"The No. 1 driver of the competition team?"

Cosel naturally heard Prost's meaning.

"Yes, haven't you always thought I was conservative? Then now I will give a radical solution. If you want to become the No. 1 driver in the team, use your own strength to compete."

At the McLaren team, although Prost and Cosell had different ideas, this did not prevent him from appreciating the other party's abilities.

It can be said that in Prost's heart, under the current situation of the team, Kossel is the most suitable person to become the chief competition engineer. Because he is decisive and radical enough to mobilize the driver's enthusiasm.

However, the problem is also in front of Prost. Cosel is Zhang Yifei's competition engineer. This kind of newcomer rookie and a pure newbie who "three-level jump" into F1. It is absolutely impossible to convince everyone by directly assigning a No. 1 driver.

Prost had never considered the issue of making Zhang Yifei the No. 1 driver before. He personally dug up the French veteran. His experience and status far surpassed Zhang Yifei in terms of experience and status. He was the best candidate for the No. 1 driver.

However, this year's F1 season, Alessi's performance disappointed Prost. To describe it in a later generation, Alessi is really too fucking!

There were only five games in the entire F1 season, and even the first time a freshman, Heidfield, completed six games.

It is precisely because of the performance on the track that Prost is determined to change and no longer ranks according to qualifications and status, but instead relies on strength to compete.

Using this winter training period, whoever shows stronger strength and faster lap speed will become the No. 1 driver of Prost team in the next season.

This competitive method may offend Alessi, but Prost no longer cares about so many. If next year's F1 season still fails to score a point like this year, is it a question whether Prost's team exists, and you still need to consider whether it is offended?

"Are you asking Fei to compete with Alessi for the No. 1 driver?"

"That's right."

Prost confirmed, then looked at Zhang Yifei and said, "Fei, do you have the courage to challenge Alessi?"

"Ha, even if you change your target to this year's champion Schumacher, I won't lack this courage."

Zhang Yifei said disdainfully, asking if he had the courage to say that he was too slightest in his opinion.

"Very good, this is the vitality that young people should have."

"After the one-month winter training period, there will be an in-team assessment. You will be the number one driver next year, defeating Alessi."

"But if you lose, you will pay the price, that is, you will become a wingman. Should you think about it again?"

In the Prost team, the status of No. 1 and No. 2 drivers were not very different, so Hydefield fought with Alessi more than once.

But now Prost team performance must find a way to achieve a zero breakthrough.

When competitiveness is insufficient, one driver must be sacrificed at critical moments to ensure that another driver can run into the points zone. A green leaf driver like wingman came into being, which is the price that the competitor losers have to pay.

"No need to think about it, I accept the challenge."

Zhang Yifei agreed without any hesitation, because without this competition, he became the No. 2 driver directly.

Although Prost team has no wingman, the identity of driver No. 2 is destined to be leisurely tilted towards driver No. 1.

If there is a dispute over driver number one and two on the track, there is no doubt that the team's choice will be driver number one. So whether it is a wingman or not, driver number two will be the life of the Green Leaf.

If you don’t challenge, you are destined to be a green leaf and become the number one driver even more than a player. Only fools will refuse to challenge.

"That's what it's decided."

Prost did not continue to talk about this topic, but changed the subject and said: "Now that the team members have returned to the headquarters, the next step will be the team to practice. You and those two new technicians must be prepared."

"Um."

Zhang Yifei nodded, then got up with Cosel and walked out of the office.

After closing the door, Cosel turned to Zhang Yifei and said, "You guys, this month, I don't care if you are trying your life or other methods. You have to win the winter training test."

"I don't want my partner driver, just a wingman, and I don't want to make it difficult for me to issue instructions such as blocking the car and getting the car!"

After saying this, Cosell left without waiting for Zhang Yifei to answer or promise.

You should know that he was a member of the Senna strategy group back then. If it weren't for the university professor, he would have almost become a racing engineer for the car god Senna.

With pearls and jade in front, Kossel could not accept it anyway. The driver he worked with was a wingman.

More importantly, Cosell doesn't like the so-called "car" from the bottom of his heart. Even from a team perspective, making the car is more in line with the interests of the team and indirectly increases the driver's profits.

But in Cosell's view, even if you don't have the results you get in this way!

Looking at Cosell's back, Zhang Yifei didn't say anything, and he didn't want to become a wingman from the bottom of his heart.

To put it bluntly, he doesn’t need others to become wingman to help him. Whether he can win the championship on the track depends on his ability!

In the next two days, the main members of the team who returned from Japan were basically on holiday.

After all, I just finished my journey of the F1 season and when I was exhausted both physically and mentally, I also needed two days to rest and buffer.

During the past two days, the only one who has been training may be Zhang Yifei. He has not received the influence of the return of the team members and still trains according to his plan.

Especially in the racing simulator, his fastest lap speed has reached 3 minutes 03 seconds 22, surpassing the test driver Emil's fastest lap of 3 minutes 03 seconds 61.

However, the results of running on the racing simulator have not experienced the test of field-based track running. If you really want to run the Monrerey track, you still have to make a question mark whether you can run the ideal results on the simulator.

In fact, except for Zhang Yifei, Ahu and Zhige were not affected by the team's vacation. They are now in the garage all day long, learning the structure and maintenance of F1 racing cars, and constantly simulate entering the station to improve their proficiency.

If the later generations of F1 enter the station and simply change the tire, the fastest time has reached about 2 seconds. It can be said that in the blink of an eye, the car can complete the process of changing the tire at the station.

In this era, the cooperation and speed of the F1 team are still slightly worse than in later generations, but the top maintenance team can still compress the time to within 3 seconds, and the slowest is to take just over 3 seconds.

After all, the advantage that F1 drivers have worked hard on the track is too unfair to waste it on the tire change of the station.

Ahu and Chen Zhi do not want Zhang Yifei's performance to be affected by his own speed in the future. So from now on, he must start to proficient in the process of changing tires at the same level as his instinct!

Starting from the third day, Prost team officially entered the winter training phase, and team members all went to Monrerey Track for training.

However, Zhang Yifei keenly discovered that No. 2 driver Hydefield was no longer among the team.

Zhang Yifei was not surprised by this. The transfer of F1 drivers is a very common thing. Even if he didn't seize the position himself, Hydefield was destined to leave.

After all, he has reached the point where he is incompatible with Alaisi. The two of them are still in the same team. I am afraid that in the future, there will be no racing cars on the track, but boxing!

The content of today's winter training is not that all drivers go to the track to practice, but there is a clear division of labor.

The temporary driver, Alaisi, will drive the JS51 car and go to the track to practice. Alaisi's results this season can be described as the four words "terrible". He needs high-intensity practice to restore his feel for the racing.

Test driver Emile, he also went on the track, but he was not driving the current JS51 racing car, but the next generation of Prost team, the prototype js53 model.

As a test driver, he will use the winter training period to provide feedback on enough racing problems and data to completely help the js53 prototype complete the finalization. It can be said that his test results will directly affect the racing performance of Prost team next season.

Finally, the second driver Zhang Yifei is tentatively scheduled to be admitted to the station practice, which is also a process that the racing simulator cannot simulate.

The so-called entry practice is actually to be familiar with the process of starting the maintenance channel after entering the station, refueling, or being punished.

Entering the repair station can be said to be the most important tactic and time-catching tool for F1 racing in this era. It requires the perfect cooperation between the driver and the entire repair team. If it can be done correctly, it may be possible to get rid of the gap between other drivers by just one entry.

And don’t think that Formula racing is as simple as driving the car into the repair station. The driver also needs to have extremely accurate control over the speed and brake distance.

To put it simply, in order to ensure the safety of the maintenance team, Fia stipulates that the car's entry speed is 80 to 120km/h. Different speed limits are adopted according to the differences in the track and repair area design.

Drivers must ensure that the speed is accurately controlled to the limit. If it is slow, it will naturally waste time. If it is fast, it will be a waste of time when it is detected and it will be fined.

Take the slowest speed of 80km/h for example. F1 drivers must ensure that at this speed, the car is accurately stopped on the white line in the maintenance area.

If the white line area is exceeded, the front jack technician in front of the front of the car will be directly knocked away. If the car is stopped without entering the area, all the technician's stations will be disrupted, and the process of moving the booth will waste a lot of time.
Chapter completed!