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Zhang slowed down and waved his arms to thank the supporters in the stands. I may regret it, but this achievement is a historic breakthrough for the Chinese Formula Race, and it is worth celebrating with the Chinese audience.

In addition to cheering, there were many Australian spectators on the track, making some sour sounds.

"It's really going to let the Chinese guys run into the top six, but this year's drivers can't!"

"What did I brag about before, the Montoya Indy 500 World Champion and Frenzen have rich experience in the event, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that, not even a Chinese rookie!"

"It's good that Kimi won under the Gemini, otherwise it would be a shame to think of being ridden on the head by a yellow-skinned Chinese guy."

The sound of these sour lemons is not loud, and it is not at all comparable to the inverted and booing before the game.

Competitive sports are like this, only if you can run out of results, even if you just look at me, you have to lie down honestly. Losers say too much nonsense, which will only make people laugh, and many spectators on the track today can also be described as some "losers".

After running the last circuit lap, Zhang Yifei drove the car into the team pit stop, and got all kinds of congratulations as soon as he got off the car.

However, Zhang Yifei doesn't attach much importance to these, just like after getting on the championship podium, there will only be a champion left in his eyes. Zhang Yifei's highest ranking has come to fourth, and in his eyes it is now the podium, this time it is really a little worse!

Korcel also has a flat face, he is a top strategist who has worked with Senna, he has seen the champion of the year, and a sixth place is just a sparse and ordinary in his eyes.

Even Prost, if it weren't for the identity of the boss, he wouldn't even be interested in paying attention to Zhang Yifei's achievements. After all, this is a superstar of the era who competes with the car gods, with four championship titles on his body, and once he even overpowered Senna's legend!

Korsell glanced at Zhang Yifei and didn't emphasize any words of congratulations, but just said lightly: "Let's weigh it first." ”

Unlike the previous junior formula games, Formula 1 has more post-race weighing, similar to many combat sports, where the kilograms are weighed and divided.

However, the weight of the car is not to divide the kilogram class, but after the competition, the total weight of the driver and the vehicle cannot be less than the total weight of the event, otherwise the result will be cancelled.

Moreover, the main reason for weighing in combat sports is the fear that the fighters will be overweight, which is undoubtedly unfair to the light-weight fighters. The idea of car weighing is just the opposite, because the driver and the total weight of the car are too low, which is also unfair to other drivers.

After all, there has always been an old saying in the racing world that all modifications are not as good as lightweight, and the lighter the car, the greater the advantage.

Even many serious and professional teams, in order to prevent penalties for not meeting the total weight standard, will require drivers to not follow the usual racing route in the last lap or two of the race.

Because the tires of the racing car are constantly worn out during the race, and the worn rubber will not disappear out of thin air, but will naturally remain on the track. Just like walking on a muddy road, where the roadway gets rutted and dirt piles up on both sides, the track will happen with more and more worn rubber.

In the last lap or two, in order to avoid weight failures, the riders took this "rubber route" and tried to get the tires back a little bit. This is similar to the principle that a normal car walks on a muddy ground and there is always a lot of dirt stuck to the wheels.

These rubber debris on it don't look like a lot, but the four tires combined, maybe about 1 kilogram. In many cases, the difference between the total weight and the standard is this weight, so the team will often give similar instructions in the last lap or two of the race.

The Prost team did not give such an order, the main reason is that the Peugeot engine is a little lighter, and it does not make the car achieve the ultimate weight reduction, and it is necessary to rely on this rubber to solve the problem of weighing after the race.

Zhang Yifei is not worried about whether the total weight will reach the standard, and the weight of his racing car has a little redundancy, just to avoid such an accident.

But then again, redundancy is not a good thing, for a car sports event that pays attention to the limit, the victory and defeat are calculated in milliseconds, the best is to put the total weight, accurate to the range of 100 grams.

But Zhang Yifei is just a newcomer, this is also his debut in the race, there is not enough comparative reference data, I don't know what his racing habits and driving style are, whether the tire is strong or not, and even how much sweat and so on.

Therefore, the team did not dare to develop any radical tactical strategy, and the weight of a few kilograms may only have a very subtle effect. But even a few grams lighter will be punished by the FIA, which is definitely a thing that outweighs the loss.

As he walked to the weighing room, Zhang Yifei glanced at the ranking map on the track.

First place was no surprise, with Michael Schumacher from Ferrari winning the Grand Prix in the opening race of the new season, and his qualifying pole position as the biggest winner in Australia.

Unfortunately, due to the weather on the track, Schumacher was unable to break the previous track record set by Mika Hakkinen. Otherwise, the opening game of the new season will be a hat-trick.

Schumacher's total time of 1:38:26.533 is a good time for the Albert Park circuit, but it is not very experienced, and the weather on the track has caused slow lap times this year.

The second-placed driver was a bit of a surprise to Zhang Yifei in terms of total time, and he was David Coulthard from McLaren, who finished the race 1.718 seconds slower than Schumacher!

You must know that this is not the difference in the fastest speed of a lap, and in the course of more than an hour, it is only a little more than a second behind, which can be described as very small.

It could be that if you play a little better in a certain lap, this year's championship title will change hands. Zhang Yifei knows that the current Coulthard is stronger, and he is one of the few drivers who can threaten Schumacher on the track in the past two years.

But Zhang Yifei didn't expect that Coulthard could be so strong and have the ability to threaten Schumacher.

The game is not only based on absolute ability, but also on the original state and performance, and Schumacher wants to sing "how lonely it is to be invincible" every game, and it seems that it is not so easy.

In third place was Ferrari's traditional green-leaf driver Barrichello, who was much slower, with a time of 33.497 seconds.

In the five years that Barrichello has played very well in the Ferrari dynasty, he is basically hovering in the top three. But his strength is still not recognized by many people, and he has not received much attention.

In addition to Schumacher's aura is too dazzling, completely suppressing the opponent. Another point is that Barrichello did not show an absolute kingly momentum, which may also have something to do with being a green leaf and wingman at his peak.

In short, many people think that Barrichello is not weak, and his results seem to be strong, but they don't know what to ask, and they always have a little bit of taste.

However, Barrichello's 33.497 seconds was nothing, and the riders behind him were directly a minute slower than Schumacher.

For example, Heindfeld, who finished fourth, was 1:11.479 slower than Schumacher's finish.

But Heidefeld's result still shocked and surprised many people. You must know that many people have defined Heindfield as a newcomer who will be eliminated in the second year.

No one could have imagined that such a rookie season would have a 70 percent retirement rate without scoring a single point. The following year, he transferred to Sauber Racing, and actually beat Kimi Raikkonen, Montoya and other newcomers, as well as a group of F1 veterans, to win the fourth place in the standings.

Heidfeld's performance is really deeply engraved with the old Chinese saying, the tree dies, the person lives, and he is estimated to be the same as Alessi!

Next up was Kimi Raikkonen in fifth, and his achievement was a surprise to many. After all, in his debut last year, he successfully won the station points, and it is impossible to regress even more than last year, right?

The sixth place in the sub-race is Zhang Yifei, and according to the rules of the early days of F1, only the top six drivers in the race can get points. Zhang Yifei happened to be in sixth, and he got the first points of his F1 career!

In the nearly 20 years of F1 history, a rookie can get points on his debut in the season, and he can count them on ten fingers. Moreover, Zhang Yifei is the first non-white driver from Asia to score debut points, which is even more historical.

This means that the white-dominated formula car is starting to really break a gap, and an absolutely competitive yellow driver has emerged. It can even be said that Chinese drivers began to appear on the historical stage of formula racing!

Zhang Yifei's total time was 1:24.143 slower than Schumacher. When he saw this result, Zhang Yifei felt cold in his heart, how did he slow down for more than a minute?

Even after deducting the slow deceleration caused by the crash and the time it takes to make a pit stop, the entire 58 laps of the race still means that the average lap is one second slower!

If you say that a few laps are a second or two slower every once in a while, then it's acceptable, but the laps are a second slower, which is really a bit unacceptable, which means that the level is not on the same level.

The problem is that he is one second behind Schumacher, and Zhang Yifei endures it. Judging from this result, Coulthard, who is behind the second place, is almost a second in circles, is this McLaren driver so powerful?

But seeing the lap times of those drivers behind him, Zhang Yifei instantly felt a lot more balanced in his heart. He was more than a minute slower, but he was not lapped by Schumacher, and the drivers behind Oliver Pannis of the Anglo-American team in seventh place were all lapped by Schumacher.

is as strong as "head brother" Alonso, who was tricked by Schumacher twice in his debut race, how can it be a tragic word......