On the morning of the second day after the qualifying match, nn published a special article titled "The dark horse appeared in the f1 paddock, where is the limit of Chinese newcomers?".

The article introduces Zhang Yifei's professional experience, highlighting his bizarreness of being able to achieve good results in the qualifying competition, and calls Zhang Yifei the number one dark horse in the new season of F1.

At the same time, a rhetorical question was raised in the nn report, that is, can Chinese drivers maintain this level or will they eventually become "flash-of-the-pan"?

This rhetorical question is a metaphor in a sense, indicating that they do not trust Zhang Yifei's absolute strength. The current results in the qualifying competition are likely to be Zhang Yifei's limit!

However, these are not the key points. This report describing Zhang Yifei greatly praised Montoya's strength, believing that the Indy 500 champion also has the strength to win the championship in F1.

This inexplicable comparison makes people wonder the real reason for the NN report. Is it trying to praise Zhang Yifei, or to boast about Montoya, or to be more concealed? It actually wants to promote the Indy 500 event?

Many people don’t know that in addition to Formula Racing under the FIA, there is another relatively "non-mainstream" event in the world, which is the Indian local Formula Racing hosted by the American Automobile Association.

Europe and the United States are often collectively called one family, but neither Europe nor the United States are so willing to be a little brother. For Europe, my ancestors are rich and they are your father to the American Empire!

But for the American Empire, thirty years from Hedong to Hexi, now you are all a group of little brothers and you all have to accept my leadership.

This kind of competition extends to racing in a sense. The FIA-led Formula Events have a basic foundation in Europe and then developed into the world, becoming the main event in most parts of the world.

However, the American Automobile Association did not want to be led by the FIA, so they created their own event, which is the Indy Series.

Compared with the international Formula, the indy race costs less and the racing style is more wild and rough. However, in terms of driver level and technological content, it is lagging behind the international Formula.

The United States has always wanted to promote its own Indy series so that it can control absolute voice in the racing and even the automotive industry. Therefore, as the American mouthpiece, NN naturally tends to be inclined to the Indy series.

Although the nn report contains a lot of private goods, as one of the largest mainstream media in the world, its report still caused a sensation in public opinion.

Many people don’t know that it turns out that China has Formula Drivers, but now it’s amazing! Not only does China have Formula Drivers, they have already entered F1, and they also achieved a sixth-high score in the opening qualifying race.

This feeling is like a table tennis player suddenly appeared in a mountain nest in Africa. In the qualifying round of the Chinese National Games, he defeated a top Chinese table tennis expert and reached the finals with the sixth place in the qualifying round.

So this report even brings an unreal feeling to many ordinary people who don’t pay much attention to equations.

Especially in some bbs about racing, many curious newcomers emerged and began to ask some questions about Chinese drivers.

"Is Chinese Formula Racing so powerful? Can you actually become an F1 driver?"

"Just be a F1 driver, just run into the top six for his debut. This doesn't mean he will be on the podium soon. I don't believe that the Chinese Formula level can produce such a great driver!"

"Flying is not trained by China. The report says that he is a Toyota youth training driver. He should have received vocational training in Japan, right?"

"Then he is always in China in the karting stage. The question is, does China have any powerful karting professional training?"

"You ask me, who am I going to ask? I have the ability to go to China for investigation!"

Similar discussions and questions in BBS began to extend as the reports and the Internet went on, and more people knew that a Chinese driver of the dark horse level had appeared in the F1 paddock.

And it is not just the US NN, thanks to the current era of F1's top influence. Well-known media such as BB, AFP, Al Jazeera and other well-known media have all reported on the opening game of the F1 new season.

But they did not mainly focus on Zhang Yifei, and their attention was still on the pole player Schumacher. As Schumacher at his peak, the qualifying lap he ran out was too exaggerated, and he simply did not give his opponent a way out.

Many media began to predict at the opening match whether Schumacher can successfully defend his title this year?

Even in China, thousands of miles away, this time, the opening match of the new F1 season was launched on CCTV's comprehensive channel due to Zhang Yifei's relationship, and a clip of Zhang Yifei's qualifying match was played in the 7 pm news broadcast.

As long as you are a Chinese, you can understand what it means to be on the news broadcast at seven o'clock. This influence is far beyond the previous CCTV Sports Channel broadcast!

After all, the audience and influence of sports channels are far smaller than those of comprehensive channels. In addition, in this era, racing is an extremely unpopular sport, so there are even fewer audiences.

So although many people knew that Zhang Yifei had such a driver before, he did not reach the height of a national athlete. More people just had a proud mentality that a driver who entered F1 could appear in China.

After the news broadcast, all this became completely different. Zhang Yifei's national popularity began to soar sharply. Many Chinese people began to discuss this F1 driver who was very distant to the people after dinner.

And as Zhang Yifei begins to gain results, and the Chinese Grand Prix is ​​likely to be held next year, the media began to consciously build Zhang Yifei in the direction of "national driver". Otherwise, a qualifying result would not meet the standards of CCTV's 7 o'clock News Broadcast.

It can be said that after experiencing such a game, Zhang Yifei began to enjoy the feeling of "popularity". Even the Prost team had many media plans to interview Zhang Yifei, hoping to explore this "dark horse" and those unknown stories behind it.

In the face of media interview requests, Prost's original intention was actually inclined to agree. Because Zhang Yifei's fame increased, in a sense, it also led to the increase in the reputation of Prost team, which has a very positive impact on the team's future sponsorship, commercial value, etc.

But Kossel directly rejected these interview applications, the reason was that the weekend was the main race, and Zhang Yifei was now in an active state of preparation. How could he accept interviews from these media affect the driver's racing status?

Faced with the tough rejection of the competition engineer, the boss Prost had to give up his thoughts. He was once a driver and knew that the short interview before the race was fine, but this kind of group visits from multiple media before the race had a great impact on the drivers in terms of time and status.

Although Prost wanted to enhance Zhang Yifei's fame and expand the influence of the team, Zhang Yifei had just become a new star now, so if he fleeed to death, it would be like killing a chicken to get eggs.

Prost could still calculate the accounts, so he finally agreed with Cosell's decision.

In the hotel where he stayed, Zhang Yifei was not affected by the media at all. He was following the team strategy group to check the video of the qualifying race and decide on tomorrow's strategy.

The most important decision point for strategy is the number of entry points. Under normal circumstances, the number of entry points for the F1 main race is one stop, two stops, and three stops. How many stops here means that the driver returns to the repair station, performs tire change and refueling actions.

If the first stop tactic is used, the car will use hard tires and heavy oil. Although it will be slower in the initial stage due to tires and weight factors, it will save time to enter the station and will not cause you to fall behind.

The strategy of using the three-stage tactic is completely the opposite. The team will use light oil and wear-resistant soft tires. In this way, each lap can run as fast as possible, and accumulate it to recover the time wasted on the entry.

Teams will formulate drivers' pitting strategies based on different track types and various objective factors at that time. For example, Ferrari's favorite strategy is the three-stage tactic, and they are confident of recovering the time loss of pitting.

Of course, there are some special cases that use four stops, such as Schumacher's classic four stops, which helped him win the French Grand Prix championship. But this is not a regular strategy to formulate plans, and there are great risks. It is not that the skilled and brave, but it is not that he can recover the lost time he has entered the station.

"I think as a newcomer, it is best to use a one-stop tactic tomorrow's event."

The leader Henry first expressed his opinion. In the F1 race rules, two different sets of tires must be used in a race. This means that one stop is the bottom line, and you have to enter the station once anyway.

As a newcomer, Zhang Yifei reduces the number of times he enters the station, which means that he can reduce the mistakes and rhythm disruptions caused by entering the station, and improves the fault tolerance rate on the track.

You should know that when Zhang Yifei was at the training base before, he had a gas-go accident at the station. Although the accident was not serious and had little to do with Zhang Yifei himself, under the pressure of high-intensity competitions, no one can guarantee whether Zhang Yifei and Ah Hu could withstand such pressure and not make any mistakes.

Since these things cannot be guaranteed, then the strategy of conservative and stable in the first game will be adopted, which is also the most reasonable plan.

However, at this moment, Yamamoto Ukyo, who had never spoken out very much, rarely offered his own opinions.

"Through my calculations, the three-stage tactic will get the maximum benefit. If risk and other factors are taken into account, I think the second-step pivot will be the best balance point between risk and return. The first-step tactic will theoretically lag behind the two-stage tactic about 2.128 seconds."

"So I suggest that at least two stops are required to ensure the tactic of two stops. If you have confidence, it is best to stop three stops!"

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