Hearing Cosell's serious tone, Prost was not so serious, on the contrary, he asked with a smile on his face.

"No wonder the Chinese kid can have today's results, you are really strict with his standards."

In the face of this casual ridicule, Korsell said in a disdainful tone: "Prost, you used to be a champion driver, if you don't even have this standard, then what F1 are you running?" ”

F1 is a race in which dozens of the world's strongest drivers participate, and since they have all become one of the strongest, why not remove the latter one and become the strongest?

If you want to become the strongest driver, you naturally have to demand yourself according to the strictest standards, and Prost has won four drivers' championships, which is impossible not to understand.

Hearing Cosell's words, Prost replied with a wry smile on his face: "Cosell, sometimes I really envy you, you can still maintain your initial enthusiasm and ideals at this age. ”

"The Prost team has just experienced a crushing defeat in the F1 season, and with the conflict between the first and second drivers, the whole team atmosphere has fallen to the bottom. And I signed a Chinese driver who has not proven his strength, and many people think that he is self-defeating, do you think they can still work with passion in this atmosphere? ”

"Kossel, you have to understand that the drivers only have to think about the race, and the team owner has to think about everything, and it's useless to be strict."

Prost, who used to have the original dream, also returned to the F1 circle and wanted to create a "Grand France" team.

It's just that reality gave him a "beating", and the team's performance is getting worse and worse year by year.

If he can accept the poor results, then this year's Renault's stabbing and Peugeot's throwing pot can be said to be a real blow to the dream of Prost's pure French team.

Because people are always like this, they like to treat others as they would like to be treated. Prost believes that he has done his best for French motorsports, so Renault, Peugeot, etc., which are also French companies, should be on the same side.

As a result, the reality was not at all as naïve as he thought, and Renault did not support the idea of the so-called pure French team at all. I'd rather buy the unrelated Benetton team than pull the French team.

Even Peugeot saw that the results of the Prost team might affect its car sales, and hurriedly expressed its dissatisfaction and threw it off, saying that the team's strength was dragging down its engine.

After experiencing this, Prost's enthusiasm at the beginning also faded a lot, and the management of the team naturally relaxed the standards.

"So you're thinking about a lap down, and that's how the team is at the moment?"

"Prost, you've been careful all your life, and you should know that many things won't be in your plan and control. Now that you've chosen to sign a contract to fly, it's time to show your determination to change. ”

"Kossel, in fact, I've always been curious, are you really so optimistic about the Chinese driver Fei, and think he can bring changes to the team?"

Prost asked rhetorically at this time, because change must at least be supported by confidence, signing Zhang Yifei is just his helpless choice, not that Prost really thinks Zhang Yifei can become an F1 champion.

"I don't know how much of a difference flying can make, but I can at least be sure of one thing, no matter how bad it is, it can't be a bad situation without a single point."

Cosell's words gave Prost a slap in the face, that's right, now the team has zero points at the bottom, can no matter how bad the result is, can it still be negative?

At this time, Prost pressed the call button on the headset, but the voice channel was not talking to Zhang Yifei, but to Charlie, the chief technician.

"Charlie, do you know when you made the pit stop to change the tyre?"

"Yes, 3.9 seconds."

Charlie replied in a slightly apologetic tone, and as the team's chief mechanic, he naturally understood what this time meant.

"Inform the technician team that the next simulated pit stop training must be within 3.5 seconds. Even the newcomers in the maintenance team have no problems, isn't your efficiency even as good as the newcomers? ”

Listening to Prost's long-lost reprimand, Charlie felt ashamed in his heart, and at the same time a little happy.

Because in the second half of this year's F1 season, Prost was basically in the stage of "giving up treatment" in the face of the situation that the driver almost quit every game.

If you can't even finish the race, what's the point of pursuing that tenths of a second pit stop?

Over time, the whole team slackened, which is why Zhang Yifei actually made no obvious mistakes in his pit stop just now, at most there were some small flaws in his proficiency, but it was 0.8 seconds slower than the team's average pit stop time.

Now Prost is finally paying attention to team management again, even if it is strict, which is a good thing for team members.

After all, if this situation continues to be rotten, waiting for the outcome of the Prost team, it will either go out of business or be acquired. If it goes out of business, then all the team members will face losing their jobs, which is definitely not a scene that Charlie wants to see.

"Give me a little serious, even the two Chinese newcomers move faster than you, don't you feel a trace of shame?"

Most of the maintenance team were old people from Ligier, and Charlie had been with them for many years, so there were no twists and turns in his speech, and he expressed his dissatisfaction very unceremoniously.

It may be that I haven't seen Charlie angry for a long time, and the maintenance team, which was still a little giggling, instantly became serious.

"Show your professionalism and remember that the F1 maintenance team is the most professional race maintenance team in the world, and the next pit stop tire change training should not exceed 3.5 seconds!"

"Okay!"

"No problem."

"We can do it."

One after another, the voices of response sounded, and for the maintenance team, they also have their own pride.

After all, with several newcomers not making a mistake, the 3.9-second pit stop is simply a humiliation!

After two laps on the track, Zhang Yifei received instructions from Korcel to go into the pits to change tires on the next lap.

Zhang Yifei was not surprised by this instruction, and the main training goal today was to practice pit stop coordination. You must know that the length of the Montriary circuit is twice that of the average F1 circuit, and two laps are equivalent to four laps.

There is only one pit stop in four laps, which is already quite low, and if you want to train at a high intensity, you will have to increase the number of pit stops. For the length of the Montrier circuit, there is at least one pit stop per lap.

After all, the extreme cooperation of the F1 team is not an innate tacit understanding, but relies on the close cooperation between the driver and the maintenance team again and again. Take the McLaren team of the Big Three, for example, who have to make at least 1,300 pit stops in a single F1 season.

Zhang Yifei's current practice times can be said to be far from enough. And you should know that in official competitions, pit stops are not only planned, but also can encounter those unexpected accidents that lead to pit stops.

In this case, it is even more a test of the cooperation between the driver and the technician team, and whether they can cope with unexpected accidents without any preparation.

The second pit stop, it may have been an experience, or it could have been a stimulus to the technician team. Everyone's movements have sped up a lot, and the speed of exiting the station has been significantly improved.

When Caser took another look at the pit stop, it was up from 3.9 to 3.4 seconds.

However, this time is still not excellent, and even the average time of the Prost team is not up to it. So without the slightest hesitation, Korsell gave the order to let Zhang Yifei circle into the pit, and at the same time, the technician team was also ready to enter the tense atmosphere of the event level.

After all, the pit stop time is reduced, and there is no shortcut to take, purely by training again and again, and practicing those steps of the pit stop to the general reaction like your own instinct, in order to achieve a breakthrough in the limit.

3.4 seconds, 3.3 seconds, 3.2 seconds!

Zhang Yifei couldn't remember how many times he had made a pit stop, and even the time went from morning to noon.

Long-term racing car, even if there is no tension and limit of the official competition, still brings a great burden to Zhang Yifei's body. This is not the previous Renault equation, and getting faster means the weight of the G-value, and sweat has soaked his inner fireproof suit.

Not only Zhang Yifei, but even the technician team felt a kind of fatigue at this time. After all, two hours of standing, plus every three minutes, you have to mechanically change tires, and it is impossible not to be tired.

It's just that compared with Zhang Yifei, they are still much easier, and it is precisely because they understand the pressure that Zhang Yifei is under that no one in the maintenance team said the word the contrary, there is a secret admiration in their hearts.

Even Chinese newcomers can insist on this kind of high-intensity practice, and they are considered "old men", how can they be embarrassed to say that they are hard?

But inside the pit station, Yamamoto Ukyo couldn't bear it a little and reminded him.

"Mr. Prost, Mentor, Ichi-jun has completed almost forty pit stops, and before 10 times, his pit stop time was stuck at 3.2 seconds, and he didn't improve again."

"I think today's training has reached a bottleneck, so I can consider ending it for the time being and giving the drivers and the mechanics team a break to adjust."

Yamamoto Ukyo's advice is very pertinent, but if you continue to practice in this situation, it is basically impossible to improve when the driver and the technician team are tired.

And today's training time is long enough to reach the end.

It's just that before Prost and Cosell could answer, a sour voice sounded: "Maybe this is not a bottleneck, but the ceiling of Chinese riders." ”

The person who said this was Emile, who had finished the JS53 racing test, and he was very unhappy in his heart.

Similarly, Alessi, who was sitting next to him, also had a faint smile on his face when he heard this. It was clear that he agreed with Emir's remarks, as he was also unhappy with his position as the No. 1 driver to be challenged by a Chinese rookie.

Why Emir is sour, Prost and Cosell know very well in their hearts. Prost, in particular, hinted at the beginning that Emir had a chance to become a full-fledged driver next season.

Prost still had a hint of apology in his heart for Emir, so he didn't say anything to stop it, just as if he hadn't heard.

Korcel doesn't care about this kind of mouth cannon even more, he only looks at his strength, and if he is not convinced, he will challenge Zhang Yifei. If you are stronger than him, you don't need to say these sour words.

"Kossel, that's the end of today."

"Hmm."

Korsel nodded, but he was quick to say, "One last lap before the end of the pit stop to change the tyres, do a full pit stop practice, and train on the refueling event as well." ”

All of Zhang Yifei's previous pit stops were just simple tire changes, and there were no refueling items.

Halfway through was supposed to be a complete pit stop for refueling, Prost chose to rest at Zhang Yifei's point of rest. So it's not the kind of pit stop refueling process in the event, and Zhang Yifei is not even on the car when refueling.

After all, people are not machines, and even if they can hold on, they still need to be hydrated and go to the toilet.

The reason why Prost will do this is because the danger of refueling in the pit stop is much higher than changing the tire in the pit stop.

It's best for a rookie rider not to do these risky exercises without a skilled pit stop process, which is also in line with Prost's conservative character.

But now that Korcel has brought it up, he wants to let Zhang Yifei undergo a full pit stop refueling practice at the end of the day.

After all, as an F1 driver, it's a joke to be afraid of the small dangers that can happen when you refuel!