673 F3000 Level (Chapter 1)
"It should be difficult to have super newcomers like Yifeijun again, but this year's rookies are indeed very strong."
Toyota leader Ueto Hirakawa replied, and his face was full of surprise.
In fact, the management of these rookies' trial training skills are relatively optimistic about the team on site, otherwise they will not put them in the final test.
However, the results now are still beyond the previous best estimate. The trial lap speed of Helio and Masa is almost equivalent to the race lap speed of the official F1 driver.
But don't forget, they are just newcomers! Helio is better, after all, he has the foundation of Indy racing, and even the annual Indian local formula champion, while Masa is just a pure newcomer, but he still has such an exaggerated result. This is what surprised the team management.
"It seems that Masa's performance is much better than Sato's. Should we change our choice?"
Miyato Toshida asked other team managers, and in fact, when they made internal decisions, they had already agreed on this year's team rookie candidate, which is Sato Takuma, who also comes from Japan.
Sato Takuma is Japan's most powerful new driver in recent years. In addition to the Grand Prix of the Island of the Ao Island, he lost to Zhang Yifei, and almost swept the world's F3 level events, including France and the strongest British F3 events, which are known as the hope of Formula Japan.
As a Japanese factory team, Toyota F1 team chose Sato Takuma to join the team. In addition to the strength factor, there are naturally some "feeling" factors. After all, if a top Japanese F1 driver can be cultivated, it will greatly enhance the influence of Japanese drivers in the racing industry and can also enhance the Toyota Group's position in the hearts of the people.
But now it seems that even the strongest Japanese newcomer Sato Takuma seems to be a little inadequate to these super rookies this year.
There are various benefits to cultivating Japanese drivers, but the premise is that they can be cultivated! The Toyota F1 team must first ensure its own results, and then talk about the matters about "feelings", otherwise everything will be empty talk.
I have to say that Toyota has ambitions in the F1 field, and did not want to become a salt fish team that was scrambled. Later, it spent a lot of money to sign Ralph Schumacher at the price of WDC championship, just to build the F1 championship team.
However, Ralph Schumacher became a cheater. He thought he had the strength to be a world champion in the F1, but after signing, he collapsed and became one of the largest signing bubbles in history.
It consumed huge amounts of money, but it could not even get a sub-station champion. The Toyota team could not afford to play later and had to withdraw.
So when facing stronger drivers, considering nationality, skin color and other issues is seeking death!
Prost almost took this path, so the Toyota team naturally didn't want to follow in the footsteps.
"I think it's feasible, and Sato Kwan has Honda's funds behind him, so he's likely to be the British and American teams in the end."
Uedo Hirakawa agreed with Tomoda Miyaki's opinion. Before the trial, they expected Sato Dao to become one of the best rookies, preparing to "snatch love from the horizontal sword" and sign the only active Japanese F1 driver from Honda.
But now there may be a better choice, and the Toyota team is naturally ready to change their minds and avoids turning against Honda Group.
Masa and Helio's outstanding performance also attracted the attention of other teams. Especially Renault, the team plan next year is ambitious and is planning to replace one of Jason Patton and Fischela to improve the team's combat effectiveness.
There are such a strong newcomer now, Renault Team must not let go. After all, Renault Nissan League has the technology and funds that are not inferior to the Big Three teams. If it still revolves in the mid- and lower-stream rankings, where can it put the current world's number one auto giant?
After the trial training came to the fifth lap, Helio once again surpassed Masa and increased the fastest lap speed by 0.15 seconds. It showed the Indy champion's super strong stamina and hard power, and even had a sense of dominating the track.
However, in the sixth lap, Masa also increased his speed and once again only bit Helio. Although he could feel that Masa was struggling to improve his lap speed, he could improve and bit Helio at a slight disadvantage, which showed his strength and potential.
It is worthy of being another newcomer who is highly regarded after Barrichello and believes that he has the hope of inheriting Senna's legacy. Masa's performance in the track trial did not disappoint Brazilian fans.
At this time, Alonso barely broke through the lap level of 1 minute and 19 seconds and came to the 1 minute and 18 seconds field. If this trial result was in previous years, it would be considered a very good level and would be selected by the F1 team.
But now there are pearls and jade in front, and Alonso is still a "re-cooked pork" who has been running for a year. This result is not very conspicuous, and it can even be said to disappoint many people.
"Fei, it seems that this Spanish driver is not as strong as you think."
Prost said at this time, and Zhang Yifei told him before that Alonso would be much better than he thought.
Facts on the track proved that what he imagined was not wrong, and the Spanish rookie had no glimpse. On the contrary, Zhang Yifei seriously overestimated Alonso's strength. His performance was not worthy of becoming the second driver of the Prost team, and he was not qualified to be arrogant!
Facing the boss's words, Zhang Yifei did not answer because he didn't know what to say.
All Zhang Yifei's judgments based on strength are from the perspective of God, knowing their future achievements and development, except for the abnormality of Helio.
In theory, Alonso is better than Masa and is in a state earlier, but the butterfly wings have already flapped, and history has begun to be beyond recognition. Zhang Yifei is really not sure. Alonso can beat Masa in this game, so he is naturally speechless.
“Herio is very strong.”
Cosel, who was beside him, said with a flash of light in his eyes. He did not intervene in the dispute between Masa and Alonso at all, but instead focused on Helio.
With the current performance of Helio, it can almost confirm the rumors that he had private training in Williams team. Otherwise, he would not be so skilled in driving F1 cars, and the route of the Jerez track is extremely accurate.
However, even if he had private training on Williams team, he could not hide his talent in Formula Racing. After all, the US Grand Prix ended in September and was only early December today, and it took more than two months to complete the game.
In this short period of time, Helio has the strength of an official F1 driver. How much improvement and progress will it have to be achieved by the main race stage in early March next year?
For a moment, Cosel even saw Zhang Yifei's shadow in Helio, the same genius boy, the same super newcomer potential!
To be honest, if it weren't for the grudges on the Indy track, then the most satisfied person in Cosell's heart is Helio. If he could join forces with Zhang Yifei, he would become the strongest newcomer group in F1's history, the real Gemini star in the track.
Suddenly, when he heard Cosel suddenly praised Helio, Zhang Yifei knew very well what the old German man was thinking. He was optimistic about this arrogant Indy King.
After all, it is not easy to get Kossel's praise. Even Zhang Yifei himself rarely gets Kossel's praise. But today, the old German man has recognized Helio one after another and has revealed his inner thoughts.
Choose Helio to be a teammate?
This idea also appeared in Zhang Yifei's mind instantly, but it was instantly rejected by him. Not to mention the grudges between the two of them at the US Grand Prix before, Zhang Yifei could not bear to face the Sima face that was the most sensible for me every day.
Foreigners have some personal ideas, and Zhang Yifei is very clear about it, but to the level of Helio, it is really a minority. He is like a spoiled child, centering on himself in everything.
In fact, Helio has indeed been praised all the time. And he also used his strength to prove that he could afford these praises. If Zhang Yifei had not defeated him on the Indy Track, Helio might have been even more arrogant now.
If such a person wants to make him surrender, he needs to press him to the ground and rub him back and forth, just like he did before. Even if Zhang Yifei has this strength, he does not have the energy. Perhaps the two of them have strong account data in terms of hard power.
But in fact, he absolutely cannot play the effect of one plus one greater than two. Zhang Yifei is very clear about his personality, and he will never compromise. He just doesn't write this arrogance and arrogance on his face like Helio.
"Cosell, I can't be a teammate with Helio, I'll just be an opponent."
Zhang Yifei said, advising Cosel not to make any ideas.
"It's good to be an opponent, at least it will be great in the game."
Kossel replied disapprovingly, he never cared about what Zhang Yifei thought about what he wanted to do.
As for what he asked not to do this, he was purely clear that Zhang Yifei could not conquer Helio in a short time.
There are ways to contact the "time bomb" or delay the time point of explosion. Helio is directly a "bomb", and the introduction of the convoy will explode every day!
Just as the management of several teams was discussing the strength of rookie drivers, another unexpected scene happened on the track.
Alonso, who has been lagging behind, actually broke out in the eighth lap and completed the overtake of Helio. He won the fastest lap on the track with a lap of 1 minute 18 seconds 637!
The record of the Jerez track is only 1 minute 18 seconds 135. Most drivers in the main race may not be as fast as Alonso's current lap speed. So it is absolutely amazing to be able to run this lap speed, and it is not like Alonso's rookie performance last season.
Alonso on the track learned his fastest lap speed through the team voice.
He was so excited that he complained in the public voice channel: "This is the real racing. Minardi racing was at the level of f3000!"
Chapter completed!