Zhang Yifei's car is in the third position, and the temperature of the car reaches the best working condition through continuous lane changes and acceleration and deceleration.

Behind him are Suarez and Kubica, after the last stop of the Manicul Circuit, these two people have completely let go of the previous mentality of looking down on Chinese newcomers, and regard Zhang Yifei as their number one strong opponent, and even the object of study.

It can be said that Zhang Yifei's current three-stop race video in the Renault European Cup has become the object of research for many drivers.

They began to analyze Zhang Yifei's cornering route and running style, trying to find some loopholes and breakthroughs, and then formulate an overtaking route to defeat Zhang Yifei.

It's just that the more they study, the more they feel a shock, which is not to say how perfect Zhang Yifei's various techniques are, but the cornering route of this Chinese driver, many times it is terrible to the limit, and there is a feeling of rushing out of control at any time.

These drivers don't understand, why Zhang Yifei can still win the championship under this crazy driving, should he be said to be lucky, or strong?

But this kind of dancing on the tip of a knife, even if it can be imitated, not everyone dares to do it. Maybe you can get points and even a chance to stand on the podium if you run a little behind.

If you choose Zhang Yifei's running style, let alone get points, even this life is at risk of getting out of control.

There are only a few brave people who can really put their lives on the line, so most people choose to give up after studying Zhang Yifei's video.

There is also a small number of psychologically dark, just waiting for Zhang Yifei to lose control on the track, so that this Chinese kid understands that Lady Luck will not favor him forever, and racing will teach him the harshest lesson in life.

Of course, after all, there are still a small number of drivers who are not convinced, such as Kubica, Suarez and others who follow Zhang Yifei, they all have a certain probability of having a chance to win the Renault European Cup Drivers' Championship title.

At the slightest opportunity, no driver is willing to give up.

The most unconvincing of this is Dixon from the last stop.

In fact, in the last stop, he was already on par with Zhang Yifei in terms of driving skills, and he just had to wait for a final chance to overtake. But no one expected that Zhang Yifei made a shocking turn in the final stage, leaving Dixon behind, and at the same time disrupting his mentality.

In the end, because he wanted to catch up with Zhang Yifei too much, Dixon over-speeded in the corner and rushed out of control of the track.

He wasn't hurt, but it was a big blow to his confidence, after all, Dixon always thought that he just didn't shoot, and if he did, the championship would be a hand.

But what really gave Dixon a fatal blow at that time was Sir Williams's remarks after the game, he thought he was the potential driver that the boss valued the most, but he didn't expect Williams to be willing to give Zhang Yifei a test driver contract.

This news completely shattered Dixon's pride and made him not slow down for many days after the game.

But now it was different, he had a belief in "revenge" in his heart, and he wanted to prove himself, to prove that Sir Williams had lost his eyes!

The warm-up lap was successfully completed, and then it was time for the official qualifying session, which was still the fastest lap in 30 minutes.

It's just that this time there are not too many drivers who plan to come over to stop Zhang Yifei, after all, the "eating appearance" in the last game is really ugly, and on this kind of individual competition track, the behavior of attacking in groups is actually despised by the outside world.

It's a shame to lose, it's disgraceful to win, and maybe it will become your own black spot in the future.

It can only be said that it is fortunate that the network is not developed in this era, otherwise many of these drivers will become the object of ridicule. You can't win Zhang Yifei like this, what kind of driver are you still doing?

Therefore, the smell of gunpowder in this qualifying race is not so strong, and it is normal to run the fastest lap of yourself.

And the other drivers here don't know that Zhang Yifei wants to win the Silverstone Circuit championship and end his Renault European Cup early.

If they knew, maybe they still had a little bit of a mentality to do things, after all, it was definitely a shameless thing to be stopped three times ahead of schedule. Even if you can't target Zhang Yifei as blatantly as the previous stop, you can still do it by secretly stumbling up.

It's just that there are not so many ifs, Zhang Yifei is currently leading too many points, making the usual small actions meaningless, it is better to run his own.

There is no hope of winning the championship, but there is not much difference between the runner-up and the third-place points at the moment, and the top three places in the Renault European Championship will also be very helpful for the future Formula Formula promotion.

The five lights on the track turn on one after the other, then go out at the same time, and the roar of the engine begins to resound throughout the track.

Zhang Yifei rushed out with one foot on the accelerator almost the moment the lights went out, still maintaining his very fast starting reaction.

In second gear, third gear, and fourth gear, facing the high-speed section in front of the Silverstone Track, Zhang Yifei kept upshifting quickly to maintain speed.

After all, in the previous test run, in the first seven corners, Zhang Yifei could pass the first six and a half corners at full throttle. It is only necessary to reduce the speed of the car at Turn 5 to avoid the car borrowing the shoulder and being affected by grass or muddy water.

It's just that this continuous upshift in 0.1 seconds, the extremely faint jerky feeling of the gear comes again, and there may be a momentary feeling in a few tenths of a second.

To be honest, not to mention being an ordinary person, even if you are a professional driver, you may not be able to notice the subtle changes in the gearbox.

It's just that Zhang Yifei has already driven four stations of this Renault car, plus the test run of each race track, he already knows the characteristics of this car very well, and it is not too much to say that it is a combination of people and vehicles.

So this extremely faint gear jerky feeling was still felt by Zhang Yifei.

But Zhang Yifei didn't say anything, because he ran a rally in his last life, and you must know that the rally track is basically some very bad road conditions. For example, the famous Dakar contains mountains, deserts, swamps and other different terrains.

Rally cars are under such bad road conditions every day, performing all kinds of sudden braking and acceleration operations, and it is not uncommon for them to break down or something. The more the impact of various rapid gear changes, the greater the pressure on the gearbox.

Those who have a little bit of mechanical principle know that the core of the gearbox is composed of various gears, and it is normal for the gears to wear out under the huge torque impact, and it is not surprising that there are even some metal chips.

This point is more intuitive to explain with civilian cars, and when ordinary people buy a new car, they should have heard of the term "run-in period".

This so-called running-in period is actually that it is impossible to achieve 100% accuracy and matching of all parts of the car in the manufacturing process. In particular, the high-precision parts such as the engine and gearbox need to go through the early contact and friction to wear out some precision errors in processing and assembly, and some metal chips will be generated in this process.

Once there are metal debris in the engine or transmission, it is necessary to change the engine oil and transmission oil to bring these metal debris out. Therefore, the first warranty of a new car is relatively more important, because not dealing with these metal chips will lead to increased wear and tear between the parts.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei predicted that the jerky feeling brought by this shift should not be a major failure of the gearbox, but the crazy addition and reduction of gears during the race, which caused wear and tear to the parts of the gearbox and the appearance of metal chips.

You must know that the standard of Formula Renault is to change the track engine at two or three stops and change the gearbox once throughout the season.

Theoretically, the life of the gearbox can run all seven races of the Renault European Cup, and there is even a large margin.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei has a more aggressive driving behavior than other drivers, squeezing the limits of this gearbox. And in terms of service life, Zhang Yifei is far from just four races, but also has to count the test run time.

In particular, there is no test run time limit in the first two races, and the transmission will be used for much longer than the official race, which will exacerbate the design life of the gearbox.

It's just that even so, it can't reach the point of scrapping the gearbox, it should just be jerky caused by some metal chips. As long as the debris settles down, it basically doesn't have much of an impact, and you just need to change the transmission fluid again after the race.

In the first two laps of the test run, Zhang Yifei did not drive fiercely, but adopted a relatively peaceful way to make the tires and oil of the car reach the best working conditions.

That's pretty much the same for the other riders, after all, half an hour is enough time, there's no need to make some risky moves, just keep yourself in good shape.

The atmosphere in the pit is also the most relaxed since Zhang Yifei participated in the Renault European Cup. There is no pressure on performance, after all, Zhang Yifei has become an F1 driver. And they don't believe that Zhang Yifei can still be eliminated if he runs a qualifying match?

The only suspense is nothing more than whether Zhang Yifei can get the pole position, whether he can get the best, and it doesn't matter if he can't get it, after all, no driver can monopolize the pole position, and Sena and Schumacher can't do it.

It wasn't until lap five that Cosell saw the lap time passed from the event command center and began to feel that something was wrong, so he asked Ukyo Yamamoto next to him, "Ukyo, what is the fastest lap before flying?" ”

"At 1:42.625, the lap record on the race lane was just over 0.3 seconds faster."

Hearing this answer, Caser glanced at the numbers on the ring screen again, which showed that Zhang Yifei's last lap time was 1:43.212.

This result cannot be said to be bad, compared to the track record of 1:42.997, there is only a very narrow difference.

Limited by the limitations of equipment in this era, Kossel cannot know the lap times of other drivers in real time, but he believes that the current time, in theory, Zhang Yifei is no problem in ranking in the top three, and may even be first.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei's lap time during the test run was very stable, except for the first two laps, everything else was very close to the track record, and even most of the laps broke the track record.

After experiencing a test run, coupled with the understanding of the track analysis chart during this time, Zhang Yifei should theoretically be faster and stronger, why can't he compare to the test run stage?