The old German man started to be sarcastic again!

Zhang Yifei muttered very dissatisfiedly, but Cosel still expressed a point of view, that is, French veteran Alessi, who also ran this track, could achieve more than a second faster lap than Zhang Yifei at present.

Then Zhang Yifei had no reason to blame the track problem for running slowly.

If you really want to blame the track, you must at least surpass Alessi before he is qualified to say this.

"Then I'll save some money for Prost."

Zhang Yifei replied with a very b-number sentence, then pressed the continuing button and started training for the next simulator on his own.

However, this time, it is obvious that Zhang Yifei's cornering speed is faster and the tangent is more extreme.

After all, he followed Cosell's advice and used the full throttle to pass the corner.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Prost and his group returned to the fleet headquarters. Out of courtesy, Zhang Yifei and his group also stood in the lobby on the first floor, preparing to meet with the main members of the fleet.

Prost was naturally walking in the front. He saw Zhang Yifei, Cosell and others, and he squeezed out a smile on his face, which was a little depressed, and said hello.

Zhang Yifei is quite familiar with Prost, not to mention that he has dealt with in this life. Even in his previous life, Zhang Yifei was well aware of Prost's deeds.

After all, F1 was the battle between him and Senna in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was a bit difficult to dominate the car world as a professional driver.

So this time Zhang Yifei focused more on several Prost drivers behind him, and these people will also be his future "teammates".

The first one to bear the brunt is naturally the French veteran, currently the team's No. 1 driver Jean-Alessi.

This French veteran can be regarded as a driver of Senna's contemporary era. He won the F3 and F3000 Championships. In 1989, he joined the Trier Ford team to participate in the F1 French Grand Prix, and then transferred to Ferrari, one of the three giants.

In the next few years, the driver's total points have been hovering in the middle and upper reaches, probably in the top 5, 6, and 7.

The results cannot be said to be poor, but they lack some impressive results. They have only won the Grand Prix championship once in their career, so they can be regarded as a standard blue-collar driver.

He is now at the end of his career. In history, with the collapse of Prost team, he announced that he had withdrawn from the race in 2001. However, he may not be lonely. He participated in McLaren's track test drive a year later, but he was unable to return to the F1 field in the end.

Alessi greeted Zhang Yifei with a kind of polite smile on her face. After all, in the future F1 season, the two of them will be considered teammates who will fight side by side.

Compared to Alec's politeness, No. 2 driver Hydefield just nodded at Zhang Yifei with an expressionless face, which was considered to be a greeting.

The reason is very simple, that is, after the transfer period of this season, he will end the contract with Prost team. The person who seized his driver's position was Zhang Yifei!

However, Hydefield did not hold much grudge against Zhang Yifei because his newcomer season in Prost can no longer be described as failure. It is simply torture and pain!

You should know that before Hydefield signed with Prost team, he had just won the title of Formula International F3000. He was full of energy and was ready to show his strength in the F1 paddock to prove his strength.

As a result, I never expected that the first season of Prost would be so collapsed. I didn’t get much of a point and I even fought with No. 1 driver Alaisi in the team.

So even if Zhang Yifei doesn't replace him, Hydefield doesn't want to continue to stay in Prost. In history, he turned around and signed a three-year driver contract with Sauber, partnering with the same newcomer driver Kimi Raikkonen to compete for the gap after the retirement of Finnish legendary driver Mika Hakkinen.

Objectively speaking, Hydefield performed well in Sauber, and his total points were 3 points, surpassing Kimmie.

But in the end the opportunity still favored Kimi, and McLaren chose him, so Kimi jumped from the back Sauber team to become a driver of the giant team McLaren.

And Kimi began to show his potential. In the five years of the Ferrari Dynasty, the only driver who could threaten Schumacher, staged a F1 track version of the Song of Ice and Fire.

Zhang Yifei could understand Hydefield's attitude, after all, the other party was leaving and was too lazy to be polite to deal with these things.

But next time, the attitude of the driver Emile was not even as good as Hydefield. He just looked at Zhang Yifei with a gloomy expression, and was too lazy to call him.

If Hydefield is about to leave anyway and doesn't care whether Zhang Yifei has seized his position, then the person who really has a direct conflict of interest with Zhang Yifei is Emile.

Because as the third driver and test driver of the Prost team, once the official driver is vacant, Emile will fill the seat.

Seeing the team's poor results this season and the conflict between Alessi and Hydefield, Emile had already thought that he would replace one of the two drivers and become the official driver of the Prost team!

Unexpectedly, Prost signed a contract with Chinese driver Zhang Yifei who was still running the Renault Formula. This airborne move to grab the position can be said to have shattered Emile's dream.

He couldn't figure it out. He was the champion of F3 and the third place in the year of F3000. It is understandable whether he is a champion player like Shanghai Defield. Can't even be compared with a Renault Formula Elementary Driver?

Kimi Raikkonen is a miracle, but not everyone can be Kimi Raikkonen.

Emile was completely unable to understand Prost's approach, and he could not accept that Zhang Yifei had seized his official driver position. In addition, he was unwilling to accept Zhang Yifei's strength and historical achievements, so he naturally showed a kind of hostility.

Zhang Yifei was a little surprised at Emile's attitude. After all, according to the traditional Chinese thinking, he still needs to do superficial skills. Moreover, he and he will be teammates in the future. No matter how unacceptable he is in his heart, he will not be like this when he meets him for the first time.

Obviously, Zhang Yifei was wrong, and the other party was not interested in doing any superficial skills.

Since Emile's attitude, Zhang Yifei naturally would not stick to cold-skinned stocks with a hot face. He also looked at it with a cold expression, without any intention of communicating.

In this way, after saying hello to each other, Prost took Zhang Yifei and Cosel to his office and had a separate conversation with the two of them.

"Fly, are you still used to the atmosphere of the F1 fleet?"

Prost did not talk about the serious matters, but instead asked Zhang Yifei first to adapt to the situation.

This is the difference between a driver and a boss. If it were Cosell, he would have something to say. And Prost, who became a boss, would consider the emotions of the new driver and add some good impression points.

"It's very used to it, no problem."

Zhang Yifei replied simply, he was more accustomed to Cosell's direct conversation.

"It's fine."

Prosty nodded and began to talk about the serious business.

"I asked you to come here, mainly to tell you that the application for a super driver's license has been rejected by Fia."

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei frowned. To be honest, he had always been paying attention to the issue of super driver's licenses before.

Because Kimi Raikkonen received a precedent for the first time just a few days before the official competition, his background, connections, and even popularity are far inferior to Kimi Raikkonen. In theory, it is more difficult to apply for a super driver's license.

So during this period, Zhang Yifei has been working hard in this regard, including participating in the Grand Prix in the Island of O, for the application standards for the super driver's license.

Unexpectedly, they had already won the F3 championship title, but they were rejected by the FIA.

If the F1 season officially starts next year and you have not obtained a super driver's license, you may be forced to relegate from the F1 paddock to the F3000 event. Only in this way can you not rely on special approvals, but on your results to obtain a super driver's license.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei never thought about running the F3000 event, and he has already come into contact with the world's top F1 racing cars. Who is willing to run a low-level event?

"Hmph, if it weren't for the methods behind you back then, how could the application for Fei Super Driver's license today be rejected!"

Kossel said very dissatisfiedly that there is a precedent for Kimi Raikkonen to be specially approved by Kimi Raikkonen, and Zhang Yifei also won the Odao F3 championship. In theory, it is difficult to get a super driver's license, which is much easier than Kimi, and it is likely to pass it in one go.

However, because Prost colluded with the French President of Fia to operate in secret, the FIA ​​specially approved the driver's license and had to consider the outside world's doubts and influence. This is the key to Zhang Yifei's rejection!

Hearing Cosel's words, Prost's face appeared a little embarrassed, but he also knew the bad temper of the old German man, so he didn't argue with him or anything.

"Now that the F1 season is over, I will go to the FIA ​​headquarters in person and lobby the Chairman and the Committee to give you special approval. Before the F1 season begins next year, you will definitely be able to issue a super driver's license."

Prost replied with a positive tone. After all, the FIA ​​headquarters is located in Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, and has an advantage in geographical location. Prost has plenty of time to lobby.

His statement still did not change Cossel's attitude much. Although things that happened back then, Cossel was relieved to celebrate with Prost and even joined his team, this did not mean that Cossel agreed with Prost's style of conduct.

Perhaps the only thing Prost appreciated by Cosel is the "stubbornness" that is not understood by the outside world. In Cosel's view, this is the persistence of a true idealist!

"By the way, what is your purpose of making me the chief competition engineer?"

Cosel asked, "A person who is so good at calculating can't do meaningless things."

"compete."
Chapter completed!