Tap the brakes and enter the maintenance channel. The racing cars of other teams almost made the same moves as Zhang Yifei, preparing to enter the station to end the third round of practice.

The afternoon is the most important qualifying race. No driver will choose to spend too much energy in the third round of practice.

After Zhang Yifei entered the station, the maintenance technicians immediately surrounded him and began to conduct a comprehensive maintenance of the racing car.

In the case of aggressive driving just now, the racing car exposed many problems, such as the brake cooling system failure and the tire wear ratio not reaching 50:50. In addition, Zhang Yifei has habitually used the help of the road shoulder to turn, causing the racing suspension to deform.

Taking off his helmet, Cosell stood next to the car and began to describe the problem that had just happened.

The most important thing is naturally to discuss racing suspension. After just running for more than ten laps, Zhang Yifei's violent driving caused the suspension sensor to alarm. If it is placed in the 60-lap schedule in the official race, the racing suspension will not be able to hold on.

You should know that there is only one design concept for f1 racing, that is, for speed!

The so-called various safety guarantees in later generations were all the 224 F1 drivers in history who paid their lives. With the advancement of the concept of racing safety, the later F1 racing design was considered to ensure the safety of the drivers.

But even so, in order to reduce weight, F1 racing cars have reduced as much as possible except that the core parts of the driver's cockpit cannot shrink. In addition, the engine is a life-threatening squeeze, and the consequence is that F1 has very weak ability to deal with extreme situations.

This is why, the F1 racing car that stands at the top of the world's industry has a high failure rate. If any car company has such failure rate, let alone the problem of bankruptcy, customers will have to go to the store the next day to buy a car on the first day.

With a completely opposite design concept, the most common thing for ordinary people is aircraft. The design redundancy of any aircraft is extremely high, so you can maximize the stability of operating conditions and face possible extreme conditions.

After all, if the f1 racing car is a cylinder, it is at most a result that you don’t need to withdraw from the race. If there is any problem with the plane, it will be a big problem.

Hearing Cosell's words, Zhang Yifei nodded. In fact, when he drove to the last lap, even if there was no sensor to call the alarm, he had already felt the problem with the steering.

In the past, Formula Elementary Cars, due to the slow speed, light weight, short schedule and other factors, they only ran more than a dozen laps in the whole race, so they were not very problematic about using the shoulder to turn around.

But in Formula racing, all conditions change. The shoulders are mostly higher than the track, just like speed bumps encountered on the road.

Of course, the road shoulder is not as exaggerated as the speed bump, and it is just a slope-shaped plane. However, considering that the speed bump of the car is slightly faster, the impact on the suspension is very large, and the team members will also bump and bounce.

The high-speed curve of the F1 racing car is at least 200km/h with the help of the road shoulder. At this amazing speed, the impact on the suspension can be imagined.

Even in some slow motion, you can see the entire F1 racing car instantly taking off. Not to mention that many F1 designs do not leave enough redundancy, even if they are left, they cannot withstand such impact for a long time.

After all, the heavy car is placed here, and the impact resistance of the thickened suspension swing arm will inevitably shrink in other places, and new problems may arise. Therefore, the vehicle has no way to change it, so it can only change it from the driver.

"I understand, I will pay attention in the future."

"By the way, what's the final lap speed?"

Now that the third round of practice competition is almost over, the fastest lap speed should have appeared, so Zhang Yifei asked.

"You ranked ninth, 1 minute 25 seconds 862."

"Just rank ninth?"

Zhang Yifei was surprised to hear this ranking. He ranked the highest in the practice competition and reached fifth place.

This time he wanted to create a higher ranking, and even had confidence intensifying his desire to compete with Schumacher. Unexpectedly, he actually regressed four places, falling from the highest fifth to the ninth.

Looking at Zhang Yifei's expression of disbelief, Prost leaned over with a smile, patted Zhang Yifei on the shoulder and said, "This is a very good result, and he ran very beautifully. You should know that Kimi Raikkonen's practice competition ranked 13th last year, and you have surpassed his debut practice competition."

Kimi was only thirteen last year?

Zhang Yifei was even more surprised when he heard this news. Kimi was a famous popular driver in later generations and won the F1 World Championship.

Moreover, the stories passed down are more of the miracle of "three-level jump", and the battle with Schumacher in the newcomer stage was "Ice and Fire".

In addition, he scored a few points in his debut competition. Many times, Zhang Yifei subconsciously believed that the super newcomers were crushing all the way. Among the twenty-two drivers, it was too exaggerated not to mention the top three and top five, after all, they were all masters.

But the top ten should be fine. Unexpectedly, last year, the Super Newcomer Kimi didn't even enter the top ten in the practice competition, so he went straight to the thirteenth.

Seeing Zhang Yifei's face still surprised, Kossel said in a scolding tone: "Do you really think the F1 drivers on the field are plaguing in? They also rely on their amazing strength to crush hundreds of teammates step by step to enter the world's top event."

"Don't think that you can underestimate the opponents on the field after getting a few days of training. They are much stronger than you think. Adjust your mindset!"

Unlike ordinary racing engineers, Kossel is more like a relationship between mentors and friends for Zhang Yifei, so he blames and scolds mercilessly, rather than not daring to tell the truth as riders hire employees.

"What is the fastest lap speed, and what is Kimi's ranking?"

Zhang Yifei did not care about Cosel's accusations, he was more concerned about the issue of his decline in ranking.

Because he felt that he had no problem driving just now. Although he didn't try to challenge the limit speed to death, at least he did not make any major mistakes in particular.

Before entering the station, Zhang Yifei felt that he should have a good ranking and could effectively prove his F1 strength. Maybe he could enter the top three and make a sneak peek. But reality gave him a blow and fell directly to ninth. This psychological gap is a bit big.

Is it true that as Cosell said, he underestimated the world's top drivers present?

Hearing Zhang Yifei's inquiry, Yamamoto Ukyo took a step forward and planned to tell Zhang Yifei about his fastest lap and Kimi's results.

But Cosel's sounded again: "There is on the display, go and see it yourself."

Feeling a hint of anger in Cosel's tone, Yamamoto Ukyo didn't dare to say anything else, so he could only stand there and shook his head at Zhang Yifei.

Even the boss Prost shrugged and said nothing. He seemed to see the popular German old man at the McLaren fleet repair station.

Although it has been nearly ten years since Senna is no longer his teammate, he still has the shadow of that year.

Faced with Cosell's dissatisfaction and anger, Zhang Yifei was actually very depressed. He really looked down on other drivers on the field. After all, he always had a standard in his heart, that is, the drivers who can stand on the F1 track are all the strongest dozens of people on this planet.

Even Schumacher and Senna dare not say that they can easily crush all their opponents in every game.

It was just that he adapted to the winter test, and everything was going smoothly in the practice competition, and he also got good results. These all invisibly improved Zhang Yifei's inner expectations, making him feel that he could run better and set higher goals.

The result was contrary to expectations, and it was a regression in a good state of self-satisfaction, which naturally made Zhang Yifei a little confused.

Maybe it's really as Kossel thinks, he's a little too confident and inflated. If the F1 drivers on the track are serious, it's really a bit strong.

However, there is another hidden reason that no one has mentioned, that is, in addition to drivers, racing factors are also very important. Prost's JS53 racing, currently in the eleven teams in the F1 paddock, does not have any competitiveness.

When Zhang Yifei looked at the monitor ranking lap, Kimi was doing almost the same thing after getting off the car after getting off the McLaren team repair station on the other side.

However, his experience is richer than that of Zhang Yifei, and it is difficult to express his concern for Zhang Yifei publicly, so he did not ask the team members, but went to the ring screen and took a look at the practice lap rankings.

The first place clearly shows the name of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari team.

Schumacher's fastest lap is 1 minute 24 seconds 799, which is not far from breaking the track record. If nothing unexpected happens, Schumacher is likely to surpass Mika Hakkinen's 1 minute 24 seconds 528 track record in qualifying.

As for whether it can be broken in the main race and then create a new Albert Park track record, it depends on Schumacher's performance.

The second place is also Barrichello from Ferrari. There is no doubt that in this era, even the second driver of Ferrari has a speed that surpasses other drivers.

This is not just the driver's personal strength, but the Ferrari racing is also excellent in this era.

It’s not that the Ferrari team built a “Rail Rover”. The Ferrari Racing’s standard for being considered “Rail Rover” is 2002 and 2004.

The reason why they are so leading is that their strong opponents, McLaren and Williams Racing, are relatively trash this year!

It is not leading in absolute performance and the failure rate is not low. Relying on the strong strength of the team, it can meet the qualified standards. However, for the Big Three, not achieving excellent results means failure.

So it all depends on the support of his peers. In history, Ferrari won the driver's championship and third place in the 2001 season, and Schumacher's points were still a few points away from being twice as far ahead of the second place McLaren team Coothard!
Chapter completed!