The warm-up laps quickly passed, and all the drivers were back to the starting point, waiting for the official race.

At this moment, Zhang Yifei's face had a very serious expression, and he didn't care about the opponent next to him at all, but locked his eyes on the starting signal. And the finger is already on the clutch, and the right foot is suspended above the accelerator, ready for everything to start.

The only difference is that Zhang Yifei has adjusted the gear from the previous first gear position to the second gear position, and he plans to start directly in second gear.

The torque of the first gear of the F1 car is extremely exaggerated, and many ordinary performance cars eject to start, and the set of operation methods is placed on the top of the F1, and the accelerator is definitely not popped out, but the rear wheel burns the tire on the spot.

The reason is that the instantaneous torque horsepower exceeds the grip of the tires too much, even the bald tires can't bite the ground, and there can only be idling and skidding.

That's why F1 drivers still fail to start. Because even if the F1 car is the simplest start, the requirements for throttle control can be described as perverted, and if it is a little lighter, it will be overtaken by the opponent.

And stepping on the heavy is to burn the tires on the spot, and the car can't rush out at the first time.

Many rookie drivers, in order to avoid this kind of problem, choose the second gear starting method, which will reduce the torque a lot, and the difficulty of controlling the throttle will also be reduced.

However, on a normal dry track, the starting speed of the second gear is not as fast as the acceleration of the first gear. If the opponent starts perfectly and finds an overtaking route, there will also be a starting overtaking scenario.

So there's no perfect starting option, just relative driver handling!

The exception to this is when the track is wet and rainy and most drivers start in second gear. The reason is that the grip of the wet track is relatively low, just enough to adapt to the torque of second gear, and if you use first gear, it will be easier to slip.

The five indicators lit up again in turn, and when they went out, Zhang Yifei kicked the accelerator to start the car, and immediately changed lanes to seize the middle lane, the whole process was extremely fast, and did not give the opponent any chance to start and overtake.

Seize the middle lane, can complete the blocking operation as soon as possible, and press Schumacher on the right behind his own car. In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, on the track in rainy days, most of the lines are not cut edges, and even when cornering, they will not choose tangent lines many times, and try to walk in the middle if they can go in the middle.

The reason is very simple, if you stand on the road on a rainy day, the accumulated rainwater will always converge on both sides of the road, and the more intermediate it is, the less water will accumulate and the drier the road will be.

The same is true for the F1 circuit, where the rain is definitely lined up on both sides, and no designer will open his mind to let the rain collect in the middle and turn driving into a boat.

Not to mention the Singapore Circuit, which itself is a street renovation, and the drainage system is naturally on the track for two plates. Therefore, the car goes to the middle to avoid water accumulation and wheel slippage as much as possible.

Schumacher, as a track veteran, is naturally aware of this, so he is ready to seize the middle track when the lights come on.

If he can change lanes faster than Zhang Yifei, even if it is just the front of the car bursting in, Schumacher will have the advantage of starting and overtaking in an alternative way.

Schumacher at his peak had a perfect start, and it can be said that the operation process was smooth, and there were generally no flaws in the textbooks. But just when he was about to change lanes to grab Zhang Yifei's middle lane, he suddenly found a yellow-black Renault racing car, and the front nose wing had already seized his own lane change space and was in the rear wheel position.

If Schumacher still chooses to forcibly change lanes at this time, even if the front of the car breaks through, when the body is about to be aligned, the rear wheels will inevitably touch the front nose wing of the Renault car behind him.

Before Schumacher made a decision, the speed of the Renault car was very ferocious, and the front of the car directly crossed the body of the Ferrari car, not to mention seizing the middle lane, and now Schumacher was directly overtaken by the rear car!

Helio got off to a fast start?

Even if Schumacher has been on the battlefield for a long time, he never thought that Helio, who was third in qualifying, could drive the Renault car to such a shocking start, and complete the start overtaking for himself, which can be called a humiliating operation!

Not to mention Schumacher, even the entire track, there was an uproar at the moment, and the cheers that started before because of the start of the race all came to an abrupt end, and everyone looked at this scene on the track with disbelief.

No one could have imagined that Schumacher, the first person in the F1 paddock, was at his peak, driving the Mars rover F2002, which is known as the integration of cars and people, and was made by the F1 debut of Hellio, the champion of the year in India, and completed the opening race to start overtaking!

Ferrari pit pit, the members of the strategy team looked stupid now, they were waiting for Schumacher to complete the start overtaking of Zhang Yifei, but they never expected that this kind of thing would happen to them, Helio took the lead in seizing the middle track, and the acceleration was faster!

"Impossible, Schummy has no problem starting, and even feels faster than the pole position driver, how can he be overtaken by Helio, is the Renault car so strong?"

When Jean Todd saw this scene, even with decades of career experience, he couldn't help but lose his temper at this moment!

You must know that he is full of confidence in this year's Ferrari and Schumacher, and even thought that there was no problem in defending the world championship at one point. At that time, Schumacher will usher in his third consecutive championship and become a five-time champion on a par with the legendary driver!

And the Scuderia Ferrari, under his leadership, will complete the great feat of four consecutive championships and become a peak that everyone looks up to!

As a result, I didn't expect that the start of the new season would collapse so much, and I was overtaken by a newcomer who only joined F1 this year. Even if the opponent is an Indy World Champion, in the F1 paddock, the Indy World Champion has no supreme status!

One of the Ferrari tridents, technical director Ross Brown, did not lose his temper as Jean Todd in the face of such a scene, but calmly analyzed the reasons.

"Helio opted for the soft tyres, and on the dry track in the grid area, the grip was much better than the patterned semi-wet tyres, which gave him an advantage in starting speed."

"It's also important to note that Renault's gearboxes are different from other teams, they only have six gears, so the gears are more relaxed. Their first gear start, which is equivalent to the position between the first and second gears of the seven-speed gearbox, has a greater starting torque than the second gear, and the risk is not as high as the regular first gear, so it can be said that today's rain start is very suitable for the six-speed gearbox of Renault racing! ”

Ross Brown points out the underlying reason why Schumacher was overtaken by the start, and that is that the Renault car is constructed, which is an outlier on the Formula 1 circuit. While other teams opted for the more advanced seven-speed gearbox, Renault stuck with the sixth-speed gearbox.

Even later, relying on the advantages of the gearbox and Alonso's excellent performance, he completed two consecutive championships in 2005 and 2006.

One gear is missing, and it suffers more at high speeds, especially at top speeds. However, due to the different gear ratios, Renault cars can get more torque at low and medium speeds to improve the car's acceleration.

Soft tires plus the torque advantage of gears, the starting speed is naturally much faster than the regular second gear start, plus Helio you can't really treat him as a newcomer, all factors are combined, Schumacher was overtaken by the start, can only be said to be unexpected, reasonable!

It's not that Jean Todd doesn't know these things, but as a team manager, he still finds it a little difficult to accept when Schumacher is overtaken by the start.

"It seems that we still despise this American boy."

Jean Tod's tone returned to calm, and now that it had happened, he had no choice but to accept it. And Schumacher is definitely not the kind of driver who jumps to the bottom, and being overtaken by the start is more emotionally difficult to accept, and does not have much impact on the final result.

If someone can overtake someone, it will affect the mentality of the next race, and Schumacher will not be able to become an F1 car god!

After Zhang Yifei grabbed the middle lane on the track, he looked in the rearview mirror for the first time, wanting to observe Schumacher's position and prepare to block the car.

But when he found that the car behind him was not the familiar red Ferrari car, but a "yellow lightning" Renault car, Zhang Yifei instantly wondered if he was hallucinating!

Hold your mother! Can Schumacher be overtaken at the start?

Zhang Yifei was so surprised that he almost wanted to burst all kinds of foul language, he imagined countless starting possibilities before the game, and even he was overtaken by Schumacher, but he couldn't imagine that this kind of thing could happen to the car god, and he was still overtaken by Helio.

At this moment, Zhang Yifei wanted to know what happened just now, and even had the urge to open the voice of the convoy and ask Kosel.

However, in the face of Helio's rapid approach, he put down his shock at Schumacher, but kicked the accelerator and accelerated wildly, Zhang Yifei didn't want to be overtaken, it happened to him so quickly.

After all, in the face of soft tires, on the long straight between the starting point and Turn 1, his semi-wet tires do not have any speed advantage, and he needs to rely more on blocking to complete the suppression of the rear car.

It is obvious that after Helio finished overtaking Schumacher, his state and momentum rose all at once, relying on the tires and the advantage of low-speed acceleration, he bit the rear of Zhang Yifei's car at once, and the distance between the two cars was instantly shortened to within 1 meter.

Want a superego? It's not that easy!

Zhang Yifei felt the coercion of the rear car Helio, and the expression on his face instantly changed from surprise to coldness, no matter how fierce this Indy champion is, but in front of him, even a dragon has to be coiled for me, and a tiger has to lie down!