The dispatch of the safety car means that all drivers are almost back on the same starting line again.

At the same time, the slower speed of the car made Zhang Yifei, who returned to the accident site on the fifth lap, see the track staff being ambulated by the stage more carefully. He had an oxygen tank in his mouth, but the entire side of his cheek was already blood-red.

Williams and Anglo-American cars both moved to the side of the road as fast as possible to reduce the impact on the race. However, there is no way to deal with the fragments of racing car parts scattered all over the place, so we can only rely on the safety car to continue to press the car, leaving time for the track staff to clean up.

Ralph Schumacher stood next to the paramedics and looked fine, except for the damage to the car. As for Villeneuve, he sat on the grass next to the track with a look of chagrin on his face, and he could feel his self-blame and regret for the accident on the track.

When he saw this scene, Zhang Yifei suddenly understood why some riders would choose to be conservative.

It is because of the aggressive style that magnifies the risks that may be faced, and many times there is only one chance and only one life on the track. Dancing on the tip of the knife, no one dares to guarantee that it will succeed every time, and even because of some of his radical actions, he will face the same fate as Villeneuve, and eventually "harm others and himself".

The severity of the accident on the track was beyond many people's imagination, and the safety car was pressed for 11 laps until the 15th lap, when the track was cleared and the green flag was waved.

"The safety car is about to be evacuated, pay attention to the start of the driver in front."

The team's instructions came again, reminding Zhang Yifei to keep up with the rhythm of the car in front.

Under normal circumstances, during the period when the safety car is evacuated from the aisle, the lead car will make a deliberate pressure on the car.

In this way, at the moment of sudden start-up, you can win a slight time advantage, and the further back you go, the greater the time advantage brought by the reaction.

Zhang Yifei is now ranked fifth, and he has rarely experienced such a long period of safety car pressing, so there may be a lack of concentration or something else.

Adhering to the unease of the newcomer, the team still sent him a reminder to prevent Zhang Yifei from reacting in time.

However, these worries are superfluous for Zhang Yifei, although he is participating in the F1 race for the first time, he has indeed not experienced this kind of safety car for a long time. But Zhang Yifei's attention has always been highly concentrated, waiting for the accident to be dealt with.

Almost as soon as the front car Montoya started, Zhang Yifei followed with an astonishing reaction speed. In a sense, the safety car has shortened the distance between the front and rear cars, so that the leading advantage no longer exists, Zhang Yifei has a fighting spirit in his heart, how Montoya surpasses himself, and how he will overtake himself next!

The same sentiment is true of Kimi Raikkonen, who has been entangled with the Chinese driver for too long and has even been overtaken by Villeneuve.

This situation is not only unbearable for Zhang Yifei, but also for Kimi Raikkonen. He is now a talented teenager in the F1 paddock, not the fat Kimi who drove a "health car" in later generations.

The desire to win, the courage to win against opponents, Kimi Raikkonen is not lacking!

Zhang Yifei went down with a full throttle at the moment, completely ignoring Kimi Raikkonen in the back, he has only one goal, that is, to surpass Montoya in front of him and prove that he is the strongest newcomer this year.

Montoya looked in the rearview mirror and saw the No. 13 blue Prost car approaching behind him. To be honest, he was not nervous in his heart, and the rapid overtaking on the first lap made him feel contempt for Zhang Yifei in his heart, thinking that Chinese newcomers were nothing more than that.

And in Montoya's heart, he has never put himself in the position of a newcomer to the F1 track like Zhang Yifei. He thinks that he is different from newcomers such as Zhang Yifei, Bernaldi, and Marquis, and he has to surpass these rookies by a level, and can really wrestle with the top masters in the paddock.

Not to mention challenging the strongest driver Schumacher, at least Barrichello and Coulthard are worthy of a fierce duel with them, rather than pecking at each other with a group of rookies!

But this time, Zhang Yifei has made up his mind to overtake Montoya in front of him no matter what, to wash away the shame of being overtaken on the first lap!

With full throttle into gear, the speed began to climb wildly, and the engine speed was also pushed to 120 million by Zhang Yifei, which is already the bottom of the Peugeot engine.

In the No. 8 and No. 9 S high-speed turns on the track, Zhang Yifei used a line that can be called the limit and chased directly to the rear of Montoya's car. Then, with the help of the wake slingshot effect, a left-hand lane change, taking advantage of the faster acceleration when exiting the corner, intending to complete the overtake of Montoya.

Zhang Yifei's menacing attack made Montoya feel shocked in his heart, and he was ready to deal with the attack of the Chinese driver. It's just that Zhang Yifei's decisiveness and swiftness are still a bit beyond Montoya's expectations.

"Accelerate at full throttle, press to the left to force the rear car to follow the line!"

The instructions of the Williams strategy team came from the headset, and they could use the third-party "God" perspective to better observe the speed and line before Zhang Yi flew into the corner. Therefore, anticipating Zhang Yifei's intention to overtake out of the corner, he informed Montoya to prepare for defense.

Hearing the sound of the strategy team in the headphones, Montoya's muscles twitched, and then the floor oil went down, and the two cars began to race wildly on the short straight after the corner.

At this moment, Zhang Yifei's front nose wing has actually exceeded more than half of Montoya's body, and he wants to change lanes and press to the left, and it is impossible to use the line to force Zhang Yifei to slow down. The focus of both sides is on the entry point of the next corner, and whoever can grab the best cutting route will be in the lead.

"Come on, fly, go over!"

"If you go past it, you will be fourth, and you will have a chance to hit the podium!"

"Fight back! Let Montoya understand who is the strongest newcomer! ”

Zhang Yifei's strong counterattack, coupled with the scene of two cars going hand in hand, simply made the fans on the scene boil.

was overtaken on the first lap, and many Chinese viewers who came from thousands of miles ago had an ominous premonition in their hearts.

Maybe the performance before flying is very good, but the main game is the most important, the battle that determines the outcome of the battle. All the drivers will be more serious than ever before and give their best.

Once faced with a high-pressure event, Zhang Yifei's flaws may be exposed, and it is still unknown whether he can maintain the strength of the practice match. Montoya's first lap overtook in a sense to confirm this concern, and Zhang Yifei was still too young in comparison.

Villeneuve's successive overtakes once again made the supporters' confidence fall to the bottom, and after only a few laps of the race, they were overtaken by two opponents in a row, which was unimaginable in the previous Renault event.

It is worthy of being the world's top automobile event F1, and the drivers in it are indeed strong, sweeping Renault and the Oki Island Grand Prix, which are just entry standards.

But then Zhang Yifei stabilized the situation, and even stubbornly defended the super newcomer Kimi to the driver. At this moment, many people feel that their confidence is beginning to recover, it may not be that Zhang Yifei is weak, but that the opponent is too strong.

Look at Kimi Raikkonen, who created the F1 miracle, he was still pressed behind the car by Zhang Yifei.

You must know that Kimi has won universal recognition and is worthy of the title of super newcomer, and if Zhang Yifei is judged by this standard, he is also above the passing line. Considering the weak foundation of Chinese racing, Zhang Yifei's performance is undoubtedly excellent.

So it's not that Zhang Yifei is too weak, but that he performed too well, which gave many people too high expectations.

The two cars went head-to-head strongly, with Zhang Yifei getting out of the corner faster than Montoya, and the next one was a right turn, which gave him a greater advantage on the left lane.

At this moment, Zhang Yifei can be said to be full of confidence, he believes that he can overtake his opponent Montoya on the short straight, seize the opportunity of the next corner, so as to completely press Montoya behind the car and rise to fourth place.

The fourth place in the rankings is only one step away from the top three. Although Zhang Yifei looked forward to the race, he did not set any unrealistic ideas, such as winning the Australian Grand Prix, but only set his goal in the top ten.

But whether you can get on the podium or not, this is a qualitative change. The last debut to finish on the podium was Villeneuve, while the next one will have to wait almost a decade for Hamilton to replicate the legend.

Now that the glory is in sight, it would be a perfect start if he could make his debut on the podium.

Ambition will always grow or fade with the change of results, and Zhang Yifei unexpectedly came to the fifth place after experiencing various track accidents, and now he has the hope of surpassing the fourth, which naturally made his ambition begin to skyrocket.

It's just that what happened next completely made Zhang Yifei feel that what is called ideal is very plump and reality is very skinny!

He had a faster exit speed and grabbed a better approach to the left corner, but on the short straight, Zhang Yifei found that he had stepped on the accelerator to the end, and had already surpassed the front nose wing of half of Montoya's body, slowly retreated to the rear wheel position, and then retreated to the rear wing, seeing that the other party was about to lead again.

it!

Zhang Yifei greeted directly in his heart, this kind of incomparably real comparison was really the first time he had encountered it.

In the past, whether it was Renault or the Aushima Grand Prix, the frame and engine were unified, and there was no absolute performance gap between the cars driven by the drivers.

After entering F1, Zhang Yifei has also test-driven the cars of other teams, anyway, in terms of his experience, the JS series of cars is okay, compared to the previous junior formula cars, I don't know how much faster.

As a result, I never thought that the same short-straight, full-throttle acceleration, the JS53 car, was eaten hard by the other Williams' FW22 car?

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