Zhang Yifei stayed at the team headquarters to train, and the team members who originally planned to go back for the New Year also stayed.

For example, the old German man Kossel, the Japanese members Ukyo Yamamoto and Junko Takeda, who were fully Westernized, and so on.

Zhang Yifei was very moved by their stay, because the new year's F1 season will start after the winter test.

With a whopping 17 races throughout the season, Zhang Yifei has to face 17 different tracks. Even if you deduct the European tracks he has run, there are at least ten unfamiliar tracks that need to be familiar.

Against the top 21 drivers in the world, there is no room for mistakes on the track. Zhang Yifei is extremely familiar with these more than a dozen unfamiliar tracks, and the only thing he can do is to run more and practice more.

So he really needs Korcel to stay and help, but after all, it's New Year's time, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year.

asked Cowsel and them to give up the time for family reunion to stay, Zhang Yifei couldn't open his mouth. That's why he was so grateful in his heart when he faced Cosell and others who took the initiative to stay.

Another point that surprised Zhang Yifei was that Alessi, except for Christmas and Chinese New Year's Eve, he also stayed at the team headquarters at other points in time to conduct racing simulation training.

It's important to know that a veteran driver like him rarely practices during the winter break. may have lost to Zhang Yifei, which stimulated his self-esteem, so he trained uncharacteristically crazy and wanted to save face on the F1 track.

After a half-month winter break, the members of the Prost team returned to the headquarters building to prepare for the departure to Barcelona, Spain, where there is a Catalan circuit that was chosen for the FIA's winter testing.

The Circuit de Catalunya doesn't have the characteristics of Monaco or Hockenheim, but it has almost all the characteristics of the track, such as various types of corners, long acceleration straights, and even different gradients!

Therefore, the Catalan circuit is internationally recognized as the closest to the perfect track.

Another more important reason why the FIA chose the Circuit de Catalunya as the winter test track is that the Barcelona region of Spain has a low latitude and a relatively warm climate. If you choose a Nordic circuit where the snow is covered in winter and how do you test the new car?

Once the members of the Prost team have been assembled, the newly improved JS53 car will be loaded into a container and transported by road to the Circuit de Catalonia.

However, Prost, the owner of the team, did not choose to go with him this time. As the new season approaches, the team's finances are starting to get tighter, and he has to find new sponsors to ensure financial expenses for the new season this year.

Another point is that he has to go to the transfer market and select new test drivers to come over.

At the time of Emily's departure from the team, the JS53 car had basically been finalized, and the most important test task was completed.

The problem is that the Formula 1 team's test driver responsibilities go far beyond cooperating with the development of new cars.

They also have to take on practice sessions on the new track to ensure that the cars are tuned to the characteristics of the track. In addition, the test driver also has the role of a substitute, once the official driver has a little accident, the test driver needs to be substituted out of the pit.

When Zhang Yifei and his party appeared on the streets of Barcelona, the time had already come to mid-January.

For the city of Barcelona, Zhang Yifei is actually no stranger, not that he has been to Spain, but because the Barcelona team is so famous that it is a little difficult not to hear of it.

"Phineas, the Spanish Primera League is about to start, do you think we have a chance to witness a Barcelona Real Madrid national derby?"

Looking at the street scene in Barcelona, Ah Hu asked in an expectant tone.

Unlike Zhang Yifei, who only knows a little about football, Ah Hu is a die-hard fan, and now that he has the opportunity to come to Barcelona, he is naturally looking forward to witnessing a Spanish national derby.

"Let's see the results of the winter test."

Zhang Yifei did not agree, after all, the main task of coming to Barcelona was not to watch the game, but to complete the final test of the JS53 car.

The test results of the JS53 car will directly determine Zhang Yifei's results on the F1 track this year.

Because F1 does not provide a production version of the standard car like the previous Renault and Oshima F3, all drivers drive a unified performance car, relying on absolute hard power to decide the winner.

And F1 does not have this absolute fairness, even if you have the strength of Senna, in the face of a garbage truck that runs slowly and has a high failure rate, you can only resign yourself to fate.

In history, the racing cars of the Prost team are almost the same level as garbage trucks, which Zhang Yifei also understands in his heart.

It's just that when he actually joins the Prost team, he feels like a JS51 car, and he drives it. When I was training on the back track, there were some glitches, but I didn't leave myself on the track.

So Zhang Yifei can't figure out why last season, the Prost team didn't even have a 30% completion rate, and the car didn't rubbish to this extent.

With this kind of question, Zhang Yifei really wants to see the racing performance of other teams, and only hopes that the final result is not that there is no comparison, and there is no harm......

When Zhang Yifei and his party came to the Catalan circuit, the pit area was already bustling. Basically all the convoys had already arrived, especially the big ones, because they could afford to fly them directly, while the Prost convoy opted for cheaper land transport.

For the arrival of the Prost team, the pit station did not attract much attention, and the bottom result of last season has completely made the Prost team a small transparent.

These teams didn't pay attention to Zhang Yifei's arrival, but Zhang Yifei was extremely excited at the moment, scanning the pits of each team everywhere, hoping to see the familiar figure in his previous life.

In the McLaren pit stop on the left, the blonde man in the racing suit is Mika Hakkinen, who guessed correctly.

Nicknamed the "Finnish Flyer", he is one of only seven drivers in F1 history to successfully defend their world title, making him a legend of the last generation.

In the Minardi pit stop on the right, the young driver standing by and being taught with the Spanish flag on his belt is Fernando Alonso.

Alonso is one of the few drivers of his time who is still competing in the Formula 1 paddock more than a decade later. In his previous life, Zhang Yifei even watched Alonso's game at the Shanghai International Circuit.

It's just that at this point in time, he is still so young, and he is a pure rookie driver like Zhang Yifei.

Next, I saw a few familiar drivers, but these people were not the drivers that Zhang Yifei was looking forward to seeing.

Until a fiery red appeared in his sight, and a familiar face walked over from a distance.

When he saw this face, Zhang Yifei stood in place in a daze, and all the unreality came to his heart.

That's right, he's that man, a generation of car gods - Michael Schumacher!