Car Racing without Money-Chapter 373 - 157: Would You Like to Join the Big Three?
In terms of technology and speed, Ricardo is not inferior to any driver, even if the opponent is an F1 driver!
Hearing the team leader’s comfort, Ricardo nodded slightly, wanting to say something but couldn’t get the words out.
At times like this, any words seem like an excuse.
"Keep your mentality stable, there’s still the second reverse order race tomorrow. Start by taking down Bottas and Bianchi, let them fight with Xiangbei."
"What Xiangbei can do, you can also achieve!"
Philip has full confidence in this, Bottas’ single lap speed is very fast, at the top tier level within the paddock.
However, his starting and offense and defense levels are obviously lacking, Ricardo can definitely overtake him.
According to Bottas’ strength, he will react after being overtaken by no more than one car, then this Finnish rookie will go all out to defend against Xiangbei.
As long as the Chinese Kid is held back for one or two laps, Ricardo can build enough of a lead.
Philip believes that with the same long-distance cruising speed, Ricardo is not inferior to anyone!
"OK, I will do it."
Ricardo nodded solemnly, he is now also vying for Red Bull Racing Team’s official driver contract, seeking to advance into the F1 Paddock.
If he can’t even outrun a substitute Chinese rookie in this race, it will seriously affect Ricardo’s evaluation in the eyes of Red Bull Racing Team.
There is even a possibility that Red Bull Junior Team might extend an olive branch to Chen Xiangbei.
Ricardo can only win, not lose!
Back at the hotel, Chen Xiangbei is no longer watching his own lines, but rather the opponents’ technical styles and weaknesses.
Among them, Bianchi is his main focus.
In terms of junior formula achievements and performance after entering F1, Bianchi is not as good as Ricardo and Bottas.
According to conventional wisdom, Chen Xiangbei should be paying attention to the stronger opponents.
However, reality is the opposite, precisely because Ricardo and Bottas are well-known, Chen Xiangbei had watched almost all of their F1 races in his past life, and is extremely familiar with these two drivers’ technical styles and characteristics.
After all, whether it’s Red Bull Racing Team’s Ricardo or Mercedes Team’s Bottas.
For a long time, they were the focal points right next to WDC within the paddock, with a very high level of discussion topics.
However, Bianchi, due to his untimely death, just happened to miss Chen Xiangbei’s formula career focus, he hasn’t paid much attention to this French driver.
To know oneself and one’s enemy is the way to prevail in every battle.
Many times, Chen Xiangbei can showcase a dominance over drivers of the same level, precisely because he only strategically underestimates his opponents but tactically takes them very seriously.
Compared to the arrogance and pride of European drivers, they often didn’t pay attention to Chen Xiangbei at the first moment, and by the time they suffer a loss and try to target him, it’s already too late.
But this time Chen Xiangbei did not watch the recordings until late, instead, he chose to sleep early to replenish his energy.
Even though the G-force in today’s F3 racing, Chen Xiangbei’s muscle strength is enough to withstand it.
Yet three races over two days still exert considerable pressure on the body, especially since Chen Xiangbei often challenges both the car and track limits.
Watching Chen Xiangbei return to his room early, while still strategizing for tomorrow, Sawano Hiroyuki said with an admiring tone, "Xiangbei originally has the advantage of emotional stability, and it feels like through this period of trial training polish, his psychological quality has become even stronger."
Regarding Sawano Hiroyuki’s praise, Odetto was somewhat dismissive.
"Sawano, if there’s nothing to praise, maybe just don’t. The Chinese Kid has received enough praise recently, it’s time to up the intensity for him."
Odetto crossed his arms across his chest while speaking, scanning the layout map of Spa Circuit in front of him, alongside the data of the nine drivers Chen Xiangbei plans to overtake tomorrow.
The principle of knowing one’s own strength as well as the opponent’s, is understood not only by Chen Xiangbei, a Chinese, but also by the Italian old hand Odetto.
As the team leader, tonight he has to work with Sawano Hiroyuki and Mizutani Sho, the two strategy team members, to devise the highest probability winning plan for tomorrow.
Whether it can be achieved is Chen Xiangbei’s problem, the decision to do or not do so is the attitude of the strategy group.
At least in the eyes of Sawano Hiroyuki and Mizutani Sho, the intensity of this task is absurdly high!
It’s natural that Chen Xiangbei, in his dreamland, is unaware of the "gift" Odetto prepared for him. When he opened his eyes again, it was already Sunday.
Compared to Friday and Saturday, Sunday is the main course of an F1 race weekend, with the paddock reaching its peak excitement.
Not only would 80,000 spectators be present today, but many European political figures and social celebrities also arrived at Spa Circuit to watch the race, making the media interview area lively and bustling like a carousel.
Inherently, the attention of F3 events is relatively low, and now there are even fewer reporters for pre-race interviews.
As for this, Chen Xiangbei was quite happy with a little leisure time; he wasn’t very keen on media hype, after changing into his racing suit, he sat in the driver’s lounge with legs crossed, waiting for the second round of the main race to begin.
At this time, someone knocked on the lounge door.
"Come in."
Chen Xiangbei casually called out, expecting it to be Odetto or Lu Xiaoman.
However, when the door opened, it was Dong Hebin’s face that appeared.
"Bin bro, what brought you here?"
Since joining the Renault Sport Academy, Dong Hebin hadn’t been spectating with the team as a third driver.
