The crew members all knew in their hearts, and Zhang Yifei knew even more in his heart that Alessi once again sacrificed himself to let himself run to the forefront.

Zhang Yifei can be said to have mixed feelings in his heart, his relationship with Alessi is not good, and later it has improved a lot, but he is also very indifferent, not even an ordinary friend, at most he meets in the lounge and says hello.

But Alessi, once again, let herself feel what it means to be a teammate. On the F1 track, there will always be a team called Prost!

"Alessi, I'll block Coulthard, you're ready to overtake."

Zhang Yifei said to the team, this is what he thought before, let Alessi attack first and create opportunities for himself. After overtaking, he blocked the car to create an opportunity for Alessi, which was regarded as a return of a favor.

"No need."

Alessi's calm voice came from inside the headphones, and he did not show a trace of emotional fluctuations because of Zhang Yifei's idea of blocking the car.

"This is what I owe you!"

Zhang Yifei doesn't like this feeling of owing favors, and would rather owe money than favors, this thing is the most difficult thing to repay.

"You don't owe me anything, I'm just doing this for Prost."

"If you really want to repay me, hurry up and catch up with Schumacher in front of you and win a championship for Prost."

This is what Alesi said in his heart, although he has changed his opinion of Zhang Yifei a lot, he is also willing to help this Chinese newcomer.

But if he wants to make such a big sacrifice, the current Zhang Yifei is not qualified, this is not a romance story after all, the first thing any driver guarantees is his own results, who is not a relative or a reason, who wants to change one to make a wedding dress for others?

It's okay to say that the Malaysian Grand Prix blocked the car before, after all, it was in the back row at that time, which was a gesture.

Alessi is willing to do this today because Zhang Yifei got the pole position and has enough possibilities to impact the championship. Even if he is lagging behind now, it is not caused by Zhang Yifei's strength and operation, but by the failure of the car.

After running for two or three laps, Zhang Yifei didn't mention the mess again, which means that it was an electronic system problem, not a mechanical problem with the car. This means that Zhang Yifei still has the possibility of challenging Schumacher and has the strength to fight!

The Prost team is a French team, and he was willing to join at the beginning, and he also had the same dream of Grand France as Prost.

Although that dream has now been shattered, even the Prost team has sold 60% of its stake so far, not even an authentic Ferrari pedigree.

But as long as it is still called Prost for a day, Alessi will never forget that he once worked hard with Prost for this dream.

Hearing Alessi's refusal again, Zhang Yifei was still unwilling to give up and was ready to cooperate with Kuthard.

However, at this time, Zhang Yifei saw from the rearview mirror that the front wheel of Alessi's racing car was torn apart instantly, and after just a few seconds, there was almost only one wheel left running.

It was still a flat tire.

Zhang Yifei has experienced this kind of scene and knows that F1, a bald tire without steel rims, as long as the tire bursts, it will be torn into pieces in an instant, not like ordinary family car tires, even if the tire is deflated, it can be slowly worn through for a few kilometers.

Now about half a lap from the pit entrance, Ferrari driver Barrichello is not much behind and will almost be able to come back. As for the riders further behind, can they take this opportunity to catch up, Zhang Yifei's rearview mirror can't see so far.

Now that the tire has been punctured, it means that Alessi has lost his competitiveness on the current track.

Throwing away the idea of returning the favor, Zhang Yifei kicked the floor oil and struggled to catch up with Montoya and Schumacher in front. As Alessi said, the Prost team needs a champion, and all his sacrifices are for the French team championship!

Previously, because of Zhang Yifei's pit stop for more than ten seconds, Schumacher and Montoya were already far ahead.

And it has to be said that Williams Racing does have an advantage on the A1 circuit in Austria. Coupled with the possible special buff of the home track, Montoya actually exploded in the small universe, narrowing the gap with Schumacher.

In fact, Montoya's strength is really not bad, and in his first year in F1, he caused a lot of difficulties for Schumacher. Even stepping on Schumacher, who became famous at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

His wild style, often overtaking when he is behind, and pulling back the disadvantage. So Montoya actually had a lot of fans in the years of F1, and the race was also very enjoyable.

For now, Montoya, who is ranked fifth, faces various doubts and loses in qualifying. Still stabilized his mentality, chased to the second position step by step, and had the opportunity to challenge Schumacher's top position.

It can be said that Montoya's performance now is entitled to cheers and applause.

But it's a pity that he met a more eye-catching Zhang Yifei in the F1 paddock, both Shengyu and He Shengliang!

"Fly took advantage of Alessi's crazy blocking action to overtake Coulthard in front of the car, and you must know that this is on the premise that Coulthard has not yet made a pit stop, and is overtaken by a one-stop tactical fly."

"If there are no big mistakes in flying, such as the previous car failure, Coulthard will have no chance of revenge."

Montoya was chasing Schumacher, and the track camera naturally returned to Zhang Yifei, who had successfully overtaken.

Blundell explained the situation on the track, and then he suddenly remembered something and continued to speak.

"By the way, there was a message from the event command center that the reason why Fei was overtaken by Schumacher was because the gearbox had a malfunction. However, judging from the current situation, it should be repaired after the stop. ”

At this time, Bazel next to him also spoke: "Actually, I've been thinking, if the flying gearbox is not faulty, is it still in the position of the head car?" ”

"Maybe."

"That's too strong."

After Bazel said this, the commentary did not continue the topic, and indeed Zhang Yifei's performance was a bit strong, and he really blocked Schumacher.

After Zhang Yifei surpassed Schumacher, the game entered a period of relaxation, and Alessi made a puncture to make a pit stop, but the lead was relatively large before, so he was only surpassed by Barrichello, and he was still in the front row.

Coulthard launched several attacks, but did not come back, probably because the pit stop time was approaching, and Coulthard also eased his offensive.

The situation was calm until lap 40, when the other stoppers had basically made a pit stop to change their tires, and the next race ranking was the real track standing.

Zhang Yifei's stop time, including the access to and from the maintenance channel, took a total of almost 20 seconds, which is almost twice as slow as the normal 8 to 12 seconds.

However, the crazy offensive between him and Schumacher before, coupled with the fact that the first car did not need to grab the road and other reasons, left more drivers behind. After Montoya came out, he was still behind Zhang Yifei, falling from second to third.

However, this time Schumacher's stop time was a little longer than expected, and Zhang Yifei had a gap of about 10 seconds with him after entering the pit, but when Schumacher left the station after changing tires, the gap was only 7 seconds.

It can also be seen from this that Prost's crew members really tried their best, and they kept the time to deal with transmission failures to a minimum!

Seven seconds, for lap speed, that's a world of difference, and the best rider can't afford to be as far behind as many as 7 seconds in a lap.

But for the whole 71 laps, this gap is very small, and in many cases, the time gap between the champion and the runner-up is as high as more than ten seconds.

With the other riders, 7 seconds is a good chance to catch up with the final 30 laps. But on Zhang Yifei, this 7 seconds is a moat, and it is extremely difficult for him to catch up.

Because the opponent is Schumacher!

The strongest driver in the world, and he also drives a Ferrari car with not weak performance, for Zhang Yifei, these 7 seconds are simply like a lap speed, which is a moat!

However, for this kind of difficulty, Zhang Yifei has long been mentally prepared, and without a challenging goal, he will not get the thrill of going all out. If Schumacher can be easily defeated, he doesn't deserve the title of car god!

I have to catch up and overtake Schumacher, and I don't have the right to lose this fight!

Just when Zhang Yifei was going all out, behind him was Montoya, who had the same idea.

He's also not qualified to lose!

He was overtaken in the opening race of the Australian Grand Prix, he was crushed in the Malaysian Grand Prix, and in the Brazilian Grand Prix of the Americas, which is regarded as the home field, he could only save his last face by hitting off the track.

Today at the A1 circuit in Austria, which is the home of the Williams-BMW team, you can't afford to lose!

It's just that Montoya was a little desperate to find that no matter how hard he tried, the distance between him and Zhang Yifei was getting farther and farther.

This kind of scene makes Montoya's heart like ashes, can it be said that he is really inferior to Zhang Yifei?

In fact, Montoya really didn't have much advantage in this race, except for the performance of the car. Even if it is a match of skills, even if this is Williams' home stadium, Montoya also has a hard flaw, that is, he is not familiar with the F1 track, especially the track that has not been overhauled for a long time.

No matter how much he runs at the Indy circuit, Montoya is just a newcomer in the F1 paddock, Zhang Yifei has been preparing for this race for three months, what talent does he have to defeat Zhang Yifei's three-month efforts in a week?

Backwardness is actually an inevitable thing.

But what is really shocking is not Montoya's backwardness, but Zhang Yifei's lap time.

"Blundel, I'm not mistaken, it took Zhang Yifei to go around the lap."

"If I'm not mistaken, the track record is, does this mean that Zhang Yifei has broken the track record?"

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