Zhang Yifei on the track, the speed began to increase wildly, and the strong AP05 performance once again brought Zhang Yifei's initial passion. Now he does not dare to say that he must be driving a rover, but he can be sure that it is no longer a "tractor"!

"It's fast, and it looks like this year's Prost is doing well."

Sir Williams spoke, and the expression on his face was a little solemn.

From the roar of the engine and the acceleration of the car, these F1 car group bosses in the paddock can roughly judge the basic performance of the car. At least for now, this Prost AP05 car is much better than last year's JS53 in terms of performance and senses.

"It depends on the fastest lap, but judging by the performance of the previous Ferrari F2002, the engine performance should not be much worse."

Technical Director Simmonds replied, his eyes also fixed on the blue and red car on the track.

He knew what Sir Williams was worried about, and Zhang Yifei, who drove a JS53 car last year, performed so amazingly. If you want to give him a more powerful car this year, then the Williams team will not even have the performance advantage of the car, and when the time comes, Schumacher Jr. and Montoya will still be able to compete with the drivers?

"Ferrari is raising tigers!"

Sir Williams shook his head, no one expected that Ferrari would sign a contract with Prost to supply the engine at the most difficult time.

Now it seems that it is not just the Williams team that threatens it, but the Ferrari team itself is no better!

"At that time, who would have thought that the Prost team could be brought back to life under the leadership of a Chinese boy?"

Simmonds said with a wry smile, at that time, in the situation of the Prost team, it was basically waiting for death!

Supplying racing engines to such a team, who would have thought that the future would pose a threat to themselves?

In the face of such an answer, Sir Williams also had a wry smile on his face, and what he was saying now was an afterthought.

The performance improvement, even if there is no final lap time, is basically certain. The next step is to see how far the bottom can go and how stable the car will ultimately be.

The speed of the first lap on the track came out quickly, and Zhang Yifei ran a lap time of 1:23.175, which was significantly ahead of the previous Helio first test of 1:23.299, and surpassed Schumacher's first lap.

You must know that last year's test drive, Zhang Yifei tested it in 7 days, and the fastest lap was only 1:22.405!

Now the first lap of the first test has come to the threshold of 1 minute and 22 seconds, and there is no doubt that Zhang Yifei's fastest lap this year will be significantly ahead of last year's and break the current track record.

This is not only the enhancement of the performance of the car, but also the enhancement of the strength of the driver, if Zhang Yifei stepped into the threshold of the top driver last year, then this year he can stand firm in the position of the top driver.

From now on, there will be a Chinese driver on the highest peak of the world's drivers!

When this lap time passed through the team's voice and was transmitted to the ears of the other five drivers in the same test, there were amazement, surprise, admiration, and shock!

Perhaps the one who felt the most pressure was Kimi Raikkonen, who had just run a time of 1:23.375 on the first lap.

This lap time is definitely not slow, and it greatly surpassed his test results last year, but in the face of Zhang Yifei's current fastest lap on the track, it is a bit insufficient. In particular, Kimi Raikkonen believes that his efforts during the winter break, combined with the new and stronger MP4-17 car, should be able to surpass Zhang Yifei in one fell swoop.

The fact that he is now behind again is a big blow to Kimi Raikkonen's confidence, and even if the Finnish Iceman rarely puts his emotions on his face, he can feel a sense of frustration at the moment.

Why did I try my best, but I still lost to the driver?

"Flying so fast?"

Not to mention Kimi Raikkonen, even the McLaren team pit pits, the look on the face of the team's strategy team was full of surprise after seeing the first lap speed come out.

This year, it's not just Ferrari that is happy with its engine, but McLaren is also happy with the performance of its Mercedes engine. And the stability test of the new car is also much higher than last year, and the McLaren crew is full of confidence.

You must know that last year, McLaren Racing had the fastest car in theory, but the poor consistency made them not have a good season. It's coming back this year, but it's the F1 World Champion!

Kimi Raikkonen started first, so the lap time came out before Zhang Yifei, which was originally very satisfactory to the team, and it was much faster than last year's test. As a result, I never expected that Zhang Yifei's speed could be so fast that even Schumacher and Helio in the first round of testing were surpassed by him.

"Prost's new car is even better than we expected."

The expression on the face of the racing designer Newey was grim, and to be able to run at such a speed, in addition to the strength of the driver himself, the performance of the car was definitely not much slower. At least in terms of last year's Prost JS53 performance, it is difficult to run Zhang Yifei's current lap time if Schumacher goes up to drive.

"Yes, this year's situation is even more fierce for us. It seems that the rumors that Prost is going to become the fourth big man may not be groundless. ”

At the end of last year's season, Prost Racing had already made a name for itself, with many media outlets promoting it as the fourth big man in the F1 paddock.

It's just that this kind of media report, many teams don't take it too seriously, after all, it's not so simple to want to become a giant team. Which team of Ferrari, McLaren, or Williams didn't create a dynasty and use absolute dominance to put itself on the pinnacle throne?

The Prost team is too far behind them, and a bright driver flies, not the problem. The quality of the crew, the performance of the car, the number two driver, etc., are all indispensable.

Judging from last year's performance, the quality of the team has not become an obstacle, after all, the Ligier team has been formed from the foundation, and it has been operating in the paddock for more than ten years, and it is not a rookie.

Today's lap times, combined with the performance of Ferrari's new car, mean that the performance of the car may have been solved by Prost Racing as well. Now all that remains is the last suspense, and that is how good Alonso is for the second driver.

Last year, the Minardi team, Alonso's results were not very good, and he even disobeyed the team's instructions and was terminated, almost no team dared to ask for it.

Although he tried out with the rookie, he ran the second fastest time, second only to Helio. But the water of this kind of thing is there, after all, you are a "back to the pot" who has been running for a year, and you have nothing to brag about if you go to run with a pure newcomer.

If Alonso tries out his performance by then, he can reach the level of an upstream or even midstream wingman. With Zhang Yifei's current strength and the racing performance of the Prost team, the rumors of the Big Four may come true, and even threaten the Big Three team!

The speed of the first lap made the current big three teams feel a little threatened. And as the lap speed began to rise, the fastest lap of the first round of testing came out, and the expressions on the faces of these crew members on the scene could even be described as Tie Qing.

Because Zhang Yifei tested on the last lap, under the condition of the best grip of the tire and the no-load oil, the limit lap time he ran out broke through the limit of 1 minute and 22 seconds, and came to the field of 1 minute and 21 seconds, and the final result was 1 minute 21 seconds 997!

That's 0.1 seconds faster than Schumacher's previous fastest lap and just one step away from breaking the current track record. Although the track record is not equal to the fastest lap of the track, you must know that this is only Zhang Yifei's first round of testing, and in the next few days, with the completion of the car tuning, and the increase in the tacit understanding between the driver and the new car, it is easy to break the current track record, and even surpass the fastest lap of the track in 1:21.032!

"Is this the first test to run as hard as you can? Otherwise, how could you run such a terrifying lap time? ”

In the Ferrari pits, Jean Todd looked at the fastest lap after the second round of testing, and the expression on his face was in disbelief.

It's really FUCK! Lao Tzu's genuine Ferrari racing lap time was actually surpassed by Prost's "pirated version", which really made the Ferrari team feel a little unacceptable.

If this is Zhang Yifei's limit, then it is understandable, after all, this Chinese boy, no one treats him as a rookie now. It's not that hard for the top drivers to put their best foot forward and set the fastest lap for the first time, and there are at least five or more people in the paddock at the moment, so it's easy to do that.

But the problem is that no one knows how much success Zhang Yifei has used. After all, this is only the first test, not the final test, what if this kid runs out easily?

"It's a bit too fast, indeed."

Technical director Ross Brown's face was also full of surprise, as one of the most famous racing engineers in F1 history, no one knows better than him, the performance of this year's Ferrari engine, and the addition of this Ferrari F2002 to Schumacher.

As a result, this situation of winning the game was actually led by the "pirated" Prost team, and Ross Brown did not believe that Prost aerodynamic design could lead the Ferrari team with the same engine in the race!

At the same time, he does not believe that Zhang Yifei can surpass the current Schumacher in terms of strength.

So how exactly did this happen, and did any driver really run the fastest lap in the first test stage to make a name for himself?

"Let the team strategy team put this year's key observation target on the driver's fly, he will become the biggest hidden danger!"

Jean Todd gave direct instructions to the team's strategy team, and began to focus on monitoring and analyzing Zhang Yifei's data, and promoted him to the level of Kuthard and Ralf Schumacher.

This may be one of the few moments when Scuderia Ferrari treats a rookie driver as its worst enemy.

The last person to receive such a high level of treatment from Scuderia Ferrari was Villeneuve, who is currently in the Anglo-American team. However, compared with Zhang Yifei, Villeneuve is also an Indian world champion crossover, and it is not ashamed to treat him as the biggest opponent.

And Zhang Yifei is a complete exception.