Chapter 374
Xu saw that Ye Feng and the Ferrari team seemed to be a little unbearable in the previous races, so it rained a lot at the European Grand Prix held in Valencia, Spain three weeks later, and the next Belgian Grand Prix.
Perhaps Ye Feng has proved F2009's own ability to race in the rain in the previous rain battle, but after all, such climatic conditions will add too many variables to the game, and the possibility of accidents in the game has also greatly increased. In such a relatively chaotic situation, no driver has dared to say that he is sure of victory. For example, in the previous stops, Ye Feng was knocked off the track by Vettel, many times, even if you want to race carefully, accidents will still come unexpectedly. So from this point of view, such a continuous rain battle is a test for both Ye Feng and Ferrari, which increases the possibility of other opponents taking advantage of the chaos, because for other teams it has proved that it is almost impossible to overtake F2009 under normal circumstances.
Sure enough, in the brand-new street race in Valencia, Ye Feng encountered several troubles in succession, and at least three times in a row rushed into the buffer zone on a very slippery track, although he was still able to keep racing after each time, but this undoubtedly greatly affected Ye Feng's performance in the main race. In the end, with a tenacious sprint in the final stage, Ye Feng improved his ranking to fifth, and missed the podium for the second time this season.
The race was won by Hamilton, who came from behind, and it was the British driver's first race win of the season. Alonso and the Iceman are in second and third respectively, and now in addition to the unusually stable position of Ye Feng in the first place, the biggest attraction in the standings is undoubtedly the battle for "second" between Raikkonen and Alonso. While this is an understatement to underestimate the two former World Champions, the truth is so brutal.
Of course, after another 10 Constructors' Points, Scuderia Ferrari would have taken the Constructors' Championship with an astonishing five races ahead of schedule.
This is also a reflection of the current strength of Scuderia Ferrari, and even now there are calls to limit the Red Prancing Horse, 050607 most of the major improvements in the car in the last three years have undoubtedly been made in the context of the invincible Scuderia Ferrari.
Although Ye Feng and the current team are far from being comparable to the Ferrari team led by the king of cars back then, the strong sense of pressure and frustration that Ye Feng gave to their opponents in the race is undoubtedly too similar to the dynasty team back then.
Two weeks later on the picturesque Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Although the sky is still drizzling. However, after a tactical adjustment, it was clear that the Scuderia Ferrari was well prepared for this continuous rain battle. Two brightly coloured F2009s comfortably took the front row of the grid in the rain in qualifying for six from the start. However, this time Ye Feng lost by a slight disadvantage to the Iceman, who has been in good form recently and has been on the podium in a row.
The next day, Ferrari's strategy of aggressively fighting for pole position proved to be correct in the race. On a track where a series of crashes are common at the start even on sunny days, this rain battle has been an accident from the start. As you can imagine. If Ye Feng and Raikkonen were in the middle of the start, then in such a chaotic situation, even if they had the ability to go high, they would have nowhere to show it.
So although it was a rain war, and there were constant accidents. However, a good qualifying strategy kept the two Ferrari drivers from being too much of a tough test in the race. A few safety car sorties easily offset the lead over the other rivals that the two Ferraris had managed to build. However, the strength of F2009 in the rain battle still ensured Ye Feng and Raikkonen an advantage over the enemy.
However, when it comes to the infighting between the two, Ye Feng obviously has no way to take the iceman in front of him in this game. On the contrary, after consolidating the advantage with the third place, Ye Feng adopted a more conservative strategy in order to prevent accidents, so after dozens of laps of the race, Raikkonen got his wish to win his third sub-race title of the season, and also narrowed the difference between himself and Ye Feng to 31 points.
But that doesn't seem to make much sense, because even so, the Icemen still need to beat Ye Feng by an average of more than 6 points per game in the remaining five races to achieve a comeback.
However, with the 18 points won by the team's two drivers, Scuderia Ferrari fell to the ground and won the constructors' championship for the 17th time in the team's history! It was also the third time in a row that Ye Feng and Raikkonen had won the honour for Scuderia Ferrari since they joined forces. Ye Feng and Raikkonen are enough to be called a Ferrari team
One of the most successful signings and driver combinations, after a brief hiatus for the two of them, quickly proved their dominance in Formula 1.
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The competition schedule is different from previous years. At the end of the race at Spa, the team had a three-week long holiday. Ye Feng, who was finally able to take a breather from the race, spent all his time by Gu Lin's side, who had resigned from the team to concentrate on giving birth.
Gu Lin, who has been pregnant for nearly five months now, has a slight bulge in her lower abdomen. Although the child in the womb has not yet been fully formed, this has made Ye Feng develop the "habit" of lying on his girlfriend's belly and listening to the movements of the little life inside whenever he has time. Maybe there was an expectation of a new life, so Ye Feng was also a little relieved of Senna's imminent departure.
In this regard, Ye Feng even has some superstitions, he firmly believes that the arrival of this child must have some mysterious connection with Senna's departure, in this regard, the car god can only smile helplessly every time, he knows that this is his apprentice is using such psychological hints to make himself not too sad because of the difference between each other.
And as the family learned that Gu Lin was pregnant, the Ye family and the Gu family couldn't help but get busy excitedly. If it weren't for being far away in Germany, Gu Lin and Ye Feng estimated that the threshold of their villa would be flattened by relatives and friends who came to visit.
But even so, Gu Lin and Ye Feng's parents still traveled thousands of miles to Germany and lived with the young couple for a while. Moreover, they also strongly requested more than once that Gu Lin should return to China to give birth in order to get better care. But he was rejected many times by the young couple. Gu Lin was reluctant to let Ye Feng stay in Europe alone, while Ye Feng was reluctant to leave his wife, and he was reluctant to see such an opportunity to witness his child conceived and formed day by day......
In short, with the advent of this little life, the German villa has also increased a lot of popularity and laughter.
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"The upcoming Italian race can almost be regarded as the last chance for Raikkonen and Alonso, the two remaining drivers who still have championship hopes in addition to Ye Feng this season, to approach Ye Feng.
Because now Ye Feng is 31 points ahead of the Iceman and 33 points ahead of Alonso. After winning two championships in the next five races, no matter how hard the other two drivers tried, they couldn't stop Ye Feng from defending his title.
The next Monza is Ferrari's home stadium, and it is also a track that Ye Feng likes very much, and he has won two championships here so far. Therefore, it can be said that it is very difficult to stop Ye Feng's victory.
If Ye Feng is allowed to win this championship, then there is only one choice waiting for Raikkonen and Alonso, that is, to expect them to win all the championships in the next four stops and Ye Feng will make major mistakes before it can be reversed, because after winning Monza, Ye Feng only needs to win one championship in the four races after leaving Europe, and he can retire.
So this big battle in Monza, for Alonso and Raikkonen, no one can afford to lose! ”
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When Ye Feng's car crossed the finish line at Monza again after an hour and a half of racing, he was one step away from defending his title. With his current form, the task of winning a title in four races is almost unstoppable.
For Raikkonen, even if he finishes second in the tournament, there is still a theoretical hope of winning the title. But just look at the look on his face at the moment and you can see that he has completely given up on this year's championship. As Ye Feng's teammate, he knows this Chinese better than other drivers, and it can be said that he has almost witnessed Ye Feng's little improvement since becoming his teammate.
By now, even the proud Raikkonen had to admit that Ye Feng had surpassed Raikkonen in some aspects. He might be able to win a few more games against Ye Feng in a particular race, but it was definitely something that Raikkonen couldn't believe if he wanted to beat Ye Feng in a long season while driving the same car.
At this time, he was even a bit like Prost back then who had the idea of leaving because of Senna's prosperity, because as long as he was still in the Ferrari team, I am afraid that he would have to live in the shadow of Ye Feng, who was younger and more promising than him......
As for Alonso, who was previously ranked third, he didn't even have a theoretical chance left, because he only finished seventh in this Italian race, so after being led by Ye Feng by more than 40 points, Alonso has completely missed the championship this season......