222 Crazy Mode
Back at the hotel, the team members surrounded him and wanted to know about this Renault party.
When Zhang Yifei said that he had reached an agreement with Prost that as long as he completed a hat trick at Manicur Station, he could sign the Prost team and become a formal driver.
The expected carnival did not appear, but everyone stared at Zhang Yifei blankly, a little unable to believe what he said.
"Yifei, aren't you kidding us?"
"Brother Fei, didn't it mean that it was difficult for the F1 team to enter. There were only dozens of F1 drivers in the world? Why can you get in so quickly?"
"Professor Prost, didn't he always want to build a pure French team? How could he change his mind."
Various questions were raised, but they really didn't believe it. Zhang Yifei went to the Renault party and could reach an agreement to join the F1 team.
To be honest, in the perception of Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto, it is already good that Zhang Yifei can get the opportunity to develop a driver in the F1 team.
Because this way, you can skip the F3 event and enter the advanced formula of f3000. All the Asian drivers before Zhang Yifei did not complete such a jump, which can be said to have created the history of Asian drivers.
But now Zhang Yifei even jumped over and said that he had reached an agreement to sign a formal driver, which was beyond their imagination, so he could not believe it at all.
Faced with the doubts of his team members, Zhang Yifei felt helpless and could only look at Cosell with a helping look, hoping that he would stand up and prove it.
"Fei is right. We have indeed reached an agreement with Prost, as long as we can get the pole position at Manicur Station, the sub-station championship, and break the track record."
"Then Prost team will offer an official F1 driver contract, and Fly can become a real F1 driver and participate in the next season's F1 event."
When this was said from Kossel's mouth, all the team members stood there in shock. This time it was not that they didn't believe it, but that the news was too shocking, which made them feel a little overwhelmed.
"Brother Fei, do you really have a chance to become an F1 driver?"
It was Ah Hu who first reacted because he had the lowest understanding of the difficulty of becoming an F1 driver.
"Yeah, I have a chance."
"Damn, Brother Fei NB, I'm going to really become a car god!"
Ah Hu jumped up excitedly on the spot. Although he was not clear about the specific difficulty of becoming an F1 driver, Ah Hu knew that being able to become an F1 driver is one of the strongest drivers on this planet!
"Yifeijun, you are really beyond everyone's expectations."
Junko Takeda also said excitedly. She gave up her identity as the manager of the Toyota Youth Training Team and came to Europe just to see where Zhang Yifei's limit lies and how many miracles he can create.
Today, Junko Takeda finally felt that her giving up was worth waiting for. She had seen the dawn of Zhang Yifei becoming the world's strongest driver.
"I did a beautiful job, let's see who dares to underestimate our Chinese drivers in the future!"
Chen Zhi said toughly that he has received a lot of contempt in Europe during this period. If Zhang Yifei becomes an F1 driver, it will undoubtedly be the best counterattack against contempt!
"Don't be happy too early, it's just a chance. It's not that easy to complete the hat trick at Manicur Raceway, and it also needs to break the track lap record."
When Cosell saw the team members, he was as excited as Zhang Yifei had already entered the F1 team. He poured cold water on time to cool down.
Prost gave amazing conditions, but also put forward amazing demands.
The hat trick on the Formula track is not so easy to achieve, just like in football. Who is sure to say that he can score three goals in a row before the game?
In addition, Prost also added the strict requirements of breaking the track record, which is equivalent to the increased difficulty of Zhang Yifei not only surpassing the opponents in the same field, but also surpassing the senior drivers of Manicur Raceway.
It is too early to be happy now, which will be a huge challenge for Zhang Yifei.
Cosel's words also calmed down the team members. Indeed, Prost's request seemed simple, but the actual difficulty was even greater than letting Zhang Yifei win the Renault championship.
After all, as long as Zhang Yifei can make stable results on the podium, he is likely to compete for the championship with his current advantage.
But if you want to "single to win four yuan" at Manicur Raceway, no driver dares to guarantee that he can do it.
The ecstasy before the moment turned into a worry when reason came back. Prost's request was too exaggerated.
However, Zhang Yifei was very calm. He said lightly: "Just like a dream that is not ridiculed, there is no value to realize. Without a miracle with challenges, then it is not worthy of being called a miracle."
"If I want to create my own miracle, I have to face such a challenge."
Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Cosel nodded secretly, with a gratified smile on his face.
At this time, Zhang Yifei can have a clear mind and understand the difficulty he has to face, which is very valuable for a young man.
Since the future direction has been determined, the next step is to prepare for challenging miracles.
Junko Takeda and Renault's competition team applied and obtained detailed data from Manicur Circuit. Yamamoto Ukyo tried his best to find the race video of Manicur Circuit so that Zhang Yifei could understand the curves more intuitively.
On the other hand, Kossel also applied for a test drive with Manicur Raceway. After all, these things are just talks on paper. If you want to truly apply what you have learned, you still need to go to the track.
In French history, the F1 Grand Prix has been held on seven different tracks, second only to the American Grand Prix, and the Manicur Circuit is one of them.
When Zhang Yifei officially came into contact with the information of the Manicur track, he began to feel the difficulty of this track. Because unlike Monza and Hoganheim before, the Manicur track is a typical multi-bend low-speed track.
The track length is only 4.411 kilometers, but there are up to 17 curves on it, and most of them are low-speed curves and hairpin curves, which extremely tests the rider's choice of routing on the curve.
Moreover, this is not only a test of the driver itself, but also a challenge for the adjustment of the car. Because not only does the high and low pressure of the curve, but also requires the straight line to not have too much wind resistance, which affects the acceleration after the corner, so this requires finding a perfect balance point.
If it was the previous team lineup, relying on Ah Hu and Yamamoto Ukyo, there would be absolutely no way to adjust this balance point. Even if the Toyota technical team supports it before the game, they might have a lack of experience.
After all, f1 is a brand new field for Toyota. This group of technicians have only adjusted the aerodynamic layout of Le Mans racing before, and the suspension aerodynamic adjustment of the Manicur Raceway is a difficult point for the F1 team.
But fortunately, Zhang Yifei joined Kossel. In addition to being a strategist for McLaren, the old German man was also an aerodynamic designer of the team and a professor of racing engineering at the Berlin University of Technology in Germany.
Zhang Yifei had known before that the reason why Kossell left McLaren was not only disappointed with Senna's transfer, but mainly because he was defeated by Newey's "black technology" in racing design.
The two factors combined together eventually made Cosel feel discouraged, left the F1 paddock, and returned to the university class.
Therefore, the racing suspension tuning and aerodynamic layout are not difficult for Kossel, and it perfectly solves Zhang Yifei's worries.
But as the saying goes, if a person does not have a long-term plan, he will have immediate worries! The huge turn-by-turn data on seventeen curves is the biggest problem for Zhang Yifei at present.
Especially those hairpin low-speed bends, you need to remember the turn routes very accurately, and engrave them in your mind like a map. Only in this way can you not make any routing mistakes in the high-speed racing state.
And this time, there is no "driver's treasure book" like Hoganheim Track. I can only rely on Zhang Yifei himself to find the best brake points, normal routes, overtaking routes, defensive strategies, etc.
Cosell has been with Zhang Yifei almost all the way to study the track in the past few days, instead of being a hand-off manager like before.
Because Cosel also understands that this event is related to Zhang Yifei's future. It is not just about winning, but it must be absolutely crushed!
From morning to night, high-intensity memory for no less than twelve hours a day has once again experienced the desperate feeling of being at the Toyota Youth Training Base, which can even be said to be even more crazier.
After all, at that time, it was just a simple physical exhaustion, and this time Zhang Yifei also had high-intensity mental exhaustion, which is the natural disadvantage of Asian drivers. Before coming to Europe to participate in the competition, he had never seen the track, let alone had experience in running.
So Zhang Yifei started naturally, and he had to put in more effort to catch up with other drivers.
Two days before the race, the application for a racing test run was finally approved by the Manicur operator. Zhang Yifei got out of the state of talking on paper and officially came to the track for a trial run.
This time, Zhang Yifei also spent a lot of money to turn on the track monitoring and team voice system, so that he could better discover problems during the trial run and let Kossel pass instructions.
Renault Racing has been transported from Germany and placed in the P-room of Zhangyifei team. Because the last stop was a major repair, all aspects of the racing car have been replaced with brand new parts. Just check that there is no damage during the transportation process, it will be OK.
In fact, transportation damage is rarely encountered. After all, racing cars are transported by special container trucks. Renault has rich experience in this area. Check it out just in case.
"Youjing, adjust to intermediate downforce, and cooperate with low ground clearance suspension."
Kossel directly issued a adjustment command. Although he did not have the absolute control of Hoganheim Track, it did not mean that Kossel was not prepared.
Chapter completed!