"There is still almost a week to go before the race, and the renovation work has begun. By the night before the practice session, the streets will be closed and all parking spaces on the side of the road will be removed to make room for the Grand Prix. ”

Xie Tiancheng introduced the Guia Circuit to Zhang Yifei, because when he mixed Hong Kong Island racing before, he actually came to Ao Island to run the Guia Circuit more than once.

Of course, he was all running as an underground driver for the Midnight Party, not as a professional race car like this time.

"You know a lot."

"It's just a few runs."

After Xie Tiancheng finished speaking, he directly started the car again and drove along the 6.2-kilometer Guia Circuit.

At this time, Zhang Yifei also put away the previous relaxed and fun mentality, and began to remember the characteristics of the Guia Circuit in his mind.

6.2 kilometers of streets, it is impossible to remember every point, and it will also confuse your own memory. Zhang Yifei's main goal this time is to remember the famous "crash black spots" on the Guia Circuit.

For example, the Lisboa Bend, which has the highest accident rate, the Mandarin Oriental Bend, which you have to face at the start, and the hairpin bend that many drivers consider to be the most difficult at the Guia Circuit, etc.

Unlike those tracks in Europe, the Guia Circuit is named after a hotel, a casino.

Just like the name "Lisboa", it is estimated that many people have heard of it.

And because the gambling industry is legal, casinos can directly title events or sponsor teams. Therefore, Zhang Yifei found the promotional slogans of the casinos on both sides of the track from time to time, which made him feel very strange, and there was a feeling that when he watched online videos in later generations, a sentence came out at every turn: the first online casino on Ao Island was launched......

Of course, Zhang Yifei is here to race this time, not to pay attention to casino advertisements. He began to compare the Guia circuit more and how it was different from the tracks he had run before.

To be precise, the Guia Circuit is like a combination of mountain roads and streets. The reason why Guia is not called a mountain road is because it is relatively remote from those in the mainland and Japan, which are all in the downtown area.

If you have to find a type of situation, Zhang Yifei feels very similar to some streets in Chongqing, which are also only two-way and two-lane, and the height is undulating. What's more, there are many residential areas and pedestrians on both sides of the road, and it is not as deserted as a general mountain road.

However, once you enter the Friendship Road, your eyes suddenly become clear, and you will come to the long straight area of the Grand Prix, and the main grandstand is also set up in this area, so that the spectators can better see the cars and the players.

After this long straight course, you will immediately enter the Guia Road, which will be an uphill road, and the more famous bend is the Lingnan Bend, which is also a very low speed small angle bend.

And Zhang Yifei was also next to this bend and saw a school called "Lingnan Middle School".

This is a little different from the street that Zhang Yifei ran before, whether it is in Yangcheng or Hong Kong Island, the streets are semi-closed or fully enclosed.

First, the fast road can have the pleasure of speed, otherwise it is like walking in a traffic jam in the city to and from work, and the accelerator has not been stepped on and you have to brake, which can also be called street racing?

The second point is to close the road, which can reduce the impact of pedestrians or forked lanes at the maximum speed limit and reduce the risk of the event.

Like the Guia Circuit, there is also a high-density crowd area like a school next to it, even with Zhang Yifei's current strength and driving skills, he can't guarantee that he can achieve the ultimate speed without any accidents.

So what Cosell said on the ferry is very right, each track has its characteristics, at least on the Guia Circuit, it is difficult for Zhang Yifei to test run at the limit speed, and the accident and risk factors are too great.

6.2 kilometers, even if Xie Tiancheng's speed is not fast, a lap is quickly completed.

He looked at Zhang Yifei at this time and asked, "How is it, what do you want to say about the Guia Circuit?" ”

"The terrain is complex, and the fact that it's on a crowded street adds to the difficulty. It's not for nothing that it's called the most dangerous track in Asia. ”

Zhang Yifei became serious at this time, and after looking around, he put away his mentality of despising self-confidence.

Indeed, unlike the usual mountain and street racing, the terrain of the Guia Circuit is more complex, which is also a challenge for yourself.

"That's right, it's a combination of mountain roads and streets, and the Monaco circuit is the same in the world."

After finishing speaking, Xie Tiancheng parked the Honda NSX on the side of the road and asked Zhang Yifei: "Are you interested in running a lap?" ”

In fact, there is no need to thank Tiancheng for saying that Zhang Yifei had itchy hands when he sat in the car.

When I used to live in Lu Shujia on Hong Kong Island, I could still bring my Mitsubishi EVO to Hong Kong Island. But as he went to Japan, Mitsubishi EVO was naturally driven back to the car repair shop in Guangshen, and he usually asked the old man to take care of it.

In addition, he will not stay for a long time this time, so Zhang Yifei is too lazy to take the trouble of transporting the Mitsubishi EVO, which leads to the fact that he has no car on hand now, and the team travels by taxi.

It's really not very convenient to not have a car, especially in the face of the need to be familiar with the track, when Zhang Yifei was sitting in the car just now, he was thinking in his mind, whether to temporarily drive Uncle Lu's Ford Mustang Cobra, which is also a top-level American performance car.

"Of course I'm interested, I'm completely unfamiliar with the Guia Circuit right now, so I'm familiar with it in the past few days."

Zhang Yifei said as he opened the door and got off the bus, ready to exchange seats with Xie Tiancheng.

"You don't have track data?"

Hearing Zhang Yifei say this, Xie Tiancheng asked unexpectedly.

Because as long as it is a professional team with some strength, there will be a strategic group or a tactical group, and there will also be detailed track plan data, so that drivers can better familiarize themselves with and understand the characteristics of the track.

This is also the embodiment of the more and more standardized profession, Zhang Yifei is already an F1 driver, you must know that F1 teams have a strong racing team, how can they not even have the most basic track data?

"Nope."

"No way, you're an F1 driver anyway."

"My situation is quite special, I really don't."

Zhang Yifei couldn't explain a sentence or two, and he was also the official driver of the Prost team, so it was not a smart thing to expose the team's current business situation to the outside world without permission.

And then again, Prost's finances are unknown to anyone other than the team management and have not been made public.

The reason why Zhang Yifei can know is from the perspective of God in history, otherwise he should not know these things.

Seeing that Zhang Yifei was already standing outside the driver's door, Xie Tiancheng had no choice but to unbuckle his seat belt, switch places with Zhang Yifei, and sit on the co-pilot around the front of the car.

"If you really don't have track data, I can give you a copy, but it's just the data of the touring car GT, I don't know if it can be applied to F3."

Xie Tiancheng's current ARTA team, although it is a new team created by Akuri Suzuki, is actually standing behind Honda.

Later, Honda even gave Ajuri Suzuki even more support, creating Japan's first homegrown F1 team, the Super Ajuri team.

So Xie Tiancheng has detailed team data about the Guia Circuit. However, because of the different competition items, it is estimated that there will be a big gap in the real use of it, and it depends on Zhang Yifei's adaptability.

"If it's not the core secret of your team, you can give me a copy."

Zhang Yifei has run in the field, rally, and formula in his two lifetimes, so he is familiar with the differences between different types of cars.

For example, this kind of touring car data, regardless of other differences, just in terms of speed, it is a big difference in formula racing. This means that almost all corners will be taken differently.

To take the simplest example, many people may have such a curiosity in their hearts, that is, if the fastest supercar is placed on the track and has a competition with F1, who will win or lose?

The answer is clear: supercars will be crushed by Formula 1 cars.

Take the Silverstone track that Zhang Yifei ran before, one of the top supercar representatives in later generations, Lamborghini's Batman, once ran the fastest lap at Silverstone Circuit was 2:08.1.

If this car is replaced with a Bugatti Veyron, McLaren or something, it will be a difference of one or two seconds at most, which is basically the fastest speed in the supercar industry.

But keep in mind that the slowest lap time at Silverstone was 1:42.966 by Ricciardo of Red Bull Racing.

You know, this is the slowest time, and it is nearly 30 seconds faster than the supercar. If you change to the fastest record at Silverstone, the lap record of 1:30.874 set by Alonso, it will throw off the fastest lap time of the supercar by nearly 40 seconds!

Many people may have thought before that supercars are a little slower than F1. But they absolutely didn't know that it could be so slow and exaggerated!

What is the concept of being thrown 40 seconds in a lap? It's not a question of whether you can see the taillights or not, you don't even know where a car is going. After two or three laps, it is estimated that F1 can come back with a lap and look at the taillights of the supercar

It's like two thousand-kilometer runners preparing to compete in the same field, and one of them says to the other: "Little brother, you run a few hundred meters first and let me warm up, otherwise this game will be too boring." ”

F1 may be a bit of a bullying supercar, after all, F1 may be said to be the pearl of the automobile industry, which is the same as the crown of the industry is the aero engine, the gap between the two sides is too big.

Take a step back and take the Renault formula that Zhang Yifei ran as an example, the Silverstone track can also throw off the supercar by 10 seconds in a single lap, and it is also the kind that you don't want to see the tail lights.

Xie Tiancheng's GT racing data is basically the performance of a supercar, and if it is a high-class GT car, it is faster than a supercar.

However, there is still a big gap with the equation, so this kind of information Zhang Yifei is only a reference at most, and there is no value in learning too much.