Car Racing without Money-Chapter 490 - 192: Clash of Team Philosophies (Part 2)

Chapter 490: Chapter 192: Clash of Team Philosophies (Part 2)

Yet under the capital’s support, it forcefully grew for the sake of a title.

Without going through any testing and adaptation process, he was directly pushed into the F1 cockpit to participate in the Hungarian Grand Prix, running only to be lapped by other drivers.

This brutal reality from heaven to hell shattered Jamie’s confidence.

When a racer’s spirit is broken, and they doubt their ability and talent, they are destined to become ordinary.

That’s exactly what happened to Jamie, who ranked 19th in the 10-season history.

It seems like this position is the fifth from the bottom, with a few more unlucky ones beneath.

In fact, the "new army" team in the 10-season had a car so poorly built it was incapable of scoring, equivalent to being last.

The halo of a former supernova faded away, and in the 11-season, Jamie completely collapsed mentally and was let go by the team before even completing a full season.

Of course, these are things of the future.

As of now, Jamie Agur Sulaeri, in the eyes of the outside world, still holds untapped potential, waiting to explode in the new season.

And yet he was caught up by the new Chinese rookie?

"FUCK, what the hell is Jamie doing, getting caught up despite a dynamic start lead of nearly a second?"

"The Chinaman is a second faster than Jamie in the S1 segment, what kind of speed is that?"

"How could it be so fast, did Jamie make a mistake?"

"Did HRT Team build a Mars Rover this year?"

The racetrack reverberated with various exclamations and doubts; most of the audience couldn’t understand what was happening.

After all, the event broadcast camera focused mainly on a few rookies making their debut in the opening race, and never considered that a "semi-new" driver like Jamie, who had run a few races, could be easily caught up by Chen Xiangbei.

Not only the audience didn’t get it, even the Red Bull Junior Team crew was stunned at the "chase" scene appearing on the big screen.

"Meske, what exactly happened, did Jamie make a mistake?"

Tost, the leader of the Red Bull Junior team, immediately asked the chief race engineer.

His attention was primarily on the No. 1 driver Buemi, without noticing Jamie’s situation.

"There was a skid during the connection between turns T2 and T3, and the car correction cost about 0.2 to 0.3 seconds."

"And how much earlier was Jamie’s dynamic start compared to Xiangbei?"

"0.8 seconds."

Meske replied truthfully.

Hearing this number, Tost felt a bit dumbfounded.

Muttering to himself, "Are you saying Xiangbei is 0.5 seconds faster than Jamie in the S1 segment?"

Faced with the leader’s inquiry, Chief Race Engineer Meske felt a bit tongue-tied.

He could only nod to confirm it.

[MY GOD...]

Tost exclaimed in his heart, according to this pace, Chen Xiangbei’s single lap fastest speed would be 1.5 seconds faster than Jamie’s.

If this is true, Chen Xiangbei is not just a question of qualifying, he could finish in the top five!

The various data from the track monitoring naturally were unknown to Chen Xiangbei.

He looked at the "slow car" little Red Bull in front of him and directly pressed the communication button on the steering wheel to inquire.

"Odetto, is the car in front warming up tires or doing a flying lap?"

Under normal circumstances, a slow car blocking a fast car doing a flying lap should voluntarily clear the driving line.

However, the car in front showed no sign of yielding, and appeared to be speeding, making Chen Xiangbei unable to judge at the moment.

"The car in front is the number 16 driver of the small Red Bull, Jamie, he is also doing a flying lap."

[What?]

Upon hearing this answer, Chen Xiangbei was a bit surprised.

A blocking situation during qualifying usually involves slow cars without timed laps.

Teams generally observe the respective distances of drivers doing flying laps to prevent such blocking scenarios.

The Red Bull Junior Team is not a rookie team, could they still make such a basic mistake?

"Xiangbei, you’ve already been slowed by 0.1 seconds, overtake!"

Odetto didn’t explain or waste words; as of now, compared to the third practice, Chen Xiangbei’s time after T4 and the straight to T5 was about 0.1 seconds slower.

Any further delay would increase the gap.

"COPY."

With a brief response, Chen Xiangbei went for a hard brake at the T6 corner, grabbing the line to overtake.

This brake was extremely aggressive and the lane-switching maneuver was extremely fierce, showing no signs of a rookie driver and lacking the typical Asian driver’s fear of "wheel-to-wheel" combat.

Of course, there was also Jamie not deliberately blocking as a factor.

"Beautiful!"

Sawano Hiroyuki immediately clenched his fist and shouted excitedly.

The slower Chen Xiangbei overtakes, the longer his lap time becomes.

The team originally thought that as a rookie, Chen Xiangbei would wait to release the stored kinetic energy for overtaking like DRS on the long straight.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiangbei was so aggressive, directly devouring the little Red Bull in the corner!

"Xiangbei is a little too adventurous."

Amidst the strategy team’s enthusiasm, Briatore lazily responded.

Currently, not only Odetto is "conservative," but Hua Bu even more so.

Yet their "conservative" reasons are entirely different.

Odetto wants Chen Xiangbei to steadily enter Q2, thus choosing a relatively conservative strategy, though it somewhat backfired.

Briatore, however, sees Chen Xiangbei’s "value;" if this Chinese kid crashes or gets injured, it would damage his personal image and affect upcoming promotions and advertisements.

Comparatively speaking, Hua Bu prioritizes benefits over results at this stage.

"Adventurous?"