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671 Conservative vs Radical (Extended)

After all, these two people just dislike each other's racing style and still agree with their strength.

So there has been no conflict of ideas between these two people for a long time, but today there have been another choice similar to conservative and radical, which makes the old German man unable to help but start a fight.

Kossel's concept was very clear. After confirming that Zhang Yifei had a good idea, he began to fully support his stronger teammates' ideas instead of choosing a better control No. 2 driver.

The reason is that the stronger the performance of the A05 racing car this year, it indirectly means that Ferrari's new generation F2002 racing car is stronger. Even if Ferrari does not provide a shrinking racing engine, Prost is far inferior to the other party in racing design and development.

Because racing development is a money-burning game, Ferrari can recruit stronger aerodynamic engineers if they are richer and let the racing car blow the wind tunnel a few more times to optimize the aerodynamic appearance. It is so simple and crude.

Ferrari is currently a mountain in front of all teams. If you want to become a champion team, you must defeat them. Now it is known that the racing performance is lagging behind and there are no stronger drivers. What can you use to defeat the opponent?

Kossel has never been a slow-moving personality. He just wants to see Zhang Yifei become the world champion and lead the Prost team to the top as soon as possible.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear the weight. The "team cancer" may be the price that you must bear on the road to the championship of the Prost team.

Facing Cosell's remarks, Prost looked at him and wanted to refute, but ultimately did not speak.

How could a four-time champion driver not understand the truth behind this? How strong the AP05 racing car is means how terrifying the Ferrari racing will be today.

Prost's dream has always been to make the team he created stand at the top. However, putting his radical goal this year has made Prost dare not take risks. Perhaps this is his conservative personality, always thinking about what he will do and not want to face things outside of control.

"Boss, I agree with Fei and Cosel's idea."

The team leader Henry, who was standing by, also spoke out his opinions.

Because Cosell's remarks also reminded him that Henry even thought further.

That is, if you are equipped with such a powerful Ferrari engine, you will either defeat Ferrari next year. If you don’t win, it will pose enough threat to them. Then, if you want to get such a powerful Ferrari engine in the next year, it may not be as easy as today.

After all, the biggest reason why Ferrari Group is willing to be an engine supplier is that it feels that the Prost team is not threatening.

Therefore, the future prospects of the Prost team are not as smooth as expected. Instead, they are like sailing against the current, and if they don’t advance, they will retreat!

Three of the four expressed their attitude. Even if Prost was the boss, he could not do his own thing, let alone he planned to follow Zhang Yifei's advice.

"Okay, since you all say that, then it depends on the results of the game and choose a stronger one."

In the end, Prost let go of his obsession with Massa and spoke with the results on the track.

In the repair station, this year's rookie drivers are ready to wait for the trial time to arrive. This year, Renault has prepared three trial racing cars, namely two official racing cars in the team, plus a spare car, to shorten the test time as much as possible.

The trial training rules are based on the F1 qualifying rules. Apart from the warm beads, rookie drivers can complete ten laps in half an hour of trial training, and use the fastest lap speed to determine the ranking.

First of all, those who played were all unknown "newbies". Masa, Alonso and Helio did not move. Because even though the temperature of the Jerez track is higher than that of other European countries, it is already December, which is considered a cold winter level, and the temperature inside the track is only about ten degrees.

This is not the best working temperature for F1 racing cars, and the time for warming beads is not enough, so drivers who are trying out in the back batch will be easier to drive the fastest lap speed.

Renault racing began to roar on the track. Zhang Yifei looked at the rookie test next year and his brows subconsciously frowned. I wonder if he met too many experts in the f1 paddock. The routes of these newcomers were very rough, which made Zhang Yifei a little unable to bear it.

Even when I was a newcomer, I was not that weak, right?

The current record of the Jerez track is 1 minute 18 seconds 135, created by Frenzen of Williams' team that year. However, the fastest lap of the track is 1 minute 17 seconds 652, which was created by Schumacher in the qualifying race.

As Zhang Yifei observed, if there is no leaps and bounds of the lap speed of this group of newcomers in the later stage, the fastest lap speed is about 1 minute and 25 seconds, and the gap is too big.

But in fact, this situation is not an unexpected event. This is the strength of most F1 trial drivers. There are at least twenty newcomers conducting test drives every year, and only a handful of them can enter the team, and none of them may end up becoming top drivers.

This is why Zhang Yifei caused such a sensation around the world, and even called his deeds a miracle.

This is why Indy drivers are so arrogant and confident that they began to challenge Formula One. It is because of their two newcomers who entered F1 in recent years, their performance is considered to be top-notch newcomers, which has caused local Indian Formula drivers to expand their confidence and believe that F1 is just like this.

After all, it is rare to have a top driver. Two of them have been successively won, and one of them has won the F1 world championship title, which is a bit difficult to expand.

It can only be said that Zhang Yifei met the outbreak era of the newcomers in F1. Montoya, Patton, Massa, Alonso, Kimi and other future top drivers are now gathered together, which makes Zhang Yifei have an illusion that the newcomers should be so strong.

The first batch of new players soon completed the trial training. The fastest lap among the three was only 1 minute 23 seconds 891, which was about the same time as Zhang Yifei estimated.

This speed is difficult to be favored by the team management. Unless it is because of the boss' potential for being particularly good-looking, or the new driver is particularly rich and can bring huge sponsorship to the team, it will basically be a waste of time.

The second group of drivers quickly continued to play. In comparison, the results were much better than the previous "cannon fodder". The fastest lap was 1 minute and 22 seconds, and it took 1 minute and 21 seconds, which was 934, an increase of nearly 2 seconds.

"The Finnish driver had a good lap speed and should be able to get a test rider seat in the team. As for whether he can become a formal driver, it depends on his luck."

The team leader Henry commented at this time, saying that if it was the Prost team's level last year, this result would be the team as a test driver, or even a formal driver.

But this year, Prost team has undoubtedly seen a lot higher vision, and they only have the strongest new driver!

"It's pretty good, almost 0.1 second faster than Williams' Chinese test driver this year."

Prost agreed and said something interesting to Zhang Yifei.

"Did Williams team recruit a Chinese test driver?"

Zhang Yifei asked, "In the current F1, besides himself and Xiong Long, there are also Chinese drivers in it?"

"Well, a Dutch Formula driver, it seems that his name is Dong Hebin."

"But his lap results are not very ideal. The fastest lap is 1 minute 22 seconds 082, but Williams' team still recruited him into the team. I think it's because of your reasons. Sir Williams wants to try it out, can he copy the Chinese miracle."

Dong Hebin?

When Zhang Yifei heard this name, he was instantly impressed. This Dutch Chinese driver was quite famous in later generations. Many people called him the first Chinese F1 driver.

The reason is that he is purely human blood, while Xiong Long is considered a mixed-race, and only his father's line is Chinese.

However, Dong Hebin's career in F1 can only be described as bumps and bumps. He has been unable to become a formal driver after several teams, and the highest ranking is only the third driver.

If Zhang Yifei's memory is correct, Dong Hebin participated in the Williams team trial in 2003 in history, but now it can only be considered as 2001 in history. This time is a bit unmatched.

It seems that the reason for changing history should be just as Prost said. Sir Williams also wanted to copy a Chinese miracle, so the trial training standards were relaxed this time.

After all, among the Big Three teams, Williams's status and strength are the most vulnerable. They do not have the technical support and strong funds from manufacturers, and they will fall from a high place if they are not careful.

The appearance of Zhang Yifei is equivalent to bringing rebirth to the Prost team, and more importantly, it brings huge sponsorship from China. This is the key to saving the collapse of the Prost team's funds.

Sir Williams also wanted to copy this process, hoping to use Dong Hebin as a Chinese to get sponsorship from Chinese companies. In fact, CCTV has really bought advertising spaces on the back end of Williams racing's nose cone.

However, there is one thing that Sir Williams is wrong. Perhaps in the eyes of foreigners, Chinese are equal to Chinese, and many Chinese even think so. But when a real Chinese F1 driver appears, the Chinese identity is no longer valuable.

Whether he has a yellow-skinned face or not, it cannot change the country of loyalty. Chinese people are never equal to Chinese. Xiong Long is the best example.

Of course, Zhang Yifei knew these things in his heart, and he didn't need to say them again. He just nodded at Prosti and said that he knew.

As time goes by, batches of newcomers on the track and the riders eliminated this season began to try out, and the lap speed has also increased a lot, and an amazing lap speed has even appeared, which is the 1 minute 19 seconds 217 run by Sato Dao!

This speed is only one second away from the track record, and as a newcomer, it is definitely outstanding. Many people did not expect in advance that a Japanese newcomer could run such a lap, which indicates that the rise of Asian drivers?
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