758 I don't owe you anymore.
"Are the two Prost drivers going to join forces?"
Jean Todd naturally noticed this unusual sight, it stands to reason that Alonso should have made a pit stop to refuel and change tires at this time, but he did not stop, and there were drivers flying behind him to catch up, no matter how you look at it, it feels a little wrong.
"Will Alonso choose to keep the tires to the limit?"
Ross Brown thought about the possibility, and on Monaco, the ultra-soft tyres pit at 40 laps and the limit would not exceed 45 laps.
However, Alonso is on soft tyres, and as long as he is confident in his handling and grip, there are many drivers who have delayed their pit stop until 50 laps.
Rather than looking like a lot of laps, consider the low speed of Monaco and the fact that lap lengths are two-thirds the length of most circuits.
Fifty laps is equivalent to more than 30 laps on other tracks, and with the difference in wear, the actual comparison can be reduced to less than 30 laps. Therefore, on the Monaco circuit, some drivers who want to make a crazy sprint with light fuel at the end may delay their pit stops.
Theoretically, Alonso's current movement also has the possibility of extreme tyre-keeping, but just like Jean Todd's premonition of danger, Schumacher is now sandwiched between the two Prost drivers, which is not a good sign in any way.
It's just that for most of the season, Zhang Yifei and Alonso have no precedent for joining forces. Even in the previous battle, Alonso, who was ranked third, stood by and watched the Chinese boy, and now this scene is really a harbinger of change?
It may be that the Prost team has too much confusion, and now even the Ferrari strategy team is in a state of uncertainty about whether the two of them will join forces.
'I don't know, but we can't hope that they won't join forces, it's not the way a top mature team should have that way.
After saying this, Jean Todd activated the radio communication and said to Schumacher: "Shumi, be careful of Alonso and Fei's team, in the next five laps, no matter what, you can't let Fei overtake!" ”
No matter how late Alonso was in his pit stop, once he reached 50 laps, he had to go to refuel and change his tyres. Otherwise, after the tires are completely smoothed, he can't even guarantee his own control, what can he do to block the car and cooperate with his teammates?
Therefore, regardless of whether the next two Prost drivers will work together for the first time, Schumacher must ensure the absolute defense of five laps and not give Zhang Yifei any chance to overtake.
For this, Jean Todd has a very strong confidence, even in the face of two opponents, Schumacher has no worries about overtaking, and pure defense is absolutely ironclad!
Just as Jean Todd said the last five laps, Alonso's voice also came from Zhang Yifei's headphones, saying the same words.
"Five laps, I can only help you block Schumacher five laps, whether you can exceed it or not, it depends on your own ability."
This is the first time that Alonso has spoken directly to Zhang Yifei in the team's voice since joining the Prost team.
Maybe when this news is released, many people won't believe it at all, two drivers of the same team have never communicated on the track, even if the relationship is not so bad, right?
In fact, this is not the reason for the poor relationship, but that both of them are more arrogant.
Zhang Yifei has always had a philosophy, that is, he never thinks about his teammates and wingmen, and everyone on the track is his enemy, even if he is the enemy of the whole world.
Alonso doesn't have this kind of philosophy, but he has a very strong desire to "come out" in his heart, he doesn't want to be an obscure No. 2 driver or wingman, it's better that the whole world is centered on me, and even the earth follows me.
There is no doubt that the No. 2 driver cannot have this status, so Zhang Yifei is his biggest "enemy" in a sense, and the interests of other drivers on the race track are even more conflicting.
Therefore, two people will never bow their heads on the track, and how they run depends on their own abilities, so it doesn't matter what they communicate or not.
"Why are you helping me?"
Zhang Yifei replied lightly, there was no sense of surprise, and there was no arrogant refusal.
He would not be naïve to think that this help was Alonso's act of surrender and the beginning of a thaw between the two and a move towards "intimate cooperation".
Similarly, Zhang Yifei is not Helio's character, arrogant to the point that no one sees him, thinking that he is the sky, the earth, and the only myth.
Not just Alonso, but also the former Alessi, or a possible future team-mate as the number two. As long as the other party is willing to cooperate, then Zhang Yifei will not refuse.
It's not something to be ashamed of winning in F1 by teamwork, on the contrary, F1 itself is a team car, not an individual event as many people think.
So Alonso is willing to block the car, and Zhang Yifei will gladly accept it, but he has to figure out why.
Because there is no such thing as a show of favor for no reason in this world.
"I don't like to owe favors, and that's my return to your experience and routing data at the Monaco circuit."
Alonso replied indifferently.
It can be said that he was able to run third in qualifying, all thanks to Zhang Yifei's credit, if it were not for imitation and internal routing data, according to the lap time on the previous simulator, it would be difficult for Alonso to run out of the third place in qualifying.
Especially the conversation in the lounge later, the words "those who learn from me" and those who resemble me die, also woke up Alonso, who was about to go astray.
The Spanish head brother's flawed personality does not mean that his IQ is flawed, he knows very well that this is Zhang Yifei's help to himself, and he also understands that this short conversation may change his future career development.
In any case, this is a favor owed by yourself, so you have to pay it back!
"Okay, five laps, I'll overtake Schumacher."
After understanding the reason, Zhang Yifei didn't talk nonsense and agreed directly.
It's also five laps, a few minutes ago, Zhang Yifei had to hold it, and just a few minutes later, the offensive and defensive momentum was completely reversed.
Schumacher, can you block five laps again?
With one foot of the accelerator pulling up the engine speed, the speed of the AP05 car began to soar, and Zhang Yifei sprinted towards Schumacher in front of him.
It makes up for the shortcomings of the pneumatic package and is replaced with new supersoft tires, a new fin kit and modified brake discs. Don't dare to say anything else, at least on this Monaco circuit, the Prost car is the real "Mars rover", and Ferrari can't compete with it!
At the same time, Alonso in front began to press the car, forcing Schumacher behind to slow down, and stubbornly hold the middle line, not giving him any chance to overtake, so that Zhang Yifei shortened the distance at great speed, and soon Schumacher was about to usher, and the two Prost drivers really joined forces to attack!
"Joined forces! If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time that the two Prost drivers have really competed side by side on the track, right? ”
"Is this a command from the team, or is it Alonso's submission? The Prost team, which had been fighting separately before, had already stirred up the storm in the F1 paddock, and now that the twin stars have officially joined forces, I can't imagine what a terrifying force it will erupt! ”
Brendel can be described as "exclaiming", he really didn't expect the Prost riders to choose to join forces at such a time.
But then again, it's better to come by chance than to come well, before the Ferrari team used this way to overtake the driver, and now the Prost team has begun to use its own way of people, and also treat its body!
"That's right, this is the first time that Fei and Alonso have officially worked together on the track. To be honest, I'm really curious at the moment if Schumacher can stop the attack of the two of them! ”
Jacques was also in high spirits, and the two Prost drivers, who had never fought side by side before, handed over their first opponent to the "King of Monaco" Schumacher.
Is it possible to exert the effect of one plus one is greater than two, or is there no imaginary tacit understanding between teammates, and the end is in vain?
Not to mention that the two commentators were excited, the emotions of Prost fans on the track were also ignited and skyrocketed.
“OH,GOD! Can you finally see Prost's team fighting on the track? ”
"Fei and Alonso have finally cooperated, this is Prost's real strength!"
"Let me wait until this day, even if it's Ferrari, I have to surrender on the track today!"
"Come on, Prost, for the victory, for the championship!"
Accompanied by the carnival of the audience, Zhang Yifei used this incredible speed to catch up behind Schumacher's car.
was able to catch up like this, in addition to Zhang Yifei's own strength, it was Alonso who finally showed his strongest defensive strength on the track!
You must know that among the future drivers, Alonso is the only driver who can block Hamilton's attacks many times and can still retreat with his whole body.
At the 10 Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton had already started his own path to godhood, and with the performance advantage of the Mercedes engine, he was faster than Alonso by more than 0.5 seconds in a lap.
But even in the face of such a strong attack, Alonso insisted on judging all Hamilton's offensive lines and reacted instantly to block him. In that opening race, Hamilton did not overtake Alonso from start to finish, and was eventually knocked out by another driver.
Alonso's two-time world championship is not based on extreme speed, to be honest, his pole position percentage is far inferior to Hamilton, and his career is just over 7 per cent, while Hamilton is more than 36 per cent.
On the fastest lap of the practice session, he was not as good as Kimi Raikkonen, and the early "Finnish Iceman" could be called the king of the practice session, and his speed was unmatched, which was one of the important reasons why he attracted fans.
Speed has never been Alonso's forte, and it was his consistency, chance-catching ability and arguably strongest defensive ability that he was able to finish off Schumacher, the reigning world champion and the other god of the world.
It's just that no one has paid attention to Alonso's specialty before, and he rarely has the opportunity to run to the front row to defend those really top drivers, and today is finally the time for Alonso to show his brilliance!
Schumacher on the track, when he started to face Alonso, to be honest, he didn't take it seriously at all. The first thing I thought about was not to hold up the situation, defend Zhang Yifei, and then wait for Alonso to make a pit stop if he couldn't hold on.
Instead, he planned to go all out and directly surpass this Spanish kid who came out of nowhere.
You, the Prost team, have already come out with a driver who can fight with me, and there will be another Alonso who can stop my car?
In the F1 paddock, apart from the Big Three, there are few other teams that can get together two top drivers. And Alonso's performance in the Minardi team last year is obvious to all, even if the results in the Prost team have improved by leaps and bounds this year, more people still blame the car performance, Alonso's strength has never been recognized like Zhang Yifei.
But soon Schumacher sensed that something was wrong, and the defensive strength of the No. 14 car in front of him gave him the illusion that Zhang Yifei was blocking in front of him. Many times the overtaking route was quickly blocked by the car in front, and there was no overtaking space at all.
Once or twice, you can still talk about luck, slowly approaching the end of a lap, Zhang Yifei is about to catch up, but there is still no way to overtake Alonso.
Prost No. 2 driver is so strong defensively?
At this moment, Schumacher had an indescribable surprise!
With this defensive ability alone, Alonso qualifies as one of the top drivers, but the question is how much can the driver who was at the bottom last year change so much this year?
And more importantly, if Alonso has the potential to be a top driver, then it means that the Prost team will have two top drivers, which is definitely the standard that only the Big Three teams can have, is it true that the F1 paddock pattern will really change from this Monaco Grand Prix?
Schumacher was a little incredulous, but if he could think of the rise of Prost Racing itself, he would understand that history is repeating itself.
The year before, the same team at the bottom of the list, was on the verge of going out of business, but last year they made it to the middle of the table, and so far this year they are in the top three, firmly holding themselves in second place on the track, behind Ferrari.
A team can be so transformed, what is the transformation of a driver?
In the face of Schumacher's crazy block, the members of the Scuderia Ferrari's strategy team, everyone's face can be described as iron-blue.
The worst happened, Alonso was extremely resolute in taking on the responsibility of "wingman", and even risked his own risk of losing control and crashing, he had to help Zhang Yifei block Schumacher to the death.
What they didn't expect was that Alonso really blocked it, Schumacher couldn't overtake it in a lap, and was caught up by Zhang Yifei!
"We all underestimated Alonso's defensive ability, so will Schummy really be able to block the flying four laps?"
Ross Brown questioned, not only is Alonso's defense stronger than expected, but Zhang Yifei's catching speed is also far beyond their imagination.
It only took one lap to catch up on Schumacher's rear and he was about to be caught between two Prost drivers, just like Zhang Yifei had been in before.
And more importantly, Zhang Yifei can pit and replace the front wind wing to make up for the only shortcoming of his track. However, Schumacher made a pit stop, but he could not adjust the gearbox, which means that at the moment, he still prefers the setting of extreme speed, and the acceleration of the corner at medium and low speed is to be crushed by the Prost car!
Will the scene where Zhang Yifei was powerless to fight back happen to Schumacher?
Emotions made Ross Brown reluctant to believe that it would happen, and his sanity as an engineer made him understand that there was a high probability of it happening. The next four laps will be the most difficult time for Schumacher's normal race, if he survives, he will be the champion, and if he can't hold on, he will never be able to overtake the driver!
"We have to believe in Shumi, if he can't, then no one in this world can!"
Jean Todd is still tough, which is also a must-have trait as a team boss. No matter what the situation, you have to believe in your driver, if you don't even have confidence in the boss, then who can say victory?
What's more, this driver is Schumacher, which in itself represents victory!
On the forty-seventh lap, Zhang Yifei officially launched his own attack on Schumacher, and at the same time, Alonso, the front car, cooperated with Schumacher's defensive line with great tacit cooperation, creating opportunities for Zhang Yifei in the back car.
The two had never worked together before, but at this moment, they were like "comrades-in-arms" who had fought side by side many times, without any communication and exchange at all, as if they knew what was going on in each other's minds.
This is not a metaphysical mind, but in the training process of most of the year, Alonso has long been familiar with Zhang Yifei's control and routing habits, otherwise he would not be able to do a perfect COPY.
Similarly, Zhang Yifei also paid attention to Alonso's control and routing, not to imitate and learn, but to see when this future car Hall of Fame-level driver will be able to show his full strength.
After a long period of contact, even if there is no need for deliberate planning, the two of them can achieve amazing cooperation.
After only one lap, Schumacher's situation began to be precarious, exactly the same as Zhang Yifei's predicament before. It's just that Schumacher is still the man at his peak after all, Zhang Yifei was killed by him and Alonso in a circle, and he didn't make any fierce resistance, and he is still holding on!
On the forty-eighth lap of the race, Schumacher's various maneuvers had reached the limit, and he even had a sense of "fish dead and the net was broken", and began to threaten Zhang Yifei with a crash. Even if he can't win the championship, he doesn't want to be a stepping stone for the Chinese kid.
Regarding Schumacher's "all to the end" move, Zhang Yifei has no doubts about the authenticity, because when it is really a desperate situation, this car god will never be soft!
It's just that now Zhang Yifei cooperates with Alonso, which can be called ruthless, and no matter how tenacious Schumacher is, he can't stop the attack of the Prost twins.
This is the advantage of Alonso replacing Alessi, strength is the most basic thing, if it is Alessi on the track now, no matter how cooperative the French veteran is, he will not be able to suppress this absolute power!
On lap 49, Alonso put the brakes on and completely blocked Schumacher's blocking route. And Zhang Yifei used a very extreme edge to complete the overtaking of Schumacher in the space that just passed through a car.
The blue and red Prost car is once again in the lead position!
Watching the No. 13 car speeding past him, Alonso's eyes were complicated, with a hint of envy, admiration, and even a hint of yearning.
"Fei, I don't owe you now."