"You're not familiar with the track and the performance of the car, so try to drive slower."

On the eve of the start, Henry still chose to remind him, after all, a car is really valuable, and the current finances of the Prost team can hardly bear this inexplicable loss.

"I understand."

Zhang Yifei nodded, he is not the kind of stupid person who is brave and ruthless, this JS51 racing car has almost three times the horsepower of the formula car he drove before, and naturally he will not accelerate with a brainless throttle.

After hearing Zhang Yifei's confirmation, all the personnel took a few steps back and gave Zhang Yifei space to take off.

The throttle began to roar, and the biggest difference between the JS51 and the junior formula at the beginning of the JS51 was that the clutch was changed from pedal to manual.

You know, because of aerodynamics, formula cars have very narrow noses. The primary formula is all minors, and the impact on this aspect is a little smaller, after all, the body has not fully grown.

Except for a few outliers, such as Zhang Yifei, the other drivers are adults. This kind of narrow space is too crowded to put your feet, and it is naturally easy to step on it by mistake.

Therefore, putting the clutch on the steering wheel, and the sole of the foot just brakes and presses the accelerator, you can avoid operation errors and improve the starting speed of the driver.

Of course, this is not 100% avoidable, and there is a possibility of stalling with a slight hand slip. It's just that this kind of thing is relatively rare in F1, after all, the strength is here.

Press the clutch paddles, and then engage in first gear, the operating logic is actually the same as pedaling, but because of habit problems, you need to get used to it a little.

It's not a tense event now, so Zhang Yifei doesn't have to pursue any starting speed, he can take his time and start the car in the safest way.

After all, a driver like himself who directly "tripled" into the F1 team from the junior formula, many people will probably have doubts in their hearts even if they don't say it explicitly. Zhang Yifei didn't know if the Prost technician team would think so, but he didn't want to turn off the engine at the start and be looked down upon by others.

As soon as he stepped on the accelerator, he instantly felt a huge feeling of pushing his back, and directly pressed Zhang Yifei on the seat. In just over two seconds, the speed of the LCD display on the steering wheel has exceeded 100, and it is still accelerating wildly.

This is the terrifying power brought by the 930P horsepower, and the engine speed also breaks through 15,000 rpm, which is higher than the upper limit of the engine speed of the previous Renault car.

The huge roar brought by the engine is comparable to the noise of a jet airliner taking off, if it weren't for Zhang Yifei wearing a helmet and earplugs, it is estimated that at this time, it is not to feel the roar brought by the engine, but the ears will be "deaf"!

Upshift, speed climb, upshift...... In just a few seconds, Zhang Yifei's gear has been raised to sixth gear, and the speed of the JS51 car has also exceeded 200km/h.

Unlike the previous Renault six-speed gearbox, the JS51 uses a seven-speed sequential gearbox. Although the gear has increased by one gear, because of the three-fold increase in horsepower and the synchronous increase in torque, the acceleration performance of each gear can be said to have killed the Renault junior car in seconds.

The most intuitive feeling brought by horsepower is that it is extremely easy to speed up again after shifting gears and decelerating at any time.

The only thing that makes Zhang Yifei feel a little regret is that the most advanced seamless gearbox in later generations has not yet been born in this era, so there is no way to match the gears at full speed. And the shift time is delayed, which can only be reduced to less than 0.1 seconds, but cannot reach thousandths of a second.

Of course, even if it can only be reduced to less than 0.1 seconds, the efficiency of the gearbox has far surpassed that of other vehicles, and it is not even an exaggeration to describe it as crushing.

The Montrily Circuit is more than 10 kilometers long, with long enough straights to allow the car to play at incredible speed.

Zhang Yifei stepped on the accelerator pedal to the end at this time, and the gear rose to the highest seventh gear. Compared to some weak cars, F1 cars still have good acceleration ability even at speeds of 200 km/h.

Soon Zhang Yifei saw the number on the steering wheel and broke through 300!

This speed is what Zhang Yifei has not felt in his two lifetimes, think about what the concept of 300km/h is, and the high-speed rail after the speed reduction in later generations will generally run 300km/h.

This kind of speed not only has high requirements for the extreme performance of the car, but also on the track. Zhang Yifei was only a rally driver in his last life, and it is extremely rare to be able to drive a 200km/h section, let alone 300km/h.

Even if he is a formula driver in this life, whether it is Renault Formula Junior or Formula 3 on Ao Island, the limit speed of the car is limited to 300km/h.

Let's be honest. Even if there are no limits, you can't experience the speed and pleasure of a F1 car.

Just like some ordinary family cars in later generations, many of the bottom numbers on the speed gauge exceed 200km/h. But if you really want to run at this speed, you will have an incredibly long acceleration process, and you will be afraid in the process, because many cars will "float" when they are fast.

But this is not the case in Formula 1, with a good aerodynamic layout and the air downforce from the rear wing, the faster the car, the more amazing the downforce will become, and the car will be pressed to the ground.

So even if the formula car is amazingly light, there will be no flutter at high speeds, on the contrary, the faster the speed, the more stable.

Zhang Yifei felt the speed and excitement brought by F1 cars, while the members of the Prost team were worried.

Take Team Leader Henry as an example, he has now returned to the console in the P room, looking at the speed data transmitted by the racing sensor, when he has broken through the 300 mark, his palms are already sweating!

It's not that Henry hasn't seen a speed of 300 km/h, on the contrary, this kind of speed can basically be achieved in F1 with acceleration on long straights.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei is a pure newcomer, and he may not have touched the F1 car before, but when he went up to get familiar with the F1 car, he drove directly to 300km/h!

If this happens, it will definitely be a car crash!

Before getting into the car, I also told Zhang Yifei to adapt slowly, but I didn't expect this Chinese newcomer to be so aggressive!

"Youjing, Feige's speed is a bit fast, right?"

Ah Hu is also standing behind the console at the moment, and when he sees the 300km/h speed displayed on the screen, he feels that the speed is amazing.

It's just that he's not familiar with F1 cars, so he doesn't know if it's the standard speed of F1 cars. Korsell is so fierce, Ah Hu doesn't dare to ask, he can only ask Yamamoto Ukyo next to him.

"It's a bit fast, it's the first time I've been exposed to F1 cars, and it's a completely unfamiliar track, so it's better to choose a safe speed."

There was a hint of concern in Yamamoto's tone, and the speed of 300km/h, even in F1, can only be achieved on long straights.

Due to the overall length, the Montriray circuit has a long straight that is much longer than a normal F1 track. But for newcomers like Zhang Yifei, it is definitely a dangerous speed, and if there is really any accident, there is no time to avoid danger and save at all.

"Then what should I do, remind Fei Ge to slow him down?"

"It's not my purview."

Yamamoto Ukyo reluctantly replied that now they are in a professional F1 team, and they are no longer the "grass platform team" they used to be.

In front of the console, there is team leader Henry and race engineer Kossel, even if it is a reminder to slow down, it is not his turn to call the shots as a data analyst.

The division of labor in the F1 team is very strict, especially the right to communicate with the drivers, under normal circumstances, only two people have the right to communicate, one is the driver's exclusive race engineer, the other is the team manager or technical director, and the other staff are not authorized to talk to the driver.

If everyone can talk to the driver at any time and express their opinions, then what is the difference between the voice call system in F1 and the wet market, it will seriously interfere with the normal driving of the drivers.

It's just that the current situation makes Yamamoto Ukyo feel a little weird, that is, Henry and Cosell didn't choose to remind Zhang Yifei to slow down, I don't know what the two of them are thinking.

In fact, Henry and Cosell have completely different ideas, one is suspicion, the other is trust.

Henry completely treats Zhang Yifei as a rookie, and only a newcomer can drive such crazy speed without knowing the track and getting started with racing. Because once young people feel the speed of a Formula 1 car, they will unconsciously drive faster and faster, and eventually exceed their own capabilities.

Historically, many teams have been in a similar situation with their development drivers, who were excited to get into F1 and then started to get started.

Now Zhang Yifei has such a trend, but he is even crazier than those development drivers!

Because of those development drivers, the top speed is close to 300km/h at most, but at this moment, Zhang Yifei's speed has exceeded 320km/h. Even Henry didn't dare to remind him immediately of this speed, worried that the sudden call voice would interfere with Zhang Yifei and become the cause of the car getting out of control.

Korcel is completely different, he knows that Zhang Yifei is a few pounds and a few taels, not to mention anything else, the top speed of the F3 event is 280km/h, which is completely under Zhang Yifei's control!

Although the current speed is well over 280km/h, the aerodynamics and stability of the F1 car are also far superior to the Dallara car in the F3 race.

Cosell believes that this speed, Zhang Yifei can control it!

Facts have proved that Cosell's idea is right, Zhang Yifei is not blindly crazy acceleration to find excitement, when entering the corner, he calmly slows down and then tangentially through the corner, feeling the cornering performance of the F1 car.

Seeing that the speed on the monitor had slowed down, and the corner camera showed that Zhang Yifei had made a smooth corner, which could be regarded as a relief to Henry.

If today's rookie drivers have a major accident in their first contact with Formula 1 cars, it will undoubtedly add to the woes of the current struggling Prost team, and may become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

But at this moment, Henry heard a small exclamation suppressed by Charlie, the chief technical behind him.

"The Chinese rider is flying a little faster in corners, but he is close to the speed of the test driver Emile, it seems that he is much stronger than we thought!"