When Zhang Yifei caught up with Barrichello, there were many conversations like Steiner and Lauda, ​​all discussing whether Zhang Yifei could surpass Barrichello and how long it would take to surpass him.

Although it can be seen that in the first lap of the qualifying competition, Barrichello did not have the idea of ​​fighting Zhang Yifei with all his strength. However, it can be seen from his behavior of blocking the car that it would not be so easy for Zhang Yifei to pass easily.

Many people have thought of countless answers, but no one can imagine that Zhang Yifei surpassed Barrichello and didn’t need a single lap!

Even Ralph Schumacher, who was running behind Zhang Yifei and waiting to watch the two tigers fight, felt shocked at this moment.

He could see that Barrichello didn't use all his strength. The problem was that no matter how hard he didn't use all his strength, it was impossible that he couldn't even stop a lap in the street race. What's the difference between this and just letting the car go directly?

The audience, even the track commentator, was silent for a few seconds when they saw this scene.

Is Barrichello making a fuss? After all, he is the third place in total points last year. He is qualified to compete for the No. 2 figure in the entire F1 field. As a result, you can't stop it in a circle?

The only one who does not have this emotion is probably the Ferrari team strategy group. They were like Williams' strategy group before, and did not force Barrichello to stop Zhang Yifei.

Because this is just the first lap of the qualifying race, and no matter what, Barrichello has achieved in the past two years with Ferrari, and has also been among the top drivers. Soldiers can be killed but not humiliated. At critical moments, they can show the strength of the strategy group and force Barrichello to obey the team's instructions.

However, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to be domineering to Barrichello at all times. No matter how you say the top drivers, they still have dignity and status.

Compared with the Ferrari's door crash, the strongest command of the Ferrari strategy team is to let Barrichello get the car. It is absolutely impossible to not treat the No. 2 driver as a human being, and do such suicide impacts like Renault.

They thought that even if the order to block the car was not issued, Barrichello would not let Zhang Yifei go easily. They still have to do what they should do, and they should not let the Chinese newcomers jump too much.

Unexpectedly, I couldn't stop it for a lap and was overtaken like this. It was a humiliation to Ferrari and Barrichello!

"What are Barrichello doing? No matter how you do it for the sake of Ferrari and his own face, you can't let Fei surpass him so easily!"

Jean Todd was very dissatisfied, but he did not turn on the team's voice to accuse Barrichello of the team. After all, there was no team command, so what was done was Barrichello's freedom.

"Barrichello can't be blamed. No one expected Prost to be so powerful in speeding up."

Ross Brown is a top racing designer after all, and he can see the powerful performance of Prost AAP05 racing at a glance.

At most, the Ferrari engine is only a decision on the lower limit. How strong the real upper limit depends on the Prost team's own R&D capabilities. French cars have always been a strength, but this low-torque acceleration means that the gearbox matching and tuning is also very good. It seems that this year's AP05 racing car will really become the enemy of f2002!

"We all underestimated Prost's copycat."

Jean Todd sighed. He had paid more attention to Zhang Yifei before and had never taken Prost Ap05 racing seriously. He even thought that it was a "counterfeit" compared to Ferrari racing.

Now, it really underestimates the R&D capabilities of the Prost team. It is no accident that the title of the fastest racing car in winter is a top race car. This car has the performance of being among the top F1 cars.

"Do you want Shumi to get serious and treat this as a main game?"

At this time, Ferrari's event director Steveno de Monnecali asked Jean Todd.

This is the new race director of Ferrari team. Because it is said that the Ferrari board of directors intends that Jean Todd will serve as the Ferrari Group CEO. This will inevitably disperse Jean Todd's experience, so the team's strategic rights begin below, de Monnecali is regarded as the next generation Ferrari team manager.

However, at this time, it was the moment when Ferrari's golden triangle was at its peak, and the Ferrari event director did not have much say.

"Let's talk about it when Fei catches up with Shumi!"

Jean Todd's words restored the former giant momentum.

Schumacher leads Zhang Yifei too much in the starting position, and the first lap will end soon, and he will also start to exert force. And more importantly, the Ferrari F2002 racing car is completely tailor-made for Schumacher. Only he can exert the full strength of this rover.

On the contrary, judging from the feedback from the winter test, Barrichello has repeatedly mentioned some things that are not suitable for the new racing car, but the team management did not pay much attention to it, and the second driver is not qualified to enjoy so many resources.

So Zhang Yifei can surpass Barrichello, but don’t think about surpassing Schumacher!

After saying this, Jean Todd hesitated for a moment and said to Ross Brown, the technical director beside him.

"I don't want to see this kind of thing again," said Barrichello.

What many people don’t know is that in fact, the F1 racing car is not a car that starts from beginning to end, but can constantly fine-tune the racing car over the problems found during the race.

Some of them are even tedious in research and development, and the racing car cannot catch up with the new season, so there are many cases when the old car roof is replaced directly in the second half of the race schedule.

In the previous f2002, it basically didn't consider Barrichello's needs. Now it seems that the opponents this year are very strong. With Schumacher's ability alone, it may be risky to defend the title continuously, so we must take care of and strengthen Barrichello.

"I know."

Ross Brown nodded. The scene of a Ferrari racing car like today being killed by someone in a short straight line is simply a shame for the Big Three.

As a racing designer, even if Jean Todd doesn't have to say, he can't tolerate this situation happening again!

Zhang Yifei looked at the red Ferrari racing car in the rearview mirror at this moment, and the expression on his face was a little cold. He knew that Barrichello did not use all his strength, but this Green Leaf driver underestimated himself and this year's AAP05 racing car. Do you really think he was driving a "tractor"?

If you want to deal with yourself with a playful attitude, you must face this kind of result that you don’t crush!

At this time, there were only two drivers, Kurthard and Schumacher, who were left in front of Zhang Yifei. If they continued to develop according to the previous situation, Zhang Yifei might stage the main competition scene in advance in the qualifying stage, which was to not only compete in lap speed, but also compete in rankings.

However, Zhang Yifei knew very well that Coothard might let himself surpass, but Schumacher would never let himself surpass, or even unable to surpass!

This is not only the pride of the number one person in the f1 paddock, but more importantly, after Schumacher won the f2002 race this year, he will appear in the peak scene, which is almost an invincible existence.

In history, there were seventeen races, eleven races, five runner-ups and one third race, and they stood on the podium throughout the year, and defended the world championship with a total of six races ahead of schedule.

These achievements are all mountains that Zhang Yifei feels unsurpassable. It can be said that it is this terrifying record that made Zhang Yifei start making arrangements a year in advance, so that this AAP05 car will appear to face the peak Schumacher.

I can only say that this year's preparations have not been in vain. At least this Prost car gave Zhang Yifei the hope. This is the real reason why he was crazy in the first lap of the qualifying race. Even if his mentality is as stable as Zhang Yifei, he can't stand the expectations for a year and needs to test his efforts.

Of course, no one knows how terrifying Schumacher this year is, including himself.

The qualifying race continued, and soon the car passed the starting line. Zhang Yifei cleared his thoughts about Schumacher in his mind. Now he only wants to know one thing, that is, how fast he ran in the first lap.

"Cosell, is the lap time out?"

Zhang Yifei pressed the call button and couldn't help asking Cosel. He had never cared about the speed of the first lap of the qualifying tournament like he did today.

"not yet."

Haven't come out yet? Zhang Yifei felt a sense of loss in his heart, but he also knew that the speed measurement and statistics equipment of this era could not refresh the lap in real time like in later generations.

But soon, Zhang Yifei heard Prost's excited voice in his headset: "It's out, 1 minute 45 seconds 627, the fastest lap speed on the track at present!"

1 minute 45 seconds 627?

When he heard this number, Zhang Yifei recalled that if he remembered correctly, the track record was 1 minute 45 seconds 339, but the fastest lap speed was 1 minute 44 seconds 801. He was almost one second slower.

It’s just that Zhang Yifei forgot one thing, that is, he just ran the first lap, and this speed is close to the track record. At this moment, most drivers’ lap speed is also 1 second slower than Zhang Yifei’s lap!

Even the first car Schumacher was 0.5 seconds slower than Zhang Yifei. On the contrary, he ranked second, and Helio, who was at the bottom of the car. He did not follow the rules in the first lap. In addition to Sato Takuma and Alonso overtaking in a crazy offensive, the drivers on the track showed a clear trend of new and old.

That is, the younger the driver, the more crazy it is!

At the same time, the audience in the stands were also excited when facing Zhang Yifei's lap speed that was far ahead!

When they saw Zhang Yifei, the four first-class drivers, they had already had a premonition that Zhang Yifei's lap speed would be exaggerated. However, even Zhang Yifei's fans did not expect that his first lap would be so fast, and even Schumacher was left far behind.

Didn’t many people conclude that Zhang Yifei’s track shortcomings are not good at night battles? Now we stand up and take a look to let you see that after the Rain War is invincible, another night battle king on the track!
Chapter completed!