There was a full minute of stalemate, and finally Prost sighed and sat back down on the couch.

"Fei, I saw the shadow of my stubbornness in you, but this time I hope your insistence is right."

Prost finally gave in, for the sake of the team's interests, and for his original feelings and enthusiasm, he chose to believe Zhang Yifei.

"I'm not stubborn, but I firmly believe that Chinese engineers can eventually meet the standards of F1."

Zhang Yifei does not want Prost's regression, it is out of sympathy or charity, because such an idea is an insult to those automotive engineers who have come to France for the development of China's automobile industry!

Their efforts are not recognized, and their efforts and professionalism are not respected.

No one knows better than Zhang Yifei the sadness of not being recognized and respected, and Chinese technicians are not their vassals, they also want to prove themselves.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei is unwilling to attribute Prost's compromise to himself, and in the end, it can only be themselves who can make Chinese engineers gain a foothold in F1!

"Yifei, thank you for your trust in Huali engineers."

When Wang Gang saw this scene, he opened his mouth to express his gratitude to Zhang Yifei.

Although Huali Holding Company owns 40% of the shares of Prost Racing Team, and also claims to have the same shares and equal rights, it is still in a weak position, after all, many things are not only business, but also politics!

If there is no Zhang Yifei's toughness today, it may be that the Huali Group has no way to stop Prost's decision. Objectively speaking, Prost also has his own reasons for doing this, the team is his hard work and pride, and now that he has money, he naturally wants to use the top European engineers.

"Don't thank me, this is what we should do."

Zhang Yifei replied very calmly, his goal is the same as that of Huali Group.

Temporarily solved the matter of Chinese technicians, Zhang Yifei, Prost and Wang Gang walked into the racing research and development center.

Now the latest generation of the AP05 race car, the prototype has been built, and even painted in the blue Proudst Racing team's iconic livery. It seems that during this time, Prost really paid close attention to the research and development of new racing cars, and solved the problem of incompatibility between the frame and the engine in a short time.

"Fly, see no, this is the latest generation of AP Series cars that you're going to drive next year. Now that the prototype has been assembled, test drivers will soon be put to test the car in order to complete all the test projects before the winter break. ”

When Prost introduced the new car, his tone was full of confidence and pride, and it could be seen that he was very confident and emotional about the new generation of Prost racing.

"BOSS, how's the lab doing?"

"Seven percent better than the active Prost car!"

"So strong?"

When he heard the unit of seven percent, Zhang Yifei was simply stunned, don't think that seven percent is a small number, you must know that even the JS53 car, compared with the fastest McLaren car on the track, the theoretical performance gap is only four percent.

Seven percent, which is equivalent to the standard of the super Mars rover, even if the road test is a little smaller than the laboratory data, the performance of other teams has also been improved, and the final performance of this AP05 car is definitely not worse than them.

Suffering from all the performance gaps now, will no longer exist next year!

"It's that strong!"

"This time we not only got a powerful Ferrari engine, but also got the help of Kossel to redesign the aerodynamic shape, so it can be said that the Prost car has made a qualitative leap compared to before!"

Prost's tone became more and more excited, and the huge improvement in the performance of the car actually made him raise his eyebrows.

"How did Korsell help?"

Zhang Yifei asked rhetorically, as his chief race engineer, Korsell accompanied the team throughout the whole process, and the world was transferred, where did he get the time to participate in design and development?

"Don't you know that every night in Kossel compares data with the R&D center by email?"

Kossel is also a professor of aerodynamics at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, and has also been involved in the design of the pinnacle McLaren race car. If he's not a race engineer, he's definitely a good race designer. ”

Cosell compares data with the R&D center every night?

If Prost hadn't said it, Zhang Yifei really wouldn't know.

This means that Cosell's daily workload is far greater than he imagined. Not only do you collect race data and develop race strategies, but you also have to be involved in the design of the aerodynamic shape of the car on a daily basis.

You must know that the old man in Germany is almost seventy years old, and I don't know how he carried it.

But there is one thing that Zhang Yifei knows very well in his heart, which is why Caser did this.

As Zhang Yifei's chief race engineer, no one knows better than him the challenges and difficulties brought about by the performance disadvantage of the car. Many times, Zhang Yifei has obviously tried his best, but because the performance of the car is not as good as that of his opponent, he is forced to make those aggressive and dangerous maneuvers.

So Kossel wants to bring Zhang Yifei a stronger car, so that he can be on the same starting line as those opponents!

Just when Zhang Yifei felt a little blocked in his heart, a scene that made him even more sad appeared. The Chinese technicians in the equipment workshop of the R&D center all leaned over when they saw Zhang Yifei coming in.

"Yifei, you did a great job on the track, and we won't let you down."

"Yifei, we know the efforts you have made, leave it to us in the future!"

"Come on, you make China proud, and we will make China proud in the future!"

"Yifei, we are always striving for the same goal!"

From the very beginning, these technicians from China knew the purpose and significance of their coming to France.

Strive to learn the most advanced foreign automobile manufacturing industry, in order to one day in the future, to bring qualitative development to the domestic automobile industry. Even Huali Group has a code name internally, which is called "Seed Project".

So when the processing error of racing car parts appeared, in the past few days, they were actually very self-blaming and guilty. If you withdraw from the F1 R&D center because of this, you can only establish a European R&D laboratory according to the original plan, and then slowly start to grow.

And this point in time may be stretched and magnified to five years, or even ten years. After all, this time, Huali Group can be said to have done the thing of "fishing with all its might", not only sending domestic R&D elites over, but also mortgaging all their belongings and digging up engineers from many other car companies.

Almost everyone in this group is the elite of China's auto industry in this era, and the time they waste may be the time wasted by China's auto industry.

Today's appearance of Zhang Yifei is equivalent to giving them a "reassurance", as long as the most powerful driver in China appears, it will definitely solve the problem, and the seed can germinate and grow into a towering tree after all!

"Thank you, in fact, I am not that great, the future depends on you."

Zhang Yifei smiled, his eyes a little moist.

I am just a driver, and the limit of what I can do is nothing more than standing at the peak of personal achievement. But the group of people in front of them can change the country and the future, so in comparison, they are the hope.

This scene made Prost look at it in his eyes, and his heart was very uncomfortable.

To be honest, what Zhang Yifei pulled the Huali Group to do when he came in, Prost has always been very clear, and the situation of the team at that time was really to say that they took what they needed.

Now this kind of situation, it is equivalent to directly piercing the window paper, and a bunch of "spies" are simply obvious in the research and development of their own team, how can the research and development and design data in the future be completely confidential?

However, Prost also quickly figured it out, in fact, it is not terrible to leak some R&D data, as long as the team can keep the update lead.

Formula 1 motorsport has never relied on secrecy to represent the pinnacle of the automotive industry. Instead, it relies on innovation, by developing more advanced racing cars every year, to determine its status as a jewel in motorsports.

Another thing that touched Prost was the unity of the Chinese, who stick to their goals and feelings and work hard for them.

I want to dream of my Grand France team, and I want to make French racing stand on the top of the world. As a result, when it was in a difficult situation, Renault, a bastard "traitor" car company, wished that he would die, so he hurriedly acquired Benetton to refute the rumors, and extinguished the last trace of sponsorship hope!

The Peugeot Group, which was behind the team, also threw all the pot of backward car performance to itself when the team was in the most difficult time, and also interrupted the supply of the event engine, which is simply a knife in the back!

None of the other French companies reached out to help, as if the dream of the Grand France team was just a matter of their own!

If the French car companies could unite a little at that time, and giants such as Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen could pull themselves, maybe today's Prost team is still a purebred French team!

As soon as he thought of this, Prost was angry, and after the Prost team became strong next year, he must trample the Renault team under his feet and avenge the humiliation at the beginning!

After the matter of the R&D center was completed, Zhang Yifei rested in France for a night, and the next day he got on the plane to Tokyo non-stop.

You must know that the Indy 500 event has been delayed for three days, and now that it is flying around, another few days have passed, and there is not much time left for the preparation of the Japanese Grand Prix.

In the early hours of the morning, Zhang Yifei landed at Tokyo Narita International Airport, before Zhang Yifei stayed in Toyota youth training for half a year, and he was relatively familiar with Japan.

So he didn't choose to disturb the crew at this point in time, but planned to call a taxi back to the hotel himself. However, when he walked out of the pick-up channel, he was shocked by the crowd outside, and when he took a closer look, these people seemed to be coming to greet him.

, in the middle of the night, I have so many fans in Japan?