Is 709 so ruthless? (Chapter 3)
The Prost team ranked sixth in the overall points last season, but Zhang Yifei's personal points are not low, and his results in the twenties made him seventh in the drivers' points rankings.
This can be regarded as the upper level of the middle range among the overall F drivers, and it is even more top-level for newcomers. Moreover, Zhang Yifei's more than 20 points have not been accumulated by the number of games, including two sub-station championships, and the gold content can be described as full!
Therefore, Zhang Yifei was selected as the best newcomer of the year last year, and was even regarded as a new star in the car industry.
But this is all in the past, and the results in the rookie stage are very good, but in the F veterans, it can't be said that it is not worth mentioning, and it is not much higher.
Because it's the same as a test score, it's much more difficult to go from 90 to 95 than from 60 to 80. The F drivers' rankings are also more difficult the higher they go, with many drivers having been in the middle of the pack all their lives and have never finished in the top three of the year.
Therefore, if Zhang Yifei wants to maintain last year's popularity, he must at least enter the top three of the year to have enough attention and popularity. Of course, Zhang Yifei's goal for himself has always been the championship!
Alonso's ranking last year was ten places lower than Zhang Yifei's, and his personal points ranked seventeenth. This is a rather low position, which shows that the Minardi team, who regards him as a disobedient rookie, really can't be regarded as wronging him.
At this moment, Alonso's emotions in his heart are very complicated, because he has his pride and stubbornness, and he did not refer to Zhang Yifei's test data for adjustment, and still maintained the previous high-risk plan.
If high risk can still bring high returns before, then now it is equivalent to having a low-risk and high-return path in front of you, but you have chosen to refuse.
Did you choose the wrong one?
Alonso kept the question in his mind, but if he had to choose again, he would still refuse with pride.
With this in mind, Alonso's gaze cleared as he looked at the Minardi car in front of him, which was also painted in blue and red.
Rather than surrender to victory, it is better to defeat with pride!
If Zhang Yifei knew Alonso's inner thoughts at this moment, it is estimated that he would express a kind of appreciation, because once upon a time, Zhang Yifei also had a similar mentality. I will never choose to kneel and beg for mercy, even if I end up facing death and failure!
At the end of the team are the drivers who entered the F this year, Helio, Massa, Takuma Sato, etc......
They don't have the standings of last season, so the new season can only start from the end, and the same was true for Zhang Yifei last year. However, without exception, the eyes of these three are also locked on Zhang Yifei's body.
A driver who only had a mid-stream performance last season can get so much attention in today's qualifying, which can be regarded as Zhang Yifei's success in a sense.
Why did Helio look at Zhang Yifei, the answer is naturally obvious, one of his main goals in entering the F paddock is to defeat Zhang Yifei for revenge. Prove your strength as an Indy World Champion, and also wash away the shame of the Motorsport 500 event!
Massa's factors are much more complicated, he used to be an opponent in the same competition with Zhang Yifei, but with the development of time, he was left far behind.
With this reason, Massa regards Zhang Yifei as his learning object, and at the same time, he is also his transcendent object! That's why he wants to join the Prost team, because he knows that he is invincible, and only by better understanding his opponent can he defeat his opponent.
Today, I finally stood on the same track with Zhang Yifei again, but from the original Formula Renault to Formula 1.
Will you be able to keep up with the drivers?
Massa asked in his heart, but even he didn't have an answer, but in any case, he had the opportunity to compete with Zhang Yifei again, and this time Massa didn't want to lose!
As for Takuma Sato, he has the strangest mentality in it, and there is a deep fear in addition to worship!
Zhang Yifei's collapse results in three practice matches were ridiculed by many spectators in the stands, as if they were grabbing pigtails. Even in the pit building, some teams believe that night battles are Zhang Yifei's shortcoming, and he may not be able to continue his strong performance last season.
But no one knows more about Zhang Yifei's ability to fight at night than Takuma Sato and the Toyota team. Because Takuma Sato's lap record on the Wangan Line was surpassed by Zhang Yifei during the Japanese Grand Prix, and it has been maintained to this day!
Toyota team manager Tomita Mian even met Zhang Yifei in person at the Wangan Line, if this kind of driver is not good at night street racing, then no one among the F drivers is good at it.
So Takuma Sato and the Toyota team have been speculating about why Zhang Yifei's practice lap time is so abnormal.
There is an old Chinese saying that there must be a demon when things go wrong, and the Japanese also know this sentence, so the Toyota team is jealous, what kind of demon is Zhang Yifei doing?
"Blundel, what do you think of this qualifying session, can you let me see Zhang Yifei's different lap time?"
Leo asked Blundell beside him, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
Because in the previous practice match, Blundell said something like this when he said to himself that Zhang Yifei's lap speed was not good. At the same time, Leo remembered the disdainful smile on Blundell's face at that time.
Blundel, an old commentator on the track, couldn't hear the sarcasm in Leo's tone.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei's performance in the practice match this time was completely unexpected. Theoretically, Zhang Yifei's slow practice speed has become a routine, and he will definitely run an amazing lap time in the second half of the race to respond to those doubts about his strength.
But this time, let alone the second half of the first practice, or even after the three practice races, I didn't see Zhang Yifei's amazing performance.
There has been a lot of talk about this outcome, both in the audience in the paddock and in the media outside the paddock. Most people think that this is because Zhang Yifei is not good at night fighting, or that last year's performance was short-lived, and he has no real strength, and this year will gradually expose his true level.
However, Blundell never believed that the night battle would become Zhang Yifei's fatal shortcoming, and he even more did not believe that the driver who performed so amazingly last year would be the kind of driver who was short-lived.
It's just that if you want to respond to these remarks, you need to be based on facts, and Zhang Yifei did not perform very well in the practice match. Blundell tried to explain two sentences for him, but couldn't find a good reason.
But that doesn't mean that Blundell thinks this lap time is the limit of Zhang's time at the Singapore Grand Prix. So in the face of Leo's sarcasm, Blundell still replied very firmly: "Of course, you must be able to see a different lap time!" ”
"But I didn't see it before."
Leo didn't plan to back down this time, this British commentary is really stubborn, the facts are already in front of him, and he is still defending the Chinese drivers?
"Then you can wait and see this qualifying session."
"Are you so sure?"
"I vouch for my professional vision!"
In fact, Blundell inherited the tradition of the British-stirring stick, and rarely went straight out of the field himself, let alone firmly supported a Chinese driver who couldn't beat the eight poles like he did today.
But Leo's sarcasm, and his contempt for Zhang Yifei, made Blundell feel a kind of anger.
The same is hinese, how can people who even look down on their own clan be respected by foreign races?
Seeing that Blundell was angry, Leo laughed twice and did not continue.
Because Blundell is a veteran-level commentator in the F field, and he is still British, he is a newcomer to comment, so it is best not to offend him to death.
Leo didn't continue to speak, and Blundell didn't plan to say anything more, but instead focused on the broadcast screen, at which point the warm-up laps had been completed and the drivers were back in the car, waiting for the official qualifying session.
The five indicator lights on the track lit up again in turn, and when they went out instantly, Zhang Yifei started quickly directly according to the standard of the race, and the front car Heidfeld did not react to what was going on, so he was directly overtaken by Zhang Yifei.
FUK, what's going on, is the driver flying this season ready to take me Liwei?
Headfield faced Zhang Yifei's overtaking start, and instantly a wave of anger surged into his heart. Because qualifying is about the fastest lap and not about the change in the ranking, drivers generally don't pay as much attention to the start as they do in the race, but instead deliberately stretch a little distance to create a chance to run the fastest lap.
Therefore, Zhang Yifei's move to start overtaking in the opening game is undoubtedly a very serious provocation, even if Zhang Yifei himself does not have this idea.
Among the new generation of drivers last year, Heidfield, who transferred from Prost to Sauber, actually performed very well. Ranked sixth overall throughout the year, and beat Zhang Yifei by one place, the only regret is that Heidenfeld has not won the championship.
This result gave Heindfield a high level of fighting spirit, ready to take advantage of the victory in the new season, but he was overtaken at the start, even if reason told him to calm down and find the opportunity to run the fastest lap.
But anger could no longer calm Heidfield, he directly stepped on the accelerator and began to chase Zhang Yifei, who was overtaking.
However, this is just the beginning, as the first thing to face after the start of the Singapore circuit is a long straight that allows the car to reach a speed of 290k/h in 7th gear, which is also the second highest speed point on the track.
After Zhang Yifei overtook Heidfeld, he directly accelerated at full throttle, without caring about any qualifying opportunities at all, and directly killed Montoya, who ranked fifth last year.
Although Montoya lost to Zhang Yifei last year, she still led Zhang Yifei by a large margin in points by relying on the advantage of running the whole season. After he started qualifying, he didn't directly fight for the lap time, but ran normally and waited for the tire temperature to come up, and then looked for an opportunity to sprint for the fastest lap.
After the start, he habitually glanced in the rearview mirror to see where the Sauber team Heidfield was behind him.
As a result, he was momentarily stunned for a moment, because what appeared in the rearview mirror was not the white Sauber car, but a blue and red Prost car!