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Chapter 773: Chapter 314: If Miracles Had a Color (2)

Simply put, whoever exits Turn 6 first is the ultimate winner!

The problem now is that the two of them have almost the same speed, and this is about the title fight—no one is going to yield on the final lap.

If you want to be the first one out, it all depends on who’s tougher, who can shove the other guy out.

But the final outcome is, with high probability, going to be a lose-lose situation, both cars colliding and rolling off the track!

Scenes like this have appeared countless times in F1 history; no title contender is easy to mess with. Don’t even mention collisions in corner fights—there are more than enough precedents of deliberate crashes to count.

Mansell, Senna, Prost, Schumacher...

Every historically great driver whose name you remember has done things like this.

But there are many things that, even when you know the consequences, you still have no choice but to do.

Racing is a game of high confrontation; the protagonists in that confrontation are not just the cars themselves, but also the drivers’ skill and will.

In any competitive sport with direct confrontation, the hardliners always hold the advantage.

Weakness means you’re fair game!

In the past, throughout Chen Xiangbei’s career, most of the time the outside world saw him as a soft persimmon, but by throwing his life on the line and going crazy on track, he forced many people to change their view and no longer dared to casually squeeze this Chinese driver.

What Chen Xiangbei wants to do today is no longer just to make others afraid to squeeze him.

On the contrary, he wants to proactively squeeze Vettel, this future four-time champion.

To put it bluntly, Chen Xiangbei intends to fully capitalize on Vettel!

The two cars charged toward the exit without giving an inch, a scene that screamed "either you die, or I die."

Watching their abnormal speed and state on track, both the HRT Team and the Red Bull Racing Team management, the faces of the crew members were filled with a kind of horror at this moment.

At this speed and angle, if something happens, it’s not just a simple off-track excursion; the two cars are essentially on a Λ-shaped head-on path. If they were fully side by side and hit nose to nose, it’d be a bit better; but if one side is slightly faster and gets speared into the other car’s sidepod, the consequences are unimaginable.

At hundreds of kilometers per hour, an F1 car’s nose is like a sharp blade, directly piercing through the opponent’s sidepod and cockpit.

The safety design philosophy of a race car is actually similar to a road car: frontal impact protection is far stronger than side impact. The higher the speed, the higher the risk factor; the greater the hope of victory, the greater the looming threat of death.

At this moment, the race has become a game for the brave!

"My God, these two drivers have lost their minds."

"Their speeds are too close, there’s simply no way to complete the overtake."

"In the current situation, whoever doesn’t lift off is the one who dies!"

"Now it comes down to who is willing to risk his life for the title."

All the noise outside the track is reduced to the blink of an eye inside the track.

Just as the two cars were getting closer and closer, about to collide at the corner exit, an unexpected scene unfolded.

Chen Xiangbei shot out like an arrow leaving the bowstring, instantly completed the overtake on Vettel and finished the move—winner decided!

Did Vettel chicken out?

Watching what happened on track, the crowd in the grandstands erupted in uproar.

Whether they supported Chen Xiangbei or Vettel, none of them expected the race to be decided in this manner.

Looking at the Red Bull Racing in his mirrors, the expression on Chen Xiangbei’s face was extremely calm, far from the shock of the grandstand spectators and team staff, as if he had long foreseen this outcome.

In a sense, although there was an element of gambling in what Chen Xiangbei did, he really had anticipated that Vettel would back down.

The reason is simple: in the intrigue-ridden environment of the F1 Paddock, Vettel counts as a good guy; he has results worthy of a historic-level driver, but he doesn’t have the ruthlessness of Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton, Verstappen and the like.

Especially in his rookie season, Vettel was too "soft"!

This "softness" doesn’t mean he’s a coward on track, afraid of wheel-to-wheel battling or confronting rivals or even teammates.

It’s a "softness" of mentality when facing extreme situations.

In the same 2010 season’s intra-team fight, as the clear team-favored core and the one with better results,

facing Weber’s dissatisfaction and anger, Vettel actually sat in the press conference like a child who’d made a mistake, without any rebuttal or tough stance.

From a moral standpoint, Weber was indeed wronged, and Vettel, as a good person, sympathized with him—that’s not wrong.

But this is the F1 Paddock; there is no friendship, only opponents. If you don’t show enough toughness, you won’t secure enough team resources; when your form drops and you’re kicked out, no one will care whether you’re a good guy.

Just as no one goes around saying Senna or Schumacher were "bad guys."

History only remembers the titles "Car God" and "King of Cars."

A solid foundation and a smooth career meant Vettel never had that "ruthless edge" of carving out a bloody path under jungle law, especially before he had cultivated a true aura of a king.

This means that when facing an extreme life-or-death scenario, Chen Xiangbei will fight to the end, just like in his previous life when he died in a racing accident.

Because Chen Xiangbei’s situation dictates that if he doesn’t put his life on the line, he has no room to survive and can only bid farewell to the track.

Vettel, however, has plenty of ways out. He’s like a pampered rich kid, basking since childhood in the halo of the entire German racing world, enjoying the shelter built on the foundation laid by King of Cars Schumacher.

Marco picked him for the Red Bull junior program, Sauber boss Mario watched him grow up and, against all opposition, gave him a seat in the F1 Paddock.

Being too smooth sailing is not always a good thing.

This was also proven when Vettel moved from Red Bull to the Ferrari Team. When a darling of the heavens falls from the clouds into a trough, the sudden gap throws his mentality off balance and his competitive form collapses.

The four-time champion turned into the spinning-top "Water Wa," and in the end left the F1 Paddock in gloom.

The God’s-eye view brought Chen Xiangbei not only track experience, but also insight into the psychology of his rivals in the paddock.

Only Chen Xiangbei could dissect this; the Red Bull Racing Team couldn’t understand it.

Especially team boss Horner—he stared dumbfounded at the overtaking scene. To be overtaken despite having a car performance advantage meant Vettel had lifted off at the last moment.

At the very least, he didn’t fully floor the throttle.

Did he get scared?

At twenty years old, a driver is at the height of youthful recklessness; teams usually worry more about him losing his head and doing irrational things than about him shrinking back and being soft.

You have to understand, in the F1 Paddock environment, if you’re weak at key moments and don’t dare to risk your life, your opponents will just keep pushing and stepping over the line.

If they don’t bully a soft persimmon like you, who else are they going to bully?

Only Marco secretly sighed. He had practically watched Vettel grow up and knew that this young man’s mentality and desire to win didn’t actually reach the top echelon of drivers.

But Vettel’s skill and talent are no worse than the very best.

Because of this, there are very few opponents who can force Vettel into exposing his weakness; a wild, extreme line-fight like today might not appear again in his entire career, so a bit of "softness" is actually inconsequential.

After all, most of the time Vettel isn’t afraid of hard confrontation; he’s been involved in plenty of line-fight crashes.

Yet no one expected that this weakness would be noticed by the Chinese Kid and would become the decisive factor in this race!

That’s exactly how it was: once Chen Xiangbei completed the overtake, the F1 South Korea Grand Prix no longer had any suspense; thinking about chasing back and re-passing became a fantasy for Vettel.

Car No. 13 of the HRT Racing Car roared across the finish line, and the black-and-white chequered flag signaling the end of the race waved by the trackside fence.

At the same time, Red in the broadcast booth let out an excited, soaring shout.

"It’s over—the first driver across the finish line is Driver Bei from the HRT Team!" freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give the warmest applause and the wildest cheers to congratulate Driver Bei on winning the F1 Korea Station, and at the same time becoming the first driver in F1 history to achieve back-to-back wins in his rookie season."

"If miracles have a color, it must be the China Red on this track!"