Feeling Chen Xiangbei accelerating to prepare for an overtaking, Trulli immediately executed the same extreme gear-shifting acceleration maneuver.
Honestly, for top F1 drivers, the coordination of throttle, gear, and engine speed is not a high-difficulty operation. More often, it is about extreme control of details.
Trulli's gear-switching was done perfectly, always keeping the engine speed in the optimal power output range.
With two identical Toyota engines, naturally, there couldn't be any significant performance disparity. Chen Xiangbei wanting to overtake Trulli by speeding up became an impossible task.
The alternative plan was to execute a late brake overtaking at the T1 corner extremity!
To be honest, Chen Xiangbei was unwilling to use such extreme control. Missing the brake point means having to hard brake, which causes significant tire wear and might even result in a lock-up, contradictory to the one-stop tire conservation strategy.
