Chapter 356
Raikkonen will take 17 pole positions, while Ye Feng will remain at 15.
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dropped the chain at a critical time, and Raikkonen had only one result, which was to be quickly surpassed by Ye Feng, who was in good condition behind!
At this time, the camera also focuses on the iceman for a long time, as if looking for the reason for the sudden drop in Raikkonen's speed. After a careful search, everyone could clearly see that the exhaust pipe outlet of Raikkonen's car had broken somewhere. Although this is a small glitch and not enough to trigger serious consequences such as retirement, it is enough for the Iceman to reluctantly give up the good situation.
Ye Feng, who surpassed his teammates, quickly widened the gap with the car behind, and Raikkonen, who was in trouble, not only let Ye Feng pass Ye Feng as soon as possible to prevent his teammates from being suppressed by his slow car for too long, but also the iceman tried his best to block the slow car behind. Sometimes it's like that, when you can't control the course of events, you just try to do your best under the conditions you have.
In the end, Ye Feng was somewhat lucky to snatch the championship thanks to a teammate's car failure, and even if Raikkonen's car was damaged, he was still able to hold on to second place, and Ferrari once again took the top two places in this race after some twists and turns in the first two races. With this victory, Ye Feng not only won his fifth race championship of the season, but also still led the drivers' standings with 64 points, and Raikkonen was second
What should make Ye Feng even happier is that with this victory, Ye Feng already has 18 sub-tournament titles, thus surpassing Raikkonen and Alonso, who were tied with him. He became the one with the most race wins among active riders.
A few families are happy and a few are worried, after reading Ye Feng's side, and then look at Hamilton's side. In this race, Xiao Hei was affected by the previous race, and even though he tried his best, he failed to score points in the end. So his points are still 35 points unchanged. And what should make Xiao Hei feel most depressed should be that he not only failed to shorten the gap with the leader in the first three races when Ye Feng was in trouble, but was also thrown away by his opponent even more.
It seems that the sophomore's hopes for a championship are fading before the season, and if he can't make a comeback in the next few races, he will soon be out of contention for the title by the end of the European campaign.
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After a two-week break in France, F1 will move to Silverstone in the UK after a two-week break. Hamilton and McLaren, who had struggled in the first eight races, finally had their home game.
This should be a good respite for the Silver Arrows. In fact, McLaren Racing has not had a good start at the moment. The situation is not bad in all respects.
Before the start of this season. Bernie and other British colleagues have already made every effort to mediate the FIA to cut some of the penalties for the McLaren team's "spygate" incident, and also handed over some of the league's other car parts order contracts to Silver Arrows, which is considered to be another disguised compensation for Silver Arrows' huge fines.
As a result, McLaren is under some additional financial pressure. But in reality, it doesn't get to the point of cutting back on food and clothing. On the contrary, after the success of the first half of last season, the team has regained the confidence they had when they dominated the world. Gradually, it became a very competitive team.
In terms of racing, although the results of the Silver Arrows in the first eight races were not satisfactory, the main reason was the performance and luck of the drivers. Although the MP4-23 of the new season of McLaren could not compete with Ferrari's F2008 in absolute speed, by the time McLaren rolled off the assembly line, the car had completely reversed its original stubborn problem of constant accidents and poor stability, and had become sometimes even more stable than Ferrari, which was known for its consistent performance.
Such a radical change has undoubtedly put the Silver Arrows back into the ranks of the best teams, and their engineers are still testing and refining the car's power output and absolute speed, and if they can further reduce or even catch up with the speed of Ferrari's cars, then the success or failure of this season is not really a foregone conclusion.
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On the 74th, in the gloomy weather peculiar to England. The 59th British Grand Prix kicked off on time for the practice session at Silverstone.
Similar to the fate of France's Manikul, Silverstone, the "old" circuit that has carried almost all of F1's existing history, will retire from F1 next year after completing its 60th F1 mission. The legendary circuit at Wembley Stadium, known as the British in the world of motorsport, has also come to an end
The glory and cheers became a permanent memory.
In its place as the new British Grand Prix venue was the familiar and unfamiliar Dorrington Park Circuit, on which he had been practicing since joining Williams. This is undoubtedly good news for Ye Feng, but now he still has to pass this year's silverstone level first.
Maybe it's because it's been a year and a half and people's memories that have been diluted a bit. So this time, Ye Feng re-landed on Silverstone and did not receive such a huge boo as last season. He was replaced by Marcos Alonso, who was almost at odds with McLaren at the end of last season. Perhaps because the hatred between the two is so strong, this time the British fans, led by the Silver Arrow fans, booed the Spaniards even more shockingly.
But. As the race got underway, attention was gradually returning to the race, and the most hopeful thing for many British fans was that their little black would pick himself up as soon as possible.
Sure enough, with more than 100,000 British fans cheering it on, Ferrari's dominance began to loosen in the three practice sessions. The first practice race was undoubtedly dominated by Ferrari, but Ye Feng won the first place in this practice race at the same time, but he also paid a huge price! Coincidentally, the cause of the incident turned out to be Ye Feng's old opponent Alonso.
After completing one of the fastest laps of the race, Ye Feng was going to go back to the garage after two more laps. The R28 driven by Alonso burst off the track at this time, and the practice session ended early, at this time, in fact, at the location of Alonso's burst, the oil leaking from his car had already contaminated a large area of the track.
In the face of such a situation, the organizing committee obviously did not pay enough attention and only gave a yellow flag, but soon the oil leakage from the Spaniard's car immediately caused a bigger accident, and Ye Feng rushed directly into the tire wall after the car lost control and rushed out of the track at the No. 7 corner!
Seeing such a scene, what made everyone break out in a cold sweat was that in 1 year, the car king Schumacher had an accident in the same place that caused a broken leg. Fortunately, although the tail of the F2008 was seriously damaged, Ye Feng was not injured, but his car obviously needed large-scale repairs, which would undoubtedly greatly affect Ye Feng's performance in subsequent races.
Sure enough, in the next two practice matches, Ye Feng's results were seriously affected and only hovered around tenth. In the subsequent qualifying session, even though Ye Feng tried his best to finally enter the third stage of qualifying, he could still only get a pitiful ninth place, which also set his lowest starting qualifying record this season.
And that's not the most surprising thing, after a fierce battle, it was not the big names of Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton who took pole position, but the Finnish teenager Kovalenen, who was also his first F1 pole position. Weber also made people unexpected, and also created an upset. And Raikkonen and Hamilton, who couldn't say bad, could only accept the reality of starting the second row one after the other.
It seems that Ye Feng and the good luck of the Ferrari team some time ago can come to an end temporarily in the UK.
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On the second day, before the start of the official race, it rained lightly in the sky, and after the appraisal of the organizing committee, all teams in the race chose neutral tires to fight.
Five red lights went out, and the game officially began. At this moment, all British fans were excited by Hamilton, who started at 4 starts, because Kovalenen, who was in pole position, blocked Raikkonen who started behind him and Webber who was behind him, and took the opportunity to quickly catch up from the inside, not only overtaking the two opponents in one fell swoop, but Xiao Hei's car front even surpassed his teammates for a time, but Kovalelinen, who had the advantage of the inside lane, insisted and firmly held the first position. Despite this, the rendezvous of the two Silver Arrows has set the tone for the race from the start.
At this time, Ye Feng, who was in the middle of the grid, started in the middle of the grid, and did not adopt the strategy of strong overtaking at the start that he had always insisted on, but steadily followed the car in front while firmly blocking the overtaking route of the opponent behind.
It seems that what Ye Feng wants to take today is undoubtedly a stable word, which is actually a helpless choice. As a result of the previous collision, his current car is not much better than the cars of other teams in all aspects. Therefore, being able to finally get points is his more realistic goal at present.
But at this time, Ye Feng suddenly found that the person who was following him had changed from the original Coulthard to the little Rosberg of the Williams team, so Ye Feng, who wanted to save a little in the first half of the game, could only smile bitterly, there was no way to tell the guy behind him to blush when he saw him...