Back at the hotel, the team members gathered around, wanting to know the results of this Renault party.

When Zhang Yifei said that he had reached an agreement with Prost that as long as he completed a hat-trick at Manikul, he could sign with Prost and become an official driver.

The expected carnival did not appear, but everyone looked at Zhang Yifei blankly, a little unable to believe what he said.

"Yifei, you're not joking with us, are you?"

"Brother Fei, isn't it said that F1 teams are difficult to enter, there are only a few dozen F1 drivers in the world, how can you get in so quickly?"

"Professor Prost, hasn't he always wanted to build an all-French team? How could you change your mind. ”

All kinds of questions were raised, and they really didn't believe that Zhang Yifei went to the Renault party and could reach an agreement to enter the F1 team.

To be honest, in the cognition of Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto, Zhang Yifei can get the opportunity to develop drivers for the F1 team, which is already good.

Because in this way, you can skip the F3 event and enter the F3000 advanced formula, all the Asian drivers before Zhang Yifei have not completed such a jump, which can be said to have created the history of Asian drivers.

But now Zhang Yifei even jumped over to the test drivers, saying that he had reached an agreement to sign an official driver, which was beyond their imagination, so they couldn't believe it at all.

Faced with the doubts of his team members, Zhang Yifei felt very helpless, and could only look at Cosell with a pleading gaze, hoping that he would stand up and prove it.

"Fei is right, we did have a deal with Prost, as long as we can get pole position in Manicul, win the race, and break the track record."

"Then the Prost team will offer an official F1 driver contract, and Fei can become a real F1 driver and compete in F1 next season."

When these words came out of Coatel's mouth, all the team members also stood in place in shock, this time not because they didn't believe it, but because the news was too shocking for them to slow down.

"Phineas, do you really have a chance to become an F1 driver?"

Ah Hu was the first to react, because in this regard, he has the lowest understanding of the difficulty of becoming an F1 driver.

"Well, there's a chance."

"Damn, Phineas NB, I'm going to really become a car god!"

Ah Hu jumped up excitedly on the spot, although he didn't know the specific difficulty of becoming an F1 driver. But Ah Hu knows that being an F1 driver is one of the strongest drivers on the planet!

"Yifei-kun, you are really beyond everyone's expectations."

Junko Takeda also said excitedly, she gave up her identity as the manager of the Toyota youth team and came to Europe, just to see where Zhang Yifei's limit is and how many miracles he can create.

Today, Junko Takeda finally felt that her abandonment was worth the wait, and she had seen the dawn of Zhang Yifei becoming the best driver in the world.

"Well done, who will dare to underestimate our Chinese drivers in the future!"

Chen Zhi said stiffly, there is a lot of contempt in Europe during this time, if Zhang Yifei becomes an F1 driver, there is no doubt that it is the best counterattack to contempt!

'Don't get too excited, it's just a chance, it's not that easy to score a hat-trick at Manicour, and you have to break the lap record.'

When Korcel saw the team members, he was as excited as Zhang Yifei had entered the F1 team, and he poured cold water on it at the right time to cool down.

Prost gives amazing conditions, but at the same time makes amazing demands.

A hat-trick at a formula racing track is not so easy to achieve, just like in football, who can be sure that they can score three goals in a row before a game?

Moreover, Prost also added a strict requirement to break the track record, which is equivalent to Zhang Yifei not only surpassing the opponents in the same competition, but also surpassing the senior drivers of the Manikul Circuit, which is even more difficult.

It's too early to be happy, and it will be a huge challenge for Zhang Yifei.

Cosell's words also made the team members calm down, and indeed Prost's request seems to be simple, but the actual difficulty is even more than letting Zhang Yifei win the Renault championship.

After all, as long as Zhang Yifei can make it to the podium with stable results, there is a high probability that he will be able to compete for the championship with his current advantage.

But when it comes to the Manikul Circuit, no driver dares to pack a ticket and do it himself.

The ecstasy before the moment turned into a worry when reason returned, and the difficulty of Prost's request was too exaggerated.

However, Zhang Yifei was very calm, he said lightly: "It's like a dream that is not ridiculed has no value to be realized." If there is no miracle of challenge, then it does not deserve to be called a miracle. ”

"If I want to create my own miracle, I have to face this challenge."

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Korsell nodded secretly, with a relieved smile on his face.

At this time, Zhang Yifei can have a clear mind and understand the difficulties he has to face, which is very valuable for a young person.

Now that the direction for the future has been decided, the next step is to prepare for the challenge of miracles.

Junko Takeda applied to the Renault racing team and got detailed data for the Manikul circuit. And Yamamoto Ukyo, as before, tried his best to find the race video of the Manikul Circuit, so that Zhang Yifei could understand the curve line more intuitively.

On the other hand, Korsell also applied for a test drive with the Manikul circuit, after all, these things are only on paper, and if you want to really apply what you have learned, you still need to go to the track.

Historically, France has hosted seven different Formula 1 Grand Prix races, second only to the United States Grand Prix, and the Manicour circuit is one of them.

When Zhang Yifei officially came into contact with the information of the Manikul track, he began to feel the difficulty of this track. Unlike the previous high-speed circuits at Monza and Hockenheim, the Manikul circuit is a typical low-speed track with many bends.

At just 4.411 kilometres, the track has a whopping 17 corners, most of which are low-speed and hairpins, which is a great test for the driver's choice of alignment in the corners.

And it's not just a test for the driver, it's also a challenge for the car to tune up. Because not only the high downforce in the corner, but also the fact that the straight road should not have too much wind resistance, which affects the acceleration after the corner, this needs to find a perfect balance.

If it was the previous team lineup, relying on Ah Hu and Yamamoto Ukyo, there would be absolutely no way to adjust this balance point. Even if you get the pre-game support of Toyota's technical team, they may also have a lack of experience.

After all, F1 is a completely new field for Toyota, and these technicians have only tuned the aerodynamic layout of the Le Mans car before, and the suspension aerodynamic tuning at the Manicour circuit is a difficult problem for the F1 team.

But fortunately, Zhang Yifei has Kossel joining, and the German old man, in addition to being a strategist for McLaren, is also the aerodynamic designer of the previous team and a professor of racing engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany.

Zhang Yifei already knew that the reason why Korcel left the McLaren team, in addition to being disappointed with Senna's transfer, was mainly because he was defeated by Newey's "black technology" in car design.

The combination of the two factors eventually left Cosell disheartened and left the F1 paddock to return to university classes.

Therefore, the suspension tuning and aerodynamic layout of the car are not difficult for Kossel, and they can be regarded as a perfect solution to Zhang Yifei's worries.

But as the saying goes, people have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries! The huge curve routing data of 17 corners is the biggest problem for Zhang Yifei at present.

Especially for those hairpin low-speed corners, you need to memorize the cornering route very precisely, and engrave it in your mind like a map. Only in this way can we not make any mistakes in the line in the state of high-speed racing.

And this time there is no "driver's book" like the Hockenheim Circuit, you can only rely on Zhang Yifei himself, through learning and exploration, to find the best braking point, normal line, overtaking route, defensive strategy and so on.

In the past few days, Korsell has been accompanying Zhang Yifei to study the track almost the whole time, instead of being a hands-off shopkeeper like before.

Because Korsell also understands that this event is related to Zhang Yifei's future prospects, not just to win, it must be absolutely crushed!

From morning to night, the high-intensity memory of no less than twelve hours a day made Zhang Yifei once again experience the desperate feeling when he was in the Toyota youth training base, and it can even be said to be even crazier.

After all, it was just a simple physical exertion at that time, and this time Zhang Yifei also had a high-intensity mental exertion, which is the natural disadvantage of Asian drivers.

So Zhang Yifei started naturally, and he had to put in more effort to catch up with the other drivers.

With two days to go before the race, the application for a test run of the car was finally approved by the operator of Manikul, and Zhang Yifei got out of the state of talking on paper and officially came to the track for a test run.

This time, Zhang Yifei also spent a lot of money to turn on the track monitoring and the team's voice system, so as to better find the problems that occurred during the test run and let Kosell pass on instructions.

The Renault car had already been transported from Germany and placed in the P room of Zhang Yifei's team. Because the last stop was an overhaul, all aspects of the car were replaced with brand new parts, and it was OK to check that there was no damage during transportation.

In fact, transportation damage is rare, after all, the racing cars are transported by special container trucks, and Renault has a lot of experience in this area, and the inspection is just in case.

"Youjing, tune to mid-level downforce, with low ground clearance suspension."

Kossel directly issued the tuning order, although he did not have the absolute control of Hockenheim Circuit, but it did not mean that Kossel was not prepared.

It can be said that Korsell treats this race as an F1 event, and similarly, he will use the standards of F1 drivers to ask Zhang Yifei. Only the strength of the leapfrog can achieve the effect of crushing!