Zhang Yifei warned Ah Hu, he can understand Ah Hu's state of mind very well, because when he was a teenager, he also cowered and confused.

But Zhang Yifei believes in a concept, that is, being afraid is equal to losing!

No matter what kind of situation you face, you can't let yourself be afraid, and the final result of this is to be defeated by a more psychologically strong opponent.

Ah Hu didn't make a mistake today, but if he continues to tremble like this, there will be problems one day. Therefore, Zhang Yifei hopes to remind Ah Hu that even if it is the reckless character in the past, he is many times stronger than a coward!

"Brother Fei, I understand!"

Ah Hu nodded after hearing this, he actually felt a problem with his mentality.

No matter what, I can't lose the face of a Chinese technician in front of foreigners!

"It's good to understand, big brother I'm still here, it's not time for you to carry it."

Chen Zhi put his hand on Ah Hu's shoulder and patted it hard, since he was a child, he has been charging forward, taking Zhang Yifei and Ah Hu to fight everywhere, as long as he has not fallen, it is impossible for the two small guys to suffer.

Of course, now Yifei no longer needs to carry it as a big brother.

Back at the headquarters building, Zhang Yifei still trained at his own pace, as for Caser and Yamamoto Ukyo, they analyzed the practice videos and found out the details that were difficult to find on the track.

They even called Charlie over to study Zhang Yifei's pit stop habits with him, and how to cooperate with the drivers to improve the efficiency.

In the next few days, Zhang Yifei did not go to the track, but trained in a racing simulator in the headquarters building.

In fact, simulator driving is the normal training of F1 drivers, after all, the cost of going to the track is too huge, just the two hours of Zhang Yifei's running, even if it does not count the labor costs, all kinds of fluid and parts loss, will exceed 50,000 US dollars.

However, it is actually good to be able to spend money on the track, and the FIA directly banned F1 drivers from private training on the track, and there was no way to burn money, so they could only wait for the winter test organized by the unified organization.

Because with the advancement of technology, the gap between F1 teams has been widened.

The technology and driver strength of the private small team are not the opponents of the local tyrant team at all, even the three giants of this era, Williams and McLaren, have lost the competitiveness of the championship team after more than ten years.

Williams' worst season in 2018 has even become the bottom of the table, which is simply unthinkable in the nineties.

And the situation of the whole F1 has also changed from a group of heroes to a monopoly. For example, in the 2014-2019 season, it is no exaggeration to say that it is already a Mercedes-Benz dynasty, with an average win rate of 75.9%!

The terrifying winning rate of nearly 8 percent is really in response to an old Chinese saying, then the F1 world championship is a stone, my Mercedes-Benz has eight buckets, and the rest of the little brothers play slowly.

The consequence of any game is that other opponents can't play anymore and slowly declines. Therefore, the FIA tried its best to limit the further increase in the gap between strength and weakness, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was private training on the track.

After all, the big team has the money to run casually, and when the interest comes, they can fly around the world and be familiar with the track. And the poor of the small team have to live on the sponsorship of the drivers, how can there be so much money to burn?

Therefore, the only way to limit private training is to maintain as much relative balance as possible and keep the F1 race running.

Zhang Yifei was training hard, and the other drivers of the team were not idle, and Emir, in addition to driving the simulator, also took advantage of the opportunity to test drive the prototype car, and constantly practiced on the track.

Emir's heart is full of desire to win, after all, becoming an F1 driver is the ultimate dream of every formula driver. Now victory is in sight, as long as he defeats Zhang Yifei, he can become the official driver of the Prost team.

On the other side, the veteran Alessi was also high-spirited during this time, and he did not have the paddling mentality of the previous days.

Even for the sake of his own face, Alessi couldn't accept that he became a rookie wingman. If this news is made public on the track next year, he may be "late in the future".

After all, there are countless talented rookie drivers in F1 history, but few have become the team's number one driver in their debut season.

Alessi, who has been in the F1 paddock for more than a decade, doesn't want to set a precedent.

So a strange scene appeared, even the official F1 race of the Prost team, in the winter training period of the competition, the importance of each driver is far less than that of the competition, but the picture of thriving and trying to improve.

Seeing this kind of scene, Prost didn't know what to say. His original idea of competing for the No. 1 driver was nothing more than to put a little pressure on Alessi and give him a sense of crisis, so that he could better focus on the race instead of the previous state of getting by.

As a result, it may not be as simple as a little pressure, with the whole team in a frenzied competitive atmosphere. Prost doesn't know what this situation will lead to in the end, but as Korsell said before, the worst has been experienced, and it can't be worse than zero points!

At the same time, Prost is a little grateful to Zhang Yifei in his heart, without such a radical and enthusiastic rookie driver to join, the current Prost team may still have the same lifeless atmosphere as before.

It was the arrival of Zhang Yifei that broke the looseness and slackness of the Prost team, made the drivers full of competitive fighting spirit, and the whole team was also rejuvenated.

If Prost signed Zhang Yifei before, it was purely a dead horse as a live horse doctor, then now he has changed his mind and thinks that Zhang Yifei can really lead the Prost team out of the haze of failure!

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Twenty days passed quickly, and the time came to the end of December, which was Christmas in the West, and New Year's Day would follow.

Just like the Chinese New Year, this point in time in the West is also a time for them to reunite on holiday. All kinds of TV dramas and sports events will be suspended for a period of time, so this period is also called the winter break.

The beginning of the winter break marks the end of the F1 team's winter training, and naturally it is time for the intra-team competition.

In the past 20 days of winter training, Zhang Yifei has practiced on the track twice, and the fastest pit stop tire change time has been compressed to 3.1 seconds!

This can't be regarded as an astonishing amount of time, but Zhang Yifei has equaled the average level of previous drivers of the Prost team in less than a month, which is absolutely commendable for a rookie driver!

And it can be expected that with the sharp increase in the number of pit stops in the future, the cooperation between Zhang Yifei and the technician team will also be more tacit, and the time will be further reduced.

In the face of Zhang Yifei's progress speed, even the chief technician Charlie felt a kind of amazement and admiration in his heart.

Charlie can say without exaggeration that Zhang Yifei is the hardest working and hardworking rookie driver he has ever seen. Whether it is training hard in the team building or striving for excellence on the track, Zhang Yifei can be regarded as impeccable.

And Zhang Yifei is not only a reduction in the time it takes to make a pit stop, but his lap time at the Montliary Circuit can also be called a leap forward!

After the last track practice, Zhang Yifei's fastest lap time was 3:01.87!

You must know that the fastest lap before test driver Emile was only 3:03.61, and Zhang Yifei threw off his fastest lap time by nearly 2 seconds!

The fastest lap on the track is 2 seconds apart, which basically means that the two sides are no longer on the same level. Now Charlie finally understands why Zhang Yifei chose to make this seemingly losing bet with Emir.

Indeed, as Zhang Yifei said, if he eats the emir, there is no possibility of losing!

And this lap time also surpassed the 3:02.11 of the French veteran Alessi, which is what really shocks people.

Although Alessi is at the end of his career, he is not as good as his peak in all indicators. But a veteran driver who has been racing in the F1 paddock for more than ten years has been surpassed by a pure newcomer who has never even driven an F3000 car, and few people believe it.

But the numbers don't lie, and Zhang Yifei ran into 3:02 more than once, which proves that his fastest lap is not accidental.

Charlie has had almost 15 years of F1 mechanic career since joining the Ligier team, but he has never seen such a magical rookie driver as Zhang Yifei. So Charlie is even more looking forward to what will happen in the next intra-team game!

In the maintenance station of the Monliary Circuit, Zhang Yifei, Alessi and Emir, all three of them were dressed in full equipment and stood in front of Prost.

"The intra-team race is about to start, and according to your previous bet, the winner will be the number one driver and the last one will be relegated to the test driver, do you have any questions about that bet?"

"Nope."

The three of them replied in unison, they had been preparing for nearly a month, just waiting for this moment to prove their status with their strength!

"OK, just follow the simplest SOLO (heads-up) method, three cars start side by side, and the fastest to complete five laps wins."

Because of the number of people in the intra-team competition, it is impossible for the three of them to follow the F1 model to engage in knockout rounds, qualifying matches and so on. Therefore, the concise SOLO mode is more suitable for the current intra-team requirements.

The three of them also have no objection to the SOLO model, in fact, this has long been the default rule, but Prost emphasized it again.

"Since it's all right, let's get on the car and get ready to start."

No nonsense, all three of them sat in the JS51 car with cold faces. And this time there is no tire warming ring, because the maintenance team has long used tire warming blankets to heat the tires to the right tire temperature.

In the starting area, three groups of technicians ignited the car at the same time, and the sound of the engine burst instantly, hitting the eardrums of everyone present.

Korsell clasped his hands to his chest at the moment, standing next to the track and looking at Zhang Yifei with a calm face, without giving any track instructions, just like the original Renault event.

Even Ukyo Yamamoto, who has always been more conservative and serious, stood by Kossel's side, not next to the car.

In the face of the calmness of these two men, Junko Takeda felt that she was not calm, what the hell is going on, Yifeijun is challenging a real F1 driver, don't the two of them say anything?