374 Conversation with the car god
Facing Schumacher beside him, Zhang Yifei hadn't seen him for the first time, and he felt like he was dreaming.
But when he took the initiative to speak to himself, an inexplicable sense of unreality still came to his heart.
"Be careful when skiing in the future."
Looking at Schumacher, Zhang Yifei originally planned to say thank you, but he didn't know what was wrong with his brain, so he subconsciously said the saying "be careful about safety when skiing".
Perhaps Schumacher's ski accident in the future has already had a deep-rooted impact in Zhang Yifei's mind. Now the car god is in front of him, and Zhang Yifei doesn't know whether it can change history, but he hopes that the future tragedy will not happen again.
God has called Senna to show up with him, at least not let both generations of chariot gods suffer similar fates.
“What?”
Schumacher looked at Zhang Yifei with confusion. He had no idea why this Chinese newcomer suddenly said this to him.
Skiing is a well-known hobby for me, so it is not wrong to pay attention to safety. But in this situation, the first thing I say is to tell me about this?
"Nothing, I actually like skiing, I just talk casually."
Zhang Yifei quickly explained it forcibly, and indeed, he suddenly said this sentence, which made him feel inexplicably.
Originally, Schumacher wanted to come over to give the newcomer a few words of encouragement because of Zhang Yifei's psychological quality.
After all, with his current strength and identity, Zhang Yifei is far from threatening him. Without conflicts of interest, he can view new drivers more objectively and friendly.
However, Zhang Yifei's expression of inconsistent with the introductory words made Schumacher unable to keep up with his thoughts. Is it because of the gap caused by different ages, or the differences in Chinese and Western cultures?
In fact, Schumacher also had an idea in his mind, is this Chinese newcomer a little uninspired? But this is just an idea. If you really have a brain problem, you can't become an F1 driver. I can only say that there is no common language between you and the Chinese newcomer.
"Come on the game."
Schumacher no longer had the interest in continuing to talk, patted Zhang Yifei on the shoulder, encouraged his predecessor, and then climbed the stairs of the float.
Zhang Yifei was also very embarrassed at this moment. He thought that the first conversation with the car god Schumacher would have a little spark of collision. Unexpectedly, his first reaction was the accident that happened to him in his skiing in later generations, so he subconsciously reminded him.
But ski accidents are happening more than ten years later. No one in this world would have thought of it, nor would anyone think that Schumacher, a generation of car god, would have gone beyond the public's vision in this way. From then on, he was lying on the hospital bed and could only learn about his news from occasional news.
So now, this sentence is not only without the effect of reminder, but it will make people feel abnormal.
It seems that I should pay attention to it in the future. Some celebrities and superstars who come into contact with in the paddock cannot bring some future thinking to this point in time.
Zhang Yifei secretly reminded himself in his heart, and then followed Schumacher and boarded the parade float.
The so-called parade float is actually a convertible bus, which is roughly divided into two parts: one big and one small.
The larger part is where the drivers cruising, which is used to greet the fans and audiences on the track. The smaller part is a temporary interview area, which will randomly be interviewed and then broadcast on the track’s big screen.
The float started along the track, and Zhang Yifei drove the Albert Park track for about a hundred times. But never could he travel around the track at a slow speed like today and feel the applause and cheers brought by 80,000 audiences.
After all, sitting in the F1 racing car, earplugs, helmets and the roar of the engine, apart from the roaring sound from the accelerator, there is almost no sound from the audience on the sidelines. At most, they can only see their excited arms waving and the excited expressions near the fence.
Standing on the float today, I felt more intuitively, what is the feeling of cheering everyone?
"Schumacher~!Schumacher~!"
"Come on Ferrari~! You are the strongest team!"
"McLaren, regain the team's championship throne~!"
"Williams, come on in the new season and don't let us down!"
All kinds of cheers and shouts came to me, and this kind of scene felt like fans chasing stars in later generations.
But these car fans are not chasing appearance, strength, championship glory, and speed and passion on the track!
The drivers on the float also waved their arms and kept greeting the excited audience on the sidelines.
The first person to be interviewed was Schumacher, who ranked first and was undisputed.
The reporter asked Schumacher about the goals of the new season, and the answer he received was naturally that he hoped to defend his title successfully. As a superstar driver on the track, Schumacher could almost dig out the fresh news that he had been digging, and unless he did some impulsive things himself, there was nothing to say.
The interview was followed by Barrichello. Although he is just a green leaf driver, he is in the Ferrari team and has stable results in the top few. It is not too much to say that he is the second person in the F1 paddock at the moment.
After Barrichello's interview, the drivers of teams such as McLaren and Williams were basically ranked according to the strength of the team and the reputation of the drivers.
When the float was halfway through the cruise, Zhang Yifei received a notice from the staff and would accept an interview from the on-site reporter.
Zhang Yifei's interview sequence is relatively low, but he is still ranked first among newcomers in the track, even surpassing the Colombian superstar and also the Indy 500 champion Montoya.
No matter what kind of results Montoya had before, he was just a newcomer in the F1 track. And Zhang Yifei, who is also a newcomer, lap faster than him!
Even if the qualifying match was only a few dozen milliseconds faster, it might be just a blink of an eye, but this gap determined that Zhang Yifei ranked sixth, while Montoya could only ranked seventh.
The track interviewed a female reporter. When she saw Zhang Yifei coming, she greeted him enthusiastically and said, "Hello Fei, I am Julie, the F1 event reporter."
"Hello, I'm Zhang Yifei."
He shook hands and said hello to each other, and the camera was aimed at Zhang Yifei, Julie began to ask: "Fei, in yesterday's qualifying match, you ran sixth. Are you satisfied with this score?"
"I'm very satisfied, my previous goal was just to put it in the top ten."
Hearing this answer, Julie looked at Zhang Yifei with a strange expression, and then said, "According to your previous interview impression, shouldn't you say that the goal is pole position? Why is the sixth place very satisfied?"
“Because I’m more pragmatic.”
Zhang Yifei replied with a smile, but the expression on Julie's face was obviously not very convinced.
This made Zhang Yifei feel helpless. He is indeed more pragmatic. Renault dared to speak wildly about winning the championship because he felt that he had the ability to win the championship. Why couldn’t he say it directly?
Now the F1 plane is setting the goal in the top ten because the opponent is too strong. If you want to win the championship and crush your opponent, it is simply bragging about it. Facing different events and opponents, setting different goals is not called pragmatism?
"Many media have called you the dark horse of the new season. The first main game started in the afternoon. Do you think you can continue to be the dark horse?"
"able."
"Is this also pragmatic?"
"No, this is goal and confidence!"
Zhang Yifei replied firmly, he always believed in his strength, and this is the source of his strength to face challenges.
If you don’t even have confidence, then standing in the f1 paddock, challenging the world’s most powerful driver, is doomed to fail before it even started.
“It’s like your usual style.”
Julie is very used to Zhang Yifei's answers, because they have done their homework before the interview and have collected background information for each driver.
They naturally understood the interviews and reports of Zhang Yifei in Europe, so Julie felt that this is the style that Chinese newcomers should have.
"Next I want to ask you a relatively sharp question, the previous driver gathering area, and during the process of letting go, I only saw you standing alone in the corner, as if you didn't communicate with other drivers. Is this isolated?"
When facing this problem, Zhang Yifei smiled faintly. At this moment, the float drove to the gathering area between Chinese and Chinese audiences, and a familiar voice of support from his native language came from his ears.
"Zhang Yifei, come on!"
"Get points in the afternoon and create history again!"
"You didn't disappoint us, Chinese car god!"
"I will always support you, the driver flies!"
These cheers and support sounds are fanatical and loud on any section of the race track. Even the drivers standing on the floats are attracted by the eyes.
"Did you see it? I never felt isolated. On the contrary, I have 1.2 billion supporters behind me, which is the largest group in the world, so I am full of confidence and strength."
After saying this, Zhang Yifei did not continue to look at Julie, but turned toward the crowd on the sidelines, waving his arms frantically to thank his compatriots in the motherland for their support.
Similarly, Zhang Yifei's actions triggered a warmer cheering voice. In the f1 enclosure, Voice of China attracted the attention of the world for the first time!
After the driver's parade, the atmosphere of the track carnival was replaced by the tense pre-race atmosphere.
In the Prost lounge, Zhang Yifei had already changed into his full racing suit in advance and was ready to compete at any time.
To be honest, as time approaches, he still inevitably feels nervous in his heart as time goes by.
In fact, this is normal. The main competition is the event that determines the results of the branch. As long as the main competition can achieve results, it doesn’t matter even if it is the last one before.
On the contrary, if you are at the bottom of the main competition, even if you get pole positions in the qualifying competition, it actually doesn’t make much sense.
This is Zhang Yifei's first F1 game. No matter how calm, tough and calm the external image is, it is really true that people are not machines after all, and emotional fluctuations cannot be avoided.
Chapter completed!