Listening to Coser's firm tone, Zhang Yifei didn't say anything, because the standards in everyone's hearts are different, this is originally a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people.

For himself, Senna and Schumacher are both strong, and "car god" is just a habitual honorific title. Just like the various industries in later generations called "great gods", it doesn't necessarily have to be different.

However, this also reminded Zhang Yifei that Schumacher's historical achievements are just the beginning in this world, and the great cause of the seven crowns is the foundation for his title of car god, which has not happened in this world.

Therefore, I still have to pay attention to this habitual name, and I can't say it casually.

On the track, as many people expected, Schumacher began to attack Alesi, and Alesi also stubbornly defended and pressed Schumacher to his driver.

The fierce struggle between the two people did not see any shadow of the winter test at all, it was more like a duel in an official game.

I have to say that Alessi's veteran experience advantage is still there, and he may not be as good as Schumacher in absolute speed, but in terms of defense, even if he is as strong as Schumacher, it is difficult to surpass the past.

This scene can be regarded as allowing Zhang Yifei to find a little comfort, but he is not so vegetable, the team game has been blocked by Alessi for so long, after all, isn't it that even Schumacher can't surpass it?

The two cars battled around the track for a full lap, but on the third lap, they came to the Elfcorner of the Circuit de Catalonia, which was the best viewing position on the entire circuit, because it was one of the few places on the track that overtook the car in this S-corner-like Elfcorner!

I saw that at this time, Schumacher began to cut into the corner, and then rode on the shoulder of the road at a very fast speed, using the exit of the reverse S, which is also the entrance position of the next corner, to achieve a faster entry into the corner than Alesi, and directly seized the advantage of the cornering route, and finally completed the overtaking.

It can be said that Schumacher's set of cornering, line grabbing, and overtaking actions are done in one go, even if the two cars are very close for a moment, and there is a possibility of a crash, Schumacher does not have any pause and deceleration.

This can also be seen that Schumacher is very confident in the distance between cars and the choice of route. He had already calculated where to get Alessi, and unless Alessi hit him on purpose, he would have been able to overtake.

In fact, this beautiful overtaking made many technicians who watched the team can't help but cheer and exclaim. The strength of the F1 drivers is not weak, but it is not easy to complete the overtaking maneuver so beautifully.

However, the next scene on the track made Zhang Yifei a little incomprehensible, that is, Alessi's car became slower and slower after cornering, and finally stopped directly on the track.

What's going on, could it be that Alessi lost after being overtaken, and he didn't have the heart to win or lose, and he didn't even have the motivation to finish the test?

In the second half of last year's F1 season, when there was no hope for the bottom of the Prost team, whether it was Alessy or Heidfeld, there were indeed many cases where they did not run when there was a little problem.

But today, Alessi's fighting spirit is still there, and the diligence of training during the previous winter break is not inferior to that of the average rookie driver, Zhang Yifei and Korsell both think that the fighting spirit has returned to the veteran.

Could it be that as soon as you lose today, your fighting spirit will be crushed by Schumacher?

If this is the case, then Zhang Yifei will have a headache, F1 is not a lonely fight, or needs the cooperation of teammates.

Even if you don't deliberately slow down to block your opponent as a wingman, having a cooperating teammate on the track can at least help share the firepower. More importantly, in addition to the Drivers' Championship, the Constructors' Championship is also very important.

It's not just a matter of collective accolades, if a team can win a championship, the more attention and sponsorship it will receive. The highest-paid drivers can get a better salary and share of the team, even if the team does not share the basic salary driver like Zhang Yifei, but the team has money, it can also buy better event engines and build better racing chassis.

A stronger F1 car is also a powerful weapon for drivers to compete for the title. So the driver and the team are mutually beneficial. If he can, Zhang Yifei certainly hopes to work together to get better results in the F1 paddock.

Instead of meeting a "veteran" who has no fighting spirit and only thinks about waiting for retirement, this will affect the atmosphere of the whole team.

Just when Zhang Yifei's heart was full of doubts, Alessi's voice finally came from the headset, and he said in an unwilling tone: "The car has a malfunction and may have burst the cylinder." ”

Burst? Hearing Alessi's response, Zhang Yifei was very surprised, he didn't expect Alessi to stop next to the track because of the failure of the car, and it was a cylinder burst.

Historically, Peugeot engines have had a poor reputation, and they have only supplied Prost Racing and have never entered the F1 supply chain.

However, the Peugeot engine performed well on the Le Mans circuit in later generations, and even won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

It was precisely because the reliability was so poor and Peugeot did not want to be affected by the Prost team that the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel in history, and finally Peugeot unilaterally interrupted the engine supply, resulting in the Prost team choosing the Ferrari engine.

The Ferrari engine is good, otherwise Ferrari would not have won an astonishing six consecutive championships in the past six years.

But I don't know if Ferrari's takeaway is a "shrunken version", after the Prost team changed its outfit, although it was stronger than the previous Peugeot engine, it was not much stronger, and in the end, it only scored 4 points.

However, relying on these four points, the Prost team has risen from the bottom to the bottom, and there is a 1-point Arrow team below, and the Minardi team that still eats zero eggs.

It is conceivable that at this time, the mentality of the Minardi team is collapsed, and at the beginning of the year, you said that you would hold hands and eat zero eggs at the bottom, but now you hug the lap of Ferrari and win 4 points, simply ignoring the friendship of the original brother.

So after Minardi went bankrupt, he also hugged the thigh of Red Bull and was bought and became Toro Rosso.

"Trailer up on the track and pull the car back for inspection."

Chief mechanic Charlie gave the order, and the Prost mechanic team quickly sprang into action, towing the JS53 car with a blowout on the track back to the pits.

The test cars were already like this, Zhang Yifei naturally had no interest in watching how Schumacher ran, he came to the side of the trailer, and looked at the engine part of the JS53 car, which was constantly dripping with oil, a typical cylinder burst feature.

Truth be told, it's not uncommon for a cylinder to blow out on an F1 track, and to be precise, it is one of the most common failures in an F1 car. In the absence of turbocharging, relying on the "small" displacement of 3.0L, squeezing out nearly 1,000 horsepower, this must be done on the premise of losing the life of the engine.

Think about it, the American 4.6L large-displacement Ford Mustang Cobra that Zhang Yifei drove before is already a high-performance engine, and the power is only in the early 300P. The F1 engine has more than tripled in power, and the natural failure rate is not much lower.

"Alessi, describe how the car malfunctioned."

The expression on Charlie's face was a little serious, although a cylinder burst is a common thing for F1 cars, but the test car was tested on the track for the first time, and the cylinder burst directly occurred, which is still a big hidden danger.

If this is not some accident, but there is a problem with the stability of the engine itself, then the trouble is even greater.

Prost finished bottom last season, leading to a financial crisis and a gap with Peugeot.

If there is no breakthrough in this season's results, perhaps the remaining sponsors will have to consider influence, and it will be more difficult for Prost to attract sponsorship, and the team will come to a real moment of life and death.

"There was nothing wrong with the acceleration at the start, but then when I got into a fight with Schumacher, in order to ensure the advantage of speed, I basically stepped on the accelerator and raced hard, and I felt that the engine response was a bit of a problem."

"When I got to Elf's corner, Schumacher caught up at the first corner, and when I was about to block it with my full throttle, I heard a strange noise from the engine, and then the oil pressure gauge started to drop sharply, and I knew the engine was failing. It's the same feeling as last season's engine failure. ”

"Exactly the same?"

Charlie's face was a little ugly at this time, and last season's car failure problem also put a lot of pressure on the team's technician team.

I thought that Peugeot would provide a new engine this year, and some parameters would be lowered, so that the engine pressure would be less and the stability would be improved theoretically.

As a result, I didn't expect the engine to burst the cylinder, if it was the same problem as last year's F1 season. Then there is only one possibility, the racing engine provided by Peugeot has a fundamental flaw in the design, and it is not something that can be felt by reducing the performance parameters at all.

And this so-called new engine does not seem to be re-developed and manufactured, but modified on the basis of the previous engine, so the cylinder burst failure process is exactly the same.

"Well, let's disassemble the racing engine first to find the problem, if it really has something to do with the engine, we can only report it to the boss and let him negotiate with Peugeot."

"Hmm."

Alesi nodded but didn't answer, and could tell that the car glitch was putting him in a bad mood.

Zhang Yifei, who was standing on the side at the same time, also had an indescribable irritability in his heart.

I thought history had changed, and I had no problem driving a JS51 car myself. As a result, I didn't expect to go around and go around, and come back to the same road, if it is really a Peugeot engine problem in history, then it is not as good as Schumacher in strength, and the car is still crushed, how can this run!