Chapter 350
Before the start of the Malaysian Grand Prix, the camera focused more on Jean, who had just stepped down from his position as CEO of Scuderia Ferrari. Todd. This is Todd's second important role since he stepped up his role as team manager at the end of last season. Although he will still be the team's director of motorsport, everyone knows that Todd is entering semi-retirement this time.
In this way, together with the fact that at the beginning of the year, another former Ferrari team technical director, Ross Brown. Brown's choice to join Toyota puts Ferrari fans on the back burner with the hopes of Ferrari fans to see the Todd-Brown-Schumacher triangle that they have ever seen. Because, while the new CEO Stefano. Domenicali also has a wealth of management experience, but there is no doubt that Ferrari's current personnel composition is not comparable to that of the team's peak days.
Just before the start of the race, Ferrari boss Montezemolo also issued an open letter about Todd's resignation. The letter fondly recalls Todd's tremendous efforts in the development of Ferrari over the past few decades and the success he has led the team to. At the same time, he claimed that Todd made this decision because he was prepared to spend more time with his family in the future.
This has made everyone concerned about whether Todd and his girlfriend Michelle Yeoh's marriage will be put on the agenda, and of course, some senior experts believe that this is a move by Todd to plan to seize the FIA presidency.
No, Todd, who appeared on the grid in a white striped shirt on TV, was chatting with Bernie affectionately, especially after the recent "honorable" sex scandal by Mr. Moseley, the current president of the FIA. Such a picture undoubtedly adds a lot of speculation about his future.
Of course, by the time the driver appeared on the track in the race car, the roar of the motor had already left everything else behind......
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As soon as the race came up, Ye Feng started very smoothly like the previous race, and still took the lead. But this time, the one who followed him turned into an iceman. As Ferrari had already shown its strength in the previous race, it could well turn into a civil war between Ferrari's two biggest drivers, if nothing else.
Soon, as people guessed before the game, after a while of the game. Raikkonen, who was in excellent form, was not much left behind by Ye Feng, who was in the lead. The gap between the two remained between the two men at 56 seconds after seven laps. Iceman seems to be using this way to prove that he is also a master of playing TC-free cars from the icy Nordics, and the poor results in the last race are just a lack of competition.
Therefore, although Ye Feng is still leading now, it is far from being as easy as the last stop. Being so close to his position meant that he had to be careful with his teammates behind him at all times. However, this also aroused Ye Feng's desire to win more and more, no matter from which angle, Ye Feng was like testing the current strength comparison between him and Raikkonen through a fierce game.
Soon, two fiery Ferraris were racing around the Sepang circuit, one in front and one in the back. One is to prove themselves again, and the other is to "defend the title" in the new season, and both men have used their best in the confrontation, which can't help but remind everyone of the room-mates between Hamilton and Alonso last year. Oh, or a more classic analogy would be the battle between the two world champions Senna and Prost in McLaren. Interestingly, this often seems to happen with McLaren, but now Ferrari seems to be joining the bandwagon......
Because the cars used are exactly the same, and the team also adheres to a completely neutral attitude and does not favor any driver in the team at all, the battle between Ye Feng and Raikkonen is extremely fierce from beginning to end. But the iceman still failed to surpass after all, occupying the leading position and in better shape, Ye Feng. Hamilton, who was so unlucky in this race, didn't even touch the edge of the podium and finished fifth.
In '08, he made two appearances and took two pole positions. Win two races! Ye Feng announced his return to everyone with an extremely gorgeous and dazzling start! At the moment of crossing the finish line, Ye Feng, who swung his right fist like Schumacher, seemed to be telling those who had excluded him from the title contenders before the season. Never ignore him Chinese......
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On the 41st, April Fool's Day, Ye Feng, who had arrived in Bahrain, was picked up locally. In an exclusive interview, when asked what he wanted to do the most, Ye Feng said three things. The first is to win the pole position and championship of the Bahrain Grand Prix, which will start in 4 years, the second is to win this year's overall championship, and the third is a little surprising to the host who interviewed him, because the Chinese driver hopes that he can compete with Jackie Chan, Nicholas. Cage, Sean. Connelly and Anthony. Hopkins, his idols, made a movie together. Of course, the film is best related to drag racing, but Ye Feng also said that as long as the script is suitable and everyone can work together, any type of film can be made.
Ye Feng's third wish undoubtedly made the BBC host completely shocked the blue-eyed lady for half a minute before she rolled her eyes and closed her cherry mouth, and then laughed. At least in the eyes of this British lady, the Chinese driver in front of her, who originally gave everyone a mysterious impression, was too cute and very entertaining, at least in her impression, no interview subject answered so frankly and interestingly as Ye Feng.
Of course, the host and the audience watching the show probably didn't take what Ye Feng said to heart, and everyone regarded this as an April Fool's Day joke. This made Lao Ye very depressed, but he was actually answering the question seriously......
As for the first two questions, everyone has no opinion, although it seems that this guy is crazy, but the first two stops
Now let him have such arrogant capital.
But soon when Ye Feng returned to the arena, he quickly tasted the consequences of talking too early. Hopes for pole position did not come to pass this time. After three qualifying sessions, pole position went to a young man who had never won the award before: Kubica, a Polish boy who set a new F1 record for himself, Poland and BMW.
Raikkonen, who was second in the last race, was even ahead of Ye Feng, and it seems that the F-position drivers have become better and better at adapting to the TC-free car, which undoubtedly makes it much more difficult for Ye Feng to achieve his dream of three consecutive championships. F1 has once again proven that there are no absolutes in this race, and that any victory belongs only to the one who plays the best and is committed......
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Even at noon, the temperature at the Manama Circuit in Bahrain reached a terrifying level. Add to that the dry climate and the unique sand of the Arabian Peninsula that can be drifted to it at any time on the track. The Grand Prix in Bahrain will undoubtedly be a huge test for any driver and their tyres.
At this moment, Ye Feng, who was already in position in the cockpit of the car, had no intention of caring about the sweat on his face wrapped in the helmet, he stared closely at the two of Kubica and Raikkonen in front of him, and the heat in his eyes seemed to be able to directly kill the two powerful opponents.
To be honest, not being able to get the pole position in this game made Ye Feng a little depressed, but Ye Feng still strongly longed for the championship of this game. He did slack off after the first two races. This time, he lost the pole position, but it just reminded Lao Ye what was the most important thing in front of him. After a few hours of reflection after yesterday's qualifying session, Ye Feng was already convinced that his spirit had returned to his most focused level, and his desire to win the race had also reached its peak. Meantime. Lao Ye has a strong confidence in his own ability, and he believes that even if he is ranked third, he will eventually win the final victory......
The red light goes out and the game begins.
Ye Feng, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, even rushed to a place very close to the tail of Raikkonen's car at the moment of starting. However, the iceman was obviously guarding against this hand, and the veteran Raikkonen caught up with Ye Feng's car before it overtook his racing waistline, tangentially blocking Ye Feng behind him!
Next, Raikkonen and Ye Feng immediately started a thrilling chase in the second and third positions, and the situation was far more hot than the previous race. The results are undoubtedly cheaper than the Poles in front, and the data shows that BMW is gradually widening the distance between the two Ferraris behind them, and Tyson's team may be very close to making their new history, but no one cares about the red-eyed Ferrari duo.
Ye Feng's excellent form and brave play did make the teammates in front of him very uncomfortable, so Raikkonen had to use all his skills to defuse China's Ye's attacks again and again; And for Ye Feng. It was also a difficult problem to overtake Raikkonen, who has always been known for his aggressive and fast driving style in the same car.
After seeing the two men compete for more than a dozen laps, those in the know realized that the balance of victory and defeat between the two was probably in the timing of the first pit stop.
The race went on lap 16. Raikkonen, who was at the front, took the lead in 8.5 seconds.
At this time, all the focus was on Ye Feng, who was still running on the track. Now it seems that the Chinese Ye has undoubtedly more fuel in the race, and he has done well enough to keep up with Raikkonen before, and whether he can take advantage of the late pit stop to achieve a comeback depends on his performance in the next few laps!
Ye Feng was also even important, so almost at the same time as Raikkonen made a pit stop, Ye Feng began to accelerate and soar. In fact, he just added more than two laps of gas than the Iceman, otherwise he would not have been able to hold on until now without being thrown away by his teammates. So there is not much time left for Lao Ye to sprint, and if he can't take the opportunity to get rid of Raikkonen, a difficult opponent, he will be thrown farther and farther away by Kubica in front of him as time goes by.
Ye Feng's speed, which was racing to the extreme, was so amazing that he didn't even care about preserving the performance of the car, and with him racing so wildly, the fastest lap record of the race was rewritten by Ye Feng in the first lap of Raikkonen's pit stop.
This was followed by another new track fastest lap! Ye Feng also made a pit stop after making an amazing result for two consecutive laps......
At this moment, everyone's hearts have already risen to their throats, and those who can't help the tension have even stood up and covered their mouths to watch the game. At this moment, the camera kept switching back and forth between Ye Feng, who was entering the station, and the figure of the iceman, who was only two laps away.
7.8 seconds! Ye Feng made 0.7 seconds less pit stops than his teammates! At the exit of the current maintenance channel, Ye Feng's red racing car was slowly driving out, and at the far end of the camera, under everyone's anxious waiting, Raikkonen's red color had also appeared......
"Wow~~"
With the sound of loud exclamations or sighs resounding at the same time on the Manama circuit, the result of this fierce battle at the exit has finally been divided! Ye Feng finally squeezed the iceman who was originally in front of him behind him with the two best laps and the difference in time of the pit stop.
And because there was still a gap of nearly 1 second between the two after leaving the station, although Raikkonen tried his best to complete the overtake with the better tire condition and car condition at the moment, he was finally stubbornly resisted by Ye Feng. Later, after two and a half laps of shadow-like entanglement, Ye Feng, who gradually increased the temperature of the tires and significantly increased the speed of the car, finally began to gradually widen the gap between himself and Raikkonen.
Now, there is only one goal in front of Ye Feng, that is, to surpass the leading Polish guy and fulfill his wish for three consecutive championships on April Fool's Day! And in Ye Feng's heart, there was no longer any difficulty that could stop him from completing this goal......