Tapping the brake to enter the pit lane, the cars of other teams almost made the same action as Zhang Yifei, preparing to pit for the third round of practice matches.

The afternoon is the crucial qualifying session, and no driver will choose to practice in the third round and use up too much energy.

After Zhang Yifei's car pitted, the maintenance technicians immediately surrounded him and began to overhaul the car.

In the case of aggressive driving just now, the car exposed a lot of problems, such as the failure of the brake cooling system, the tire wear ratio was not up to 50:50, and Zhang Yifei had habitually used the shoulder to corner, resulting in the deformation of the car's suspension.

With his helmet removed, Korcel stood next to the car and began to describe the problem that had just arisen.

Chief among them, of course, is to discuss racing suspension. Just ran about ten laps, Zhang Yifei's violent driving caused the suspension sensor to alarm, if placed in the official race of 60 laps, the car suspension is not able to hold.

There is only one F1 design philosophy, and that is for speed!

The so-called various safety guarantees in later generations were all paid by 224 F1 drivers in history, and with the progress of the concept of racing safety, the design of later F1 cars gave more consideration to ensuring the safety of drivers.

But even so, in order to reduce the weight of the F1 car, except for the core parts of the driver's cockpit, which cannot be reduced, everything else is reduced as much as possible. Coupled with the fact that the engine is a desperate squeeze, the consequence is that F1 is weak in its ability to handle extreme situations.

That's why, the F1 car, which stands at the top of the world's industry, has a high failure rate. If any car company has this kind of failure rate for civilian cars, not to mention the problem of bankruptcy, customers buy cars on the first day and go to the store on the second day.

Contrary to the design concept, ordinary people are more common is the aircraft, the design of any aircraft has a great degree of redundancy, with the maximum degree of stability to ensure the stability of operating conditions, to face the possible extreme conditions.

After all, if the F1 car bursts out or something, the most is that the results of the withdrawal race are not wanted, and if the plane has any malfunction problems, it is really a big problem.

Hearing Cosell's words, Zhang Yifei nodded, in fact, when he drove to the last lap, even if there was no sensor alarm, he had already felt the problem with the steering.

In the past, junior formula cars, because of the slow speed, light weight, short course and other factors, only ran a dozen laps in a whole course anyway, and the crazy borrowing of the shoulder to turn the corner was not a big problem.

But in a formula car, all the conditions change. The shoulder is mostly higher than the track, like a speed bump encountered on the road.

Of course, the shoulder is nowhere near as exaggerated as a speed bump and is just a slope plane. However, it should be taken into account that the car usually passes over a speed bump, and the speed is a little faster, the impact on the suspension is very large, and the team personnel will also bounce up.

The high-speed corners of the F1 car are at least more than 200 km/h, and the impact on the suspension can be imagined under this amazing speed.

Even in some slow motion, you can see the entire F1 car taking off in the air. Not to mention that many F1 designs do not leave enough redundancy, and even if they do, they can't withstand such an impact for a long time.

After all, the car is heavily placed here, and the impact resistance of the thickened suspension swingarm is bound to shrink in other places, and maybe new problems will arise. So there is no way to change the vehicle, only from the driver.

"I understand, I'll pay attention later."

"By the way, what's the final lap ranking?"

Now that the third round of practice has almost been completed, the fastest lap time should have appeared, so Zhang Yifei asked.

"You're ninth, 1:25.862."

"Ninth in line?"

Zhang Yifei was very surprised to hear this ranking, and he had previously ranked fifth in the practice round.

This time he wanted to create a higher ranking, and even had the confidence to wrestle with Schumacher. As a result, I didn't expect that I actually regressed four places, from the highest fifth, to ninth.

Looking at Zhang Yifei's expression of disbelief, Prost leaned over with a smile, patted Zhang Yifei on the shoulder and said, "This result is very good, the run is very beautiful." You know, Kimi Raikkonen was only ranked thirteenth in practice last year, and you've already surpassed his debut practice match. ”

Kimi was only thirteen last year?

Hearing this news, Zhang Yifei was even more surprised, and later Kimi can be regarded as a famous and popular driver, having won the F1 world championship.

And the story that has been handed down is that he created the miracle of "triple jump", and he started a battle of "ice and fire" with Schumacher in the rookie stage.

In addition, he scored a few points in his debut, and many times Zhang Yifei subconsciously thought that the super newcomer was crushed all the way. Among the twenty-two drivers, not to mention the top three and top five is too exaggerated, after all, all of them are masters.

But the top ten should be a proper no problem, but I didn't expect that last year's super newcomer Kimi didn't even enter the top ten, and went directly to the thirteenth.

Seeing that Zhang Yifei's face was still surprised, Korsell said in a reprimanding tone: "Do you really think that the F1 drivers on the field are mixed in?" They also relied on their amazing strength, crushing hundreds of teammates step by step to enter the world's top competition. ”

"Don't think that if you get a top few in a training match, you can underestimate the opponents on the field, they are far better than you think, correct your mentality!"

Kossel is different from ordinary race engineers, he is more like a mentor and friend relationship for Zhang Yifei, so he will blame and reprimand mercilessly, rather than dare to tell the truth like the drivers hire employees.

"So what's the fastest lap, and what is Kimi's rank?"

Zhang Yifei didn't care about Kossel's accusations, he was more concerned about his ranking drop.

Because he felt that he had no problem driving just now, although he didn't challenge the extreme speed with his life, but at least he didn't make any big mistakes that had a special impact.

Before making a pit stop, Zhang Yifei also felt that he should be ranked quite well, and he could prove his F1 strength strongly, and maybe he could even enter the top three. But reality gave him a blow to the head and fell directly to ninth, and this psychological gap is a bit big.

Is it true, as Korsell said, that he underestimated the world's top drivers in attendance?

Hearing Zhang Yifei's inquiry, Yamamoto Ukyo stepped forward, intending to tell Zhang Yifei about the fastest lap and Kimi's results.

But Cosell's sounded again: "There is one on the display, see for yourself." ”

Feeling a hint of anger in Coser's tone, Yamamoto Ukyo didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only stand in place and shake his head at Zhang Yifei.

Even the boss Prost shrugged his shoulders and did not speak, as if he saw the hot old German man in the McLaren pit pit.

Although nearly ten years have passed, Senna is no longer his teammate, but he still has the shadow of the past.

In the face of Cosell's dissatisfaction and anger, Zhang Yifei actually felt very depressed. He really doesn't look down on the other drivers on the field, after all, he has always had a standard in his heart, that is, the drivers who can stand on the F1 track are the strongest dozens of people on the planet.

Even Schumacher and Senna dare not say that they can easily crush all their opponents in every game.

It's just a good adaptation to the winter test, plus everything went smoothly in the practice round, and I also got good results. These have invisibly raised Zhang Yifei's inner expectations, making him feel that he can run better and set higher goals.

The result backfired, and it was a regression in a state of feeling good, which naturally made Zhang Yifei a little confused.

Maybe it's really like Kossel thinks, I'm a little overconfident and inflated, and the F1 drivers on the track are really a bit strong if they get serious.

However, there is another hidden reason that no one says, and that is that in addition to the driver, the racing factor is also very important. Prost's JS53 car, which is currently among the eleven teams in the F1 paddock, is not very competitive.

When Zhang Yifei looked at the monitor ranking lap time, the McLaren team pit stop on the other side, Kimi was doing similar things after getting off the car.

It's just that he has more experience than Zhang Yifei, and it is difficult to publicly express his concern for Zhang Yifei, so he didn't ask the team members, but went to the ring screen himself and glanced at the lap ranking of the practice race.

In first place, Michael Schumacher and the name of Scuderia Ferrari were prominently displayed.

Schumacher's fastest lap was 1:24.799, not far from breaking the track record. If nothing else, Schumacher has a good chance of overtaking Mika Hakkinen's track record of 1:24.528 in qualifying.

As for whether he can break it in the race and then set a new Albert Park track record, it will be up to Schumacher to perform.

In second place, also from Scuderia Ferrari's Barrichello. There is no doubt that in this day and age, Scuderia Ferrari, even the number two drivers, has the speed to surpass the other drivers.

It's not just the individual strength of the drivers, it's the fact that Ferrari cars are just as good in this era.

It's not that Scuderia Ferrari built the "Mars Rover", Ferrari cars really can be regarded as "Mars Rover" standards in 02 and 04.

The reason why it is so leading is because the powerful opponents of the same era, McLaren and Williams Racing, are more rubbish this year!

The absolute performance is not leading, the failure rate is not low, relying on the strong strength of the team, it can meet the qualified standard. But for the Big Three, failing to excel means not being qualified.

So it's all up to peers, in history, Ferrari won the drivers' championship and third place in the 01 season, and Schumacher's points are still a few points away from the second place McLaren team Coulthard!

Looking all the way, Kimi saw his name in the eighth position, but when he found Zhang Yifei who was following him, his brows were still subconsciously furrowed, and he was also dissatisfied with this ranking!