Three days later, the repair station of the Prost team was completed. Compared with top teams like Ferrari and McLaren, it was basically almost a day slower.

Even the "new recruits" Renault, Toyota and other teams who joined F1 this year were more than half a day faster than the Prost team.

Among them, there are only Minardi, Jordan and other "poor" brothers in distress.

You should know that building a repair station is not as simple as building a mobile house. The frame is just the most basic thing. The real difficulty lies in the connection and wiring of various computers, cables, telemetry instruments, and communication instruments.

Don’t underestimate these electronic components. All remote sensing data transmission and voice calls in racing rely on sensors covered with tracks to synchronize with the team P room.

Not to mention the quantity, just the weight of the computer and cables is as high as several tons! This is why the Prost fleet's loading and unloading union has reached 30 people. Without so many team members, it is almost impossible to get everything done in two or three days.

The reason why these large fleets of Ferrari are fast is that they have as many as fifty or sixty loaders. As the saying goes, there are many people and great strength, so they are naturally faster than the Prost fleet with only thirty loaders and unloaders.

However, there are exceptions for everything. Generally speaking, the factory team has strong strength as a support, and the Jaguar team is that exception.

It has Jaguar's car brand, and it also has world-class old car manufacturers like Ford. Not to mention that it is better than the old Ferrari and McLaren in F1, at least it is comparable to the new recruit Renault and Toyota?

As a result, the Jaguars' speed was only a little faster than the Prost team. The internal struggle consumed too much team resources, and even the team atmosphere began to "mix".

This situation is very similar to the Prost team in the late last season. When the atmosphere collapses, everyone is just doing it every day. Anyway, they are waiting to withdraw from the competition when they are on the court. Just want efficiency?

So sometimes Zhang Yifei sympathized with Nicky Lauda, ​​a legendary F1 driver who was invited by Ford to nominally use his "fame" to suppress the infighting of the convoy.

In fact, Ford did not give Nicky Lauda enough authority at all. When things could not be suppressed, he fired Nicky Lauda without telling him. It was really a "burden"!

After the maintenance station was built, Zhang Yifei went from the hotel to the Sepang Raceway in Kuala Lumpur. The airtightness of the racing Peugeot engine still made him very worried.

The score of the sixth place in the last debut in the last stop actually gave Zhang Yifei a lot of confidence and confidence. He wanted to go further in the Sepang Circuit to see if he could reach the podium.

But the hidden dangers of racing now seem to cast a shadow on this goal. Zhang Yifei's requirements are not very high. As long as he can survive the Malaysian stop, it is good that he can change the engine of the next stop.

When driving to the Sepang track, Zhang Yifei is actually not unfamiliar with this track. It goes without saying that he will become a professional F1 driver in his life. Being familiar with the F1 track is considered a basic professional requirement.

Even in my previous life, Zhang Yifei had learned about the Sepang Track in detail. After all, there are only a few top F1 tracks in the entire track. In this industry, whether you have the chance to run or not, it is appropriate to understand it.

In history, Sepang Circuit started hosting the F1 Grand Prix in 1999, five years earlier than China's East China Sea Grand Prix. In addition to Suzuka Circuit, the second professional F1 track in Asia is not only earlier than the East China Sea, but also earlier than the Bahrain and Istanbul Circuits.

The reason why the Sepang track was built is that this era happened to be at the peak of Malaysia's economy, and they had money and capital to play F1 games. Another point is that in recent years, the F1 Alliance is actively expanding its territory outside Europe, stabilizing its position as the leader, and preventing the rise of the Indy 500 Racing.

Under the influence of two factors, Sepang Raceway came into being, and because it is new enough, the venue facilities are very advanced, providing a more comfortable pit area and providing a high-tech news center for the media.

At this moment, in the team repair station, there were three F1 cars, two of which had been assembled, and the remaining Zhang Yifei's No. 13 racing car is still in parts state.

In the engine area of ​​the repair station, the engineers of the Prost team are conducting brief debugging and maintenance of the event engine, and try to repair the engine to meet the competition requirements.

Kossel was holding his hands in front of his chest, looking at the engine debugging on the workbench with a serious face. Even Zhang Yifei stood beside him, he didn't notice it.

"Cosell, how is the situation now?"

Zhang Yifei also looked at the engine, but he asked Cosel in his mouth.

"When did you come?"

Cosell was a little surprised. He didn't notice when Zhang Yifei entered the repair station at all.

“Just arrived.”

"After the main structure of the maintenance station was completed yesterday, we had joined hands with Peugeot engineers to seal the air tightness of the engine. Two rounds of short tests have been conducted today, and no abnormal pressure in the cylinder has been found."

When Zhang Yifei heard Cosel say this, he breathed a sigh of relief. When he came in just now, he saw Cosel's serious expression on his face and thought that things would not happen.

"It seems that the situation is pretty good."

“The racing situation is good, but the track is not good.”

The expression on Cosell's face did not change at all, and he replied without any concealment.

"Why is it not good?"

"Have you seen the track information? I've been sleeping in the room these days? Do you still need to ask me about this kind of question?"

Facing Cosell's rebellious questions for three consecutive times, Zhang Yifei was speechless. This old German man took a gun today, so why did he speak so violently?

It seems that Malaysia has a tropical climate, staying in the high-temperature engine area is indeed a bit unnerving!

However, when thinking about the high temperature, Zhang Yifei instantly understood what Cosell said was wrong.

Malaysia is in a tropical region. Even if it is only spring in the northern hemisphere, the temperature of the Sepang track is almost approaching 40 degrees Celsius. This high temperature climate makes the Sepang track the hottest stop among many sub-stop races, and also brings great difficulties to the engine cooling.

But this is not the most difficult part. What really puts a lot of pressure on the racing engine is the two 800-meter straight roads on the Sepang Track!

The average speed of these two long straights can exceed 300km/h, and the limit speed can even reach an exaggerated 320km/h. Therefore, under such long straights, the car will inevitably accelerate with full throttle and the engine will also run at full speed.

What Cosell said is that this is the point where a short test cannot fully simulate a formal competition that lasts more than an hour. Passing the test now does not mean that the high temperature and high pressure, the mark engine can still be stable, and the prospects are still not very bright. This may be the real reason why Cosell's serious face is.

Zhang Yifei spoke again and asked Cosell: "The long straight will put a lot of pressure on the engine. Is there a way to solve this?"

"No."

"What should I do?"

Faced with Zhang Yifei's question, Cosel was too lazy to answer. From his attitude, Zhang Yifei got two words "cold salmon"!

But at this moment, Henry comforted him: "Fly, don't think it's too serious. Today's brief test went smoothly, and the air tightness problem should be solved. Besides, did not give it to the previous stop without any problems?"

After saying that, Henry looked at Zhang Yifei with a sympathetic look. He heard all the conversation just now. Cosell's attitude really didn't consider Zhang Yifei's psychological tolerance at all.

After all, Zhang Yifei is just a newcomer in the track, and faces possible failures, he must be under great psychological pressure. As a result, the competition engineer had no intention of relieving him and completely treated Zhang Yifei as an old driver. I don’t know how the Chinese newcomers survived this attitude before.

Although Henry knew that Zhang Yifei had good psychological qualities, this was beyond the boundaries of newcomers.

In the newcomer stage, I met a former Senna strategy player like Cosel, and he was also a super radical. I really don’t know if it should be Zhang Yifei’s luck or his “unfortunate”…

What Henry did not expect was that Zhang Yifei just smiled at him without caring, and then continued to come to Cosel to discuss some issues with him about the Sepang track, without taking the pressure just now at all.

Seeing Zhang Yifei's attitude, Henry suddenly understood that this kid was a masochist!

The completion of the repair station does not mean that all processes are over. There will be logistical facilities such as drivers' rest rooms, office areas, and even kitchens in the future.

The two-week interval between the sub-station race is tense for the team, but it is quite abundant for the drivers. At least Zhang Yifei can use the remaining more than a week to get familiar with the Sepang track.

No matter how many laps you drive on the simulator, it is impossible to fully simulate 100% on-site. So Zhang Yifei and Yamamoto Ukyo walked along the Sepang track in the next few days as usual, and recorded detailed track data.

It was during these few laps of field exploration that Zhang Yifei felt the difficulty of the Sepang track. In addition to two exaggerated long straights, there are many curves of different arcs, and most of them are low-speed corners, which are very challenging to control the route.

Another thing that makes Zhang Yifei feel very uncomfortable is that in addition to the high temperature, the Sepang track also has a very high humidity. Just like some areas in the south of China, there is an unusually stuffy heat.

And in a week, Zhang Yifei encountered several heavy rainstorms that were different at the same time, which was also a challenge for rain combat technology and tire selection.

The more you know, the more difficult the challenge will be!
Chapter completed!