When Zhang Yifei was a poor man in his early life, he could not get in touch with high-end serial transmission racing cars, and he relied on manual transmission to conquer the world.

What are the heel movements, no clutch shifting, etc., these are movements that show off skills for veterans in folk drivers, but they are basic operations for professional drivers.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei's manual transmission foundation is very solid. It can even be said that Zhang Yifei, who uses manual transmission, is the complete body of his strength. He is truly like an arm instructing him without any sense of unfamiliarity.

Later, as Zhang Yifei's driving skills emerged, he was attracted by professional teams and became a professional driver, and began to come into contact with some racing-level equipment.

However, at that time, Zhang Yifei was still a newcomer, and he joined some second- and third-rate teams. Although he was out of the range of manual transmissions of civilian grades and was exposed to serial gearboxes, those still did not meet the competition-level standards and could only be considered civilian grades.

Because the serial transmission is essentially still a manual transmission, theoretically, the clutch is still required to be stepped on during gear shifting. However, the use of spur gears, coupled with dense gear ratio settings, combined with the powerful driving technology of professional drivers, is enough to support clutch-free shifting.

From this point of view, the principle of shifting without clutch is similar to that of the civilian level manual transmission without clutch. As long as you can achieve a perfect match between the speed and wheel speed, you can also shift without stepping on the clutch.

But not every driver has the same skills as a car god, especially the early second- and third-rate teams in China, which are better than amateurs in the world.

Therefore, those civilian serial transmissions all have synchronizers, or components similar to synchronizer functions, to reduce the difficulty of handling for drivers. For example, the early BMW M5s, Lamborghini, Ferrari and other supercars all used this type of civilian-level serial transmission.

After all, second- and third-rate teams didn't want to become world champions. With the strength of the drivers, it is easier to shift gears and simpler. In low-level competitive events, it may be faster than driving at the event level.

This is like an ordinary person suddenly uses a full-frame SLR. The effect you take on a photo may not be as good as a straight-out photo phone.

This does not mean that the shooting performance of SLRs is not as good as that of mobile phones, but that many things do not have this control ability, so it is better to leave them to professional machinery for processing.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei is actually quite familiar with the gearboxes like Renault Racing. Even if there is a problem with the synchronizer, he still has the possibility of manual gear shifting with technology.

Moreover, the synchronizer is only worn and has difficulty shifting, and it has not reached the severity of ablation and failure. It does not require all shifts to be clutched, which can minimize the time loss caused by manual shifting.

"Teacher, do you think Yifeijun can do it?"

Yamamoto Ukyo also heard the conversation between Zhang Yifei and Cosel, and knew that he planned to manipulate it.

But you have to know that this is a Formula car, which may switch gears dozens of times per minute. It is simply impossible to just rely on manually stepping on the clutch.

To be honest, Zhang Yifei's fastest lap is not slow now. Even if he is surpassed by some drivers, he can still enter the top ten and qualify for the main competition.

If you forcefully move the clutch and shift gears, not to mention any serious mechanical failures, even if you can’t stand it, your body will easily suffer from muscle strain.

Tomorrow is the time for the main competition, it doesn’t matter if you fall behind in the qualifying competition. Only when you fall behind in the main competition will determine the final result.

"If any Renault driver on the field, my answer would be no."

"But if Fei is in my opinion, I choose to believe him."

Cosel's tone was plain, but extremely firm.

Kossel, who has always been very strict with Zhang Yifei, seemed to be unsatisfied with anything he did, gave him absolute trust when facing Zhang Yifei's challenge to impossible things.

Hearing the mentor's words made Yamamoto Ukyo feel very shocked, but he quickly echoed: "I believe in Ichifeijun, too."

There is no reason, it’s just a simple trust, because they are all in the same team.

Zhang Yifei on the track, after talking to Cosell, realized that it was a synchronizer problem, so he began to try clutch shifting.

To be honest, Zhang Yifei was not under any pressure at this moment, nor was he angry because of the gearbox failure.

Because the racing failure rate in this era is quite high, almost every race there will be several racing cars breaking down, even F1 is no exception, or even higher.

Take the Prost team that Zhang Yifei is about to join as an example. He has not received a single point all year round, and so far it is still zero eggs.

Is this a rider too bad?

Of course, there must be factors in terms of driver strength here, but not all factors. After all, the No. 1 driver in the team, Jean-Alessi, can be regarded as a French veteran, participated in hundreds of F1 Grand Prixes and even ranked as the champion of the extra-stop.

Although No. 2 driver Nick Heifield is a newcomer, he is also the world champion of Formula 3000, and can be said to be a potential new star.

Later, he turned back to the competition between Sauber and Kimi Raikkonen, and his performance was even better than Kimi and he even made it to the podium.

Therefore, in addition to the driver's factor, Prost's total score of zero points also has problems with team atmosphere and the racing itself.

Peugeot Citroen Group, commonly known as PSA Group, is basically a marginal brand in China, but it is the second largest automobile company in Europe and has great strength.

As a result, no one expected that the Peugeot F1 engine was really not good, it was not as good as the Honda, which had a rich racing foundation, and even less than its fellow Renault.

It is precisely because of the high failure rate of Peugeot engine and the drivers who are also making trouble, that Prost team withdraws from the race in a fancy way, which makes this zero-point scenario happen.

Of course, Peugeot Group is not willing to take the blame. It is trying to cooperate with Prost team to start its own engine brand on the F1 track and show its strength.

As a result, this kind of anti-propaganda effect appeared. Coupled with some of Prost's stubborn actions, there have been cracks in the cooperation between the two sides. I just don't know if there will be a complete break.

Therefore, Formula racing failure is almost an inevitable part of Formula racing.

There has never been any fault, and it has nothing to do with quality, performance, and stability. It is purely because of good luck. Zhang Yifei's luck is already considered good. Various high-intensity competitions and test drives, and the gearbox wears and holds up until now.

If it were a bad guy, he would have stopped on the track and would not have to wait until today.

The brakes in the corner are downshifted and the out-of-turn accelerate and upshifted. Zhang Yifei always pays attention to the engine's speed. When the speed difference is too large, he will directly step on the clutch quickly and loosen the clutch, and manually shift gears at an extreme speed.

To be honest, this is because Zhang Yifei has two lifetimes of rich experience to do such a slutty operation, which no other Renault driver can do.

Because they have received professional kart training, they have hardly ever run to other types of manual racing cars. And because of their age, they do not have a driver's license, and they rarely travel to the streets and mountain roads.

Therefore, other Renault drivers cannot have such rich experience in shifting gears. You should know that this is not as simple as changing gears. The grasp of timing and speed must be accurate to within a few seconds.

Take Zhang Yifei's current speed. His extreme clutch shift speed has reached the level of 0.15 seconds, which is extremely close to the current 0.1 second of the current serial transmission.

Excluding the error in transmission efficiency, the time difference between the pure paddle shifting is actually compressed to within 0:00 seconds. If you take into account the driving inertia of the racing car itself, Zhang Yifei's clutch shifting almost doesn't see any difference in speed.

But unfortunately, this is not a daily driving, nor is it a general car race. This is a Formula racing, and the minimum unit of time is one thousandth of a second!

No matter how extreme and outstanding Zhang Yifei is, in the face of the accuracy of one thousandth of a second, the gap in transmission efficiency will still be infinitely amplified, and Zhang Yifei's single lap speed will still decrease again.

"The competition on the track today is much more intense than I expected before. According to the data from the event command center, the drivers' lap speed is very tight, and it is not like the previous two stops, where Chinese drivers are the only ones."

"But then again, Fei didn't know if it was because of his condition or because of his status, he had loosened his contract with the F1 driver. Today his speed was not very fast, and he could even feel that he was getting slower and slower, which was not a good sign."

Red explained in a puzzled tone. Due to his data processing capabilities, the track command center could not give him all the driver data, so he could only pick out a few key points for him to explain.

The first to be hit is naturally the current popular player Zhang Yifei. His lap speed is the goal that many people are concerned about. Data shows that Zhang Yifei's lap speed reached its peak in the fifth lap and began to gradually decline later.

This decline is very weak, but it has a trend of further expansion. At the same time, because Zhang Yifei's "slowness" inspired other drivers' fighting spirit, and the overall lap speed began to soar. They all wanted to take this opportunity to defeat Zhang Yifei to prove their strength.

The commentator can know Zhang Yifei's lap speed, and the team members in the maintenance station are paying attention to it at all times.

The lap was descent, but Cosell's expression was not solemn on his face. On the contrary, he even had a hint of surprise.

Because Zhang Yifei's performance was so shocking, Kossel never thought that he could really rely on manual gearshifting to be extremely close to the sequential gearbox!

To be honest, even with Cosell's knowledge, he would never have thought that anyone could achieve this level by clutch shifting in Formula Elementary Events. Many drivers faced this situation and could drive whenever they could. If they couldn't drive, they simply went to the repair station to withdraw.

But that was because Zhang Yifei didn't choose to give up. He was still on the track, using his ability to maintain the speed to challenge the fastest lap speed.

Therefore, this kind of "slowness" has nothing to do with Zhang Yifei's strength, and he has done his best.
Chapter completed!