Facing Schumacher beside him, Zhang Yifei didn't have the dream-like feeling of seeing it for the first time.

But when he took the initiative to talk to himself, an inexplicable sense of unreality still came to his heart.

"In the future, you should pay attention to safety when skiing."

Looking at Schumacher, Zhang Yifei originally planned to say thank you, but he didn't know what was wrong with his brain, and subconsciously said the phrase "pay attention to safety in skiing".

It may be that Schumacher's skiing accident in the future has a deep-rooted impact in Zhang Yifei's mind. Now that the car god is in front of him, Zhang Yifei doesn't know if he can change history, but he hopes that future tragedies will not happen again.

God had already called Senna to fight him, at least not to let the two generations of car gods suffer a similar fate.

"What?"

Schumacher looked at Zhang Yifei with a puzzled face, he didn't understand why this Chinese newcomer suddenly said such a sentence to himself.

Skiing is a well-known hobby, and it's not wrong to pay attention to safety, but in this situation, the first thing to say to yourself is this?

"It's nothing, I actually like skiing, just casually."

Zhang Yifei hurriedly forcibly explained, and indeed this sentence was suddenly said, and there was an inexplicable feeling.

Originally, Schumacher wanted to come over and give the newcomer two words of encouragement because of Zhang Yifei's psychological quality.

After all, with his current strength and identity, Zhang Yifei is far from threatening him, and on the premise of no conflict of interest, he can look at rookie drivers more objectively and friendly.

But Zhang Yifei's performance of not matching the preface and afterword, and the jump in thinking made Schumacher a little unable to keep up. Is it because of the estrangement caused by different ages, or is it the difference between Chinese and Western cultures?

In fact, Schumacher still has an idea in his heart, that is, is this Chinese newcomer a little unbright? But this is just an idea, if you really have a problem with your brain, you can't become an F1 driver, you can only say that you have no common language with the Chinese newcomers.

"Come on, race."

Schumacher lost interest in continuing the conversation, patted Zhang Yifei on the shoulder, gave a word of encouragement as a senior, and then climbed the stairs of the float.

Zhang Yifei also felt very embarrassed at the moment, thinking that the first conversation with the car god Schumacher would cause a little spark of collision. As a result, I didn't expect that my first reaction was the accident that happened to him skiing in the future, so I subconsciously reminded him.

But the skiing accident is more than ten years later, no one in this world will think about it, and no one will think that a generation of car god Schumacher will leave the public's field of vision in this way, and since then he has been lying on the hospital bed, and can only learn about him from the occasional news.

So saying this now, not only does it not have the effect of reminding, but it will make people feel abnormal.

It seems that I will have to pay attention to it in the future, and some future celebrities and superstars in contact with the paddock cannot bring some future thinking into the current point in time.

Zhang Yifei secretly reminded himself in his heart, and then followed Schumacher and boarded the parade float.

The so-called parade float is actually an open-top passenger car, which is roughly divided into two parts: one large and one small.

A large part of it is where the drivers stay on the parade, to greet the fans and spectators on the track. A small part of it is a temporary interview area, where the parade drivers will be randomly interviewed and then shown on the big screen on the track.

The floats drove along the track, and Zhang Yifei drove almost a hundred laps of the Albert Park track. But never once was it possible to walk around the track at a slow pace and feel the applause and cheers of the 80,000 spectators.

After all, sitting in a F1 car, the earplugs, helmets and the roar of the engine, except for the roar from the throttle, you can hardly hear any sounds from the spectators on the sidelines, at most you can only see their arms waving excitedly and the excited expressions close to the fence.

Standing on the float today, it is a more intuitive experience of what is called the feeling of cheering.

"Schumacher ~~~! Schumacher~~~! ”

"Come on, Ferrari~! You are the strongest team! ”

"McLaren, reclaim the Constructors' Championship Crown~!"

"Williams, come on for the new season and don't let us down!"

All kinds of cheers and shouts came to the face, this kind of scene has a feeling of fans chasing stars in later generations.

It's just that these fans are not chasing appearance, they are chasing strength, chasing championship glory, and chasing speed and passion on the track!

The riders on the float also waved their arms and kept greeting the excited spectators on the sidelines.

The first to be interviewed was Schumacher, who was at the top of the list and undisputed.

The reporter asked a few Schumacher about his goals for the new season, and the answer was naturally that he hoped to defend the title successfully. As a superstar driver on the track, Schumacher has almost all the fresh revelations he can dig up, and unless he does something impulsive, there really isn't much to say.

The next interview was with Barrichello, who was only a Green Leaf driver, but being in the Ferrari team, coupled with a stable top few results, said that he is the second person in the current F1 paddock, which is not too much.

After Barrichello's interview, the drivers of McLaren and Williams are basically ranked according to the strength of the team and the fame of the drivers.

When the parade was halfway through, Zhang Yifei was notified by the staff that he would be interviewed by reporters on the spot.

Zhang Yifei's interview sequence is relatively low, but he still ranks first among the newcomers on the track, and even beats the Colombian superstar, who is also the champion of the Indy 500 Montoya.

Whatever Montoya's previous achievements, he was a newcomer to F1. And Zhang Yifei, who is also a newcomer, has a faster lap time than him!

Even if it was just a few tens of milliseconds faster in qualifying, it might be a blink of an eye, but it was this gap that determined Zhang Yifei to rank sixth, while Montoya could only rank seventh.

The track interviewed a female reporter, and when she saw Zhang Yifei coming, she greeted him warmly: "Hello Fei, I'm F1 reporter Julie." ”

"Hello, I'm Zhang Yifei."

After shaking hands with each other and saying hello, the camera focused on Zhang Yifei, and Julie began to ask: "Fei, in yesterday's qualifying race, you ran the sixth place, are you satisfied with this result?" ”

"I'm satisfied, my previous goal was to be in the top 10."

Hearing this answer, Julie glanced at Zhang Yifei with a strange expression, and then said: "According to your previous interview impression, shouldn't you say that the goal is pole position, why is the sixth place very satisfied?" ”

"Because I'm more pragmatic."

Zhang Yifei replied with a smile, but the expression on Julie's face was obviously not very believing.

This made Zhang Yifei feel very helpless, he was indeed more pragmatic, Renault dared to speak wildly to win the championship, because he felt that he had the strength to win the championship, why couldn't he just say it?

Now the F1 paddock is aiming for the top 10, also because the opponent is too strong. If you want to say anything about winning the championship and crushing the opponent, it is simply blowing the bull to the sky, facing different events and opponents, setting different goals, what is this called pragmatism?

"Many media have called you the dark horse of the new season, and the first race will be played in the afternoon, do you think you can continue to be a dark horse?"

"Yes."

"This is also pragmatism?"

"No, it's the goal and the faith!"

Zhang Yifei replied firmly, he always firmly believes in his own strength, which is the source of his strength in the face of challenges.

If you don't even have self-confidence, then standing in the F1 paddock and challenging the world's strongest drivers is doomed to fail before you even start.

"That's the way you've always been."

Julie is very accustomed to Zhang Yifei's answers, because they have done their homework before the interview, and have collected background information about each driver.

Zhang Yifei's interviews and reports in Europe, they naturally have also learned about them, so Julie feels that this is the style that Chinese newcomers should have.

"Next I want to ask you a relatively sharp question, in the gathering area of the previous riders, and in the process of letting go just now, I only saw you standing alone in the corner, as if you didn't communicate with the other drivers, is this isolated?"

Faced with this problem, Zhang Yifei smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth, and at this moment, the float drove to the gathering area of Chinese and Chinese audiences, and the familiar voice of support in his mother tongue came from his ears.

"Zhang Yifei, come on~~!"

"Get points in the afternoon race and make history again!"

"You didn't disappoint us, Chinese car god!"

"I will always support you, Rider Fly!"

These cheers and cheers were so loud and loud that even the riders standing on the floats were attracted to the past.

"See? I never felt isolated, on the contrary, I had 1.2 billion supporters behind me, the largest group in the world, so I was full of confidence and strength. ”

After saying this, Zhang Yifei did not continue to look at Julie, but turned to the crowd on the sidelines, waving his arms wildly to thank his compatriots for their support.

Similarly, Zhang Yifei's move triggered more enthusiastic cheers, and in the F1 paddock, the Voice of China made the world look sideways for the first time!

At the end of the driver parade, the carnival atmosphere on the track was replaced by a tense pre-race atmosphere.

In the Prost lounge, Zhang Yifei had already changed into his full set of racing clothes in advance, ready to race at any time.

To be honest, for the upcoming F1 race, as the time gets closer and closer, he is still inevitably nervous in his heart.

In fact, this is also normal, the main race is the event that determines the results of the sub-station, as long as the main race can run the results, it doesn't matter if it is even the first to run from the bottom before.

On the contrary, if you are at the bottom of the race, even if you get pole position in qualifying, it actually doesn't mean much.

This is Zhang Yifei's first F1 race, no matter how calm, tough and calm his external image is. But when you really have to face it, people are not machines after all, and emotional fluctuations are inevitable.

What Zhang Yifei can do now is to restrain the sudden burst of tension in his heart and maintain absolute concentration on the game!