After Zhang Yifei ran about five laps of the test lap, he drove the car into the pits, and then the team technicians surrounded him and began to tune the car according to Zhang Yifei's previous track feedback.

Because this is not a race-level pit stop, there is no time efficiency, but Korcel and Charlie discuss adjustments.

After the first round of pit adjustment, Zhang Yifei began the second round of fine-tuning, and after two rounds of almost ten laps, Zhang Yifei made a pit stop again, and after making the final adjustments, he was ready to start his own timing lap.

Zhang Yifei of the timing circle did not have the feeling of slowness before, but was replaced by a kind of edge. Although he didn't care about the ridicule of the audience outside the stadium, because he chose to take the path of equation, he already expected that it would be part of the journey.

But that doesn't mean he's a rider who likes to be ridiculed. It can even be said that on the contrary, Zhang Yifei likes to silence those who mock him!

With one foot on the accelerator, the adjusted gearbox gear ratio pays more attention to acceleration at low speeds, rather than extreme speed at high speeds.

This adjustment is also based on the characteristics of the track, because the Albert Park circuit, where the long straights are traditionally short, are completely short and completely unable to run the extreme speed of Formula 1 cars.

On the contrary, various zigzag high-speed corners are very challenging for the driver's judgment of the braking point and the line, and after one foot of the brake, it is soon the re-acceleration of the accelerator, so the torque is more important than the speed.

The spectators didn't know the team's strategy, but the apparently increased speed of the timing lap made them feel different from the previous test laps, and Zhang Yifei began to prepare for the lap time of the Albert Park circuit.

"So fast! Zhang Yifei's lap time is much faster than before! ”

"The test lap has been completed, this is Zhang Yifei's real strength, he is our new generation of Chinese car king!"

"Didn't those ghosts say slow, now open your eyes and take a good look, how fast Zhang Yifei can run!"

“GOOD！ That's the speed of flying! ”

On the track, some of Zhang Yifei's supporters began to get excited, and they waited for the moment when Zhang Yifei was fully tuned and began to officially challenge the track.

The speed of the car began to soar, and in the process of rushing to the first corner, Zhang Yifei began to sprint at full throttle, and the speed came directly to 286km/h in 6th gear.

This speed has easily surpassed the top speed of the previous Renault cars, and for F1 cars, this is just a warm-up state, if the track is long enough, in some later tests, F1 cars can break through more than 450km/h.

You must know that this speed has surpassed the speed of most helicopters and is catching up with the average propeller aircraft. If it weren't for the various air kits, with the help of air currents to press the F1 car to the ground, plus a pair of wings can really fly.

But then, Zhang Yifei just braked, reduced the speed to 132km/h, and then passed through corners 1 and 2 in a row. At this moment, the number on the racing sensor shows that the maximum G value that Zhang Yifei is subjected to is 2.7, which means that Zhang Yifei bears 2.7 times the weight pressure of himself.

Precise routing through corners, acceleration with a kick of floor oil, and then the paddles on the steering wheel upshifting wildly. Before Turn 3, brake hard again to reduce the speed to around 143km/h in 3rd gear, maintaining a limit speed for cornering.

That's what makes the Albert Park track special, there are no long straights that can go full throttle for more than a dozen seconds, instead there's a variety of short straights. The car is constantly cyclic between acceleration and deceleration, and the Melbourne summer heat undoubtedly puts the braking system to the test.

Those who have taken the driver's license test, or have an old driver in the family, should know that it is a long-distance downhill road, and you can't always rely on the brake to slow down, but to use the engine downshift braking and auxiliary braking to slow down.

If the downhill is particularly long, such as coming down from the Sichuan-Tibet line, you have to stop from time to time to water the brake disc to cool down. This is because as the temperature of the brakes rises sharply, the braking effect decreases in inverse proportion.

The heavy braking temperature of the F1 brake disc, due to the amazing speed, will reach an astonishing high temperature of more than 900 degrees in a short period of time. In this case, the brake cooling system of the car is also a test.

Therefore, Cosell and others in the pit station pay more attention to the brake sensor, and once there is any problem, Zhang Yifei will be reminded as soon as possible.

Zhang Yifei's attention at the moment is all on the control, Albert A.D. Circuit, although he has never run in the field before, and he has not even been to Australia. But for this first stop, Zhang Yifei has been ready since he entered the Prost team.

The track that the racing simulator has opened in the past few months, Albert Park is called second, and no other track can be called first. Coupled with various floor plans and field exploration, it can be said that the entire track has been imprinted in Zhang Yifei's mind.

After more than a dozen test laps, this impression became more stable, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity began to appear, making Zhang Yifei's lap time start to get faster and faster, even surpassing several drivers who didn't know whether it was a test or a time trial on the track.

"I have never underestimated Fei, but the performance of this Chinese newcomer has always exceeded the upper limit of my estimates."

Sir Williams looked at the scene on the track and said a word to the team's technical director next to him.

To be honest, he really regretted it in his heart at this moment, should he have been more decisive and signed Zhang Yifei with an official driver's contract, instead of choosing Colombian superstar Juan Montoya?

However, this idea was instantly rejected by Sir Williams, because Montoya had already proven himself with the title of the youngest champion of the Carter Tournament, the Indy 500 championship.

At the same time, as a superstar driver of Colombia, he has tens of millions of die-hard Colombian supporters behind him, and he also brings a huge sponsorship from Columbia Telecomm. These things are all things that the current Zhang Yifei can't give.

After all, compared with Montoya, who is already a veteran in IndyCar, Zhang Yifei's reputation is still much worse, and more importantly, he does not have an important achievement to establish his status.

"The Chinese newcomer is really strong, and his lap time is faster than in the previous winter test."

The technical director of the Williams team replied that unlike Sir Williams, he believed more in the data on the display.

On the lap just now, Zhang Yifei ran a time of 1:26.332.

The current fastest track record for the 5.303 km Albert Park circuit is 1:24.528, which was set in 1999 by two-time Drivers' Champion Mika Hakkinen.

Even later with the development of technology, the fastest lap was only improved to 1:23.529, which was set by Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing.

Therefore, as a newcomer, Zhang Yifei ran a lap time of about one second compared to the track record in the first round of test laps, which can be described in two words.

Not only Sir Williams, but also the pit management of other teams were shocked when they saw the lap meter sent by the race command center.

“FUCK！ How could a Chinese kid run so fast in the first practice round, with two rounds of tuning to follow, could he still break the track record? ”

The person who said this was the president of the Minardi team, and he now knows the grievances between his son Madu and Zhang Yifei.

But not only did he not think that Ma Du was at fault, but on the contrary, he blamed all the reasons on Zhang Yifei.

It was he who injured Madu in a car accident, and it was he who brought humiliation to the Minardi team by beating Yoong Long at the Winter Test Course.

So the lap speed that Zhang Yifei is running now makes Minardi feel very unhappy, he doesn't want to see a Chinese riding on the head of Minardi's team!

"Has the Prost team developed a Mars rover, otherwise the flying results are a bit too exaggerated, theoretically after three rounds of testing, his lap time can be improved by about 0.5 seconds, this lap speed is likely to be in the top six of the drivers' rankings."

"If he can maintain this form in the main draw, he will be able to make his debut at the level of Kimi Raikkonen last year and go straight to the first race. Could it be that he didn't just want to replicate the miracle of the triple jump, but he didn't even miss the point of the first stop? ”

This passage is from the manager of the Toyota team.

You must know that compared with other teams, the Toyota team has a better understanding of Zhang Yifei's "growth" process, after all, the start of Zhang Yifei's formula car is in the Toyota youth training base.

Now in the archives of the Toyota team, there are still a lot of training data of Zhang Yifei in the youth training base. At the time, he was already showing the qualities of a talented driver, but it was nowhere near as exaggerated as it is today.

If this lap time has nothing to do with the Prost Mars rover, but the kind of low-performance car last year, it can really only be described by the word horror, can there really be a world-class F1 driver in China?

No one knows the answer to this question at present, but Zhang Yifei's lap time on the track is real.

With the end of the first practice round, when the fastest time lap of all the drivers came out, Zhang Yifei's name appeared in the fifth position!

He finished the first practice session in the time lap rankings behind Schumacher, Barrichello, Coulthard and Villeneuve!

Ahead of veterans such as Verstappen, Alessi, Eddie Erwyn, etc. Even last year's super newcomer Kimi was 0.102 seconds behind Zhang Yifei again.

If there is still an accidental possibility of taking the lead in the winter test, then the lead in the practice session is enough to prove that Zhang Yifei has a certain strength, and has even kept up with the pace of those top drivers who have been famous for a long time.

When this kind of result comes out, the previous boos and ridicule on the track have been extinguished a lot in an instant, and the result is always the best way to fight back. However, those drivers who are behind Zhang Yifei are beginning to really feel a kind of pressure and dissatisfaction at this moment, after all, to become F1 drivers, they are a group of arrogant leaders, how can they tolerate a newcomer, so easy to climb to their heads?