766 Hopeless Future
Alonso felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't express it, the current head brother is no longer the stunned young man he was at the beginning, and he is unhappy like a BB machine.
As he gets in touch more and more, the more he can appreciate Zhang Yifei's talent and strength in the car, and these routing data, but he has run out temporarily in the past two days, there must be a lot of flaws, Alonso knows very well that if he picks it out, it will definitely be a humiliation.
It's just that he is vaguely unconvinced, since you Zhang Yifei thinks that the routing data I run is not good, then you can run this new East China Sea track on the track simulator, what god-level routing can you have?
At home, it does not mean victory, the driver flies you are indeed arrogant.
After discussing the data about the track, except for the necessary personnel to continue to build the pit station and the track wiring, the other crew members returned to the hotel where they were staying.
In the Ferrari pit next to him, Jean Todd looked at the Prost crew in the distance, and said to Schumacher, who was still standing in front of the console: "Schumi, it's late today, go back and rest." ”
Hearing Jean Todd's voice, Schumacher took his eyes off the track data map and glanced at the wall clock on the wall, the hands already on 12 a.m.
Compared with Zhang Yifei, who was busy dealing with the opening ceremony of the club, Schumacher can be said to have put all his energy into the study of the East China Sea International Circuit in the past few days.
The opening game was caused by carelessness and dismissiveness, as well as the team's tactical decisions, which caused Schumacher to lose the race.
Now it's time for the finale, and it's a whole new track, and this time Schumacher doesn't want to lose. Even if it is Zhang Yifei's home field, he will win the championship of this Chinese Grand Prix, and use the five crowns, the pinnacle honor in F1 history, to prove that he is the first person in formula racing!
So in the two days after the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, Schumacher can be said to have wasted no time, took the most serious attitude of his career, and did pre-race preparations, even losing to Zhang Yifei who played hard at the American Grand Prix.
The deep desire for glory and victory made Schumacher do his best!
"I'll go for a lap on the track and then take a break."
After Schumacher said this, he left the team's pits and walked to the track alone.
This used to be one of the ways for Zhang Yifei to get familiar with the track, and it was still considered a very inefficient move by many team management, but he didn't expect that even Schumacher would follow suit now.
Looking at Schumacher's distant back, Ross Brown didn't know when, but also stood by Jean Todd's side, and he said with emotion.
"BOSS, it's been a long time since I've seen such a cautious attitude from Shumi."
"yes, he's not that serious anymore."
Jean Todd also admitted this, even when Schumacher returned to the pits when he crashed for the world championship a few years ago, he was photographed snickering by the media.
It can be said that in the past ten years, except for Hakkinen's pressure on Schumacher, only the current driver has done it.
But the problem is that Hakkinen is the "King of Finland" and he has reached the age of retirement before finally snatching two world championship titles in front of Schumacher. And Zhang Yifei is a Chinese newcomer who only entered the F1 paddock last year, and the two are not on the same level at all.
So the real reason is that in addition to the present threat, there is also the future.
If Zhang Yifei wins this year's World Championship, he will be one of the most powerful drivers in F1 for at least the next ten years. Unless it is a repeat of Villeneuve's mistake and a rapid decline from the top, the contemporaries of the flying generation may feel a sense of despair.
After all, he is so young, only 20 years old this year! You must know that so far, the youngest F1 world champion is still the Brazilian driver Ferdi Pardi, who won the world championship in 1972, but he is also 5 years older than Zhang Yifei.
The second youngest was Schumacher, who won the 1994 World Championship title at the age of 25 years, 10 months and 10 days.
Even if you count the later generations, the youngest world champions are 24-year-old Alonso, and Hamilton, who is known as the genius of geniuses, became a world champion at the age of 23.
Becoming a world champion at the age of 20 is simply unimaginable in this era, and it is impossible to predict how terrifying the future will be.
Schumacher's ambitions and expectations are definitely not limited to four world championship titles, he always wants to match the five crowns of Fangio, the first man in F1 history. If he loses this year, he will have to face Zhang Yifei in the future, who has the momentum of a king, which will be a more powerful and terrifying opponent.
So he can't afford to lose, because this one game could decide who will rule the future!
The scene of Schumacher walking on the track was also seen by other crew members who were still in the pits, and the most empathetic one was Sir Williams.
This year, with the rise of Prost and Renault, Williams and McLaren have squeezed out of the Big Three.
To know that the position of the Big Three is not just as simple as the top three, but represents a stable triangle era in F1. Once the balance is broken and the upstarts begin to be in the spotlight, the influence and commercial sponsorship of the traditional Big Three will decline significantly.
In the same predicament, McLaren still has the support of car companies, although it is not as good as Ferrari, Renault, Toyota and other world-class giants, but it is far from being comparable to a private team like Williams.
So now Sir Williamson is facing a bleak future.
"In this race, Schumacher will do his best, but he seems to be slacking off."
Sir Williams said lightly, the team has been on the track for two days, Zhang Yifei is late tonight, and facing a completely unfamiliar track, he is not as familiar as before, even inferior to Schumacher.
Slackness and arrogance have "killed" countless talented drivers in the F1 paddock, and Zhang Yifei's attitude may become the beginning of his failure.
After Pat Simmonds heard this, there was a trace of regret on his face, and he had witnessed Zhang Yifei's efforts and rise in the past two years. Many times if he doesn't have the identity of an opponent, he really appreciates and admires this Chinese kid.
As a result, he didn't expect that in the face of the final victory, on the home track that belonged to him, Zhang Yifei chose to be slack.
Has he forgotten his cold eyes and ridicule, and is lost in praise and praise?
"This is Fei's home turf, and I hope it doesn't become a place for him to shed tears."
"Many times, people have to pay the price for their actions, and Fei is still too young to taste the painful taste of failure."
Sir Williams is very calm, after all, he has been in the F1 paddock for decades and has seen countless talented drivers fall. Not to mention, in recent years, Villeneuve, Coulthard, and even Ralph Schumacher of his own team have all begun to become one of the many people with the aura of great expectations.
The only difference is that Villeneuve has stood on the top and seen the scenery from above, while Zhang Yifei is just standing outside the door of the world championship.
Of course, youth is the biggest asset, even if you fail once, you can't negate the future of the driver, unless your own mentality collapses.
"If you want to know if you will pay the price, you will know after today, but with this attitude of flying, it is difficult to defeat Schumacher in this state, and the serious Schumacher is the most terrible."
These discussions at the track pit stop did not affect Zhang Yifei of the hotel in the slightest, but his overly relaxed attitude also began to make the crew members vaguely worried.
As a young driver who is competing for the championship for the first time, it is actually a good thing not to be nervous, which represents a strong psychological quality and can play his strength more consistently.
It's just that Zhang Yifei seems to be a little too relaxed now, and it doesn't look like the final battle is going to be a championship battle at all.
But it doesn't seem like a good way to put pressure on him at this time and make him nervous. The attitude of airport fans and the media to hold the moon is also seen by the crew members, can it be said that the flight is really starting to float?
The question weighed on everyone's mind, and even gave birth to an ominous premonition, and it was not until the next day that the crew began to focus their attention on the training of the racing simulator.
This is the first time that Zhang Yifei has publicly conducted simulator training at the Donghai Circuit, because according to the original plan, the time for Donghai to host the F1 Grand Prix is next year.
However, the construction speed of the Donghai International Circuit has exceeded many people's expectations, and in order to open up the Asian market faster and not give IndyCar any chance of competition, the FIA added the Chinese Grand Prix to the calendar when the opening race of the new season is about to begin.
As a brand new track, even the maps on the simulator need to be made from scratch, so none of the drivers have ever run the simulation map of the Tokai Grand Prix during the winter break.
In the middle of the season, other drivers may find time to simulate training on the East China Sea Circuit, but Zhang Yifei does not have this time. The reason is simple, there are seventeen tracks in the entire F1 season, and Zhang Yifei only ran six Grand Prix races last year, which means that eleven tracks are theoretically unfamiliar.
Of course, counting the tracks that Renault has run, the number of unfamiliar tracks is not so exaggerated, but if you want to control these unfamiliar tracks and compete with Schumacher for points, you must need a lot of time to practice with the simulator.
The Grand Prix that is about to start, Zhang Yifei can't even take care of it, so he still has time to practice the East China Sea Grand Prix in advance?
The apparent reason is naturally that there is no time, but the real reason is only clear to Zhang Yifei, that is, there is no need to practice the East China Sea International Circuit on the simulator.
The reason is very simple, no matter how much you run on the simulator, can it be compared to years of track training?
The Donghai International Circuit is one of the few professional circuits in China, where Zhang Yifei ran touring car races for nearly two years in his last life, and even if he later transformed into a rally driver, he would occasionally return to the Donghai Circuit to race.
After all, just like Han Han in later generations, Chinese professional drivers are basically "double cultivation", RV racers run rally, formula drivers run RV races, anyway, what do you run, relying on this to earn bonuses to maintain their professional expenses.
So throughout the year, Zhang Yifei has not really run on the East China Sea circuit on the racing simulator, which is far inferior to Alonso.
Despite his performance on the track this year, Zhang Yifei has already given the team great confidence and many exciting victories. But when that blind trust is put aside, many people suddenly find that it seems that this East China Sea Grand Prix is Zhang Yifei's home stadium, he actually has no advantages.
Whether it's a mule or a horse, you still have to run to find out, so today's East China Sea Grand Prix simulator training will determine the fortune and misfortune of the championship battle!
In the racing simulator training room, Zhang Yifei and Alonso sat in the cockpit of the simulation car, opened the map of the East China Sea Circuit, and began training.
The first lap record for the East China Sea Grand Prix in history was set by Schumacher with a time of 1:32.238. However, the title of the first East China Sea Grand Prix was in the hands of Barrichello, and most Chinese fans knew Schumacher at that time, and at least half of the spectators came to Schumacher.
Even though Barrichello, as one of the world's top drivers and one of the two Ferrari heroes, is already very well-known in the world, many Chinese drivers don't know who this Brazilian is.
So when the final champion appeared, it was not the expected Schumacher, but Barrichello, many people were disappointed, and the cheering atmosphere was not as enthusiastic as expected.
But this Chinese Grand Prix also became the beginning of the formation of F1 culture in China, and many people began to really understand what Formula 1 is!
Alonso's lap time in the simulator is just 1:34.084, nearly two seconds slower than the all-time track record. However, this is also an acceptable range, after all, Kai is in a stage of familiarization and exploration, and it cannot be regarded as real strength.
The two Prost drivers pressed the start button, and behind them stood all the members of the team's strategy team, even Junko Takeda, who is not very involved in the professional discussion now.
Originally, the expressions on the faces of the team's strategy team were relatively serious, but in less than thirty seconds, they changed from their previous seriousness to stunned, because Zhang Yifei, who started to run the map almost at the same time, had already surpassed Alonso by a large distance on the track!
You must know that Alonso has been in contact for a day or two, and Zhang Yifei has only contacted the Donghai International Circuit for the first time, and even last night's track analysis, that kind of casual attitude made Korsell very unhappy.
Theoretically, even the first lap of the simulation exercise, which was doubtful about the successful run, ended up throwing Alonso far away, and this incredible picture made those who have a lot of experience in the strategy team stunned.
F1 is all geniuses, they know it very well, but in this world, is there really a genius of this level who is self-taught?
It's even exaggerated to the point that you don't even need to work hard, and you can rule the track just by driving it?
What should this kind of person be called, I'm afraid that the genius standards in F1 are not enough, should I call it ...... The god of cars?
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