the corners and lines in the back, and Zhang Yifei knew every corner as if he knew it well, and he was very precise about the tangent corners, and he couldn't see the rustiness of running on a new track for the first time.
Schumacher is well prepared for a battle for the East China Sea circuit and for being the first person in F1 history.
But Schumacher had to admit at the moment that on the track line, he was completely defeated by the driver in front of him!
It seems that for Zhang Yifei, this is not a new track that was only built this year, but a proficiency with muscle memory. This is absolutely impossible without years of training, and racing simulators are not up to the standard of actual combat training.
No way! It's absolutely impossible to do!
Schumacher shouted in his heart, but it was precisely this short distraction that made him thrown off by Zhang Yifei in the corner, without the help of the racing wake, a Ferrari car that had not been tuned for the East China Sea Circuit, there was no hope of catching up with Zhang Yifei!
Looking at Schumacher in the back, the news was in the field of vision in the rearview mirror, and Zhang Yifei's face did not have the excitement and excitement of defeating Schumacher in the past, as if this was a matter of course.
That's right, at least for Zhang Yifei, if even Schumacher, who has not completed the track tuning and runs a new track for the first time, can't complete the crushing, it is a blasphemy of his two-year career in his previous life!
If in the racing simulator before, only the familiarity of memory came to mind, then when you actually run on the Tokai Circuit, it is as if the two worlds of yourself have overlapped together.
It used to be just a combination with the car, but now the three aspects of yourself, the car, and the track seem to be integrated into a part, everything is so familiar, any corner can rely on instinctive control, even the most powerful Schumacher, it is impossible to beat himself in this practice race.
This feeling may only be experienced by Senna, the peak of the rainstorm at the Donington Park circuit in 1993, running the greatest lap in F1 history.
Schumacher, I'm really sorry this time, on the home circuit of the East China Sea, the first Chinese Grand Prix, I won't give you any hope and opportunity!
"Schumacher was not only overtaken, but even thrown off, which is probably something that Schumacher has never encountered in a title race."
"Practice flying shows this kind of dominating performance, is it the crushing of strength, or is it Schumacher avoiding his edge?"
"Lee, what do you think about that?"
Blundell explained the situation on the track, and his tone was full of surprise.
It can be said that in the past ten years, Schumacher has not been crushed so much on a new track, even if Senna is reborn, he can't do it.
From being chased at the beginning, to being overtaken on lap three, and being thrown off on lap five, even Schumacher, who picked up speed later, flew at least 0.5 seconds slower on a lap according to Blundel's estimate.
It may be that this gap is too amazing, and Blundell really doesn't dare to be sure that it is Zhang Yifei's crushing of Schumacher's strength.
Facing Brendell's inquiring gaze, Li Bing is also sluggish, what do I think?
What a!
Who has ever seen Schumacher being crushed like this, and who would dare to believe that this is a Chinese driver who did it.
Instead of asking me what I think, ask God what he thinks!