"BOSS, this Spanish rookie, may be a lot stronger than you think."

Zhang Yifei didn't explain too much, but just threw out this sentence, as long as history does not change too much, then Alonso will not be able to eat much in the next few years.

However, in order to take care of Prost's face and avoid the situation of his own employee "committing the following crimes", Zhang Yifei added a sentence and eased his attitude.

"Of course, who will join the Prost team in the end depends on their quality. If Massa can win against Alonso, then he will be my team-mate. ”

This sentence is also Zhang Yifei's promise to Massa, if he can really show his strength to win Alonso, then he will not break his promise.

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Prost did not continue to say anything, but prepared to watch the next test results.

But Cosell, who had never spoken, said coldly: "Since it depends on strength, if Helio is stronger, will you choose him as a teammate?" ”

When Korcel's question was raised, everyone's eyes were on Zhang Yifei, since they were not afraid of a "team cancer" like Alonso, then Helio's "time bomb" was not to be feared.

Anyway, the personalities of the two people feel like they are half a pound or two, and they are all thorns.

To be honest, this question is really difficult for Zhang Yifei, and the only criterion for him to choose his teammates is to face the top pair of Ferrari drivers. If Helio is strong enough, it is indeed more in line with the standard of his ideal teammate.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei is confident that he can suppress the current head brother Alonso, but he is not confident in suppressing Helio. The reason is also very simple, after all, the other party is the Indy World Champion, a driver who has stood at the peak of the formula, Zhang Yifei is the one who has no results and confidence compared to Helio.

A victory in an Indy 500 event is not enough to crush Helio's arrogance and confidence, even if he can win Helio in the intra-team struggle, but the energy and time cost is not worth the loss.

So Zhang Yifei replied directly: "No, I can't crush him in a short time." ”

Hearing Zhang Yifei's answer, Korsell was not surprised, but nodded in agreement.

"It's good, I know where my abilities and limits are."

After saying that, Korsell looked at Prost: "Haven't you always dreamed of making Prost a champion team?" Now there is an opportunity to pick a strong one, but you want to choose a conservative wingman? ”

"At the time, this set worked because you drove a Williams black technology car, you didn't need to be aggressive, you had a faster speed. But this year's Ferrari engine performance is there, do you think the performance of the Prost AP05 can surpass the performance of the original Ferrari F20002? ”

During the Senna era, Caser and Prost were old rivals, despising each other's styles. One thinks the other is a coward, the other thinks the other is a reckless.

Now after joining the Prost team, although they are not as opposed to each other as before, the two of them still can't pee on the same pot.

It's just that now Prost has become the owner, and he is more concerned about team operations, plus his own management methods are not tough, almost letting go of Cosell, and letting the race engineer control the event instructions.

After all, these two people are just disgusted with each other's racing style, and they still agree with their strength.

So there has been no ideological conflict between these two people for a long time, but today there is a similar choice between conservative and radical, which makes the old German man can't help but laugh.

Kossel's concept is clear, and after confirming that Zhang Yifei has a B number in his heart, he began to fully support his idea of a stronger teammate, rather than choosing a second driver with better handling.

The reason for this is that the more powerful the AP05 car is this year, the stronger it means that Ferrari's new generation of F2002 cars will be stronger. Even if Ferrari didn't provide a scaled-down version of the race engine, Prost was far inferior to the other in terms of car design and development.

Because car development is a money-burning game, the richer Ferrari is, the more it can recruit stronger aerodynamic engineers, let the car blow the wind tunnel a few more times to optimize the aerodynamic shape, it's as simple and crude as that.

Ferrari is currently a mountain in front of all teams, and if you want to be a champion team, you have to beat them. Now that we know that the performance of the car is lagging behind, and there is no stronger driver, what can we do to beat the other side?

Korcel has never been a slow manager, he just wants to see Zhang Yifei become a world champion as soon as possible, leading the Prost team to the top.

If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, and the "team cancer" may be the price that must be borne on the road to the championship of the Prost team.

In the face of Cosell's remarks, Prost looked at him and tried to refute it, but in the end he did not speak.

How can a four-time champion not understand the truth behind this, how strong the AP05 car is, it represents how terrifying today's Ferrari car will be.

It has always been Prost's dream to get the team he created to the top. But putting the goal aggressively this year makes Prost dare not take risks, maybe this is his conservative character, always thinking about it and unwilling to face things beyond his control.

"Boss, I agree with Fly and Kossel's idea."

Henry, the leader on the side, also expressed his opinion.

Because Cosell's remarks also reminded him, even Henry was thinking further.

That is, equipped with such a powerful Ferrari engine, or next year to overturn Ferrari in one fell swoop, if they don't win, and pose enough threat to them, then the next year to get such a powerful Ferrari engine, it may not be as easy as today.

After all, the biggest reason why Ferrari Group is willing to be an engine supplier is that it feels that the Prost team is not a threat.

Therefore, the future prospects of the Prost team are not as smooth sailing as imagined, but like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat!

Three of the four expressed their attitude, even if Prost was the boss, he couldn't do it his own way, let alone that he had planned to follow Zhang Yifei's advice.

"Well, since you all say so, let's look at the results of the game and choose the stronger one."

In the end, Prost let go of his obsession with Massa and spoke with the results on the track.

Inside the pits, this year's rookie drivers are ready and waiting for trial time. This year, Renault Racing has prepared three trial cars, namely the team's two official cars, plus a spare car, to keep the test time as short as possible.

The trial rules are based on F1 qualifying rules, and rookie drivers can complete 10 laps in a half-hour trial, excluding warm-up laps, and rank by the fastest lap.

The first to play were some unknown "budding newcomers", Massa, Alonso and Helio did not move. Because even though the temperature of the Jerez track is higher than that of other European countries, it is already December, which is considered a cold winter, and the temperature inside the track is only about 10 degrees.

This is not the best temperature for an F1 car, and there is not enough time to warm up the tyres, so it is easier for drivers who try out in the later batches to set the fastest lap.

Renault's car began to roar on the track, and Zhang Yifei looked at next year's rookie test, and his brows subconsciously furrowed. I don't know if it's in the F1 paddock, I have met too many masters who are used to it, and the lines of these newcomers are very rough, which makes Zhang Yifei a little unbearable.

Even when you are a rookie, you are not so weak, right?

The current track record in Jerez is 1:18.135, set by Williams' Frenzen. However, the fastest lap on the track was 1:17.652, which was set by Schumacher in qualifying.

According to Zhang Yifei's visual observation, the lap speed of this group of rookie drivers, if there is no breakthrough by leaps and bounds in the later stage, then the fastest lap time is around 1 minute and 25 seconds, and the gap is too big.

In fact, however, this is not an accident, as is the case with the quality of most F1 trial drivers. At least 20 new drivers test every year, only a handful of them make it to the team, and maybe none of them make it to the top drivers.

That's why Zhang Yifei will cause such a big sensation in the world, and even call his deeds a miracle.

That's why the Indy's drivers are so arrogant and confident that they start challenging Formula 1. It's just that their two newcomers who have entered F1 in recent years have performed at the top level, which has caused the confidence of Indian local drivers to swell and think that F1 is nothing more than that.

After all, even if it is rare to have a top driver, there are two in a row, and one of them has won the F1 world championship title, so it is a bit difficult not to swell.

It can only be said that Zhang Yifei encountered the era of F1 newcomers, Montoya, Barton, Massa, Alonso, Kimi and other future top drivers are now gathered together, which makes Zhang Yifei have an illusion that newcomers should be so strong.

Soon the first batch of newcomers trialed completed, and the fastest lap among the three was only 1:23.891, which was about the same time as Zhang Yifei's estimate.

This kind of speed is difficult to get the favor of the team's management, unless there is a boss with special good-looking potential, or the rookie driver is particularly rich and can bring huge sponsorship to the team, it is basically cool.

The second group of riders soon followed, and in comparison, the results were much better than the previous "cannon fodder", and the fastest lap was 1 minute 22 seconds, and the time was 1:21.934, an improvement of almost 2 seconds.

"The Finnish driver has a good lap time and should be able to get a test driver seat for the team, but whether he can become a full-time driver is a matter of luck."

Team leader Henry commented at this time, if it was the level of the Prost team last year, this result could enter the team as a test driver, and maybe even become an official driver.

But this year, the Prost team is undoubtedly a lot more ambitious, they only need the strongest rookie driver!

"It's pretty good, almost 0.1 seconds faster than Williams' Chinese test rider this year."

Prost agreed, and at the same time said a message that Zhang Yifei was interested in.

"The Williams team has recruited a Chinese test driver?"

Zhang Yifei opened his mouth and asked, at present, in F1, in addition to himself and Yang Long, can there be Chinese drivers?

"Well, a Dutch formula driver, it seems that his name is Dong Hebin."

However, his lap time was not very good, the fastest lap was 1:22.082, but the Williams team still recruited him to the team. I think it's because of you, Sir Williams wants to try to see if he can replicate the Chinese miracle. ”

Dong Hebin?

Hearing this name, Zhang Yifei instantly had the impression that this Dutch Chinese driver was still quite famous in later generations, and many people called him the first Chinese F1 driver.

The reason is that he is of pure human blood, while Yang Long is of mixed race, and only his father is Chinese.

However, Dong Hebin's F1 career can only be described as bumps and bumps, and he has been in several teams, but he has never been able to become an official driver, and the highest ranking is only the third driver.

If Zhang Yifei's memory is correct, Dong Hebin participated in the Williams team trial in 03 in history, and now it can only be regarded as 01 in history, which is a bit wrong.

It seems that the reason for changing history should be as Prost said, Sir Williams also wants to replicate a Chinese miracle, so this time the trial criteria have been relaxed.

After all, among the Big Three teams, the status and strength of the Williams team are the most empty, they do not have the technical support of manufacturers and strong funds, and they will fall from a high place if they are not careful.

The appearance of Zhang Yifei is equivalent to bringing rebirth to the Prost team, and more importantly, it is to bring a huge amount of sponsorship from China, which is the key to saving the collapse of the Prost team's funds.

Sir Williams also wants to replicate this process, hoping to use Dong Hebin's Chinese identity to get sponsorship from Chinese companies. In fact, CCTV really bought advertising space at the back end of the nose cone of Williams racing.

However, there is one thing Sir Williams thinks wrong, maybe in the eyes of foreigners, the Chinese are equal to the Chinese, and even many Chinese think so. But when a genuine Chinese F1 driver appears, the identity of a Chinese is no longer valuable.

Whether he has a yellow-skinned face or not, he can't change the country of allegiance, Chinese is never equal to Chinese, and Yang Long is the best example.

Of course, Zhang Yifei knows these things in his heart, and he doesn't need to say them again. He just nodded to Prost, indicating that he understood.

As time went by, a group of newcomers on the track began to try out with the drivers eliminated this season, and the lap speed also increased a lot, and there was even an amazing lap time, that is, Takuma Sato ran 1:19.217!

This speed is only one second away from the track record, which is definitely outstanding as a newcomer. Many people didn't think in advance that a Japanese newcomer could run such a lap time, is it a sign that Asian drivers are about to rise?

However, the management of the four teams on the scene still chose to stand still and wait for the final result. Because they all know in their hearts that the next three on the stage are the highlight of this year!