It's raining?

Looking at this sudden rain, Zhang Yifei stood in place in a daze, because it was about to start the practice match, but he didn't expect it to rain at this time.

To be honest, none of the events Zhang Yifei has experienced is a rain battle, and he is not familiar with the rain battle.

But you must know that in the F1 paddock, the famous battle of the car god Senna is the rain battle in Monaco in 1984!

Senna, who was still 24 years old at the time, participated in F1 for the first time, and the qualifying results were not very good, driving the No. 19 car of the Toleman team, starting from the bottom of the grid.

However, in this F1 race, and it was still the toughest Monaco circuit, Senna surpassed several F1 stars at the time with his precise handling of the car and his sense of speed, and finally finished second only five seconds behind Prost.

And more importantly, the game ended early with a red flag. Based on Senna's lap time, if he hadn't finished early, he would have overtaken Prost to win the race.

Later, in the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, another heavy rain hit, Prost's car even stopped because of the heavy rain, but Senna sped through the rain, and even led the second driver by more than a lap, winning the championship with an absolute advantage and getting his first F1 victory.

The earth-shattering performance of these two rain battles not only helped Senna, who was still a newcomer back then, to make a name for himself, but also won him titles such as "Senna in the Rain" and "God of Rain".

Even if decades have passed, as long as there is rain on the track, people's minds will come up with the indomitable car god Senna who braved the wind and waves!

At the team pit, Korsell heard the "tick, tick" rain outside and also came to the door, watching the sudden rain on the track.

I don't know why, at this moment, Cosell's mind is full of the figure of that man and his lingering glory.

Three-time F1 champion, defending champion in '90 and '91, 41 race wins, and a pole position rate of up to 40%. In his career, he finished on the podium a total of 80 times, won five consecutive championships on Monaco, the world's most difficult track, and started the front row of the year......

There are so many of these glories, and if it weren't for the accident in '94, would Senna have been able to continue his legacy?

But there are no ifs in this world, and Kossel is a rigid, rigorous, and scientific and engineering German Prussian, who will not dwell on the glory of the past.

Senna's time is gone, Schumacher's era is coming, but Korcel hopes to see one day that the Chinese kid who had high hopes for him can one day create his own dynasty.

"Charlie, change to rain tires, adjust the front and rear fixed air wings, adjust the gear density, and reduce the air intakes of the engine."

Standing at the door, Kossel began to give various tuning instructions to Charlie, the chief mechanic behind him, just to ensure the grip of the car in the rain. And for these tuning steps, Korsell has long been familiar with the tuning, and the same is true of the tuning of Senna's racing car back then.

"Understood."

Charlie responded, and then the team mechanics were mobilized and began to adjust the car for rainy days according to Kossel's instructions.

After experiencing the last race at Albert Park, Ah Hu and Chen Zhi have begun to gradually adapt to the atmosphere of F1 racing and keep up with the progress of the team, so there are also two of them in the tuning staff.

But looking at the rainy day outside, Ah Hu said a little worriedly: "Brother Zhi, Fei Ge seems to have never experienced a rainy day, and it just rains in the practice match, what if it rains in the main game?" ”

"Yifei is an F1 driver and he has to deal with all kinds of track conditions, so the way is to overcome them all and solve them."

After all, Chen Zhi is a lot older, he is no longer worried about these problems, since he has chosen to become an F1 driver and has the ambition of sprinting championship, he can't let himself have any shortcomings.

"Then it depends on whether Fei Ge can adapt so quickly, there are not enough games and experience, which is Fei Ge's biggest shortcoming."

Ah Hu sighed at this time, Zhang Yifei completed the "triple jump" and entered F1. As a result, his current position, even with Formula Renault, has not exceeded 10 races, and it has been mostly hot summer days.

Summer is not like a rainy spring and autumn season, and unless you happen to be under the track, it is difficult to experience a rainy battle, let alone accumulate experience in rainy races.

This is what led to Zhang Yifei becoming a formula driver, and he has not experienced the rain battle seriously, but he has only used rain tires on some waterlogged tracks, but this is still very different from the real rain war.

When Ah Hu and Chen Zhi were discussing, Zhang Yifei also returned to the team's pit station from the doping testing room.

Seeing Zhang Yifei coming back, Kossel, who was standing at the door, asked: "The practice race will start soon, I have helped you make the preliminary adjustment of the car in the rain, are you ready?" ”

Coser's sentence has two meanings, on the one hand, it is to ask Zhang Yifei if he is ready for the practice match, and on the other hand, it is to ask Zhang Yifei if he is ready to deal with the rain battle.

"Ready."

Zhang Yifei replied, there was even a vague expectation in his heart, Senna's deeds in the rain could be described as thunderous, and he also wanted to experience it, and even challenge it.

It was 11 o'clock on Friday, when the practice session was about to begin.

At the Sepang Circuit, more than 100,000 Malaysian spectators are present, and according to the design of the Sepang Circuit, the main stand can only accommodate 30,000 spectators. However, with the addition of the lawn and other spaces around the track, there will be about 80,000 "standings" in the future.

Under normal circumstances, there are only about 30,000 to 50,000 spectators in practice matches, and when they come back to watch the game, it is just the number of people in the main stand. After all, the main grandstand has seats and a roof that protects from the sun and rain, which is relatively much more comfortable than standing.

As long as there is such a wonderful moment as the weekend race, there will be a grand scene of about 100,000 people, because this is the biggest attraction of the F1 race.

But today's Sepang circuit was unusual, and even Friday's practice session was close to full. The main reason for this is because Malaysia's local driver Yoong Long will be taking to the field today for the practice session.

Yoong is the third driver of the Minardi team, and can almost be seen as a substitute, and if something happens to the official driver, it will be replaced by Yoong Long. In many cases, the third driver, like a test driver, will also participate in practice sessions to help tune the car.

But more practice races are attended by the drivers themselves, so that they can be 100% perfectly matched.

However, today's Malaysian Grand Prix is a special factor, and as long as the Minardi team management has no problem with their minds, they will let the local driver play in the field. This is not only an adult beauty, but also caters to the sponsor Malaysia Lottery Company.

You must know that the Minardi team has been struggling on the verge of bankruptcy this year, and in order to sponsor "just bad money", all cats and dogs have been recruited into the team.

I thought that the Sauber team collapsed and was not strong at the beginning, so I could only lower my own standards, and finally recruited potential newcomers of the level of Kimi and Massa.

The Minardi team, that is really no bottom line, Marquis, who is not even the penultimate driver who is not even the second from the bottom, can be recruited into the F1 team, and almost run the whole season, you can see how crazy the Minardi team is.

So it's just a practice match, and it's nothing to let Yang Long play. Even as long as the sponsorship fee given by the Malaysian lottery company is more, they can consider giving Marquis a rest, and even the main race will be run for Yang Long!

However, the Malaysian lottery company, I guess I didn't expect the Minardi team, there will be such no lower limit, and they didn't consider adding money, otherwise they would really smash out an official driver in advance!

Therefore, in the hearts of Malaysian spectators and fans, it may be that the practice session is the only chance for local driver Yang Long to play, but the qualifying and main races are not visible to the local drivers, so today's practice race is crowded.

And because it was a rainy day, on the grass outside the fence, all kinds of colorful umbrellas were connected, and the visual grandeur was even more spectacular than the previous Australian Grand Prix.

Seeing this scene, in fact, Zhang Yifei respected the audience and fans present today from the bottom of his heart. After all, they have supported their own drivers with their own practical actions, which is very similar to those Chinese audiences who support them, and it is they who have accompanied them all the way and given Zhang Yifei a lot of encouragement.

"Alessi first conducts a technical inspection lap to verify the condition of the track."

Prost, the boss, saw the green light in the pit lane and gave the order for Alessi to start the car.

You must know that in the previous Australian station, Zhang Yifei was the first to start, because the time and place were good in all aspects, which was very suitable for newcomers to adapt to the venue.

But today's situation was completely different, and the sudden rain on the track was a weather condition that Zhang Yifei had not faced before.

The biggest effect of the rain battle is that it is easy to slide off the track. If it's just a side-slip, it's okay to say, at least it can ensure the safety of the rider, but if it hits a relatively high shoulder and directly causes a rollover, then the matter is much more serious.

And the weekend is the main race, at this point in time, even if it is a side-slip and rush off the track, causing chassis and suspension problems, it may not be completely repaired in just two days.

Prost's current test driver, Bourdais, can be described as unbearable, and completely falls short of the F1 driver's standard.

But the problem is that if you don't change drivers and use the spare car, the race must start from the pits, which is equivalent to counting down directly, and Prost can't chase Zhang Yifei back.

So the safest way is to practice and let Alessi go first. At the critical moment, Prost still believes in the experienced French veteran!