236 Don't say try your best
Cosel's words are translated in Chinese, and they are called Prost, a conservative old man, to drive, which is faster than the current Zhang Yifei!
To be honest, Zhang Yifei was dissatisfied with this. If Prost came to drive at his peak, he would definitely not dare to say that he was better than Prost.
Because conservatism is just a style, and it does not mean that Prost has poor driving skills and can win the driver's championship for four times. If his driving skills are not good, then aren't other F1 drivers even worse than garbage?
Perhaps this garbage classification also includes a car god like Senna.
Because the two of them competed in the same era, Prost's record was not much lost to Senna, and in the two years when the two were teammates, Prost's points were slightly better than Senna.
But Prost is nearly fifty years old now, and it must be a bit exaggerating to say that he is an old man.
However, he has been retired for five or six years, and has experienced a huge decline in both driving skills and physical strength.
Even if he is as strong as Schumacher, he will return after retirement for four years, and his performance is slightly bleak in a strong team like Mercedes-Benz.
Prost is much older than Schumacher, who made his second comeback. After all, he has been more busy with the team management over the years. Zhang Yifei really doesn't believe that letting him run faster than himself.
Of course, Zhang Yifei would definitely not say this kind of muttering in his heart. After all, this is an excuse for Cosell, either to drive faster or to shut up!
"I'll do my best."
Zhang Yifei could only reply silently. He really felt that he had done his best, not as conservative or fearful as Cosell reminded before.
But sometimes the innate gap is not something that you want to make up for, but can be made up for just a few laps on the track.
Every European track is completely unfamiliar to Zhang Yifei. It takes less than half a month of preparation time to achieve perfection from track data, turn around, and then field test runs, final competitions, etc.
High-speed tracks like Monza or Hoganheim are better, with fewer corners and fast speeds, which is very suitable for Zhang Yifei's style. Although the risk of making mistakes in high-speed cornering is much greater, at least it does not have such a huge amount of memory.
"What I want is not to do my best, it is the fastest speed. Don't you understand? The word "doing your best" means nothing to the driver, and no one cares about your efforts!"
Cosel once again showed the attributes of a pressure monster. The so-called "trying your best" is worthless in his eyes. Could it be that after losing the game, he could just try his best to get the championship?
If it is a driver like Senna and Schumacher who has made a top-level mistake in a race, or if the age and condition factor declines, and ultimately fails to achieve ideal results, many car fans or audiences may be able to understand.
But who do you try your best to tell a new rookie like Zhang Yifei? Even there are not many fans who want to listen to it, and ordinary audiences will not care whether you try your best. They only know that you lost!
"Another lap, I will speed up the slow bends in the back. It doesn't matter if I rush out of the track. The buffer zone and the braking force of the car are enough to ensure that you are not seriously injured!"
At this time, Cosell even said "cold-blooded" words, which made other members of the repair station unable to help but take a breath.
Kossel basically didn't give much guidance before. After all, in his words, even the primary equation must be taught. Then, after entering f1, should we create a two-seater who will guide you step by step behind the scenes?
Unexpectedly, once he intervened throughout the whole process, it was no wonder that the conservative Prost would have a conflict of ideas with him, and even to the point where he was incompatible.
Perhaps at that time, except for crazy drivers like Senna, who would accept Cosell's strategy, other drivers could not accept such a race engineer who would not take it seriously if they rushed out of the track.
However, Cosell did talk about the key point, that is, slow bends have the advantage of slow bends, that is, the risk of slow speed is relatively low.
For ordinary household vehicles, if there is an accident that loses control at a speed of about 100 kilometers per hour, it may be the result of the car being destroyed and the people being killed. But for Formula cars, the speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour is simply the starting speed!
In which F1 game, you can just kick the accelerator and your speed will not exceed 100k/h?
Since there is such a strong power, there must be the same strong braking force. Otherwise, Formula racing will not be able to drive, and no corner can slow down, and there will be no competitive ability.
It is precisely because of the strong braking force and a low enough suspension chassis that Equation Racing can ensure the safety of the drivers as much as possible when the high-speed runaway state.
Formula racing is dangerous, but thanks to the driver's strong handling power and the powerful performance of the racing car, the higher the level of Formula racing, the lower the mortality rate.
The last death accident on the F1 track was the Senna accident in 1994. If we included later generations, we would also add a 2014 Japanese station, Marusia team Bianchi hit a rescue crane, causing serious head injuries and unfortunately died after being unconscious for more than nine months.
In fact, Bianchi's death has nothing to do with the safety of the racing car. At that time, the rescue crane was dragging away another F1 racing car that rushed out of the track.
In theory, in this case, it is difficult to have accidents when there is a yellow flag slowdown reminder.
However, the weather in the track was bad at that time, and Lazia, the official driver of Bianchi team, was a sponsored and paid driver. At that time, the sponsorship funds were not in place, so the team directly asked the test driver Bianchi to replace him.
The lack of racing experience and carelessness ultimately led to such an accident, which is also the only track death accident in the F1 event in the past twenty years.
Of course, it is 1999, and the deaths of Senna and Larsenberg have not been in the past few years, and the safety and rules of racing are far less standardized than those of later generations.
Cosell's request can be regarded as the most deadly challenge on the track.
"Okay, I'll drive faster!"
Zhang Yifei gritted his teeth and agreed to Cosel's request.
I was fighting for life on the track last time, but I lost my life and went back to twenty years ago.
After all, I have experienced it once. Zhang Yifei doesn’t believe in the master and can push himself back for another twenty years.
On the 21st lap, Zhang Yifei's racing speed once again accelerated, using a more extreme speed to challenge the record of the Manicur Raceway.
However, Zhang Yifei could already turn the corners very smoothly at this time when there were thrilling curves.
Maybe this is the benefit of being "squeezed" by Cosel. Once the limit is broken, it can no longer be called the limit. What Zhang Yifei has to do is to find a faster way to turn around in the slow bends behind.
The speed of the twenty-one lap did not increase much, because Zhang Yifei chose to delay brakes many times, or a more extreme detour route, making the control more difficult and cautious. Even when the car was about to get out of control, Zhang Yifei had to slow down the speed with a sudden brake.
As long as such a sudden brake appears on the track, it will waste 0:00 seconds of time, and this lap will lose the opportunity to challenge the track record.
Twenty-two laps, twenty-three laps are still the same. Zhang Yifei kept wandering on the edge of losing control, looking for his own cornering limit.
Until the 26th lap, Yamamoto Ukyo from the maintenance station said to Cosell in surprise: "Teacher, this lap of Yi Feijun broke the track record, and his lap speed is 1 minute 25 seconds 252!"
Yamamoto Ukyo's tone was very excited. He could break the track record in the test run. For a Formula Elementary driver, it was definitely a top score!
Moreover, Zhang Yifei's basic foundation is worse than that of ordinary European Formula novice, but he has never been exposed to the Manicur Track at all. Now he can break the track record in more than 20 laps, which can be described as genius.
In the future, not only European genius drivers and car gods may appear in the near future, an Asian genius driver or even a car god!
Kossel nodded when he heard Yamamoto Ukyo's words. Although he kept saying that Zhang Yifei was too slow and he had to significantly break the track record so that he could ensure stable performance in the main competition.
But how could it be impossible to know the difficulty of breaking track records with Kossel's rich team experience?
But he had no choice but to use a stern attitude to give Zhang Yifei enough pressure to force him to challenge the limit.
If Zhang Yifei can withstand such pressure, he will naturally burst out his potential and run faster.
As for Zhang Yifei's potential issue, Kossell never doubted this. He believed that Zhang Yifei was not inferior to any European genius driver, otherwise he would not have become Zhang Yifei's racing engineer.
Kossell never thought about the problem of being unable to withstand the pressure. Even if he couldn't bear this little pressure, he would still want to become an F1 driver in the future?
Even if you are lucky enough to enter the F1 team, you will not be able to stand firm. If you can't bear it, it means that Zhang Yifei is not worthy of being called an F1 driver, which is that simple.
"Barrowly qualified, but it can be faster."
"It's even faster? Mentor, now Yifeijun's racing tires are in the peak area. If the underlying is more radical, you may have insufficient grip and rush out of the track."
Faced with Yamamoto Ukyo's idea of emphasizing safety, Cosell frowned. Unexpectedly, this student was even more conservative than he expected.
Fortunately, he is just a data analyst. If he becomes a competition engineer and develops tactics, how could a new driver have a breakthrough without his own opinion?
"Don't always consider the consequences of rushing out of the track. Since you choose to become a driver, there is a time to rush out."
"I am not blindly letting fly to adventure. The Manicur Circuit is the smoothest track among the seven European Cup events in Renault. Whether it is the road shoulder or the isolation belt, there is almost no height drop."
Chapter completed!