In many cases, if you want others to dispel doubts and gain recognition, then showing your strength is the best way to prove it.

When Zhang Yifei ran the fastest lap close to Kimi Raikkonen, even the F1 team members began to marvel at Zhang Yifei's performance on the track. is not like before, just seeing his identity as a Chinese newcomer, and thinking that he can't do it.

As more people began to discuss Zhang Yifei, and this was a rare Chinese track showdown, the team management and strategy team members who stayed in Room P couldn't resist their curiosity and came to the spectator seat to see what kind of results Zhang Yifei could run in the first test.

Even Sir Frank Williams, who has limited mobility, came to the fence and set his eyes on the Chinese newcomer who almost came to his team, after all, the scene was so surprising.

Standing next to Sir Williams was not Williams team management, but a member of the McLaren team.

The McLaren team member is no slouch – Ron Dennis is currently Chairman of the McLaren Group and Team Manager.

He took ownership of McLaren in the early 80s and single-handedly built the legend of McLaren in the 80s and 90s. It can be said that McLaren Racing can be one of the Big Three, and Dennis can be said to have contributed a lot!

And unlike other team CEOs who come from capital or driver backgrounds, Dennis comes from the technical team and then rises to team management. You must know that the first car in F1 history to use a carbon fiber body was built by Dennis and his technical team.

Dennis is not only successful in the F1 paddock, but also in the business outside the paddock.

The rise of McLaren's road sports car is because Dennis promoted the plan to transform the top technology of F1 into civilian cars, thus making the McLaren brand one of the top brands in supercars.

It can be said that Dennis can be called a legendary boss in the racing industry, even if it is a relatively hot German old man Kossel, standing in front of Dennis has to be much more polite.

"Williams, the Chinese kid on the track, was better than anyone had predicted, barely as good as Kimi, who entered the F1 team last year. At the beginning of the Formula Renault stage, you should have been more resolute and maybe signed this potential newcomer. ”

Listening to Dennis's words, Sir Williams had no expression on his face, and even a trace of anger and dissatisfaction with Dennis in his heart!

Dennis is a legendary boss, yes, and can be called the founder of the McLaren dynasty, but these are all recognition of his ability, and in terms of reputation, Dennis is not very good, he has the title of "big hooligan" in the racing world.

Dennis can do whatever it takes to win the team, including stealing technology, giving orders, fighting lawsuits, digging corners, and so on. Anyway, as long as he can improve the team and win the race, Dennis can say that he can do everything.

Just two years ago, McLaren poached the legendary designer of the Williams team, Adrian Newey, which led to the bloody collapse of the Williams team's results in the past two years.

In contrast, the Williams team has been greatly competitive after the addition of Neville, and the Finnish veteran Mika Hakkinen won the 1998 and 1999 Drivers' Championships.

Sir Williams was naturally very dissatisfied with Dennis's behavior of digging corners. But shopping malls are like this, digging corners is also a kind of business behavior, who called the McLaren team rich?

"If it were McLaren, would you take a full driver's seat and sign a rookie driver who was still running Formula Junior at that time?"

Sir Williams asked rhetorically, Dennis's words are simply nonsense, and only troubled teams like Sauber and Prost would choose to take the risk of signing a "triple jump" newcomer.

Although the Williams team has been forced to use the underpowered Supertec engine engine with Renault's withdrawal from the engine supplier in recent years, the results have not been good.

However, the identity and status of the Big Three teams are here, and it is impossible to sign a pure rookie driver who has not proven himself in Formula High. At that time, Sir Williams was able to come up with a test driver contract, which was already the limit of risk, and it was impossible to give Zhang Yifei a formal driver contract.

"I would, otherwise I wouldn't have signed Kimi this year."

"To be honest, I'm really curious if the Chinese kid can still have such a performance in the official competition and reach Kimi's level."

In the face of Dennis's remarks, Williams just smiled noncommittally, and what he said was good. If it weren't for Kimmy's great run at Sauber last year, McLaren would have signed a mediocre newcomer?

In the same way, if Zhang Yifei can run the ideal result of the Prost team this year, Williams will not skimp on an official driver's seat.

But Dennis's last sentence is also what Sir Williams thinks in his heart, that is, on the official track, can the Chinese kid run last year's Kimi's results?

If so, then it is foreseeable that there will be a battle for talent in Formula Junior and that all teams will use this low-cost method to recruit future "talented drivers".

There is still some time before the F1 race, but many things can be seen, such as Zhang Yifei on the track, which is much faster than Yang Long, who is also a Chinese newcomer.

After more than a dozen laps, even the car could not be seen from the beginning, and now Zhang Yifei is almost able to eat the wake of the Minardi car!

From the rearview mirror, Xiong Long watched Zhang Yifei close the distance with himself in a circle, and the shock in his heart at this moment was simply incomprehensible.

How many seconds it took Zhang Yifei to enter the pit, Xiong Long did not know. But he roughly estimated that he was at least more than ten seconds ahead of Zhang Yifei.

The gap of more than ten seconds on the F1 track can be called an uncatchable time gap. But Zhang Yifei took advantage of these more than a dozen laps to catch up and come to his driver.

This means that Zhang Yifei's lap speed in each lap must be nearly one second faster than himself, otherwise it is impossible to catch up with the gap of more than ten seconds in the distance of more than ten laps.

No way! How can Zhang Yifei be so fast, although his lap speed is not fast, but he wants to lead by one second in a lap, which means that Zhang Yifei's average lap speed has reached the level of the middle and upper reaches of this year's winter test.

How can a newcomer who has never participated in Formula 1 before, a newcomer who has just entered the F1 team for his first test, and even from China, where there is no Formula 1 track, be so strong?

Xiong Long kept asking questions in his mind that he once thought he was the undisputed strongest Chinese driver. Zhang Yifei's birth did not hit Xiong Long's self-confidence.

Now that the facts are in front of him, Xiong Long feels that his self-confidence has all been shattered by Zhang Yifei's speed.

"Xiong Long, didn't you say that you are the strongest Chinese driver, why were you caught up by the Chinese Yankees!"

Madu was about to explode at this time, he couldn't hold himself anymore, and directly took the headset of the team's race engineer and asked Xiong Long, who was driving on the field.

For such a move, the technical team of the Minardi pit station secretly shook their heads.

Theoretically, when a driver is testing or racing on the track, there are only two or three people who have the right to talk. Even the "high-level" such as the team's strategy team and the chief mechanic do not have the right to talk to the F1 drivers who are driving in the race.

As a result, an "outsider" who is not even a member of the team actually put on the headset of the race engineer and questioned the F1 drivers on the track, which is simply a ridiculous scene!

But the problem is that the elder Minardi just watched his son's wayward actions and did not make any interventional moves. It is no wonder that the Minardi team is constantly declining, and the most critical language system of the team can be fooled like this, which makes many old people in the team feel cold.

After Xiong Long heard Madu's voice, the expression on his face became even more ugly. In private, Madu relied on his identity as a young master of Minardi, and it was okay to speak arrogantly and arrogantly.

Now it's a showdown on the track, and it's a turn to get a junior Formula driver who isn't even a member of the team?

"I'm not going to let him get past him."

Xiong Long replied coldly, the answer to why Zhang Yifei caught up was obvious, but he couldn't answer. The only thing Yang Long can do now is to take a defensive stance to block Zhang Yifei, so that he has no way to overtake.

From the rearview mirror, Yang Long had already seen that Zhang Yifei was using red ultra-soft tires. The tyres have excellent grip but are very wear-resistant, and the dozen laps on the Catalan circuit are almost at their limit, followed by a pit stop for a tyre change.

As long as he can survive until the pit stop to change tires, then Yang Long has no intention of coming out of the pit. After all, this is not an official race, but a new type of car tested during the winter testing period, and although you will be ridiculed if you don't go out of the pits, at least you don't lose.

Otherwise, more than ten laps will be chased back for more than ten seconds, and in this situation, they will be overtaken, and the degree of humiliation is no different from being lapped in the race.

Yang Long knows the limits of the use of supersoft tyres, and Zhang Yifei also knows that he must settle the battle for the best Chinese drivers before entering the pits. So after catching up with Yang Long's car, he launched an attack without hesitation, ready to find an opportunity to complete the overtaking.

"Go faster! The Chinese almost surpassed it just now, and if you can be surpassed by leading so much, how dare you challenge the driver with this strength? ”

Madur's voice came from inside the headset again, and this time it was even more unpleasant.

Xiong Long is not a person with a weak character, he was very popular in his later life. It was already the limit to endure once before, but now when he heard this, Xiong Long roared back directly: "Shut up!" ”

After saying this, he ripped off the headphones inside the helmet, and he had to block Zhang Yifei to the death in this lap, and then pit to end the fight!